Karma is neither good nor bad. Like air, it just is. And, like sour pickles, some people like it and some people don’t. ( for the record, topsurf does not like sour pickles ) Karma is also like the weather and food. Absolutely everybody talks about it, absolutely all the time. BigBoss has noticed that food thing big time. So it would be unfair to give people a bad time about Karma-envy.

I understand that there are Karma spam-bombers everywhere. They’re actually quite easy to notice. They Plurk constantly. They rarely respond outside their own threads. Their Plurk-to-Response ratio ( Plurks / Responses ) is often very near one, rather than the nice 10 to 1 or more in favor of response that characterizes the good conversational Plurker.

The spam-bombers are also obvious by the number of relatively meaningless questions they ask. Things like “Pepsi or Coke?” and “Mac or PC?” There’s a million of them. All they want is lots of responses, so that their Karma goes up. They are the white noise of Plurk. Or maybe the dark noise. They jam up the timeline and they chew up the resources that could be used for meaningful plurking. They can be the bane of Plurk when it’s busy.

Fortunately, they are pretty easy to eliminate from your timeline. You would not see their Plurks if you weren’t following them, so stop following them. Either select the “do not follow” option from the friends panel, or de-friend them altogether. If we all do that, the only people they will be spam-bombing is themselves.

I’m KDFrawg on Plurk. Feel free to say “Hi!”