Jiro comments on Weirdness at the wiki - Less Wrong Discussion
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I think you're confusing your reputation with Internet Points.
I, for one, have no idea what your karma score is and couldn't care less. More Internet Points won't give you respect and less won't get you thrown out of this genteel establishment.
I'm not referring to an overall karma score, but to each individual post. Posts at -1 are much less credible to readers than posts which aren't at negative values. And unlike one's overall karma score, the -1 is right there where everyone can easily see it and react.
So it's not your reputation that gets destroyed but the credibility of your posts? I still don't see it. Maybe I'm a unique snowflake, but I treat comment karma as the attitude of the hivemind with a lot of noise added, so a comment at -1 means to me that 1 (one, single, solo) person disliked it. So what? A comment universally liked is probably too bland and restates the obvious, anyway.