advancedatheist comments on Open thread, Sep. 14 - Sep. 20, 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: advancedatheist 21 September 2015 02:46:14AM 1 point [-]

I don't understand how the karma system here works. One my posts below, about the usefulness of prostitutes for learning how to get into sexual relationships through dating regular women, dropped off for awhile with a -4 karma. Then I just checked, and it has a +4 karma. Where did the 8 karma points come from?

This has happened to some of my posts before. Do I have some fans I don't know about who just happen to show up in a short interval to upvote my controversial posts?

Comment author: Lumifer 21 September 2015 03:26:02PM 4 points [-]

I don't understand how the karma system here works.

I think you do -- what you do NOT have is a good model for predicting future karma scoring of your posts :-/

Comment author: philh 21 September 2015 09:26:34AM 4 points [-]

I think someone is using a bunch of alts to occasionally mega-upvote posts they like.

Comment author: MrMind 21 September 2015 07:24:25AM 1 point [-]

Welcome to everybody's on this forum world.

Comment author: Elo 22 September 2015 07:07:36AM 0 points [-]

I make sense of karma, and generally have been using it to tune my efforts towards more helpful and more useful posts to people (or at least I think I am doing that more than pandering)