100 upvotes for a top-level post is 1000 karma, not 100 — upvotes for top-level posts are worth ten times more karma than upvotes for discussion and comments. This makes posts disproportionate sources of karma, even given the greater effort involved in writing them.
100 upvotes for a top-level post is 1000 karma, not 100 — upvotes for top-level posts are worth ten times more karma than upvotes for discussion and comments. This makes posts disproportionate sources of karma, even given the greater effort involved in writing them.
Note that this is only true in the Main section, not the Discussion section.
Oh, is that so? I didn’t know that… hunh. Interesting...
I wouldn’t say that with the ‘even given’ part. It takes a lot of effort to make a good post!