Side note, not directed towards anybody.

I remember when karma meant something. It was a door opener to a lot of things. The moment - coincidental or not, I've been around here since 2007 - I got a decent amount of karma, karma was pushed aside as no longer important and it's granted me absolutely nothing.

Sad part, there's others with very high karma that are being overlooked and this new proposed system seems to further cement a possible situation where worthy people (read: I am not including myself in the worthy, but I am talking about people in the same range of karma as myself) and this proposal of a new karma system will invariably exclude some prime candidates for the sake of it being something new with a bunch of criteria that you all are not addressing at this very moment.

Karma is karma. Period. You can't fake it, it may be artificially pumped up (read: Now I am talking about myself) or it may be given to folks that are doing what a community needs the most; contribute in more than one way.

This doesn't mean that Texrat and the council doesn't have a good solution. I'm willing to bet it is a humdinger of a proposal. But I just hope that it doesn't bring forth a sense of being left out to those people that are truly deserving.

And yes... I'm quite proud of my karma rating despite how flawed or how long it took me to get it. I'd wish to not lose any of it unless the terms are made very clear publicly.