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Um. From experience (I'm very reluctant to give examples, for obvious reasons): Comments that don't take much thought to come up with seem to net around as much karma as moderately thoughtful ideas, and can be produced in much less time and effort. Of course excellent insights shoot through the roof, but someone who can't produce many of them in a lifetime can get much more karma pointing out the obvious and making silly jokes than racking their brain. Also, basic ideas in domains LW knows little about gain a lot of karma, which is defensible as comparative advantage, but so do well-phrased restatements of basic ideas on LW.
I'm not claiming that the karma system successfully elicits insight-optimizing behaviour from LW participants (so, in particular, I don't think anything I've said is inconsistent with saying that some people can get more karma from pointing out the obvious than from racking their brain). Only that there's some correlation between karma and quality and that an intelligent, knowledgeable, wise person will (for any given level of effort and matchedness between their ideas and LW's collective prejudices and interests) tend to do better than someone less intelligent, knowledgeable and wise.
I still don't have anything I could reasonably call evidence for this, of course, but if you disagree with it then my casual observations apparently differ from yours.
So what's a third party to think? Well, obviously they should take your position more seriously than mine because you have a bit more karma than I do. No, wait ...