TheStonepedo's Journal: Ratings

I created an account mainly to write silly/funny comments. This drove my user status karma whatever the hell down to nothing. Now all of my comments that are meaningful, and some which possibly would be found funny, are rated 0. People with shallow responses to my comments get rated higher than the comments themselves. How can somebody's quoting of four of my words and writing 8 of his/her own in a response qualify as better than my well thought-out, paragraph-ish comment?