Chrysophylax comments on Open thread, 11-17 March 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Chrysophylax 24 March 2014 03:43:11PM *  0 points [-]

Thank you. I'm still confused, though, because I started out at 0 karma for the month, making the changes in the numbers non-equal. I'm now on {16, 2}, which is consistent with {12,-2}, though.

Comment author: gjm 24 March 2014 04:05:02PM 2 points [-]

Remember that the change in karma-for-the-month is the sum of two things: changes now and changes a month ago. So it can jump down even when nothing interesting just happened, if you got a bunch of upvotes 30 days ago.

Comment author: Chrysophylax 24 March 2014 07:01:51PM -2 points [-]

But the big jump was in karma, not karma-for-the-month. My karma-for-the-month went down by two and my karma went down by 25. I'm now on {20, 5}, which is inconsistent with the {12, -2} and {16, 2} from earlier today.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 24 March 2014 07:19:37PM 0 points [-]

Karma-for-the-month is karma on your last month's postings, not the last month's votes on all your postings. If your total plummets while KftM hardly changes, it means a bunch of old posts got downvoted.