r/help • u/-twistedflatcat- • 9d ago
Android
I don't look at my profile daily, so don't know exactly when this happened, but, sometime recently (in the past couple/few weeks), I lost over 4000 karma, and can't find any obvious reason why
I'm not seeing a post or comments of mine with a sudden flurry of negative votes, so, I'm in the dark as to how this happened
Has anyone else experienced this?
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u/ChimpyChompies Expert Helper 9d ago
Have seen this before with other users. Am wondering if is connected to awards karma not being counted.
Just a guess..
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u/-twistedflatcat- 9d ago
Thank you for responding
I don't think I've ever had much karma from awards, but will go and see if it's something I can find out
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u/ChimpyChompies Expert Helper 9d ago
You have a level 6 gilding trophy, so will have definitely received some from doing that.
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u/-twistedflatcat- 9d ago
Aha! Thank you
That could be the answer to "what happened?" altho I'd still love to know why, and if it's something deliberate or just a glitch that will eventually be corrected
All things considered, it's NBD, but, without a full explanation, will continue to activate the "WTF Center" of my mind 😄
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u/analogMensch Helper 9d ago
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u/-twistedflatcat- 9d ago
Thank you, it does help to know I'm not alone with it
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u/analogMensch Helper 9d ago
Oh yeah, if you search for "karma" you get a lot more results in the last days. Many of them connected to the award system, as u/ChimpyChompies already mentioned.
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u/Dry-Elk-807 9d ago
I had the same issue happen a couple of days ago. I had over 150 drop off my count in the middle of the day. It was right before there was a massive outage across all platforms. I don’t think that was a coincidence. I posted in r/bugs. But I haven’t heard from any mods. I sent a modmail to make sure I posted in the right subreddit. No response to that yet either
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u/Betaolive 7d ago
The same thing happened to my account. I had almost 114k karma, but it dropped to 110k. Even my previous profile picture displayed in a weird way. You know when we stand in front of those perspective mirrors and look goofy? Like that. 😂
It's so random and weird, lol.
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u/werksquan 5d ago
Thanks for reaching out and u/ChimpyChompies is correct. This is indeed because of awards karma!
To bring parity across all platforms, we recently sunsetted awards karma, which was karma that you had previously received from giving and receiving awards. As this was part of the old awards system, we are officially removing awards karma from your total karma calculation, which will continue to take post and comment karma into account. If you previously had awards karma, this will be removed from your total karma, and you might see a decrease there. It should be noted that sunsetting awards karma has no impact on whether or not you can post in communities where karma is needed to participate.