Shame on you.

It's ironic. This is exactly the behavior that the system seems to want to avoid, but inevitably incentivizes.

So shame on him? I don't know. Major props for being honest.

One could argue you were subconsciously influenced toward posting a shaming comment because of the karma incentive.

Of course, you may just be joking as well.

It's certainly funny either way.

I don't really care about Karma on this site (mine or other people's). If I did I certainly would have checked this comment earlier ;)

If people post for Karma instead of for content, IMHO it is their problem. It won't make the site much better, but it won't make it much worse, either.

"Shame on you" was my way of saying "who cares?".

Meh. The community gets what it deserves based on what it votes for.

It is perfectly possible for both of the following to be true: (1) The community gets what it deserves. (2) Some of the people giving it what it deserves are behaving shamefully.

(At least, it is if "gets what it deserves" means "gets something it's got no right to anything better than" rather than "gets exactly what, in some kind of best possible world, it would get".)

Having said which, I don't think it's all that shameful to write what you think will get the most votes. But I'd rather you didn't.