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I never understood how the vote counts works (the number that is added to your profile). It's certainly not lineair with the submission upvotes and it even seem
by janvdberg 6y ago
I never understood how the vote counts works (the number that is added to your profile). It's certainly not lineair with the submission upvotes and it even seems to slow down over time (i.e. you need more votes to add 100 points to your profile)?
- jedimastert 6y agoI think the one point default per comment isn't added? It's only additional points? At least, that's what I've noticed
- DeusExMachina 6y agoThere is something more than that. I noticed that the few highly-voted submissions I have didn't add the whole amount to my karma.
- jfk13 6y agoI have the impression that submission votes only count half of what comment votes count, or something along those lines.
- Tomte 6y agoIt's certainly not just a factor. The first twenty upvotes count more than, say, the 501st through 520th upvote.
- dang 6y agoEarlier upvotes are more impactful in getting a post on the front page and in affecting its rank (because the rank algorithm uses time decay), but they don't count any differently towards karma.
- eslaught 6y agoIs there really no delay, or anything else going on? I'm sure I've seen my upvote count be out of sync with the changes I see on my scores for recent comments.
- dang 6y agoDoes https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26868069 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26868069 answer your question?
- modeless 6y agoI could be wrong but I think it used to be 1:1 with submission upvotes. It may still be linear but less than 1:1, I'm not sure. It is still 1:1 with comment upvotes I believe.
- monkeybutton 6y agoThat makes sense to me, a user submitting a press release or news article about a current event being the "lucky winner" where their submission gets traction doesn't automatically equate to them being a good community member in general.
- grawprog 6y agoI think some sites are weighted differently. More commonly posted sites require multiple votes for one point added. Less commonly posted sites require less upvotes for a point added. Or something like that anyway.
- jgwil2 6y agoIt's 1:1 with comment upvotes, less with submission upvotes (how much less I'm not sure but my observation would peg it around 3:1). Personally I think it should be the other way around as a submission can add a lot more value than a comment.
- dang 6y agoIt's not 1-1 with either comment or submission upvotes. It's more complicated than that, largely for anti-abuse reasons.
- jgwil2 6y agoHah well my two downvotes here and two corresponding lost points say otherwise. But I'll take your word for it.
- alexanderdmitri 6y agoIn a weaker gravity field with a low sample frequency the algorithm does indeed appear 1:1. The complexity arises once a peripheral second gravity field can no longer be ignored or a certain noise threshold is passed. The equation ends up looking something like this: https://slack-files.com/TEGQB8GNS-F01UU5FMKRR-820b186081 https://slack-files.com/TEGQB8GNS-F01UU5FMKRR-820b186081 Once you start thinking about it in terms of the definite integrals of a piecewise function you'll see where the weights would be applied in more extreme situations.
- philipkglass 6y agoI have noticed that a single downvote sometimes counts for -2 rather than -1. Sometimes I'll undo a downvote because I think a comment wasn't bad enough to cost 2 points. I have been trying to spot the pattern behind it for over a year with no luck. Can you explain this or is it secret?