Er...what would a meritocracy even be in this situation? The world of interesting posts is not so simple that there is one true, obvious metric for one makes one post better than another.
Arguably, that one true, obvious metric is supposed to be the karma score. Bigger numbers are objectively better than smaller ones.
Ahhh...OK, I thought GP meant that posts don't succeed based on quality alone. That said, I do agree with Karma score not being the sole determiner of worth...however, all other signals have their own flaws (such as domain-based or keyword-based penalties) while being less transparent to boot.
Agreed! But it doesn't work like that. Those with bigger karma scores get a bigger boost for their posts. Their upvotes also count more.