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The FAQ says "karma is mainly useful for letting people know how great you are." The (now disabled?) 'Karma for the last 30 days' tally suggests karma also has some relation to time.
I propose adding a function of karma decay. Over n-amount of time time, x-amount of karma is lost. This is also useful for letting people know how great you are.
Loss aversion would make this upsetting, perhaps more upsetting than gaining karma is pleasing.
Loss aversion was my first reaction to the 30 day karma feature.
I wonder if the point was get people used to loss?
Also, since it causes continual loss, it might make people less likely to notice isolated downvotes.
I don't get loss aversion from the 30 day karma feature because it dropping doesn't mean that I'm losing karma, it only means that I'm gaining it slower.
I propose not messing with what isn't broken.
And fixing what is broken.
That would just weight the karma score to favour more recently obtained karma. That function is already performed, in a slightly different way, by the last 30 days karma score.