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Listen, you have people like Eugene with their army of upvoting/downvoting sockpuppets, etc. Karma may have some signal (related to "what the community likes" which is neither here nor there) if it was policed, but it isn't.
But is there an etc.? Sure, we have one not huge sockpuppet army which pops up once in a while, but besides that I don't see karma as much abused here.
Of course the real question is whether it signifies anything except mob likes. In many areas allowing the likes to lead you is a really bad idea.
It's like cockroaches, for every one you see, how many do you not see?
Trust me, if you have a cockroach-infested kitchen, you know it, even if you don't see that many roaches scurrying about :-/