KarmaToken is just an option. You also understand why it cannot be kept STATIC, because that way NO ONE will exchange their holding UNTIL THEY SEE PROGRESS, which in turn will result in NO PROGRESS because everyone will take the WAIT AND SEE stance, because there is nothing to lose WAITING and everything to gain. To produce progress, we have to do this.
If it's an option only, why you contacted Cryptopia to stop old KARM trading?
You could decrease your swap rate slowly, that would motivate people, and how about people who don't read the ANN regularly?
Have you sent them PMs about this swap?
Why do you want to leave all these people with abandoned coin and no chance to move to new coin after January, 2017?
Don't you realize it will destroy your reputation?