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Upper Limit On # of news.YC posts? & Average Karma
For reasons unknown, I wanted to figure out what the karma leaders average karma/post was (i.e. who is submitting the highest quality posts?)
It appears that news.YC only lists up to 180 submissions, rendering my little experiment useless. However, I was able to determine that:
staunch's karma/post is 7.66
paul's is 19.41 (celebrity effect?)
brett's is 6.58
mine (who gives?) is 7.38
Sam_Odio's is less than 6.63 (assuming 180+ posts)
danw's is less than 6.51 ("-----")
news.YC should have another leader board for quality in addition to just absolute karma.
- ivankirigin 19y agoI thought about this too. One related point is active users. Some folks were active then left. Sam_Odio's most recent submission is 55 days old. I think karma/day, over the last N days, would be a fine measure. Also, I think comment-karma/day would be the best measure. It is easier to get points by reposting titles of other people's work as submissions than through thoughtful comments.
- jcwentz 19y agoPB's karma per post is high because he often submits his own stuff, which readers like.
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- pg 19y agoI was curious, so I figured it out: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39977 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39977