It was always my opinion that the karma system was a nice new feature.
But lately I've been looking at peoples negative 4 million Karmas and thinking, "hey, that guy is a douchebag because his karma is low". It's really showing a lot of negativity on the forums.
Instead of a new workaround, I think a decent idea would be to just reset the whole thing. Everybody has had their fun smiting Dascoo and jrgp, but now I think we should start using the system constructively and give them another chance.