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Really, it's an example of the system backfiring,causing someone to upvote a comment that deserved a downvoting it would probably otherwise have received.
That was my point.
What probability do you assign to someone with total karma less than 5 coming and translating this specific Will_Newsome's comment into intelligible speach? My estimate is: epsilon.
Breaking a rule, and explaining that it has to be done to provide an opportunity for something with epsilon probability and a very low value even if it happened... that's just an example of a person deliberately breaking a rule, and signalling dissatisfaction with the rule.
People respond to incentives. Especially loss-related incentives. I do not give homeless people nickels even though I can afford to give a nearly arbitrary number of homeless people nickels. The set of people with karma less than five will be outright unable to reply - the set of people with karma greater than five will just be disincentivized, and that's still something.