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I'm pretty certain that some people on this forum get 2 karma on their comments immediately on posting them. Is this a thing?
I realise this is a petty and unimportant thing to think about, but I am slightly curious as to what's going on here.
It's sometimes 1 (for upvotes) and sometimes -1 (for downvotes). Implementing it as a free variable was a bit easier than implementing it as a boolean, so we did that.