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So you are axod are also in the same boat? But yours are some of the most interesting comments... and your comment averages are not below the 2 cutoff that pg s

by 10ren 17y ago

So you are axod are also in the same boat? But yours are some of the most interesting comments... and your comment averages are not below the 2 cutoff that pg stated above, anyway: axod is 3.65: http://searchyc.com/user/axod?only=comments&sort=by_points http://searchyc.com/user/axod?only=comments&sort=by_poin... jacquesm is 3.03: http://searchyc.com/user/+jacquesm?only=comments&sort=by_points http://searchyc.com/user/+jacquesm?only=comments&sort=by... Possibly the code is more broken than pg realizes (or perhaps it's searchyc that's got it wrong).

jodrellblank 17y ago
I think it's happening to me as well, and searchyc rates me as just over 3 points per comment. I didn't realise it happened at all until seeing Jacquesm's comments about it, and I'm still undecided about whether it's annoying or not. It's more annoying when a thread goes "comment by me no votes, comment by someone else upvotes, reply by me no votes", for instance, and the result of that kind of thing needs an internal adjustment of the sort "clearly my replies aren't as good as I'm thinking they are". I get a similar feeling from this - yes I'm going out of my way to vote up effortful comments and vote down weak, silly, effortless comments but maybe my votes aren't as 'good' as they should be. Not like being patronised by a car with a plastic steering wheel as mentioned above, but like something that's out of alignment due to misunderstanding the "HN way".
jacquesm 17y ago
I haven't been able to upvote / downvote for months. I think the averages are behind the learderboard point totals, not what searchyc says (it doesn't have direct access to the HN db).
run4yourlives 17y ago
Paul addresses this in his reply up at the top. You're viewing the averages after the update, but there is a lag.
pg 17y ago
I calculate averages differently. I only consider recent comments, and I discard outliers before averaging.
- 10ren 17y ago
  Thanks - could you tell me what my average score is please?
  - randallsquared 17y ago
    Actually, just having that on the user page would be interesting, even if it's no longer used for anything internally.
    - jacquesm 17y ago
      I think it is the number in the third column of the leaderboard. Mine is at 1.91 and I can't vote so that would make sense.
      - 10ren 17y ago
        11 of the 100 leaders' votes don't count, because <2.0. Something is disconnected, if our best and brightest are comment-vote-banned (could be the leader criteria, I suppose). BTW I seem to be able to vote again now. Thanks pg! kinda nice... Though now I feel the weight of responsibility again. However, the big OCD thing is that now the UI works properly! I really like that. And, no longer being a persona non grata (an exaggeration; I could still comment and vote on submissions).
      - randallsquared 17y ago
        And it's on the user page as well. I dunno whether it was already there before I mentioned it. I guess it's been a while since I've looked at my user page.
  - pg 17y ago
    http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=10ren http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=10ren

by 10ren 17y ago

jodrellblank 17y ago

I think it's happening to me as well, and searchyc rates me as just over 3 points per comment. I didn't realise it happened at all until seeing Jacquesm's comments about it, and I'm still undecided about whether it's annoying or not. It's more annoying when a thread goes "comment by me no votes, comment by someone else upvotes, reply by me no votes", for instance, and the result of that kind of thing needs an internal adjustment of the sort "clearly my replies aren't as good as I'm thinking they are". I get a similar feeling from this - yes I'm going out of my way to vote up effortful comments and vote down weak, silly, effortless comments but maybe my votes aren't as 'good' as they should be. Not like being patronised by a car with a plastic steering wheel as mentioned above, but like something that's out of alignment due to misunderstanding the "HN way".

jacquesm 17y ago

I haven't been able to upvote / downvote for months. I think the averages are behind the learderboard point totals, not what searchyc says (it doesn't have direct access to the HN db).

run4yourlives 17y ago

Paul addresses this in his reply up at the top. You're viewing the averages after the update, but there is a lag.

pg 17y ago

I calculate averages differently. I only consider recent comments, and I discard outliers before averaging.

10ren 17y ago
Thanks - could you tell me what my average score is please?
- randallsquared 17y ago
  Actually, just having that on the user page would be interesting, even if it's no longer used for anything internally.
  - jacquesm 17y ago
    I think it is the number in the third column of the leaderboard. Mine is at 1.91 and I can't vote so that would make sense.
    - 10ren 17y ago
      11 of the 100 leaders' votes don't count, because <2.0. Something is disconnected, if our best and brightest are comment-vote-banned (could be the leader criteria, I suppose). BTW I seem to be able to vote again now. Thanks pg! kinda nice... Though now I feel the weight of responsibility again. However, the big OCD thing is that now the UI works properly! I really like that. And, no longer being a persona non grata (an exaggeration; I could still comment and vote on submissions).
    - randallsquared 17y ago
      And it's on the user page as well. I dunno whether it was already there before I mentioned it. I guess it's been a while since I've looked at my user page.
- pg 17y ago
  http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=10ren http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=10ren