<story><title>Open secrets about Hacker News</title><url>https://bengtan.com/blog/open-secrets-hacker-news/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lordnacho</author><text>Do you mean on stories? I&amp;#x27;ve noticed upvotes on stories don&amp;#x27;t give you 1 karma each, it&amp;#x27;s less. Not sure if it&amp;#x27;s a linear 0.5. But upvotes on comments seem to be 1 each.</text></item><item><author>weinzierl</author><text>Many good points. I&amp;#x27;d like to add a common open secret that I believe is wrong: 1 upvote = 1 karma point.&lt;p&gt;This might be true internally and initially, before any ant-spam, anti-upvote-ring detection takes place. Effectively, from a user point of view it is not - at least for me.&lt;p&gt;When I look at the points one of my submissions get and compare my increase in overall karma it is very roughly 50% most of the time.   Needless to say that I never participated in things that would be considered unethically (voting-ring etc.). Also not a complaint at all, just an observation that goes against what is often written in &amp;quot;about HN&amp;quot; type posts (but not OP).&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&lt;p&gt;1. My observation is from more than a year ago, so things might well have changed.&lt;p&gt;2. As &lt;i&gt;lordnacho&lt;/i&gt; points out below this seems to be true only for stories. Regardless why it happens, awarding stories with less points than comments makes a lot of sense to me. After all posting a suitable story is much less effort than writing a decent comment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>metafunctor</author><text>I think the karma from a story is more or less capped to the number of comments on the story.  At the same time, a story which gets more comments than upvotes quickly vanishes from the front page.&lt;p&gt;Both modulo moderation, of course.</text></comment>
<story><title>Open secrets about Hacker News</title><url>https://bengtan.com/blog/open-secrets-hacker-news/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lordnacho</author><text>Do you mean on stories? I&amp;#x27;ve noticed upvotes on stories don&amp;#x27;t give you 1 karma each, it&amp;#x27;s less. Not sure if it&amp;#x27;s a linear 0.5. But upvotes on comments seem to be 1 each.</text></item><item><author>weinzierl</author><text>Many good points. I&amp;#x27;d like to add a common open secret that I believe is wrong: 1 upvote = 1 karma point.&lt;p&gt;This might be true internally and initially, before any ant-spam, anti-upvote-ring detection takes place. Effectively, from a user point of view it is not - at least for me.&lt;p&gt;When I look at the points one of my submissions get and compare my increase in overall karma it is very roughly 50% most of the time.   Needless to say that I never participated in things that would be considered unethically (voting-ring etc.). Also not a complaint at all, just an observation that goes against what is often written in &amp;quot;about HN&amp;quot; type posts (but not OP).&lt;p&gt;EDIT:&lt;p&gt;1. My observation is from more than a year ago, so things might well have changed.&lt;p&gt;2. As &lt;i&gt;lordnacho&lt;/i&gt; points out below this seems to be true only for stories. Regardless why it happens, awarding stories with less points than comments makes a lot of sense to me. After all posting a suitable story is much less effort than writing a decent comment.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bryanrasmussen</author><text>my observation is that when you are starting out your stories generate more than .5 per comment, not sure if it is 1 per comment, but at a certain point you get capped to .5 per comment on story. Have not noticed any capping on favorites for comments though.</text></comment>