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Ok, now everyone's comment avg is visible in their profile.

• dwwoelfel 16y ago
  This 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 ago
    More 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 ago
        I 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.