They're just for a bit of fun - but they're also quite good for telling when you've hit certain forum milestones.
The only reason everyone got alerts about them was because I re-did them and re-issued them. I'd tweaked the code to stop it sending alerts for the re-run but a few slipped through.
I used to be admin on a huge forum that had a karma rating next to each members' name that allowed users to give either posi or negi points for each post. It worked really well, although some members would end up with +34 / -4,433 but the rating was always accurate!
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