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I also believe that 10 hours 1 karma restriction should be reduced to 4 hours/1 karma.
I, on the other hand, think that it is a good rule and that it should be kept as it is. The reason is that every Senior + member can give an unlimited number of karma points, and there is no doubt that on this forum we have a lot of alts accounts that abuse karma. Of course, this does not prevent them from giving themselves karma, but they are still limited to 1 karma/10 hours.
When we get an insight into which posts get karma, I have no doubt that there will be a lot of work for the admin - because some members obviously use karma as a like button but not in the sense of
"you wrote a good post" but
"you are my friend so I give you +karma".