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Karma is discussed in a very lengthy thread here: www.abovetopsecret.com..., where Skeptic Overlord says, “The karma calculation places a high weight on stars, a secondary weight on staff applause, and a tertiary lesser-weight on Flags; then compares all that against the number of posts. So that it is indeed possible for a new member with few threads, but great ideas in lots of replies, to achieve a higher "KARMA" than long-time high-WATS members.”
Originally posted by schuyler
reply to post by JohnPhoenix
Here are the results for your poster. Indeed, the reported Karma score is way off, but as I said originally, Karma starts out with a bottom line of 20. In this case the “real” Karma score is 30. It looks to me like to 20 “bonus points” have not yet erased. If you keep track of this poster, who, after all, has made only one post, my guess is the Karma score will fall to the formula within a few posts.
Karma: ((Stars * 15) + ((Flags + Applause) * 10)) / Posts
((2 Stars * 15)+((0 Flags +0 Applause)*10))/1 Post
30/1
30
The Wats score is correct at .01. The formula works.
Wats: (Posts / 600) + (Flags / 80) + (Stars / 170)
(1/600) + (0/80) + (2/170)
0.00166666667+0+0.0117647059
0.0134307257, Rounds to
0.01
Here are your scores.
P 3,418 F 591 S 4,793
W 41 K 23, App=15
Karma: ((Stars * 15) + ((Flags + Applause) * 10)) / Posts
((4793 Stars * 15) + ((591 Flags + 15 Applause) * 10)) / 3418 Posts
(71,895) + ((591 + 15) * 10)) / 3418
((71,895) + (606 * 10) ) / 3418
(71,895 + 6060) / 3418
77,955 / 3418
22.8 rounds to
23
Wats: (Posts / 600) + (Flags / 80) + (Stars / 170)
(3418 Posts / 600) + (591 Flags / 80) + (4793 Stars / 170)
5.6966 + 7.3875 + 28.1941
41.26 rounds to
41
Both Karma and Wats reflect correctly. It is my contention and belief that if you apply these formulas to the scores of members, 99.999% of the time the formulas are a fairly accurate picture of scores. I invite anyone to do the math on their scores or anyone else’s and to report discrepancies.
You managed to find one person with a single solitary post where the Karma score doesn’t work on a point I had already mentioned in my original paper. Meh?
Originally posted by schuyler
reply to post by JohnPhoenix
You managed to find one person with a single solitary post where the Karma score doesn’t work on a point I had already mentioned in my original paper. Meh?
Originally posted by marvinthemartian
reply to post by schuyler
Thank you for the effort you have put in to your post
But in all honesty i couldn't care less why or how stars or flags or whatever are awarded or acquired
It is not why i am here.