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IIRC, boosts increase it and downvotes decrease it. Last time I checked I was minus 5. Thus I think of it as a QI score.
That's a poor way to measure karma since people downvote significantly more liberally than they boost, and boosting isn't a thing on lemmy.
It does make a positive score far more meaningful, given that no only does someone have to post quotable content, but it's also really easy to lose.
I think it might be too skewed to the negative this way, though. I'd support it if boosts were positive but there either was no negative, or the negative score was tied to the number of people who have blocked you, somehow.