Comment 17 for bug 72815

I don't get the reductions. I'm new and I don't mind if you guys have a lot more karma than me. I rather see who has done what and how much experience they have in this community. I also don't want my karma to disappear when I get more of it.

If somehow karma degradation is important 65000 -> 2951 is too much in a few months. That is very demotivating from my perspective, someone who is new and doesn't know what time he can give to this project. If I do some work now to try it out at the cost of school time, if I need to stop to do more school, then all that work that I've done is worthless.

Some times I think people, especially us programmers, want to do something because it can be done and not because it's smart. That honestly is what I think the thought process was in forming this spec.