Does karma affect what you write?
kwamenum86: Downvoting is a way to express oneself without or in addition to a written comment.  More importantly, it is a way to control the culture of the site.  If you end up with a negative score it means both: 1) people thought you should be downmodded, and 2) not enough people disagreed with the first set of people.I say all that to express how irrelevant it is in a larger context unless you are a Karma Whore (I will likely get downmodded now.)  Express yourself.  Period.  Most downmodded comments contribute to conversation I think.  And that is really the point of commenting, not to whore yourself out for more points.