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As I said before, I think it would be good if you get in the habit of trying to predict the votes that your posts get beforehand and then not post when you think that a post would produce negative karma.
One way to do this might be, whenever you write a post keep it in a textfile and wait a day. The next day you ask yourself whether there anything you can do to improve it. If you feel you can improve it, do it. Then you estimate a confidence interval for the karma you expect your post to get and take a note of it in a spreadsheet. If you think it will be positive post your comment.
If you train that skill I would expect you to raise your karma and learn a generally valuable skill.
If at the end of writing a post you think "I’m not sure where I was going with this anymore." as in http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/mzx/some_thoughts_on_decentralised_prediction_markets/ , don't publish the post. If you yourself don't see the point in your writing it's unlikely that others will consider it valuable.
This is the best advice. The trick to keeping high karma is to cultivate your discernment. Each time you write a post, assess its value, and then delete it if you don't anticipate people appreciating it. View that deletion as a victory equal to the victory of posting a high-karma comment.
I would be concerned that you might post with popular opinion not with valuable or worthwhile ideas. (if the caveat of worthwhile ideas even if they sound unpopular is included then this is still a good strategy)
I second this. This is also a very important skill for work and personal emails, and anything having to do with social sites like Facebook.