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My 30 day karma just jumped over 40 points since I checked LW this morning. Either I've said something really popular (and none of my recent comments have karma that high), or there's a bug.
I got about +30 as well, ad only a small amount is due to recent upvotes. And despite the jump, I'm out of the top 30-day contributors list, which I've been in and out of the bottom of for some weeks. The other names in that list are regulars there, so they must have got some upvotes also.
Perhaps some systematic downvoter had all his votes reversed?
My guess is that someone with a similar political ideology to you upvoted forty of your comments on the recent political post.
ETA: Well I've been struck by the mysterious mass-upvoter as well! I'm pretty sure the political motivation hypothesis is wrong now.
The same thing happened to me today - within 12 hours I got at least +1 karma on every single post of mine from the last month and a half or so, which happened to be primarily on the history of life / 'great filter' threads.
I don't think it's ideological. Mysterious mass-upvoter?
Since my political ideology in that debate was trying to steelman both sides, I doubt this is the case, unless there is a fanatical steelmanner out there.
I've seen several unexpected increases on the order of 10 points over the last couple of weeks. (I don't remember the exact dates.) My guess was gradual undoing of prior mass-downvoting, but a Mystery Mass Upvoter is certainly another possibility.
[EDITED to add ...] A possible variant of the Mystery Mass Upvoter hypothesis: we have a Mystery Small-Mass Upvoter, who is upvoting old posts in Main (maybe because s/he is new here and reading through old material). But that only works if everyone affected has old posts in Main, which I don't think is the case.
Hypothesis: we are the subjects of an experiment.
I seem to recall recent instances of a mysterious mass downvoter that produced several threads of people complaining / trying to figure out what could be done.
What if someone is doing the same thing, but with upvotes, to look for bias in community reactions?
Or they're just trolling. Whichever.
Interesting idea. Though I don't think it's really indicative of any bad sort of bias if people get angrier about gratuitous downvotes than about gratuitous upvotes.
My karma's been running higher than I expected, too.
I wish there was some way to track karma dif. So far as I know, there's no way to do it for older comments and posts.
So it's not just me? I also seemed to see something like that, but I assumed I just misremembered my previous 30-day karma score or something.
Just gained another ~25 karma. Huh.