abhisarda's Journal: karma

I was reading a AskSlashdot and saw the sig at the end of the first comment "Karma: Who gives a fuck ".

I registered(I think) at slashdot after the karma system switched over to the non-number rating system.
This non-number rating seems to have done a world of good. No more karma-whores as such(or not as much as before).
When I first started posting, my karma was positive. I thought there were only two kinds-+ve,-ve. After a week,it changed to good, a week later to very good, and a week after that to excellent.

But have you noticed that in the past 6-7 months, the comments for each article has gone up by about 30 %? That means there are more postings languishing below the average reader's threshold.

For my 1st week or so, the threshold was 1(I was new to this site). Then I changed it to hard threshold of 2.

About a month ago, I changed it to three. Comments may be decent at 2 but I'm not interested.

There are a lot of anon postings. So a story that has a threshold of 3 will have 45 of 320(~1/8) comments.
SCO, war, MS postings will be on the order of 1/4-1/5.