This has been such a great thread - it's given me lots of things to think about.
First, to the folks who have been nice enough to leave me karma - thank you so much! I rarely have said thank you because I was gone for a while at my mom's and sometimes I'm gone for a few days. Then when I remember to check it, it's clear I've been left more karma than I can see. So then, I feel bad about thanking people for the ones I can see since I didn't......oh well, you get the idea. I will try to be better about it in the future, but it would be great if there was some kind of karma notification!
But I
would like to say that I don't expect or care if anyone thanks me when I give them karma. That's because, like Trish, I get "karma happy" and shoot off a lot of it. Just for fun. In fact, if I could give it anonymously, I would, just so people wouldn't feel like they have to take time to thank me (
or think I'm hitting on them for giving them karma every day.)
I've never given out negative karma and probably would never do that. But it is a powerful tool and I'm glad it's here. I think I would probably figure out that I had
seriously screwed up if I got some negative karma and start making amends pronto!
I thought Mama's remarks in her original post were spot on and, if you think about it, exactly the things we were taught in kindergarten about how playing well with others (at least in the South.
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