Beats me. Why do you ask?

Never mind, it was a rhetorical question.

you're trying to equate "people whose contributions are sufficiently widely disliked" with "people who only write stuff I already know or agree with"

I suspect somebody of this crowd might write something very interesting to me, had he not been such a karma whore. I would gladly pay that with some more digesting of empty and silly posts, which are inevitably when there is no karma system.