That makes me about 99% confident that someone actually walked through my 16 comments and 2 submissions, and downvoted every single one.
The two submissions are in the main section, where votes are worth 10 karma, so 2 downvotes on those and 2 upvotes on comments would account for it.
But once in a while it does happen that someone throws a passive-aggressive hissy fit and downvotes a bunch of someone’s comments. It doesn’t matter. The karma will grow back.
I was misinterpreting things, or the site is misinterpreting them to me. When I search your history and click on one of your top-level postings, in the resulting window the word “MAIN” is highlighted and “DISCUSSION” is not. But further tests show that this is always true, whichever section the post was in.
Got it. The site is misinterpreting my post to you. My post is accessible through two urls: the main one, and the discussion one. (This is the case for every discussion post, including here). As it happens the links you clicked on use the main section url.
Besides the duplication of resources, using the main url when the discussion one is meant is misleading. Bug for the site redesign, I guess? (Edit: done) I also dare not test if my karma goes up 10 point if someone vote for it through the main link. (But I think such hijacking is unlikely)
The two submissions are in the main section, where votes are worth 10 karma, so 2 downvotes on those and 2 upvotes on comments would account for it.
But once in a while it does happen that someone throws a passive-aggressive hissy fit and downvotes a bunch of someone’s comments. It doesn’t matter. The karma will grow back.
Wait, what? But I submitted them to Discussion! They are totally unsuitable for the main site! Now my theory doesn’t sound very probable…
I was misinterpreting things, or the site is misinterpreting them to me. When I search your history and click on one of your top-level postings, in the resulting window the word “MAIN” is highlighted and “DISCUSSION” is not. But further tests show that this is always true, whichever section the post was in.
Got it. The site is misinterpreting my post to you. My post is accessible through two urls: the main one, and the discussion one. (This is the case for every discussion post, including here). As it happens the links you clicked on use the main section url.
Besides the duplication of resources, using the main url when the discussion one is meant is misleading. Bug for the site redesign, I guess? (Edit: done) I also dare not test if my karma goes up 10 point if someone vote for it through the main link. (But I think such hijacking is unlikely)