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If you're looking for power users, it's public who the 100 users with the most karma are: http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders http://news.ycombinator.com/leader

• anigbrowl 17y ago
  Indeed, but using that metric might lead you to conclude that pg and other luminaries are just bit players :)
  • nostrademons 17y ago
    PG would be number 1 by almost a 2:1 margin if he were on the list (he has 50,000+ karma, vs. 27,000 for nickb). The software explicitly blocks him (and has since HN was released), presumably as a way to make the site feel like a community and not his personal vanity site.
  • zck 17y ago
    That page doesn't include any admins. The page is defined on line 2258: (newsop leaders () (leaderspage user)) Leaderspage is just below: line 2262. The line we're interested in is line 2266: (each u (firstn nleaders* (leading-users)) This line says "for each of the first nleaders* in the list returned by (leading-users), do the following:". Leading-users is line 2276. It returns a sorted list of users by karma. When looking at a user and deciding whether to sort em, it asks two questions: "does this user have more karma than the constant leader-threshold*?" and "is this user not an admin?" So if you ever find a user who has more karma than whoever is the last user on the leaders page, but isn't on it, either you've found an admin, or the code running this site has been changed from the 3.1 release.
    • jacquesm 17y ago
      There is only one user like that afaik.