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Ask HN: what proportion of posts get more than 1 point?
It seems like posting to HN is almost an all-or-nothing proposition: the vast majority of submissions never get more than one point, and sometimes you get outliers who end up with 50+ points.
I would've expected a somewhat more balanced distribution. Has anybody ever done statistical analysis of HN points?
- cschmidt 15y agoIt would also be interesting to know what fraction of submissions ever hit the front page. Mine rarely seem to, and die a swift death.
- zeynalov 15y agoToday's statistics: 54% of threads have 2 or more points. 21% of threads have 3 or more points. 12% of threads have 4 or more points. 7% of submitted threads hit the homepage.
- dpritchett 15y agoI've posted 50 comments in the last 57 days. Here are the karma stats: Mean: 6.52 Median: 2.5 Max: 42 Min: -4 (I think downvotes are capped at -4) Std Dev: 8.9 My most recent comments (a few minutes old) are likely to fluctuate a bit over time, but I recorded the scores in a single pass. For my 21 posts submitted over a period of ~800 days: Mean: 18.3 Median: 1 Max: 195 Std Dev: 43 Killed: 1