Comment by SquareWheel on 03/03/2021 at 02:59 UTC

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It is extremely easy to maintain positive karma in a sub. Anyone with negative karma is either brand new, or makes consistently argumentative comments.

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Comment by D_Ciaran at 03/03/2021 at 14:05 UTC

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It just takes your first ever comment to be at -10 in any given sub to just never come out of it without ever having been "argumentative".

Comment by nolo_me at 03/03/2021 at 04:01 UTC

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"Consistently argumentative" is just another way of saying "goes against the echo chamber". Upvotes and downvotes are de facto agree/disagree buttons rather than a mark of whether a comment contributes to discussion, and the quality of the site has suffered by it.

Comment by NoHalf9 at 03/03/2021 at 16:54 UTC

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My most negative sub score is in CrossStitch because I spoke up against violence[1]. Was that "argumentative commenting" on my part?

1: https://old.reddit.com/r/CrossStitch/comments/ktrsy5/fo_finally_finished_my_first_cross_stitch_project/gip2p7z/?context=3

I only made one comment, but if I had made more should I have stopped speaking up against violence because I accumulate negative karma?