I’ve had several unexplained jumps in karma over the last few days, amounting to around 80-100 points. Someone else mentioned the same, and I believe it’s happened to quite a few people. If that’s a side effect of reverting the votes of systematic downvoters, fine, but if we now have a systematic upvoter, I really don’t want to see this. It doesn’t have the same emotional overtones as downvotes, but it obscures the signal in the same way.
Another possibility is that a new reader, or more than one, is reading through the archives and voting on whatever they feel voteworthy. That’s fine as well.
… Aaaand now I just lost about 40 within an hour or two, including downvotes on some obviously unobjectionable comments. Looks like someone’s taken a dislike to me. Anyone else had the same?
I got this too, but I was probably the worst recipient of downvotes percentage-wise and the upvotes didn’t even make up for the downvotes yet in terms of absolute karma value (let alone in ratio, which would require getting many times the upvotes).
I also noticed that my recent upvotes included a fair number of 2s and 3′s and higher numbers, and there were some posts that didn’t get voted up at all—in other words, they were distributed in a way I would expect if the upvotes came from multiple people. The downvotes from Eugine were not distributed that way, making it a dead giveaway that they all came from one person.
If that’s a side effect of reverting the votes of systematic downvoters, fine, but if we now have a systematic upvoter, I really don’t want to see this.
Given that we just got a new moderator, it might very well be that someone wants to test out the response about what happens when he goes and votes up systematically.
I’ve had several unexplained jumps in karma over the last few days, amounting to around 80-100 points. Someone else mentioned the same, and I believe it’s happened to quite a few people. If that’s a side effect of reverting the votes of systematic downvoters, fine, but if we now have a systematic upvoter, I really don’t want to see this. It doesn’t have the same emotional overtones as downvotes, but it obscures the signal in the same way.
Another possibility is that a new reader, or more than one, is reading through the archives and voting on whatever they feel voteworthy. That’s fine as well.
I too have had some unexpected karma-jumps lately, and I feel the same way.
… Aaaand now I just lost about 40 within an hour or two, including downvotes on some obviously unobjectionable comments. Looks like someone’s taken a dislike to me. Anyone else had the same?
I recall this being the norm before the dark days of Euginiering.
I got this too, but I was probably the worst recipient of downvotes percentage-wise and the upvotes didn’t even make up for the downvotes yet in terms of absolute karma value (let alone in ratio, which would require getting many times the upvotes).
I also noticed that my recent upvotes included a fair number of 2s and 3′s and higher numbers, and there were some posts that didn’t get voted up at all—in other words, they were distributed in a way I would expect if the upvotes came from multiple people. The downvotes from Eugine were not distributed that way, making it a dead giveaway that they all came from one person.
Now I’m listed among the 15 “Top contributors,” which is absolutely not possible.
Given that we just got a new moderator, it might very well be that someone wants to test out the response about what happens when he goes and votes up systematically.
I personally also got similar jumps in my karma.