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>We find that Reddit users with higher status overall (higher karma) [...] are significantly more likely to receive help There could be a common cause to these
by pervycreeper 12y ago
>We find that Reddit users with higher status overall (higher karma) [...] are significantly more likely to receive help
There could be a common cause to these two factors (a certain way of writing, for instance), that could explain the correlation. I can't imagine someone basing a judgement on a stat reported on someone's user page.
- sliverstorm 12y agoI expect the higher score makes you seem reputable. Less chance you're trying to game the system with multiple accounts.
- maxerickson 12y agoGP means that things like being an effective communicator and knowing how to play to the crowd will factor into karma and into asking a question that gets answered. That doesn't mean score-viewing doesn't happen, but it isn't likely to be the only mechanism at play.
- rjvir 12y agoDo you think someone with an account of say 10 karma points and 2 comments on a month old account is equally likely to receive help, ceteris paribus?
- pervycreeper 12y agoI'm sure it could be a factor (nothing's preventing someone from doing that, after all) but my original point was essentially as characterized in this post below https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7793607 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7793607 The tone of the article, I think, was suggestive of a causal relation, which surely doesn't (necessarily or plausibly) hold.
- 001sky 12y agoeven if it is "threshold" its simply a binary relation and not an explanatory variable at the margin. so, yes...you might be able to weed out some data...but of what is left its unliklely to differeniate, except by proxy (as alluded to in the other comments) for something else.
- tedks 12y agoReddit Enhancement Suite, a ubiquitous browser extension, shows the link karma, comment karma, and account age of any username that you hover over. So, it's totally possible that, like others have said, people deciding which request to fulfill take karma/account age into consideration to avoid gaming the system with multiple accounts.
- erikb 12y agobeside the other reasons, a simple alternative might also be that users with high reputation usually are known by the regulars. If you recognize someone’s name for posting a lot of interesting stuff on your favourite website you probably help him out before other guys.
- B-Con 12y agoThat seems fairly self explaining. By the definition of having more karma, they're better acquainted with the site and have successful experience appealing to the audience.