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Getting lots of karma on HN with submitting social justice related/SF housing articles is like shooting a fish in a barrel. Or being the first to comment on the
by venomsnake 11y ago
Getting lots of karma on HN with submitting social justice related/SF housing articles is like shooting a fish in a barrel. Or being the first to comment on them. So is with Apple/MS PR events.
I would suggest for certain kinds of submissions/topics to add logarithmic instead of linear influence on the h-index. Or to add some form of handicap.
After all SF housing is something that the community is obviously interested and passionate about - you can easily get 200 comments/upvotes on any article on the topic. So you check if this article contributes to the h-rank by removing the baseline upvotes/comments an article about SF housing gets.
TL:DR - for some topics your contributions should count towards the h-rank only if they engage the community above average.
- entee 11y agoSounds like a plan, I like it. Trouble is that to do that you'd have to have relatively sophisticated NLP to figure out what was the topic. On the other hand perhaps a simple comparison of keyword frequencies in title or all comment bodies would work? Still, doing this properly is nontrivial.