It’s unclear—do you mean that the number of points received for posts gets multiplied by 10, both for positive and negative votes?
Yes an up vote on a post is worth 10 karma points to the contributor, a down vote −10 points.
With regard to discussion, I just implemented what I was instructed to do.
Some changes to karma have been deployed today. Posts will now show scores less than zero, previously scores below zero were shown as zero. Votes on posts are now worth 10 points up or down to the contributor. Also the threshold to be able to post is now 50, up from 20.
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Does anyone know if these accounts are being managed or is there the possibility as you say for a siege at a later date?
The missing comment’s have been scraped off the old OB site and should all now be present,
We did our best to try to link up OB names with Less Wrong user names. However as there were many hundreds of names this had be done automatically. For a match to be made the name on OB and username on LW had to match, as did the email address on both sides.
If you supplied an email address on OB then that will have been imported and you can claim the account by following the forgotten password process for the account. Assuming it has your email address you will be sent an email and be able to reset the password.
This should be fixed now.
Yes, we’re working on this. The missing comments were omitted from the Type Pad export. It has been raised with TypePad.
‘Top’ now defaults to ‘All time’, instead of ‘Today’
The behaviour was all inherited from the initial Reddit codebase. It just isn’t feasible to rip out and re-implement all the javascript dependant parts of the site that are already there and working.
There’s no reason I can think of why you wouldn’t be able to edit your comments. What exactly is happening?
No there isn’t a way to check vote counts at the moment.
The main driver for the limit was to prevent someone registering one or more accounts and being free to vote everything down.
I’ve verified the numbers, thomblake has posted 2538 down votes. 93t is 11801 in base 36. Adding 436 articles drop the percentage slightly to 20.7%.
Hi ciphergoth, I’ve made some changes this morning that make the Less Wrong code base compatible with PostgreSQL 8.3, which is available in the karmic repositories. The change is on the ‘postgres-8.3’ branch in git. I have run through and revised the Hacking on Less Wrong wiki page this morning on an Ubuntu 9.10 install and have confirmed that it works. It would be great if you could have another go at getting the code up and running and let me know how you go.