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.
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.