The strength of your votes on LessWrong depends on your karma; if you have more karma, your upvotes will increase the score of things you upvote by more.
Normal votes (one click) are worth
- 2 points – if you have 1,000 karma
- 1 point – if you have 0 karma
Strong Votes (click and hold) are worth
- 16 points (maximum) – if you have 500,000 karma
- 15 points – 250,000
- 14 points – 175,000
- 13 points – 100,000
- 12 points – 75,000
- 11 points – 50,000
- 10 points – 25,000
- 9 points – 10,000
- 8 points – 5,000
- 7 points – 2,500
- 6 points – 1,000
- 5 points – 500
- 4 points – 250
- 3 points – 100
- 2 points – 10
- 1 point – 0