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willus · 04-13-2013, 10:36 AM

I've now seen karma on a couple of members exceeding 2 billion. I'm just curious if the karma field in the database is a 32-bit integer value so that maybe it's limited to 2^31 or 2^32? Will it ironically wrap back around to 0 (or better still, -2^31), which perhaps means you've been re-in-karma-nated?

A while back, folks in this thread talked about a re-vamped karma system which was in the works. Anything happening with that? Just curious.

04-13-2013, 10:36 AM	#447
willus Fuzzball, the purple cat Posts: 1,272 Karma: 11087488 Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: California Device: iPad	Karma > 2^31? I've now seen karma on a couple of members exceeding 2 billion. I'm just curious if the karma field in the database is a 32-bit integer value so that maybe it's limited to 2^31 or 2^32? Will it ironically wrap back around to 0 (or better still, -2^31), which perhaps means you've been re-in-karma-nated? A while back, folks in this thread talked about a re-vamped karma system which was in the works. Anything happening with that? Just curious.