Reading my parent comment I see that it may look a bit arrogant, sorry that wasn't intentional, I merely think the topic is interesting, and hope to add some value to the conversation :-)
I think that basically what's going on here is that a simplistic voting system, such as the one we use here, and also one that carries more parameters and dimensions will always just be a simplistic overlay on an extremely nuanced and varied set of psychological rules that humans use for evaluating their surroundings, thus making it hard to accurately have karma map onto a users insightfullness (in lack of a better word) I'm pretty sure I could get a lot of karma by using psychology tricks to make people upvote me, but it wouldn't be very interesting. Or ethical for that matter.
So I absolutely agree with you: Karma isn't a measure of a users insightfullness, there's probably a correlation but it's weakened by a lot of parameters, such as the ones you describe, age of the account, and lots of other factors.
I agree; there's no perfect voting system. This is similar to what you said, but people getting lots of upvotes for saying something many others agree with probably means at least slightly fewer unpopular views are being posted.
Thanks for the welcome! I know the account is new but I've actually been here for a long time. :)
I think that basically what's going on here is that a simplistic voting system, such as the one we use here, and also one that carries more parameters and dimensions will always just be a simplistic overlay on an extremely nuanced and varied set of psychological rules that humans use for evaluating their surroundings, thus making it hard to accurately have karma map onto a users insightfullness (in lack of a better word) I'm pretty sure I could get a lot of karma by using psychology tricks to make people upvote me, but it wouldn't be very interesting. Or ethical for that matter.
So I absolutely agree with you: Karma isn't a measure of a users insightfullness, there's probably a correlation but it's weakened by a lot of parameters, such as the ones you describe, age of the account, and lots of other factors.
And hey, Welcome to HN, hope you like it here :-)