Does karma affect what you write?
alex_c: Not directly.  The only two filters I apply to my comments are: Is this self-evident?  Is this disrespectful of the community?  If the answer to either question is yes, then I try not to post.I find myself not always using these filters on other websites where the quality is lower to start with.  I suspect that goes a long way towards explaining the decline in quality on most social sites (an online version of the broken windows theory?)