> There’s some indication on my profile page that I have 1 of something, 23 of something else, and 5306 of something else. There are no explanatory words or hover-text or anything.
The first seems to be karma, which seems not to have been carried over. I guess the others are posts and comments.
Noooo! I spent years accumulating all that lovely karma, and it’s all going to vanish? I am disappoint.
Slightly more seriously, there’s something very weird about this. If I click on the search icon and start typing, one of the things I see is usernames, along with their karma scores. So e.g. if I start typing “lu” then near the top I see “lukeprog 64947 points 3mo”. But if I click on that link to go to the profile page for lukeprog that’s been created here on Lesser Wrong … that thing that may or may not be a karma score shows “9”. And if I search again and start typing my username, I see “gjm 1 points 3mo”.
So it seems that (1) some users’ karma scores are kinda-half-known to Lesser Wrong and some aren’t, and (2) the scores shown when you search are unrelated to the scores shown on users’ profile pages.
Speaking of karma, here’s another Weird Thing: that reply seems to have had 2 points from the instant when it was first posted. Unless I hallucinated it, this suggests that comments’ scores are not simply the sum of votes cast on them. [EDITED to add:] This one, too.
Ah, I’m also apparently giving +2 and −2 when I upvote/downvote things. Probably the same thing, since you’re automatically deemed to have upvoted every comment you make. (Maybe everyone’s votes are giving +-2, though there are some things whose score is an odd number. Maybe Lesser Wrong has noticed that I have a lot of old-LW karma and is giving me superpowers. Maybe everyone starts out counting for +-1 and then gets increased to +-2 once they get their first upvote or something. Maybe it’s just a bug.)
Hi! Your voting power is currently log base 5 of your karma. In the next day or so we’ll import people’s karma from LW 1.0 and then people’s weightings won’t mostly be 2.
Aha, makes some sense. I guess it’s rounded up so that anyone with karma >1 gets a voting power of 2?
In the past everyone had a “voting power” of one unit. Now most people will have more than that, and some will have quite a bit more. So scores on posts and comments will be *much larger*, at least if the amount of voting on them is fixed, and the very first downvote a comment gets can bring its score down to levels formerly only seen by *exceptionally* stupid or spammy or otherwise horrible comments. Old comments will mostly have more “moderate” scores—apart from any that get discovered by new superpowered users...
Unless, of course, you retroactively recompute all past comment scores according to the voters’ karma—and then presumably recompute that karma, which may be several times larger as a result, and iterate to convergence. That will substantially inflate everyone’s karma.
> There’s some indication on my profile page that I have 1 of something, 23 of something else, and 5306 of something else. There are no explanatory words or hover-text or anything.
The first seems to be karma, which seems not to have been carried over. I guess the others are posts and comments.
Noooo! I spent years accumulating all that lovely karma, and it’s all going to vanish? I am disappoint.
Slightly more seriously, there’s something very weird about this. If I click on the search icon and start typing, one of the things I see is usernames, along with their karma scores. So e.g. if I start typing “lu” then near the top I see “lukeprog 64947 points 3mo”. But if I click on that link to go to the profile page for lukeprog that’s been created here on Lesser Wrong … that thing that may or may not be a karma score shows “9”. And if I search again and start typing my username, I see “gjm 1 points 3mo”.
So it seems that (1) some users’ karma scores are kinda-half-known to Lesser Wrong and some aren’t, and (2) the scores shown when you search are unrelated to the scores shown on users’ profile pages.
Speaking of karma, here’s another Weird Thing: that reply seems to have had 2 points from the instant when it was first posted. Unless I hallucinated it, this suggests that comments’ scores are not simply the sum of votes cast on them. [EDITED to add:] This one, too.
Ah, I’m also apparently giving +2 and −2 when I upvote/downvote things. Probably the same thing, since you’re automatically deemed to have upvoted every comment you make. (Maybe everyone’s votes are giving +-2, though there are some things whose score is an odd number. Maybe Lesser Wrong has noticed that I have a lot of old-LW karma and is giving me superpowers. Maybe everyone starts out counting for +-1 and then gets increased to +-2 once they get their first upvote or something. Maybe it’s just a bug.)
Hi! Your voting power is currently log base 5 of your karma. In the next day or so we’ll import people’s karma from LW 1.0 and then people’s weightings won’t mostly be 2.
Aha, makes some sense. I guess it’s rounded up so that anyone with karma >1 gets a voting power of 2?
In the past everyone had a “voting power” of one unit. Now most people will have more than that, and some will have quite a bit more. So scores on posts and comments will be *much larger*, at least if the amount of voting on them is fixed, and the very first downvote a comment gets can bring its score down to levels formerly only seen by *exceptionally* stupid or spammy or otherwise horrible comments. Old comments will mostly have more “moderate” scores—apart from any that get discovered by new superpowered users...
Unless, of course, you retroactively recompute all past comment scores according to the voters’ karma—and then presumably recompute that karma, which may be several times larger as a result, and iterate to convergence. That will substantially inflate everyone’s karma.
Both of these outcomes feel a bit weird to me.