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Isn't this a feature HN had before and intentionally removed?
by inimino 10y ago
Isn't this a feature HN had before and intentionally removed?
- ars 10y agoThe feature they had before showed points for a specific post, not the total for the user.
- Kinnard 10y agoI wish there was a way to 'tag' mods for questions like these.
- jasonkester 10y agoYes. Comment scores, user points and average per comment. The last was the most useful.
- danso 10y agoFWIW, the reasoning for removing the average karma per comment metric, which was about 2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8264220 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8264220 > It's based on comment scores only. My sense is that it's an irrelevant distraction and we should get rid of it. For example, we caught a bunch of users who were gaming it by deleting any comments that brought their average down. We fixed that by treating deleted comments as comments of score 0 for average-computing purposes. It's an example of how, once you publish a metric, people start to care about it and do things based on it, regardless of how meaningful it is. Comment average used to be used by a few algorithms (like comment ranking) but we turned that off as an experiment a while ago and nothing seemed to get worse. If anything, I think it may have helped a little.
- inopinatus 10y agoThe interesting "missing metric" for me is comment heat. Rationale: I've occasionally made a polarising remark that appears to attract almost as many downvotes as upvotes. These remarks end up with maybe +3 karma after 24h of jiggling vigorously up & down but this doesn't represent the total number of votes. With any aggregate measure, the distribution of values summarized may be as revealing as the value itself.
- slowmovintarget 10y agoUser karma is visible to me if I visit the user's info page. Granted, I'm logged in.