Comment by pranabus on 10/02/2020 at 04:38 UTC

40 upvotes, 2 direct replies (showing 2)

View submission: [OC] The relationship between karma and upvotes depends on what sub you post on and how quickly you get upvoted

You can’t see the number of downvotes or upvotes, just the net of both.

So that’s a bit of a flaw there in your argument. It’s possible your graphs just show the difference between aggregate upvote/downvote ratio across subs.

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Comment by Joliot at 10/02/2020 at 04:45 UTC

35 upvotes, 1 direct replies

That's true, it would have been better if I said "post score" rather than upvotes. I'd be surprised if the number of downvotes on a post was so different from sub to sub that it could cause the differences in my figure, but it's a possibility! This post[1] from a few weeks ago looks at the final karma/score ratio and includes the upvote ratio, and it looks like upvote ratio isn't impacting the karma ratio too much. That said, that post doesn't include what subreddits the data are from so it's hard to tell.

1: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/esvf5f/oc_the_relation_between_karma_gained_from_a_post/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=usertext&utm_name=TheoryOfReddit&utm_content=t3_f1jv8c

Comment by Dragonaax at 10/02/2020 at 07:44 UTC

5 upvotes, 0 direct replies

You can see % of downvotes. But that doesn't matter because downvotes decrease karma on posts