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You'd probably be better off using some sort of time adjusted metric and looking for the median. But even then, what would this information be useful for?
by giantg2 1y ago
You'd probably be better off using some sort of time adjusted metric and looking for the median. But even then, what would this information be useful for?
- PaulHoule 1y agoI'd say "pick out a random sample of users and check their karma" but the problem is "what's a random sample of users?" You could pull all the submissions and comments from users that were made in the last week from the API pretty easily and pick out 1000 of those users (not 1000 random comments!) Any sample of users who actually post is going to have higher karma than the universe of HN users, many of whom haven't logged in for years. Somewhere between the time I had karma 35,000 and 60,000 I had a script that I ran sort-of-daily which captured the top 100 users including the ones who don't have a number posted on that list. I was planning to make a chart of how top user's karma was growing over time but I guess I was never competitive enough to actually make the chart.
- EPendragon 1y agoIm curious to know what is the karma to activity level ratio for the active members of the community? Are there more people who constantly post and comment or are there more people who create rare, but high value posts that the community values and engages with?