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An useful stat would be karma/post.
by euccastro 19y ago
An useful stat would be karma/post.
- ivankirigin 19y agoIf 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 agoIt's a tradeoff between rewarding volume or signal to noise ratio. I think showing both stats gives a more complete picture.
- nostrademons 19y agoFlip 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 agoSorry 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.