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It would be interesting to redo the top karma list by comment karma only. It would also be interesting to look at liberal vs conservative political sentiment ov
by Alex3917 12y ago
It would be interesting to redo the top karma list by comment karma only. It would also be interesting to look at liberal vs conservative political sentiment over time. I feel like the site has gotten more liberal over the years, especially after all the Chelsea Manning stuff, but not sure if that is accurate.
- minimaxir 12y agoI actually have the list of top users by comment karma: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ws2VK-UB7IQpVUZgPZ9MlryfYMQsuEupXs96vaM-MGE/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ws2VK-UB7IQpVUZgPZ9M... I also included the number of thread wins (user made comment with highest number of points in a given submission thread) to see if there was any unusual relationship. There wasn't: correlation is 0.89. I ended up not including it in the article because it's long enough as-is. :P
- Alex3917 12y agoThanks! I would have thought that I'd have been higher ranked when looking at only comments, although actually my rank is almost the same. Interesting to see that many of the other top users are using the site in more or less the same way.
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- nitrogen 12y agoIs that top overall karma users, but then sorted by comment karma, or is that actually top comment karma users?
- minimaxir 12y agoTop comment karma users. SQL query: SELECT author, SUM(num_points) AS total_comment_karma, MAX(created_at) AS last_comment FROM hn_comments GROUP BY author ORDER BY total_comment_karma DESC LIMIT 1000