Comment on Open thread, Oct. 5 - Oct. 11, 2015

Richard_Kennaway
Tue, 06 Oct 2015 14:50:49 GMT

(Most recent examples, in reverse-historical order: one, two, three though that one only kinda fits the pattern, four, five.)

From the net karma and the ratio of karma one can compute the number of votes, approximately. (Approximately, because the ratio is only reported to the nearest 1%.) As of this moment, these five posts have received at least the following number of votes, listed as up, down, and total:

21 25 46
20 22 42
10 11 21
6 6 12
11 14 25

These are minimum numbers, e.g. the first (-2 total, 48% positive) is also consistent with 32 34 66.

20 is an extraordinary number of downvotes to receive, but as far as I know, there's no karma minimum required for upvotes, One might think about changing that. I have to wonder how many accounts there are whose sole activity has been to upvote him.

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