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what I mean is, their high karma score comes from the community voting up their contributions a lot. If they have high karma that's supposed to communicate that they will be good answerers, and of course you want good answerers, so you'd think that's whom you should want.

it doesn't communicate that, they're not who you want - as you say in this comment.

That's what I was commenting on. The disconnect between what that karma should say vs. what it does say