I will note, though, that the implementation of this feature seems to have artificially inflated my karma score. It has gone up by about 200 points over the last couple of days, and I don’t see any sudden increase in actual upvotes to account for this. Also, my karma over the last 30 days doesn’t display a commensurate increase.
Here’s my hypothesis about what happened: I had a post that I moved from Discussion to Main after it had already accrued a number of upvotes. The upvotes it got while in Discussion only gave me 1 karma point each, but I suspect something about this new feature has retroactively scored those upvotes as if they were for an article in Main, so I got an additional 9 points for each of them.
I’m not complaining, of course. Just a heads up about what seems like an unintentional side effect.
On the other hand, my 30-day karma shot up by over 50, independent of my total karma. I’d been puzzling over this, because there’s never been a point in time when I had enough downvotes all at once to account for that sort of leap when they passed beyond the 30-day threshold.
Same thing happened to me, and I also had moved an article from Discussion to Main after it had gotten a lot of upvotes. So that’s almost certainly the explanation.
This is a great new feature. Thanks!
I will note, though, that the implementation of this feature seems to have artificially inflated my karma score. It has gone up by about 200 points over the last couple of days, and I don’t see any sudden increase in actual upvotes to account for this. Also, my karma over the last 30 days doesn’t display a commensurate increase.
Here’s my hypothesis about what happened: I had a post that I moved from Discussion to Main after it had already accrued a number of upvotes. The upvotes it got while in Discussion only gave me 1 karma point each, but I suspect something about this new feature has retroactively scored those upvotes as if they were for an article in Main, so I got an additional 9 points for each of them.
I’m not complaining, of course. Just a heads up about what seems like an unintentional side effect.
On the other hand, my 30-day karma shot up by over 50, independent of my total karma. I’d been puzzling over this, because there’s never been a point in time when I had enough downvotes all at once to account for that sort of leap when they passed beyond the 30-day threshold.
I’d noticed a ~70 karma uptick and didn’t know where it came from. Thanks for shedding light on that.
Aha. That explains why Eliezer now has ~4200 more “karma in the past 30 days” than he did.
Edit: Never mind. The effect is now gone, which means it was actually this change.
Same thing happened to me, and I also had moved an article from Discussion to Main after it had gotten a lot of upvotes. So that’s almost certainly the explanation.