[dang]

Not all upvotes count towards karma. This is related to HN's anti-abuse systems. It would be nice if it could just be simple, but one-to-one mappings turn out to be the most gameable things, so we've had to do fancy footwork over the years.

[weinzierl]

Makes sense. Just to avoid the wrong impression, when I said I never participated in a voting ring, what I really meant was that I never tried to game the system im any way. Easy for me to say, I know, unfortunately impossible to proof. Anyways, I was just curious about my story/comment ratio theory, but I guess I will never know...