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The above is a good comment, but 26 karma? How did it deserve that?
Karma (despite the name) has very little to do with "deserve". All it really means is that 26 (now 25) more people desire more content like this than desire less content like this.
On the other hand, it is a good thing to shift the Karma system to better resemble a system based on merit- i.e. they should vote down the comment up to a point because although it is a good one it doesn't deserve it's very high score.
Why should something that is mildly liked by many not have a higher score than something that is highly liked by fewer?
In any case, it's rather hard to do. How do you propose to make your standards for a good comment the one other people use? Each individual sets their own level at which they will up- or down-vote a comment or post. They can indeed take into account the current score of a post, but that does rather poorly as others come by and change it. Should the first guy who up-voted that check back and see if it is now too highly rated? That seems hardly worth his time. And pretty much by definition, the guy who voted it from 25 to 26 was happier with the score at 26 than at 25, so at least one person does think it was worth 26.
And what happens as norms change as to what a "good score" is as more comments have more eyeballs and voters looking at them?
Or we could all just take karma beyond "net positive" and "net negative" a whole lot less seriously.
Complaining about a given score and the choices of others certainly isn't likely to go much of anywhere.