Karma also involves strong upvotes (and that’s before getting into ’people with more karma have their votes counted more). I’m reading this right now at
EY: 37 karma, 19 votes (I don’t know what the base line is for his default upvote of himself*.)
Alex Hollow: 18 karma 11 votes.
If we assume both consist of upvotes, then it seems pretty clear this a result of a) lots of strong upvotes (those votes aren’t counting once). b) people whose ‘upvote’ increases karma by two, with a few strong upvotes thrown in, or c) a mixture of a and b.
And ironically, your post has substantially less karma than Eliezer’s does, despite saying basically the same thing!
Karma also involves strong upvotes (and that’s before getting into ’people with more karma have their votes counted more). I’m reading this right now at
EY: 37 karma, 19 votes (I don’t know what the base line is for his default upvote of himself*.)
Alex Hollow: 18 karma 11 votes.
If we assume both consist of upvotes, then it seems pretty clear this a result of a) lots of strong upvotes (those votes aren’t counting once). b) people whose ‘upvote’ increases karma by two, with a few strong upvotes thrown in, or c) a mixture of a and b.
*His karma is 116,019 though.