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Now, if we could only see other peoples average karma . Total Karma of a user can be seen on his profile page. Afaik there is no way to see another users avera
by plinkplonk 16y ago
Now, if we could only see other peoples average karma .
Total Karma of a user can be seen on his profile page. Afaik there is no way to see another users average karma, unless he is on the leaderboard, which uses total karma as the ranking metric.
- pg 16y agoOk, now everyone's comment avg is visible in their profile.
- dwwoelfel 16y agoThis discourages people from posting helpful comments that aren't likely to get many upvotes. For example, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1741408 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1741408 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1485254 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1485254 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1349459 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1349459 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1349455 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1349455 Those are all comments by me that were helpful to the parent, but which are "punished" by the public display of avg.
- techbio 16y agoMore is not necessarily better though is it?
- dwwoelfel 16y ago"More is better" is implicit. If the number has no meaning, then why calculate and display it?
- techbio 16y agoI don't get that more is implicitly better. It is pretty clear from a naive glance at the list of leaders that there are diverse average points that correlate to diverse posting styles. If you want it scaled to fit a continuum of "bigger is always implicitly better", a more reasonable number would be: average of (comment points/parent points) Even if a number has no [absolute cardinal, > x] meaning, there is still a nominal information value to the datum.