So you've got this high quality commenter who has the skills to write a lot of good stuff very quickly and who is generating interest but who has fairly dismal kharma. Explain.
You are making potentially unsubstantiated assumptions here. Note for example that curi at one point asserted that he didn't want to read up on Bayesianism because he'd find it boring but the fact that he had read Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality should help. Curi's comments have been of highly variable quality.
It does help create familiarity with the culture. I have of course also read up on Bayesianism. I specifically said I wasn't interested in the sequences. I read stuff from Eliezer before they existed. I see no need to read more of the same. Be more careful not to misquote.
Note that I just read an academic paper on Bayesianism. And before that I read from the Jaynes' book. I ordered two books from the library on recommendations. So obviously I will read up on Bayesianism in some ways.
http://lesswrong.com/lw/54u/bayesian_epistemology_vs_popper/3vew
My impression is that critiques of lesswrong mainstream positions and arguments for contrary positions are received well and achieve high karma scores when they are of very high quality. Similarly posts and comments that take lesswrong mainstream positions will still be voted down if they are of very low quality. But in between there seems to be a gulf: Moderately low quality mainstream comments will stay at 0 to -1 karma while contra-mainstream comments of (apparently) similar quality score solidly negative karma, moderately high quality mainstream comments achieve good positive karma while similar quality contra-mainstream comments stay at 0 to 2.
Do you share my impression? And if this is the case, should we try to do something about it?