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Originally posted by miclemass:
what on earth is karma
From the web board guidelines:
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Karma is a measure of a person's standing on the web boards; 0 is neutral, negative is bad, positive is good. Everyone starts with neutral (0) Karma. Moderators can warn (lower karma) or praise (raise karma) people based on their posts. If your Karma has been affected by a moderator, you will be eMailed the details of why your Karma was affected, and by whom. If Karma becomes too negative (-10 or worse), that person is banned from the web boards until a moderator raises their Karma.
If you follow the these web board guidelines, you will not have a problem with your Karma.
From David Arthur's explanation of karma:
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The highest level of karma you can get through the normal progression is 15. You can continue to receive points beyond that, but they won't show up on the web board. The lowest you can go is -10, at which point you are banned from posting to the web boards. Negative karma slowly goes away as you post, although if your posts are unproductive it will, of course, be lowered again.
Karma often comes when you don't expect it, but for anyone who wants their karma to rise, here's a few things that might help, and will at any rate do good things for your reputation on the boards: (mostly from experience, so no guarantees)
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Treat new users like intelligent human beings (which, in most cases, they are, despite any behaviour they may currently be exhibiting) and answer their questions politely and thoroughly.
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Don't criticize people's grammar or spelling, as you have no idea how old they are or whether English is even their first language. Of course, if their posts are incomprehensible, it's all right to point this out politely.
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Don't post useless messages that don't say anything productive.
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Post insightful comments if you can think of any.
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Avoid posting angry or insulting messages.
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Finally, one really good way to make a name for yourself seems to be to post helpful, polite, and insightful messages in thread where everyone else is being annoying, as sometimes happens in thread about EV for Windows, EV multiplayer, EV3D, EV4, religion, and, strangely, karma.
Of course, not all karma happens for easily understood reasons. There will always be moderators who give it for reasons known only to themselves. What ever else you do, though, never ask a moderator or administrator to give (or sell) you karma, or you may be unpleasantly surprised. 
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