To points and karma. In general, to the ratings.

Recently, someone on Habré had experiences on this topic ...
To understand who puts what points (not specifically, but what kind of people) - it is not at all necessary to have comments from each voter. It is enough to read at least one opponent (or a colleague on a topic) in order to understand - what exactly in your text do people take on themselves and / or that they are so offended that they score points (or, as with this text, everything is clear and :)).
Ratings in general and the scores of a single sign in particular are most likely distributed according to a power law (like traffic on the network, which is scale-free - out of scale) and therefore reflect only the stratification of society at the poles.
It is good that on Habré there is access to the top of magazines on both poles of karma. And do not take these poles as an undoubted indicator of good and evil :)
They reflect far more complex and non-linear differences of people from each other.

All this concerns not only Habra, but, perhaps, and hierarchies in society in general. Being among the highest-ranking individuals in real society can mean significant pollution of karma (here we are talking not about the religious construct, but about the humanity of this representative formed by the indicated hierarchy of the elite).

For the stable functioning of any community, it is necessary to unconditionally accept the hierarchy of only one character. Or the community turns / breaks up into something qualitatively different. But when the latter can occur - another, even more interesting and much more complex topic.
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PS Written including by experience with this topic (otherwise, at the moment, the text is almost completely invisible to the community due to its minus some specific “lobby”).