Karma is awarded definitely as a recognition of the usefulness of the contribution. The userâs overall karma is an unprincipled straight addition of those âusefulness scoresâ. Still, itâs the closest thing the site has to itâs trust in the user and we use it to award: a) More influence in the form of higher-powered votes b) More ability to moderate oneâs own posts (ability to moderate personal blogposts at 50 karma, and those that have been promoted to the frontpage or community at 2000)
Karma is awarded definitely as a recognition of the usefulness of the contribution. The userâs overall karma is an unprincipled straight addition of those âusefulness scoresâ. Still, itâs the closest thing the site has to itâs trust in the user and we use it to award:
a) More influence in the form of higher-powered votes
b) More ability to moderate oneâs own posts (ability to moderate personal blogposts at 50 karma, and those that have been promoted to the frontpage or community at 2000)