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My default response to a comment predicting its own karma is to downvote.
Interesting, I considered whether that question would prime people to vote up, evidently not in your case.
Even those predicting negative karma?
Yes. It's not about making their prediction right or wrong, it's about making those comments less visible.
Do you have a principled objection to discussing comment karma? It seems a fairly value neutral thing to make predictions of, I was trying to predict how much the readers of this post would consider it relevant/interesting.
It leads to people getting too cute and meta, and drifting away from actual content. Some contexts of discussing karma are fine (like asking for an explanation of downvotes), but making predictions of the karma of the very post you're composing is like a self-referential statement: often meaningless, and trivial even when correct.