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Karma per account is a power law distribution. You can see the top 100 accounts here: https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
by snowwrestler 3y ago
Karma per account is a power law distribution. You can see the top 100 accounts here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
Everyone else has less karma than these folks… the long tail.
I haven’t graphed it, but my subjective sense is that my karma per comment is distributed similarly. Most comments get approximately 1 karma point, but occasionally one comment will get dozens or even hundreds of upvotes.
- andrewmcwatters 3y agoWe’ll of course it’s a power law, but that doesn’t tell you anything about whether 5000 karma is the 20th or the 33th percentile.
- zimpenfish 3y agoIf I'm querying 'abetusk's SQLite data correctly, 5000 karma would be the 99.64th percentile. sqlite> select count(*), sum(karma > 5000), sum(karma <= 5000) from users; 558905|2018|556887 2018 from 558905 is 0.36%. Using the stats extension from sqlean confirms it. sqlite> select percentile(0+karma, 99.64) from users; 4952.0 sqlite> select percentile(0+karma, 99.65) from users; 5070.50800000003