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Given that Tim has a positive karma score that is around 1200 it is difficulty to declare that he is so consistently wrong that he is causing a problem (although as I've said before, it would be more useful to have access to average karma per a comment to measure that sort of thing.) Speaking personally, I do occasionally downvote Tim, and do so more frequently than I downvote other people (and I suspect that that isn't just connected to to Tim being a very frequent commentor), but I also do upvote him sometimes to. Overall, I suspect that Tim's presence is a net benefit.
I personally haven't downvoted Tim, although I now feel like I ought to have, simply because it felt like bad etiquette to downvote someone else while in a sustained argument with them, even if you feel like they're engaging in bad reasoning. I should probably be more liberal with my downvotes in future than I have been.
If a person is making positive contributions to the board with some regularity though, I think it's worth having them around even if they are also frequently making negative contributions. At least the karma system gives people a mechanism to filter posts so that they can ignore the less worthwhile ones if they so choose.