This was interesting initially, when I just "ego-surfed" it when the link was first submitted, because of the richness of the data displayed. It became more int

This was interesting initially, when I just "ego-surfed" it when the link was first submitted, because of the richness of the data displayed. It became more interesting, as the discussion here in this thread developed, when I realized I could look up any arbitrarily chosen user, for example the user who kindly submitted this link, freework, to see the same rich data for that user. The current user interface on Hacker News proper shows a leader board http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders and discloses total karma and recent comment karma average on each user's user profile, e.g., http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tokenadult http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tokenadult But this interface offers more, and prompts me to look up some fellow users to see what their detailed statistics look like. As I expected, cwan, who gains almost all of his karma from submissions rather than comments, has a higher percentile than anyone else who began participating here in the same month. AFTER EDIT: Link to an old discussion I tried to stir up, on a topic which other users are discussing in this thread, "Ask HN: What Kinds of Comments Should Be Upvoted?" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1065084 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1065084 I'm always interested in how to emphasize the positive by upvoting early and often when I see good stuff here, so I like to hear opinions from all of you about what is good stuff. P.S. By following the links from the submitted site, I am reminded that patio11 and I seem to have the same join date. I'm honored to be behind him in any ranking that includes the both of us.