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I seem to have high karma, but don't know why. Looking through my contribution history, I seem to only have a total of 47 net upvotes on anything I've ever posted, but have 74 karma points, including 10 in the last 30 days. Looking at the LW wiki FAQ, it says that you can get 10 karma per upvote if you post in main, but I haven't done that. Does anyone know why this might be happening?
I seem to have picked up 30-40 karma I can't account for over the past week. I wondered if it was some effort to undo the efforts of identified mass-downvoters.
I have also noticed a bit of a spike, but if it were a de-euginiering effort, the change would be 1000+ points for me, not 30-40. So probably something else is going on.
That doesn't seem likely in my case, since the only non-meetup things I've posted before today have been about the MWI and Scott Aaronson's take on integrated information theory.
That's probably not it, given that I was one of Eugine's identified victims, and my karma has not changed in > 30 days.
Also, here is the discussion from the previous OT.
I've had a similar thing. Prior to that I had a bunch of -1s that arrived all at once and which I considered unjustified.
So you're saying there's a mass up-voter lurking out there? :) (If so I may have been the object of their efforts too.)
See the last open thread - several people (including me) have been victims of a mysterious mass upvoter who has gone through everything we've posted in the last month or so adding +1s indiscriminately up to about +30 to +40.
Personally I suspect it is a psychological experiment, examining the difference in reaction between this mysterious mass upvoter and the recent mysterious mass downvoter. Or, yknow, a troll.
Or someone who read one of your comments, like it, and then read others and liked them as well.
I was thinking more mod/admin efforts. I've never apparently been the victim of mass-downvotes, but if there was an intervention to remove all downvotes made by a troublesome user, the sudden removal of all their cumulative downvotes over time might look like an unexpected karma boost.
Recently the discussion on modeling a better version of yourself was moved to Main. Had you made any comments there?
No, but I just realised that everything adds up if I assume that meetup posts also get 10 karma for every upvote. Given that this sort of makes sense but that I can't find it mentioned anywhere, I'm not sure whether it's a feature or a bug.
It's an undocumented feature.
Mystery solved!