So whats your secret Hubkarma score?

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   sunforgedposted 14 years ago

   Im very interested in what equates to a high score in this metric.
   
   I recently have been linking out aLOT as a part of a recent group challenge.
   
   My Hubkarma is 47..
   
   I understand if you want to keep it to yourself.

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      Mishaposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      So far yours seems to be the highest reported

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      1. 76

         sunforgedposted 14 years agoin reply to this

         If the metric is out of 100 - I can only imagine a high score would have to be 500 words of blue text then.

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   2. 59

      Originposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Mine is above 36 and below 38.

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   3. 60

      Friendlywordposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Can you tell which is good? A high number or low number? I have a 60 score. But I dont know how I got it. Should I be paying more attention to these numbers, because I'm not making any money here. What am I doing right?

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   4. 60

      jamesbrownbeteposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      My hubkarma score is 56. How is it? I guess you have better hubs with better traffic than me guys.

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      psycheskinnerposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Mine started at 49--suggesting it takes some notice of linking to your own hubs--because that's all I've done so far.

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   6. 0

      Brenda Durhamposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Yes, it's a SECRET.
      Hint---it's a good thing I don't believe in "karma".   lol

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      1. 75

         Richieb799posted 14 years agoin reply to this

         What about 'you reap what you sow' isn't that essentially the same thing?

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            Arthur Fontesposted 14 years agoin reply to this

            or the Law of cause and effect?

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            ceciliabeltranposted 14 years agoin reply to this

            nowhere is safe from religious forums.

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               Research Analystposted 14 years agoin reply to this

               Law of attraction is what it is

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      warchild75posted 14 years agoin reply to this

      mine is 41,only noticed it this morning,how long has this new number been floating around?

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      sarovaiposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Mine is 73.

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   9. 59

      Booster911posted 14 years agoin reply to this

      I only joined HubPages last week and had a HubKarma of 0 which quickly grew to 30 over 2-3 days and it hovered around there since. Currently, its on 28.

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       warchild75posted 14 years agoin reply to this

       Mine is 60 but it has jumped recently since i started adding the little blue lines of text,i usually add 2 per hub and dont put them in the first couple of paragraphs as it may lead to someone clickng and moving on to a different hub.

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       J Sunhawkposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       Mine is at 79.
       
       I've only been here 2 weeks. I haven't done anything. Maybe the more you do, the lower the score, and that's a good thing. I'm at the top of the Google roost if you type in "South Carolina peaches + Thomas Jefferson." Could that be it? See? I don't know what I'm doing or talking about. I should check "cat fleas + Mussolini." Maybe I'm beating everyone there, too. I'm afraid to look. Now I'm scared. It looks like hubkarma may be a measurement of stupid keyword pairings.

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       BetteMacheteposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       Mine is 95, and all I did was link articles that truly were related to my articles.

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          sunforgedposted 14 years agoin reply to this

          yep
          
          all our "scores' went up substantially since this thread was started minutes after the feature was rolled out

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2. 60

   Ohmaposted 14 years ago

   29 and sad one more number to worry about!

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      sunforgedposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      hmm, maybe your 29 is a high score?
      
      It would seem weird with your hubtrail initiative for you to have a low score - perhaps the metric is backwards

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   2. 61

      tony0724posted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Ohma don't feel bad I am at 24. I guess I am a selfish SOB.

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   Marisa Wrightposted 14 years ago

   Yes, mine's 40.

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4. 73

   deosfluviatilisposted 14 years ago

   32 and certain Ohma's -and everyone else's- should be higher than mine. Also certain it will soon go down as my antisocial and rebellious nature proves itself.

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   1. 60

      Ohmaposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      I guess I am not very social either. When I try the tool it returns mostly suggestions to my own hubs is that good or bad?

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         Marisa Wrightposted 14 years agoin reply to this

         I think it just means you've cornered the market on HubPages in your topic.  I have the same problem on my dance Hubs - there aren't a whole lot of other people writing about pointe shoes.

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            lucieanneposted 14 years agoin reply to this

            Ha ha same here Marisa. I wondered why mine had gone from 7 to 37 in 2 days. It's probably because no-one on here has written about Boston lol Doesn't it have something to do with your activity on the forums and commenting on other hubs too?

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      timorousposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      You should get out more...meet some new people

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5. 59

   flread45posted 14 years ago

   My score is 52

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      Mishaposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      See, we got a new winner! Flread, care to share you karma improvement strategies?

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      1. 59

         flread45posted 14 years agoin reply to this

         On my hubkarma strategies,I have no answer,but it may do with not being agressive towards other hubbers,like I was the other day and my karma dropped a point.

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   KCC Big Countryposted 14 years ago

   I have a lowly 27...*hangs head in shame*

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      darksideposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Given what we're learning about the HubKarma metric your score says to me that you're selective about your linking AND you are getting the most benefit out of your traffic.
      
      You used to have a HubberScore of 100 didn't you?

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         KCC Big Countryposted 14 years agoin reply to this

         Used to.   *more head-hanging shame*  I was 99 over the weekend.

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      rebekahELLEposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      mine is only 22...
      
      and I do have some links to other hubbers and a number of rss feeds.
      
      but I also have a lower total of hubs. I don't think it really affects our hubber score that much. mine goes from 99 (this morning) to 95ish.

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         KCC Big Countryposted 14 years agoin reply to this

         94-97 seems to be my normal hubber score range.  I have the odd 98-100 thrown in.

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            rebekahELLEposted 14 years agoin reply to this

            I'm not going to get crazy about it. it's simply an incentive and I have found some perfect hubs to link to. but on some of my hubs, it simply wouldn't work well. when we were testing it, I remember Paul said to use it wisely.

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7. 82

   timorousposted 14 years ago

   It seems to depend how many links to other hubs you have in your own hubs.  Even with my measly 3 hubs, I'm still looking at a few more hubs to link to.  I'm currently at 36.
   
   Gotta try harder, I guess

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8. 60

   Ohmaposted 14 years ago

   I think I am not sure if I like this after all. Everyone here with High karma seems to be losing hubscore and mine with low karma has not changed Hmmmm??

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9. 83

   donotfearposted 14 years ago

   Hubkarma was a 40 just a minute ago.  Now we have another number to obsess over...!  That is, I do.

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10. 83

    IzzyMposted 14 years ago

    Mine is 38. Whoever said it was just one more number to obsess over was right, but I intend to ignore mine.
    I can't use the tool, it gives me script errors, and I'll link to other hubs, manually, if and when it suits me.

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       Pandoras Boxposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       Well put Izzy!

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       Lisa HWposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       I can use the tool, and I will - but I need to ignore the number too.  I can't be thinking about numbers.    Whatever my stuff is, it is.

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    Pandoras Boxposted 14 years ago

    Under this account I have a 53. Hmmm...

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    Rishy Richposted 14 years ago

    my hubkarma is 46 but I havent linked any other hubs in my hubs so far. Still wondering how the scoring works

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    1. 60

       SunSevenposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       Wondering here too!

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13. 60

    Anesidoraposted 14 years ago

    My karma is 56. I submitted two hubs to hubmobs under this account. So I guess that's gonna be the big decider to get you high karma. Lots of participation in hubmobs.

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       sunforgedposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       Your example is most telling.

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          rebekahELLEposted 14 years agoin reply to this

          I don't get it. some guy has 2 hubs with no links and a 40 something score.
          
          I have numerous hubs with hubmob rss links and I do have some links to other hubs.
          
          scratching head... and going to bed.
          
          it's a number.

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             sunforgedposted 14 years agoin reply to this

             lol, it really is just a number! But these types of numbers fascinate me.
             
             It would seem its currently calculated in a percentage:
             
             word count to links or hubs published to links
             
             something like that - so 6 hubs with some outbound links could perform great under this metric.
             
             I may have inserted 240 links in the last 60 days - but that was mixed into around 15-20K words of content. Also a contextual link should be more heavily weighed then a rss feed.
             
             It seems with higher volume of hubs published many are seeing a lower HK score.
             
             These high volume hub authors may very well have more actual linked text then the total count of another hubbers complete portfolio of published writings.!
             
             at least this is what i gather from reading this and scanning through a couple of hubauthors styles.

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14. 0

    girly_girl09posted 14 years ago

    49

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    relacheposted 14 years ago

    That'd be telling now... wouldn't it?

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16. 0

    Nelle Hoxieposted 14 years ago

    Hubkarma 39....

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17. 87

    Edweirdoposted 14 years ago

    Mine's 41.
    
    I wonder if it will be possible for these to go down? If I don't link to to others in the future could I go all the way to 0   
    
    

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    Shadesbreathposted 14 years ago

    Probably the kind of thing that would have been better off without a score attached.  Statwhores are just going to jam links into their stuff now to buff their ratings, and cheapen what a real link really means.
    
    I hope this isn't another example of commercial interest driving quality down with it's bar graphs and charts.
    
    Don't get me wrong, I like the easy link finder, but most of the time, the articles aren't relevant to the use of a term or phrase. To just jam it in there for score buffering would be insulting to readers (should I happen to get one, lol).
    
    People are already too focused on their scores over the quality of the writing.

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       sunforgedposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       Shades, its an example of HP working to keep traffic within the overall HP domain, which in a roundabout way is good for everyone.
       
       to bad the page load times are terrible, now that would be a new feature worth clapping some backs for! (and one that would help out the overall HP domain immensely)

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          Shadesbreathposted 14 years agoin reply to this

          You know, I truly believe it is supposed to be a good idea.  But I've been an online gamer since, well, they used to call them MUDs and MOOs, let's just say that.
          
          What I can tell you is that when an online ... entity ... develops a new system of scoring, the guys who do numbers will game for high score, not honorable play. (Just look at the bulk of this conversation now. Nobody is going, "Gosh, I need to read more hubs and try to find really amazing links to make.")
          
          Which is possibly fine.  But in my nearly three decades of this sort of the thing, the more numbers that are applied to try to measure and predict what "quality" is in a HUMAN user-place, the more it becomes a joke of manipulation.
          
          And again, I'm not bagging on the idea. I'm just saying, I've watched so many really great things slowly get eroded by applying measurements trying to figure out/predict/guide "what is good play" (good writing) when, the reality is, quality at some point becomes something you can't measure.  It's a measure of the humans doing it.  You give people scores, they shoot for scores.  At the very least, let the reasons be silent, let people discover success through doing things that deserve to be successful.
          
          Quantifying everything lets the left-brained manipulators bypass the core of what is supposed to matter, and, for a time, will look like it's working.  Then, suddenly, the shell colapses because the framework eroded while everyone was watching how shiny the surface numbers were.
          
          This might make me sound like a nay-sayer, but I only write this because I do care.

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          1. 60

             Friendlywordposted 14 years agoin reply to this

             You explained it very well. You just made me very proud of my score, now that I know how I got it.  Thank you for making the hub writing process so clear to me. I'll continue to wait until I really have something to write about. In the mean time, I love the forums.

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                Shadesbreathposted 14 years agoin reply to this

                I think it matters that you wait to say something that means something to you.  Maybe Google would argue that point.  Dunno.  But that's my two cents.  <cheers>

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                   Friendlywordposted 14 years agoin reply to this

                   I'm not making any money. That's not why I write or joined hubpages. I just love political debates anywhere I can find them. Can I ask you questions if I do get interested in making money? I have to write 10 hubs first, is that right?

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                      Shadesbreathposted 14 years agoin reply to this

                      I have no clue how to make money on here, lol.  Don't ask me.  I'm like you, I write what matters to me, when it matters.  I've been here for 2 years and haven't got 70 hubs yet.  Only make about $13 bucks a month.
                      
                      I keep telling myself to write some commerical hubs--I even almost start them all the time--but I just can't do it.  Makes me feel dirty.  If I have a product I truly care about, the hub will just pop out of me (like my 13th Warrior hub I just wrote - way behind the marketing potential for the dvd's but, it mattered for whatever reason, so... out it came.)
                      
                      Stick to your integrity, imo.  Real karma doesn't have a hub or a score attached to it.  (Bad money making advice, but, if when we die and anything matters, maybe it will.)

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             Jule Romansposted 14 years agoin reply to this

             I know MUDs :-)

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             EmpressFelicityposted 14 years agoin reply to this

             
             
             Yeah.  What he said.  (You've worked for some of the same organisations/companies I've worked for, obviously.)

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             rmrposted 14 years agoin reply to this

             I don't pay that much attention to scores. I have been pretty generous in linking to other hubbers throughout my stay here, though. My Karma score is at 90 right now, whatever that means.
             
             I don't think the dropping author scores are related to the link tool, either. I've recently had the same thing happen shortly after leaving comments on hubs. In fact, I left a few comments yesterday, and dropped from 97 to 93.

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             lucieanneposted 14 years agoin reply to this

             confused.com

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19. 60

    Csjun89posted 14 years ago

    Mine is 21, but I do not have any hubmobs, perhaps that is the key!

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    barryrutherfordposted 14 years ago

    What about it being secret

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21. 60

    SunSevenposted 14 years ago

    47 for me now.
    as sunforged said, the pageloadtime is a bit slow.

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    barryrutherfordposted 14 years ago

    mine lower but i do link alot !

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23. 64

    Ivorwenposted 14 years ago

    On this account, the # is 45.  On my most self serving account, where you will only find me linking to other hubs of mine, the # is 62.  Karma indeed!

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    KCC Big Countryposted 14 years ago

    I agree with Sunforged about the possibility of a percentage type equation....because as someone was trying to figure out earlier in this thread, the subject of HubMob hubs popped up.  Two of my best performing hubs are HubMob hubs.  However, that's 2 hubs out of 310 published hubs.  That's a much smaller percentage that someone with 2 HubMob hubs out of a dozen or so.
    
    I haven't played around a lot with the links tool.

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    1. 60

       Anesidoraposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       Really? My hubmob hubs are among my worst performing hubs!

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    barryrutherfordposted 14 years ago

    good point is the closer you get to ZERO higher or the closer you get to
    
    100

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26. 61

    Derek Dposted 14 years ago

    I have a Karma score of 48.
    I read in the help section that the score can range from (0-100).

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    1. 72

       AEvansposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       Good job , keep writing!

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27. 0

    Audreveaposted 14 years ago

    33

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    AEvansposted 14 years ago

    It was 46 until I began to link some of my hubs and it has now changed to 47. I believe I am enjoying this, now if I can find time with going through all of my hubs that is going to be even better. lolololo

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29. 68

    wesleycoxposted 14 years ago

    It would seem my Karma is broken.

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30. 0

    Nelle Hoxieposted 14 years ago

    I have a completely selfish alterego that only links to hubs within that ego and that hubkarma score is 45 as compared to "Nelle's" 39 where I do link to others occassionally.

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    1. 60

       LarasMamaposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       Mine is 59... I link a lot of my relevant hubs to each other and occasionally to other people's hubs.

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31. 60

    susanlangposted 14 years ago

    24 here.

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32. 0

    Audreveaposted 14 years ago

    Does it count for anything / come with a reward?

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33. 70

    borge_009posted 14 years ago

    mine is 35

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34. 60

    SomewayOuttaHereposted 14 years ago

    maybe i don't have one...don't know what it is or where it is.  I saw something about linking my hubs to others but didn't understand it....oh well....

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    1. 60

       Anesidoraposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       On your profile, bottom of your avatar. Wouldn't worry about it though.

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          SomewayOuttaHereposted 14 years agoin reply to this

          I'm an 8.  I guess I don't link to other hubs or whatever...but......oh well....i'll figure this out one day...later
          
          sorry all, no harm intended if I don't link anywhere....and if I have linked it is because I didn't know what I was doing anyway.....it would have been quite by accident I guess!   LOL

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    Lisa HWposted 14 years ago

    The first time I saw it I had a 47, and then it bumped up to 48.  When I saw that those are "out of a possible 100" I was pretty horrified. 

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36. 87

    Edweirdoposted 14 years ago

    Hooray for me!
    
    I did nothing and my score rose from 41 to 42 
    
    Apparently "HubKarma" is just as unintuitive as every other "score" on HubPages

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       sunforgedposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       yeah, mine just jumped to 79. Im over trying to figure this one out.

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          sunforgedposted 14 years agoin reply to this

          ok, back down now to 48, now im really over trying to figure this out!!!!

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          rebekahELLEposted 14 years agoin reply to this

          I went to bed with a 22, after not doing anything to try and bump it up, and this morning it's 84!

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             watchyaposted 14 years agoin reply to this

             so karmahubs must be a joke LOL

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    Edweirdoposted 14 years ago

    Now it's 85 on my profile, and still 41 on my "Hubtivity" homepage ?!?!?
    
    Either I'm doing it right (without having done anything) or there's an inconsistency...

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    earnestshubposted 14 years ago

    I don't get it. I started off with 47, allowed some related hubs and my score dropped to 42, wassat?

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39. 75

    frogdroppingposted 14 years ago

    lolol guys! Just noticed this on mine. Cool tool. Tickles me now that we have another numbers 'thing' to puzzle over

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40. 58

    Mark Knowlesposted 14 years ago

    LOL
    
    Mine is 70. Which doesn't seem very high.
    
    I suck.......

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    1. 59

       Originposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       Mine is a lot less than yours

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       frogdroppingposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       It's higher than anyone else's

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       Pearldiverposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       Geez... Don't say that Sir Mark..... @ 35 it seems that I'm half as worthy of Karma as you are....
       
       I know that can't be right..... I'm Sure I Can swear in more languages than you
       
       They say of Karma.... "It's made round to go round!"

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       jamesbrownbeteposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       Thats no surprise anymore mark. Youre a great hubber here.

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    Polly Cposted 14 years ago

    Mine is 55 - only just discovered it. Though I did not do much on here yesterday - 2 posts in the forum and replied to a couple of comments, same for the past few days.

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    SunSevenposted 14 years ago

    Wow! My Karma jumped to 79!
    Just noticed. Before it was 47

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    1. 85

       Polly Cposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       Wow, I think you could be in the lead!

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       1. 60

          SunSevenposted 14 years agoin reply to this

          I dont think so. Edweirdo has 85!

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       SunSevenposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       Now down to 49!

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    Originposted 14 years ago

    I'm probably not going to pay much attention to my karma score, unless it's starts directly effecting other statistics in a major fashion. I understand why HP is doing it, but I just don't see it necessary for me to do it, unless the other hubs I link to warrant such a link.

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    1. 85

       Polly Cposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       Well, I really don't understand it at all. I do not have any links to other people's hubs, only my own (apart from one link to one of mine on someone elses hub).

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    Trsmdposted 14 years ago

    How the Hubkarma is calculated ?

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45. 63

    Anathposted 14 years ago

    Mine is 87 !!!!

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46. 73

    E. A. Wrightposted 14 years ago

    64. Can't explain it. Many links just go to my own hubs.

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    theirishobserver.posted 14 years ago

    All I know is this link thing is a God send - I have been trying so hard to do rss etc and had great help from Ohma etc however this link thing is exactly what I was looking for

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    Anamika Sposted 14 years ago

    Mine is only 57. But I am happy that this Karma thing is not viewable by others.

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    Originposted 14 years ago

    I kind of wish there was an option to be exempt from the karma mechanism - where it wouldn't effect you in any fashion. I'm not trying to be a party pooper, but I already have enough to consider while creating a hub (content, backlinks, seo, etc).

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50. 72

    myownworldposted 14 years ago

    Oh no! Yet another score to give us sleepless nights!  Why... Why  HP?!
    
    (btw. mine is 72...good or bad, I don't know, I'm just pretending to ignore it! )

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       Originposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       It sounds good to me, about double mine LOL

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          myownworldposted 14 years agoin reply to this

          Mind games, I'm telling you, mind games....they just love to play them with us....!
          
          edit: are those your special glasses you put on to make sense of the score?

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             Originposted 14 years agoin reply to this

             Yes, these are special glasses that allow me to see into the minds of HP, and with that I can properly surmise the reasoning behind the karma. On top of that, I can see through people's clothes! OMG YAY!

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