he is a "karma obsessed goober" and will be entering therapy as a result. sad.

karma_trends has revealed something

Your karma is a kind of running average

While you are a _new_ plurker, it rises and falls rapidly based on your activity

the longer you plurk, the more the karma _matches_ your activity

So, if you are a regular "high activity" plurker, your karma moves towards '60-70'

the -average- karma is 30, and people's karma tends to hover around that number.

If you don't use Plurk constantly.

So .. the longer you use plurk, the more your karma activity "averages" and the rise/fall is not significant

Right now, the majority of Plurkers are less than 15 days old, which means Karma is volatile.

I am starting to see my karma graph "level off" at somewhere around 55 which makes sense .. given my pattern of activity

Scoble doesn't have as much karma because while he has lots of friends, he doesn't post as much

but his karma has plateaued and reached a stable point.

So, I disagree ... karma is indeed an accurate reflection of usage. If you go away for a weekend, it will drop, but like any average will

rise back to the plateau with normal weekday usage.

For evidence, look at karma_trends, and see the users that "plurk off" during the weekend ..

They rise/plateau for five days, drop for two, then rise again back to the value they were at.

martinbogo demonstrated what happens to a conversation when there is a reward for speaking more frequently rather than more effectively.

LOL

I'm actually somewhat constrained by the format. I'd rather have posted that as a single paragraph.

Karma of Jesus. Many followers. He followed Zip(ABBA) kinda like Seth Godin 0 Followed, 15,000 Followers. Seth is Jesus