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Show HN: Measuring Karma Inflation on HN
- minimaxir 10y agoYou may want to recheck the time horizons of those two charts. The BigQuery data is way out of date, and even if you updated it to current metrics, new "rescue" mechanics make calculating inflation of stories have several caveats, and comment scores are no longer accessible.
- projectramo 10y agoFirstly, congratulation on resisting the urge to entitle the post "Karma Police" Secondly, consider one mechanism for why stories might get more likes: do they linger for longer on the home page? If HN population is increasing, then getting to the front page might increase the momentum more now than it used to. And then it collects more likes once it is there.