I don't feel right smiting someone who didn't do anything wrong. Maybe say a few things that would upset me.

Okay, so a long time back, I bought five karma points because I had none.

Now, I have 14 points that I didn't buy, and feel guilty about it showing 19 instead.

Could five people please smite me, so I reach my true karma number?

Thanks! 

I think I'm the one that keeps applauding you.  lol  As a reaction to past incidents, which I don't feel like explaining again, I decided to do the opposite of that and just go around applauding people a bunch of times.

Don't feel bad about having bought 5 karma points.  lol  I think I bought more.

Just applauded everyone in the thread.  Cheers.

I KNEW I should have posted a reply on this thread 

I applauded you for applauding me. 

Since admins can enter whatever values they want for a user's positive/negative karma, I can easily knock 5 points off your karma if it means that much to you

*sniff* I wish someone would applaud ME....  .

Personally, I think I've applauded people for making really good points in the past. I think I applauded PTF when he first joined because he didn't have any at first, and I introduced him to the site. I haven't smited (smoten?) that many people if I recall, just spammers, and people who acted REALLY obnoxious and annoying (you can probably all tell to whom I am referring - hint: his Karma is REALLY low because I think EVERYONE did that).

I smited a couple others in arguments months and months ago, because I sort of thought that was the point of such a system (sort of like hitting an "Agree/Disagree" button), but I figured it was kind of petty, and some people seemed to take their Karma semi-seriously, so I knocked it off after one or two times. So despite debating with Ghidra something like fifty times in the past six months, I haven't gone as far as hitting the "smite" button since .

While we're on the subject of karma, would you folks maybe prefer a more enhanced karma system?

The enhanced system would require users to enter a reason for changing your karma, send you PMs when your karma was changed and even include info about a post that your karma was changed from (if applicable).

I have never used that modification before, but it might make the karma more fun and useful.