Salamantis,

I noticed you gave me a downding on both my comments: 421 and 442. It seems like you are down dinging me Just because you don’t like my thinking. I genuinely thought I was adding to the discourse. The comments were on topic, weren’t vulgar or in any way inappropriate as far as I can see.

So what is your strategy on down dinging? Are you trying to discourage any comments with which you disagree by intimidating people with the fear of loosing their Karma?

I only down ding people if I think they are “out of line”. But you seem to down ding people if you disagree with them. That seems out of line to me.

Should I retaliate and down ding your replies? Since I had so little Karma to begin with, 20, and your took 5%, I suppose I could spend the next few months downdinging every comment you make until I take off 5% of your 12,688 Karma? I would need to down ding your next 634 comments.

It seems tacky. Will all your Karma, I would think you would be setting a good example. But the example you are setting is nasty.