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So the user with the highest karma has ~2.6% of the total... interesting.

• dbul 18y ago
  That is assuming pg is included in the count. I haven't looked at the code so I'm not sure if pg is classified as a user or something else.
• mixmax 18y ago
  Some time ago I had a hunch that karma followed a powerlaw, so I mapped the leaderboard out in excel - and sure enough it looked exactly like a powerlaw graph.
  • Bluem00 18y ago
    The curve I fit to the leader board is, karma = 25343 * rank^(-.465) Which has an R-squared value of 0.9791. Unfortunately, this isn't a good enough fit to meaningfully extrapolate very far.
• ojbyrne 18y ago
  27075/1632636 = 1.65%. Am I missing something?
  • ph0rque 18y ago
    yes: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pg http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pg
    • ojbyrne 18y ago
      Ah...