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This is an interesting idea, but some of the lamest commenters have tens of thousands of karma points, and many of the best commenters have relatively little ka
by freedomben 3y ago
This is an interesting idea, but some of the lamest commenters have tens of thousands of karma points, and many of the best commenters have relatively little karma because they don't spend all their time on HN.
How do you structure this to avoid that problem? How would the system work for a new account just created to get established?
- lisper 3y agoIt has been over 20 years since I wrote the the TranslatorRank code so I have forgotten a lot of the details. But as a first cut, I would divide the raw score by the age of the account, and maybe weight more recent activity over older activity. Brand new accounts would probably need to be handled as a special case. Just out of curiosity, who would you cite as an example of a lame commenter with tends of thousands of karma points?