It seems to me that having a rating per POST would fix some of the problems.
You’d have an overall karma rating based on how your posts get rated, and when you get rated down, you can check to see what post you made gave you the negative points.
It’d also become easier to rate other people… instead of rating people on their overall “Oh, he’s a good guy”-factor, you rate them on their actual posts
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I assumed that is how it is working now, it’s just that the post in question remains unknown. It would be nice if there was an indicator that only showed for the poster, beside the karama # that indicated the karam clicks generated from that post. I think that one small thing would help a great deal.
No idea, just pointing out that your experience is demonstrating how incredibly crap this karma system is 
…but realistically I think there is 0% chance of it being fixed, as it’s a “built-in” feature of SMF (many people seem to think this is a stupid idea; should have been a module) and it’s obviously rather naively written in the first place.
OTOH, maybe someone can surf SMF’s forums (yuck; no docs - just a massive forum with thousands of threads) and find a 3rd party reputation system module for SMF that works? Certainly, SMF’s got a rich collection of modules AFAICS
Karma ought to be hidden until it reaches some threshold of popularity or unpopularity. A big threshold.
Cas 
All,
After a little “social experiment” I decided to disable the Karma system until we can find a better system for moding posters. Thanks for all of your feedback!
-Chris