Explaining the 20% bonus and what karma is.

Edit: I am not a mod or admin or a developer. I am sharing what I have heard and believe.

You earn a bonus if you hold onto moons you earn until the next distribution cycle. This is about a months time.

-Earn 100 moons and have 200 moons in your vault on the next snapshot day. 20% bonus.

-Earn 100, had 200 but choose to sell 100 and hold the remaining 100 for the snapshot. 20% bonus.

-You earn 100. You sell 50. You have 50 for the snapshot. 10% bonus.

-Earn 100 sell 9, have 91 on snapshot. 91% of the 20% bonus is applied or about 18% bonus.

-You earn 100 but sell them and have 0 moons. No bonus.

This 20% bonus is applied to your "earned karma."

Earned karma is not your net upvotes after subtracting downvotes. 1 upvote does not equal 1 karma.

Having 100 up votes and 100 downvotes leaves you with a positive karma score as upvotes earn more than downvotes subtract.

A comment or thread's upvotes have diminishing returns on karma earned. 100 upvotes may be close to 100 karma but 10,000 is probably much closer to 5,000 or 6,000 karma. Gets worse as the single piece of content earns more.

Heck, I believe if a user only downvotes or only upvotes then their down/up-vote will effect karma far less than the standard user's vote.

Moon distribution is effected by the amount of karma earned by the community and the amount of moons being distributed this cycle.