silverkniveshotmail.'s Journal: Karma still a game

removing the numeric karma score and replacing it with a word was supposed to take care of people viewing karma as a game, but did it really change anything? And can anyone deny how much the average user on /. avoids saying anything disagreeable that may cause their karma to go down?
Another almost unrelated part is the first real posts (ignoring the first posts that're overtly to be first posts, for trolling, or just to say something really off-topic) There are certain obvious posts that everyone thinks of, involves no thought, but still gets modded.
I don't know. this rant has no steam, i keep getting distracted, and it's not like I'm not guilty, I didn't get my "excellent" karma from impressing mods. I got it by subscribing and having enough time to think of something before most people could even see the story. Go ahead and look at all my pre-subscriber posts and compare.