At first glance, I'm not a fan, but after thinking about it, I'm thinking it might help new users gain karma quicker if they are good citizens, which would help deal with some of my concerns.

Those with greater than 1000 karma will now have more of a reason to upvote comments, whereas before, they might have mildly found a comment not awful but not upvoted it because there was no reason to.

We'll see what happens.