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Your overall score is being tracked, it's just hidden. Some frontends, like Mbin, let's you see it I believe. You can also see the score if you're an instance admin. Early on some 3rd party apps displayed it (Connect did I'm fairly sure), but I don't know whether they've decided to comply with the intent of the devs or the devs made the score actually inaccessible, but I don't think any of them show it anymore.
Regardless, it's very much a conscious decision by the devs to keep this score out of view. It's a frequently debated topic here and while many around these parts are vehemently against any form of Karma I can see that it has its uses - like identifying trolls for example. But the cost of gamification with all the karma farming it leads to may well be too steep.
Interesting. Well, I mean, Beehaw doesn't even allow downvotes at all (I left it due to its restriction on user-made communities, not because of that), so this isn't too bad. Troll accounts shouldn't be too big of an issue because I think they'd leave a downvoted comment trail that should only take marginally more time to spot than a total, but maybe a "Controversial user" stamp might be helpful (lol).
The question is threshold on helpfulness. Again, I think if this issue is that big of a deal to you... capitalize off your bio! You're not using it so far!
Piefed has that sort of thing, I think.
I've been making my own "controversial user" and "pretty cool" tags on Voyager. Don't know if any other apps allow for tagging. But it is kinda handy to look at a post, see my tag, and remember "oh yeah this person likes to cause drama" or "this person always makes an interesting point".