Hi everyone, I was just wondering how karma is calcutated here at HN.
I was sitting at -42 karma, over a dumb comment I made that was heavily downvoted. I posted a link today, that has not been upvoted at the time of this writing, and I'm now back at 1 karma.
How did this happen? How is karma calculated?
We did this to try to compensate for some bad side-effects of the change we made earlier this year to count more downvotes than we used to. That was necessary and it worked, but like a lot of medicines, was not completely benign.
Our intention is for both of these things (the medicine and the compensating mechanism) to be temporary.