Plus, I like the idea of losing so much karma in one day and then eventually earning it all back
This discussion is off-topic for the "Rationality Quotes" thread, but...
If you're interested in an easy way to gain karma, you might want to try an experimental method I've been kicking around:
Take an article from Wikipedia on a bias that we don't have an article about yet. Wikipedia has a list of cognitive biases. Write a top-level post about that bias, with appropriate use of references. Write it in a similar style to Eliezer's more straightforward posts on a bias, examples first.
My prediction is that such an article, if well-written, should gain about +40 votes; about +80 if it contains useful actionable material.
No, I want this to be harder than that. It needs to be a drawn out and painful and embarrassing process.
Maybe I'll eventually write something like that. Not yet.
Here's the new thread for posting quotes, with the usual rules: