No. I didn't really care that much about the karma. It was more about being presented with a set of evidence that LW would actually downvote me to that extent, largely without explanation. That's not really the type of community I wanted to be a part of. But fortunately, it's not the type of community that LW is, apparently. My calibration over this entire thing has been really, really confusing. I initially thought it was karmassassination, but after no one really said anything in support of me, and I got downvoted to like -10 for that comment, I figured it was legitimate voting and people were trying to tell me to stop complaining. After this thread, I've again updated.

And regardless, I would have probably still tried to finish reading the sequences. Which I'm really doing a horrible job of...