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For the record, I didn't downvote this below zero, but it did at one point downvote this back to zero (and did the same for the Open Thread). Not because I'd disagree with the tradition in any way, but because I don't think the first person to get around posting the month's thread should get tens of points of karma for simply being quick.
Rewarding people for prompt attention to housekeeping tasks seems more appropriate than punishing them.
I tend to vote such threads to around a couple of karma myself. 0 isn't unreasonable. < 0 is quite peculiar. But my confusion was resolved in this instance. Someone messaged me and explained that he was trying to work out why the votes were fluctuating so much (4 -> 0 in an hour) so was testing what would happen if he put down one more to -1.
As a side effect to these posts going up and down I've now started paying attention to only the last digit of the score. The 10s are mostly noise!
I certainly wouldn't want to punish them, which is why I'd also upvote any such thread that ended up with a negative score.