It's what Annatar gets a huge amount of.

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Karma is a word, like love.

It's also something that makes some of us regularly uncomfortable for a range of reasions, e.g.:

• There's no decent etiquette for much of anything on the Internet, much less when and how often to give karma to folks on a public forum.
• Your mother raised you to believe pride is a sin.
• You don't believe in sin, but you still worry about being unreasonably arrogant.
• A really good thread can make you forget entirely about pretending to quantify your response to other people because you're too busy reading their words and maybe trying to respond.

I have a wee bit of 'extra karma gifting power' over at GC2, but I mostly ignored the stuff until Brad mentioned that scores there could factor into choices for the Elemental invitation-only alpha/pre-beta thing. I'm pretty sure I have no interest in that level of beta volunteer work, but because I'm both uncertain about my own interests and hosh-koshy about the karma thing, I've made a job of remembering to give karma regularly even though I still basically wish the 'feature' didn't exist.