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Originally Posted by eschwartz
It is your karma-giving power that relates to your post count. We even have a Wiki page about it, see: Karma. |
Thanks for the link. It coincides with my experience that you only receive karma when it is bestowed upon you by another member (limitation #1: "The only way for a person's karma to rise is for someone else to give them karma.").
"Giveable" karma = (days registered)/30 + (post count)/40 + (karma)/200.
So "days registered" is the dominant factor, and the act of giving karma triggers a karma change for the recipient. And you get one additional karma point you can give for each 200 new posts. I see now why the "last post wins" threads are so popular.
The original post I questioned did not make a clear distinction in my mind between karma and "karma-giving power", and I need such distinctions to avoid confusion and misunderstanding. That is also why I add so much extra syntactic sugar to my written words, to attempt to prevent such alternate interpretations.