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I find myself constantly glancing at my karma score. I have to remind myself that it does not really matter.

I find my better comments begin with a short initial response, and then after a line break, I go into detail about my thought process if need be.

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I find that it helps if you distance yourself from your account somewhat. When I posted under an account related to my name and my activities, I felt pressured to think and act a certain way and I monitored my karma a bit closely. Using a blank-name account stopped me from worrying so much.

I agree and I've suggested elsewhere that there be an option to disable the damn karma score. When it can be seen on every page it's distracting and feels like it's turning the whole thing into a karma whoring game. I try to resist it and write whatever I want but still.

If there was an option to permanently disable display of my karma, I'd select that. I can get recent feedback from the "threads" page.

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