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what might also be interesting is to see how karma is accrued.. from a huge number of submissions, or from a large number of insightful comments, or what the br
by q_revert 13y ago
what might also be interesting is to see how karma is accrued.. from a huge number of submissions, or from a large number of insightful comments, or what the breakdown is..
for example, i've made two submissions, both making it to the #1 spot, and have been afraid to submit any more lest my streak be ended
some measure of quality over quantity would be nice :)
- minimaxir 13y agoUnfortunately, Comment Karma is not available publically. (Unless you tried to do Total Karma - Karma from submitted Links) Why doesn't HN distinguish between Link Karma and Comment Karma a la Reddit anyways?
- josh2600 13y agoBecause HN is written in ARC which is somewhat tedious and not well known except by people like PG who don't have time to fix HN.
- DuskStar 13y agoI think he means more "Total Comment Karma / Total Comments", to see if the top users get, say, 3 karma per comment, but average 20+ comments/day. Or if they post relatively few comments, but really high-quality ones.
- dfc 13y agoI am not very interested in karma, and part of the reason is that there is no distinction between comment karma and submission karma. I don't think that being the first to submit an interesting link should be comparable to being the first person to submit an interesting comment. But that's because I come here for the discussions. I imagine that people who come here for new links and never browse the discussions feel differently.
- ChuckMcM 13y agoThis is something that it would be interesting for these guys to separate out. There are clearly a number of accounts which just submit everything from various 'known to hit' blogs/sites, there are some that submit what ever was a high scoring article a year ago, Etc etc. What I find amusing is that since they are essentially playing a game "karma scoring for fun" they complain about it when someone else's submission of the same story gets more karma than they got. That said the use of a mechanism like karma points to drive user engagement and participation is pretty classic. You could ask someone to spend hours day scouring the internet for interesting stories but they would want you to pay them. Offer up karma points to the people who find the cool stories and suddenly they are competing for free to populate the news feed for your site.
- ginsong 13y agoYou can see comment karma, but only after about a week, using the search box at the bottom of the page. https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/comments&q=tptacek&sortby=create_ts+desc&start=260 https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/comments&q=tptacek&s...
- sivam 13y agoYes you are correct. Most of the posters on that list are very prolific posters. It's relatively easy to get karma if you spend 10 hours on HN and immediately submit the latest breaking news or post 50 posts a day. A top list of average karma per post would be a better metric(assuming it doesn't count karma for articles).
- mturmon 13y agoAbout half my highest-karma comments have been pithy dismissals, humorous asides, planting flags on hot-button nontechnical posts, etc. -- insubstantial stuff. 14 karma: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5646078 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5646078 6 karma: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5633037 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5633037 I'm not saying karma is worthless, but high-karma comments are skewed by jackpots obtained from fluff.
- kbenson 13y agoI wonder how much of the karma for the insubstantial stuff is actually a response to not being able to down vote. When you can't down vote, seeing a reply that sheds new light, puts some of the ridiculousness in context, or just takes a person down a notch may get a vote because it's your best way of voting by proxy. For the comment writer it's a bit of a double edged sword. Sometimes the feedback you get relative to the time and effort put into a post can be disheartening.