Look at it like this: at the moment you want to imbue karma to user X, system will: 1) check current date (date1) 2) calculate date (date2) that's 30 days back 3) sum how many times you imbued this user with karma between date2 and date1 ( = num1) 4) sum how many times this user imbued you with karma between date2 and date1 ( = num2) 4) reduce your karma imbuement by 4%*(num1+num2)
So the moment it checks from is always 30 days in the past.
If you imbue karma every 3 days, both ways, it'll count 20 imbuements over 30 days (that's max), and will reduce karma imbued by 4%*20 = 80%.
But if you imbue more rarely, it will find less imbuements in the past, and won't reduce karma imbued by so much.
I have no idea though if that only means positive karma hits. Will the negative karma hits also be influenced? If so, will they also be reduced? Or will 80% be added to them, instead of subtracted?
Edit: Tenb provided more information, so fixing my invalid assumptions.
This post has been edited by Dlaglacz: Apr 17 2009, 14:49
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