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At the moment, my comment has 15 karma, while Leonhart's, which was posted before, and for more money, has 14. As £1 = $1.5,
$32 = 1 karma,
and thus my donation is only worth around 3 karma.
So it seems my joke must have been worth 12 karma, or $386. I never realised my comparative advantage was in humour...
I imagine karma and donation amounts, if they correlate at all, correlate on a log scale. We'd therefore expect your comment to get 14/log(300 x 1.5) x log(100) karma from the donation amount alone, which comes to about 10.5 karma. Therefore 4.5 of your karma came from your joke.
Unfortunately, we can't convert your joke karma into dollars in any consistent way. But if you hadn't donated any money, and made an equally good joke, you would have gotten about as much karma as someone donating $7, assuming our model holds up in that range.
Edit: also a factor is that I'm sure many people on LessWrong don't actually know the conversion factor between $ and £.