I agree with that, but the original OG didn’t have a “negative karma” option. One of the things that made that karma system fun was the power of certain (high profile) member’s karma when they’d hit you with it. I know there were limits to how many times they could leave karma in a day, so they had to be selective about who to leave it for, which made even more special. Silly, perhaps - but I liked it.
For the record, I have no issue with the current “likes” system. Hell, perhaps there something going on behind the scenes that puts a quantitative value on likes, such as a point system, and the likes that someone like me gives has a lower point value than the likes given by someone like you, or @beacher or @cannabissequoia, etc., and the accrual of these points are a factor in how we earn our green dots. ¯_(ツ)_/¯