Your observations is correct. How much karma you start off with depends on the amount of karma you have—unfortunately I don’t know the minimum required to start off with 2 karma. The more karma you have, the more weighty your strong upvotes become as well (mine are 7 karma, before I hit 2500 karma it was 6).
It’s sometimes 1 (for upvotes) and sometimes −1 (for downvotes). Implementing it as a free variable was a bit easier than implementing it as a boolean, so we did that.
I’m pretty certain that some people on this forum get 2 karma on their comments immediately on posting them. Is this a thing?
I realise this is a petty and unimportant thing to think about, but I am slightly curious as to what’s going on here.
I’m pretty sure the Forum uses the same karma vote-power as LessWrong.
Your observations is correct. How much karma you start off with depends on the amount of karma you have—unfortunately I don’t know the minimum required to start off with 2 karma. The more karma you have, the more weighty your strong upvotes become as well (mine are 7 karma, before I hit 2500 karma it was 6).
Here is the relevant section of the code:
In other words, you get 2 small-vote power at 1000 karma, and you can look at the numbers above to see the multipliers for strong-votes.
What’s
multiplier?And why is it equal to 1?
It’s sometimes 1 (for upvotes) and sometimes −1 (for downvotes). Implementing it as a free variable was a bit easier than implementing it as a boolean, so we did that.
Ah, well you learn something new every day, thanks.
The size of your weak upvotes is also affected by your total karma, just more slowly. Every post starts with one weak upvote from its author.