Does the Karma system work?

[VandaMan]

Good news and bad news, I have a fresh example of how the karma system can fail, but I also have another red karma. ()

I was given karma from two people for my previous post in this thread, a green one and a red one. The green one says nothing, the red one reads:

Karma is used as a important tool, in which you can agree or disagree to someone post. As long as your post to someone is respectful and the post is contructive, you will probably get good karma.

Yes, karma should be used as a tool to tell others something about a forum user. It's obviously not, since my post was "respectful and constructive" in every way, and the very person telling me respectful and constructive posts should get good karma, is the one that gave me the red karma.

In this forum, good karma is heaped upon people you like, and red karma is frivolously thrown at anyone you dislike. It says nothing about your posts. Giving red karma to someone because they don't believe the karma system works... were you trying to be funny?