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Wrt my own posts I like the karma system as feedback for how well I'm getting my point across. Helps to understand what communication style resonates with people. I'd say the biggest flaw is not that it rewards snarky popular opinions, but that it overly rewards first movers on a topic.

I do think that pithy is good. The real world also rewards people who can convey an idea succinctly. ("Healthcare for all" for example is an effective rallying cry despite lack of implementation details.)

>>bagacr+(OP)
If it were an effective rallying cry, it would have worked at any point in the last forty years.

Politics is not assessed in terms of how the slogans sound, but what they achieve. Universal healthcare is further away today than it was in the '90s, and Democrats are less 'rallied' than ever.