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Other enhancements I've been thinking about... Specific RSS feeds: RSS feed of responses to your comments RSS feed of leader stories (I think the existing on

Other enhancements I've been thinking about... Specific RSS feeds: RSS feed of responses to your comments RSS feed of leader stories (I think the existing one does this) RSS feed of new stories Is downmodding available? Sometimes I see it, but not other times. Leading users shouldn't be based on lifetime, as some people have dropped off. It should be something like mean karma/day over the last month. Both rankings would be useful. I don't think an inbox is needed. Perhaps just an open comment stream on each users page, with the option of privacy. You then should be able to have an RSS feed from your user page.

jey 19y ago
"Perhaps just an open comment stream on each users page" That's an interesting suggestion.
- euccastro 19y ago
  What would you use it for?
  - ivankirigin 19y ago
    to ask someone an open question and discuss their ideas/plans if they're open about it.
euccastro 19y ago
An useful stat would be karma/post.
- ivankirigin 19y ago
  If you comment on lots of new stories, where others don't comment, you would be less of a leader. That doesn't sound right.
  - euccastro 19y ago
    It's a tradeoff between rewarding volume or signal to noise ratio. I think showing both stats gives a more complete picture.
  - nostrademons 19y ago
    Flip side is that users who comment a lot on popular stories but don't post much tend to get overcounted. My karma/post is like 25-30, but only because I get the majority of my karma from comments. My posts themselves average like 5 points. I've picked up literally 100 karma in the last week or so, yet made only one submission in the last month. A couple popular comments can heavily distort the averages.
    - euccastro 19y ago
      Sorry about the confusion: by post I meant either news stories or comments, no distinction. We could use the median rather than the mean, but I see no problem in the fact that a few very popular comments can pump up your average. They boost your absolute count too. And that's OK. Karma measures popularity.
ivankirigin 19y ago
> You then should be able to have an RSS feed from your user page. With the intent that others might want to read what others discuss with you. And individual threads would have the option to be private -- at the authors discretion.
euccastro 19y ago
Downmodding is disabled for news stories and replies to your own comments.

jey 19y ago

"Perhaps just an open comment stream on each users page" That's an interesting suggestion.

euccastro 19y ago
What would you use it for?
- ivankirigin 19y ago
  to ask someone an open question and discuss their ideas/plans if they're open about it.

euccastro 19y ago

An useful stat would be karma/post.

ivankirigin 19y ago
If you comment on lots of new stories, where others don't comment, you would be less of a leader. That doesn't sound right.
- euccastro 19y ago
  It's a tradeoff between rewarding volume or signal to noise ratio. I think showing both stats gives a more complete picture.
- nostrademons 19y ago
  Flip side is that users who comment a lot on popular stories but don't post much tend to get overcounted. My karma/post is like 25-30, but only because I get the majority of my karma from comments. My posts themselves average like 5 points. I've picked up literally 100 karma in the last week or so, yet made only one submission in the last month. A couple popular comments can heavily distort the averages.
  - euccastro 19y ago
    Sorry about the confusion: by post I meant either news stories or comments, no distinction. We could use the median rather than the mean, but I see no problem in the fact that a few very popular comments can pump up your average. They boost your absolute count too. And that's OK. Karma measures popularity.

ivankirigin 19y ago

> You then should be able to have an RSS feed from your user page. With the intent that others might want to read what others discuss with you. And individual threads would have the option to be private -- at the authors discretion.

euccastro 19y ago

Downmodding is disabled for news stories and replies to your own comments.