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I think this is another example of the very common pattern of 90% of the contributions in online discourse come from 10% of the population with 90% of post comi

I think this is another example of the very common pattern of 90% of the contributions in online discourse come from 10% of the population with 90% of post coming from a 1% minority of the overall population. It's not unusual at all.

goatlover 4y ago
60+ comments in a single HN thread is common?
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- grecy 4y ago
  I thought there was a limit to how frequently you can post a comment and if you post more than x in y minutes you can't post for a while.... From my experience I'd say it's something like 5 comments in 5-10 minutes will trip you up.
  - knaik94 4y ago
    I have experienced no such limitation and never see it myself. Googling shows me the current policy is rate limiting accounts when they "post too many low-quality comments and/or get involved in flamewars." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32771195 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32771195
    - jquery 4y ago
      Pretty sure getting rate-limited is a rite-of-passage on HN.
    - xboxnolifes 4y ago
      I've definitely hit rate limits when bulk replying.
- knaik94 4y ago
  In a pool of 700+ comments, yeah. Especially if they feel like no one else commenting is representing their point of view.
- yarg 4y ago
  I wonder what statistics Dang has on this (though you generate your own with a crawler).
  - knaik94 4y ago
    I've been thinking about this after having read https://www.nngroup.com/articles/participation-inequality/ https://www.nngroup.com/articles/participation-inequality/ again recently. That research was shared in 2006/9. They didn't quantify a upvote/reward driven website but I suspect hacker news is closer to the blog numbers than the general, so the percentage would be skewed. The closest statistics would be Reddit's, the self selecting "top 1%" subreddit has imposed a minimum of roughly 107000 combined karma/points which is roughly 114k users out of an estimated 52 million daily, 430 million monthly, and 1.5 billion registered total users. You wouldn't need to crawl for your own dataset, it's available on Google's bigquery https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/details/y-combinator/hacker-news https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/details/y-combi... and slightly older 2006 to 2017 dataset is available on kaggle for direct download https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/hacker-news/hacker-news https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/hacker-news/hacker-news . https://www.karmalb.com/user/rank:114000 https://www.karmalb.com/user/rank:114000 https://www.reddit.com/r/top https://www.reddit.com/r/top https://earthweb.com/how-many-people-use-reddit/ https://earthweb.com/how-many-people-use-reddit/

goatlover 4y ago

60+ comments in a single HN thread is common?

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grecy 4y ago
I thought there was a limit to how frequently you can post a comment and if you post more than x in y minutes you can't post for a while.... From my experience I'd say it's something like 5 comments in 5-10 minutes will trip you up.
- knaik94 4y ago
  I have experienced no such limitation and never see it myself. Googling shows me the current policy is rate limiting accounts when they "post too many low-quality comments and/or get involved in flamewars." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32771195 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32771195
  - jquery 4y ago
    Pretty sure getting rate-limited is a rite-of-passage on HN.
  - xboxnolifes 4y ago
    I've definitely hit rate limits when bulk replying.
knaik94 4y ago
In a pool of 700+ comments, yeah. Especially if they feel like no one else commenting is representing their point of view.
yarg 4y ago
I wonder what statistics Dang has on this (though you generate your own with a crawler).
- knaik94 4y ago
  I've been thinking about this after having read https://www.nngroup.com/articles/participation-inequality/ https://www.nngroup.com/articles/participation-inequality/ again recently. That research was shared in 2006/9. They didn't quantify a upvote/reward driven website but I suspect hacker news is closer to the blog numbers than the general, so the percentage would be skewed. The closest statistics would be Reddit's, the self selecting "top 1%" subreddit has imposed a minimum of roughly 107000 combined karma/points which is roughly 114k users out of an estimated 52 million daily, 430 million monthly, and 1.5 billion registered total users. You wouldn't need to crawl for your own dataset, it's available on Google's bigquery https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/details/y-combinator/hacker-news https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/details/y-combi... and slightly older 2006 to 2017 dataset is available on kaggle for direct download https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/hacker-news/hacker-news https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/hacker-news/hacker-news . https://www.karmalb.com/user/rank:114000 https://www.karmalb.com/user/rank:114000 https://www.reddit.com/r/top https://www.reddit.com/r/top https://earthweb.com/how-many-people-use-reddit/ https://earthweb.com/how-many-people-use-reddit/