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If it is a programming issue then forget it, but I just want to know why have the karma feature and not keep track of it when it was clearly proved that this site can track user's karma?

I only point it out because other meme sites track karma (reddit/funnyjunk)

Just a question, I don't care what happens

-_^

Are you referring to the forum karma? If so:

The issue with tracking forum karma is how would you document it? By percentage or by karma issued? You have to remember that your overall karma rating is the result of positive minus negative. If the percentage was used, the top of the list would be filled by bots with one or two posts that users mistakenly thought were genuine people.

The karma percentage takes a while (up to a few hours even) to update on user pages whenever you receive an upvote or downvote. Imagine a whole list requiring consistent updates of this manner. It would throttle the websites resources just calculating a single page.

if talking about the forum karma
click "edit your profile"
then scroll down to the bottom of the site
and click "submit"
then new karma is shown on your profile

I'm trying to point out is that when forum karma is recorded, it should project a users standing in karma throughout the user base as well.