[LaurensBER]

Plus on Reddit people often delete their heavily down-voted comments (I dont know if this actually matters for a users karma but people sure do think so) which makes it impossible to follow the entire discussion and see what was actually going on.

Nothing as frustrating as finding what seems to be an interesting and engaging discussion but then finding several key posts missing...

[Havoc]

Missing comments in chain is almost always someone using a privacy scrubber

Deletion doesn’t remove negative karma no. Just prevents more. Sorta