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Happy New Year @dang! Thanks for all your hard work as always. Thanks for sharing these stats -- seems like HN is similar to other internet communities. 2% cov
by forgingahead 6y ago
Happy New Year @dang! Thanks for all your hard work as always.
Thanks for sharing these stats -- seems like HN is similar to other internet communities. 2% covering 83% of all comments is certainly pretty skewed. I do notice a tussle over upvotes/downvotes when making comments that might be against the HN vocal orthodoxy, so maybe that's where the silent majority make themselves heard? Via upvotes/downvotes?
What percentage of uniques have accounts here? Would be interesting to know if commenters are also a minority of total lurkers.
- dang 6y agoI commented about this sometime in the last year. Let me see if my search fu can dig up the post... Edit: I was about to plead too much beer, but https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20accounts%20numbers&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... delivered. This is the post I was thinking of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22622983 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22622983.