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Karma-maximizing is often but not always a good approximation to worth-as-judged-by-community maximizing, which is a good thing to maximize.
Yes. The question is how significant the gap between "often" and "always" is.
Though if you have a target audience in mind, it is sometimes worth posting things that will be downvoted by the community-at-large.
(I've been doing this a lot recently, though I plan on cutting back and regaining some general rationalist credibility.)