You might remember this moon distribution post last week. Containing this fateful statement:

Karma/Moons ratio: Each 1 point of karma in this round corresponds to 0.88 Moons.

You might also remember a while ago when I ran the Moon math and posted this spreadsheet.

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So all I did when the karma data was posted is to total the karma and stick it in my spreadsheet, like this:

https://preview.redd.it/3w3zev9tgou61.png?width=654&format=png&auto=webp&s=768d6228afdfd27955e70b9dfc35d45f8f6d7591

And there we go, 0.46.
So I commented my calculation. And boy did I feel the wrath of the downvote army!

I questioned it at the time and a mod responded saying something like a load of burned Moons have been reintroduced, I just thought it was weird that it was almost exactly double my calculation. The mods don't have much more info than we do when it comes to these posts as they are from reddit admin.

My comment with the 0.46 value went to -10 karma, but that's cool whatever, win some lose some I guess.

Then the Moons drop

Goddammit I was right all along.

There are three possible reasons I think as to why it was 0.46 and not 0.88:

1. There were supposed to be more Moons (burned or not claimed), but it didnt happen for some reason.
2. Whoever wrote the post done messed up.
3. I've got madder excel skills than the reddit admins. (Jokes, I love your work, pls dont ban me)

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So what lessons have we learnt today?

1. Never trust anything written on the internet.
2. My spreadsheet never lies.
3. Stop moaning about getting half the Moons you were promised, its free magic internet money you get for shitposting.

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Now for the real magic:

I guesstimate that the ratio for round 13 will be 0.39