Exactly. Comments and posts/threads should have up and down votes, but those should not accumulate on an account like Karma does.

It gets people used to the idea that the more points a person has, clearly the better quality their account must be, when in reality Karma could be easily accumulated by exploiting lurkers with cute animal photos or generic/milquetoast opinion pieces literally nobody could disagree with.

Edit: milquetoast not milktoast