Thank you. I’m still confused, though, because I started out at 0 karma for the month, making the changes in the numbers non-equal. I’m now on {16, 2}, which is consistent with {12,-2}, though.
Remember that the change in karma-for-the-month is the sum of two things: changes now and changes a month ago. So it can jump down even when nothing interesting just happened, if you got a bunch of upvotes 30 days ago.
But the big jump was in karma, not karma-for-the-month. My karma-for-the-month went down by two and my karma went down by 25. I’m now on {20, 5}, which is inconsistent with the {12, −2} and {16, 2} from earlier today.
Karma-for-the-month is karma on your last month’s postings, not the last month’s votes on all your postings. If your total plummets while KftM hardly changes, it means a bunch of old posts got downvoted.
Thank you. I’m still confused, though, because I started out at 0 karma for the month, making the changes in the numbers non-equal. I’m now on {16, 2}, which is consistent with {12,-2}, though.
Remember that the change in karma-for-the-month is the sum of two things: changes now and changes a month ago. So it can jump down even when nothing interesting just happened, if you got a bunch of upvotes 30 days ago.
But the big jump was in karma, not karma-for-the-month. My karma-for-the-month went down by two and my karma went down by 25. I’m now on {20, 5}, which is inconsistent with the {12, −2} and {16, 2} from earlier today.
Karma-for-the-month is karma on your last month’s postings, not the last month’s votes on all your postings. If your total plummets while KftM hardly changes, it means a bunch of old posts got downvoted.