Because currently, it seems like the only thing it’s recording are downvotes. Meanwhile upvotes are completely ignored, leading to pretty much every profile I see having a negative reputation.
Also, I have a very fragile ego and my -6 reputation hurts a bit.
But they have a lot to do right now so it might not be the most pressing issue…
Actually I think this one is pretty high priority. People don’t like seeing negative numbers next to their names. If there is ONE thing that can drive former redditors en masse off a platform, it is an impossibility to accrue karma because the system is (quite literally) broken (as in, it’s incorrectly implemented).
There’s one argument that we don’t want anyone who could be driven away by such a thing as negative karma score, but…I disagree. More users & more content is a good thing. More serotonin for contributing more content is a good thing.