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You can check by looking at the average comment scores on http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders (the second column). They hav

by pg 16y ago

You can check by looking at the average comment scores on http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders (the second column). They haven't changed much as far as I can tell.

ivankirigin 16y ago
What is your average comment score? Any exception for your account? I don't think there needs to be one, just curious.
- timf 16y ago
  http://top.searchyc.com/users_by_average_points_per_comment http://top.searchyc.com/users_by_average_points_per_comment http://searchyc.com/pg http://searchyc.com/pg (you will notice the numbers are different on the HN leaders page for people, I think perhaps searchyc is an all-time average?)
  - philwelch 16y ago
    SearchYC seems to be off on its karma counts--some of my comments, HN and SYC disagree on the score.
- pg 16y ago
  10.2 as of now. No, the ranking algorithm treats every account the same.
  - maxwell 16y ago
    http://i.imgur.com/UKLMx.png http://i.imgur.com/UKLMx.png
    - pg 16y ago
      Do you really believe I'm lying? Like the frontpage ranking algorithm, the comment ranking algorithm also considers recency.
aswanson 16y ago
They probably wouldn't change much if the commenter had a long history to be averaged in. You'd want to look at the delta of the delta (2nd order stats) to see if any noticeable effect was occurring.
- ErrantX 16y ago
  IIRC averages are calculated over a set of your most recent posts - so it can go up or down quite quickly depending on your current comment quality.
  - aswanson 16y ago
    I wasn't aware it was a sliding window. In that case the method Paul mentioned is probably a good enough solution.
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