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HN top-100 sorted by karma per day

40 points by matthodan 17y ago

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bh23ha 17y ago
The Karma vs Days scatter plot is in absolute terms, and the karma outliers skew it so much it's hard to place anyone who's not an outlier.
johnnybgoode 17y ago
To clarify, it looks like this is the HN top 100 by karma, sorted by karma/day, not the top 100 posters by karma/day.
slice 17y ago
I'm not sure, exactly, to which discussion does that contribute.
- Dilpil 17y ago
  It might be more appropriate if the names were removed.
  - jrockway 17y ago
    Why? The raw data is linked from the top of every page: http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
- jkuria 17y ago
  Not sure. I'm ok being down voted by I think this is the kind of honorifics that leads to the quality of the site going down. Homogeneous opinions and comments. Look how great and special we are! Aren't we all just like each other? :)
tptacek 17y ago
Whoah. It's my navel! It looks beautiful in that shade of blue!
jrockway 17y ago
Only 10 karma per day. I do not feel as addicted now. It is interesting that so few people contribute so much; the community feels bigger than it is. But I think it is mostly "the regulars" and the occasional random commenter. I wonder what Reddit is like. BTW, it's weird that Google does not have a "fork this document" feature. I don't want to request write access; I just want to play with a copy for myself. (Actually, I just want to sort things.)
- jcw 17y ago
  I think the community seems so large here because it's hard to identify people and their patterns, everyone seems so anonymous. I think this is easier on forums where people have avatars. Keeping with the minimalism of HN, maybe a small signature icon could appear next to people's names. A 10x10 pixel image with colors randomly picked upon registering. Maybe not the best approach, but I'd like to see something that would help identify people. The mind can pick out patterns of images much more quickly than text.
  - jacquesm 17y ago
    Please no. HN has its shortcomings but lack of avatars isn't one of them. The quality of the postings here is of a way above average level compared with that on other sites that offer a way to discuss links related to programming and surprisingly wide area to the left and right of that. Avatars are for people that don't want to read, the usernames are more than descriptive enough, and offer everything from mechanical fishes to Daniel B Markhams, so no lack of expressivity there. The only people that would use avatars (I think) would be those that are normally found in troll territory. I think that HN really rewards the time you put in to it, by loading up HN with more bells and whistles the quality is not going to go up. Less = More.
    - mechanical_fish 17y ago
      I have a great mechanical fish ready to photograph in case of emergency. That said, I agree that avatars are not a good idea. I like them on a lot of sites, and I like the idea of HN as a community, but it really is supposed to be all about the words. Let's keep using words.
atamyrat 17y ago
I think karma/(comments+submissions posted) will make much more sense than karma per day.
- mr_luc 17y ago
  Which is, I believe, what searchyc.com shows you when you search on a username. Or, rather more usefully, it shows you the average for comments and submissions separately. ... "Usefully" in only the most abstract sense of the word ... /me sheepishly gets back to work.
- matthodan 17y ago
  I agree. If only I knew how many submissions people posted.
arfrank 17y ago
Just to note that PG is not on this list. I believe it is because he intentionally keeps himself off the leaders page. I recall reading something a while back.
- jacquesm 17y ago
  PG would weigh in at 47.7 points per day. Not that it matters, but just in case you're curious.
jacquesm 17y ago
karma = odometer. This graph really proves that. If you would make the ranking based on quality of postings (which I think is more useful) it would look like this: +---------+-----------------+ | ratio | username | +---------+-----------------+ | 15.7917 | sivers | | 10.5652 | keyist | | 8.4536 | pg | | 8.4000 | justinweiss | | 8.3203 | lbrandy | | 8.1111 | jl | | 7.7149 | patio11 | | 7.7005 | randomwalker | | 7.6548 | mdasen | | 7.5489 | old-gregg | | 7.2623 | mojombo | | 7.1552 | tjic | | 7.1143 | ironkeith | | 7.0633 | ajg1977 | | 6.9412 | nixy | | 6.9394 | jcsalterego | | 6.8571 | pavs | | 6.5385 | thedob | | 6.5345 | Eliezer | | 6.5000 | malte | | 6.4933 | niyazpk | | 6.3125 | sama | | 6.2870 | michael_nielsen | | 6.2804 | lionhearted | | 6.2759 | bentoner | | 6.2020 | evdawg | | 6.1639 | defunkt | | 6.0917 | martythemaniak | | 6.0598 | chaosmachine | | 6.0310 | zain | | 5.8735 | JoelSutherland | | 5.8716 | adamhowell | | 5.8644 | ryanwaggoner | | 5.8364 | endtwist | | 5.8113 | nixme | | 5.7196 | gabrielroth | | 5.6400 | cjoh | | 5.6296 | tc | | 5.5926 | curtis | | 5.5401 | anuraggoel | | 5.5313 | boundlessdreamz | | 5.4784 | TomOfTTB | | 5.4626 | cperciva | | 5.4286 | andres | | 5.4000 | unfoldedorigami | | 5.3889 | kn0thing | | 5.3783 | edw519 | | 5.3415 | thinkzig | | 5.2716 | raganwald | | 5.2364 | paul | | 5.2208 | smanek | | 5.2105 | shimon | | 5.1569 | bokonist | | 5.1364 | brentb | | 5.1277 | bouncingsoul | | 5.0909 | mqt | | 5.0566 | jim-greer | | 5.0556 | mjtokelly | | 5.0424 | pc | | 5.0417 | crocus | | 5.0343 | ckinnan | | 5.0323 | dilanj | | 5.0000 | jeeringmole | | 4.9848 | abstractbill | | 4.9690 | tdavis | | 4.9569 | jbyers | | 4.9529 | spencerfry | | 4.9457 | absconditus | | 4.9421 | amix | | 4.9286 | ksvs | | 4.9254 | luckystrike | | 4.9245 | fleaflicker | | 4.9167 | Mystalic | | 4.9020 | kennyroo | | 4.8857 | joao | | 4.8658 | menloparkbum | | 4.8621 | timr | | 4.8571 | shalmanese | | 4.8403 | marcusbooster | | 4.8333 | jkkramer | | 4.8188 | daeken | | 4.8113 | TimothyFitz | | 4.8040 | plinkplonk | | 4.8000 | jefffoster | | 4.7962 | acangiano | | 4.7716 | sachinag | | 4.7545 | halo | | 4.7500 | lackbeard | | 4.7491 | nir | | 4.7486 | tsally | | 4.7434 | shadytrees | | 4.7429 | imgabe | | 4.7342 | ionfish | | 4.7301 | mixmax | | 4.7265 | swombat | | 4.7222 | wolfish | | 4.7209 | kalvin | | 4.6970 | alecst | | 4.6875 | forsaken | +---------+-----------------+
DanielBMarkham 17y ago
Upvoted for pointless use of data to create a graph that involves me.
10ren 17y ago
I thought this was going to be the submissions of a day, sorted by karma, and the top 100 of those. i.e. HN top-100 submissions (sorted by karma) per day I've been hoping for such a list, because it would enable me to catch a day's top stories without having to check in throughout the day. This would help reduce the time I spend on the site... The "best - Highest voted recent links" extends over at least 8 days. It's not restricted to the last 24 hours. (It looks like the same ranking algorithm as the frontpage with less gravity (no, I'm not going to download the source just to check that).
ivankirigin 17y ago
Some names of people confirmed to be idiots from their comments pop out. I wish I could just hide them.
- mahmud 17y ago
  Guilty as charged, Ivan! :-D
- jfager 17y ago
  http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/55745 http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/55745
  - ivankirigin 17y ago
    awesome. Installed
- run4yourlives 17y ago
  That's an interesting stance. If a user "respected" enough to get into the top 100 is saying things that you don't want to read, there are only two real possibilities: 1. The community (or a large sub-section)is full of idiots. 2. You are the "idiot". (quotes for a reason - I'm not calling you an idiot.) 2. Can be clarified as: perhaps this is a message you need to hear/are not understanding. I always read these comments extra, in the view of bettering myself. I find it interesting that your response is to ignore them. Why?
  - ivankirigin 17y ago
    Trolls should be ignored. Generally, people who consistently spew inflammatory and poorly reasoned garbage rarely yield edifying conversation. I'd rather not waste my time.
    - run4yourlives 17y ago
      By that definition though, those people wouldn't be in the top 100 would they? Regardless, don't you as a member of the community have the responsibility to down-mod trolls? By simply ignoring them, you don't alter the S to N ratio any...
swift_coder 17y ago
I don't see pg on the list.
- tsally 17y ago
  Isn't it obvious why?
vlad 17y ago
Very misleading. Does not account for point inflation over the years (when a 15 point article or comment was equivalent to 230 points now.) There is not much one can infer from simply dividing points by days registered. Maybe we need to find out the average point total of the top 20 comments (separately, articles) for each month before calculating anything else. Would pg or the search.yc guy(s) be able to calculate these numbers?
- chengmi 17y ago
  SearchYC doesn't scrape the user pages containing the account creation date. We could generate numbers based on days since the user's first post, though.
chrischen 17y ago
I have 4.413, but I'm not the list!

40 points by matthodan 17y ago

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The Karma vs Days scatter plot is in absolute terms, and the karma outliers skew it so much it's hard to place anyone who's not an outlier.

johnnybgoode 17y ago

To clarify, it looks like this is the HN top 100 by karma, sorted by karma/day, not the top 100 posters by karma/day.

slice 17y ago

I'm not sure, exactly, to which discussion does that contribute.

Dilpil 17y ago
It might be more appropriate if the names were removed.
- jrockway 17y ago
  Why? The raw data is linked from the top of every page: http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
jkuria 17y ago
Not sure. I'm ok being down voted by I think this is the kind of honorifics that leads to the quality of the site going down. Homogeneous opinions and comments. Look how great and special we are! Aren't we all just like each other? :)

tptacek 17y ago

Whoah. It's my navel! It looks beautiful in that shade of blue!

jrockway 17y ago

Only 10 karma per day. I do not feel as addicted now. It is interesting that so few people contribute so much; the community feels bigger than it is. But I think it is mostly "the regulars" and the occasional random commenter. I wonder what Reddit is like. BTW, it's weird that Google does not have a "fork this document" feature. I don't want to request write access; I just want to play with a copy for myself. (Actually, I just want to sort things.)

jcw 17y ago
I think the community seems so large here because it's hard to identify people and their patterns, everyone seems so anonymous. I think this is easier on forums where people have avatars. Keeping with the minimalism of HN, maybe a small signature icon could appear next to people's names. A 10x10 pixel image with colors randomly picked upon registering. Maybe not the best approach, but I'd like to see something that would help identify people. The mind can pick out patterns of images much more quickly than text.
- jacquesm 17y ago
  Please no. HN has its shortcomings but lack of avatars isn't one of them. The quality of the postings here is of a way above average level compared with that on other sites that offer a way to discuss links related to programming and surprisingly wide area to the left and right of that. Avatars are for people that don't want to read, the usernames are more than descriptive enough, and offer everything from mechanical fishes to Daniel B Markhams, so no lack of expressivity there. The only people that would use avatars (I think) would be those that are normally found in troll territory. I think that HN really rewards the time you put in to it, by loading up HN with more bells and whistles the quality is not going to go up. Less = More.
  - mechanical_fish 17y ago
    I have a great mechanical fish ready to photograph in case of emergency. That said, I agree that avatars are not a good idea. I like them on a lot of sites, and I like the idea of HN as a community, but it really is supposed to be all about the words. Let's keep using words.

atamyrat 17y ago

I think karma/(comments+submissions posted) will make much more sense than karma per day.

mr_luc 17y ago
Which is, I believe, what searchyc.com shows you when you search on a username. Or, rather more usefully, it shows you the average for comments and submissions separately. ... "Usefully" in only the most abstract sense of the word ... /me sheepishly gets back to work.
matthodan 17y ago
I agree. If only I knew how many submissions people posted.

arfrank 17y ago

Just to note that PG is not on this list. I believe it is because he intentionally keeps himself off the leaders page. I recall reading something a while back.

jacquesm 17y ago
PG would weigh in at 47.7 points per day. Not that it matters, but just in case you're curious.

jacquesm 17y ago

karma = odometer. This graph really proves that. If you would make the ranking based on quality of postings (which I think is more useful) it would look like this: +---------+-----------------+ | ratio | username | +---------+-----------------+ | 15.7917 | sivers | | 10.5652 | keyist | | 8.4536 | pg | | 8.4000 | justinweiss | | 8.3203 | lbrandy | | 8.1111 | jl | | 7.7149 | patio11 | | 7.7005 | randomwalker | | 7.6548 | mdasen | | 7.5489 | old-gregg | | 7.2623 | mojombo | | 7.1552 | tjic | | 7.1143 | ironkeith | | 7.0633 | ajg1977 | | 6.9412 | nixy | | 6.9394 | jcsalterego | | 6.8571 | pavs | | 6.5385 | thedob | | 6.5345 | Eliezer | | 6.5000 | malte | | 6.4933 | niyazpk | | 6.3125 | sama | | 6.2870 | michael_nielsen | | 6.2804 | lionhearted | | 6.2759 | bentoner | | 6.2020 | evdawg | | 6.1639 | defunkt | | 6.0917 | martythemaniak | | 6.0598 | chaosmachine | | 6.0310 | zain | | 5.8735 | JoelSutherland | | 5.8716 | adamhowell | | 5.8644 | ryanwaggoner | | 5.8364 | endtwist | | 5.8113 | nixme | | 5.7196 | gabrielroth | | 5.6400 | cjoh | | 5.6296 | tc | | 5.5926 | curtis | | 5.5401 | anuraggoel | | 5.5313 | boundlessdreamz | | 5.4784 | TomOfTTB | | 5.4626 | cperciva | | 5.4286 | andres | | 5.4000 | unfoldedorigami | | 5.3889 | kn0thing | | 5.3783 | edw519 | | 5.3415 | thinkzig | | 5.2716 | raganwald | | 5.2364 | paul | | 5.2208 | smanek | | 5.2105 | shimon | | 5.1569 | bokonist | | 5.1364 | brentb | | 5.1277 | bouncingsoul | | 5.0909 | mqt | | 5.0566 | jim-greer | | 5.0556 | mjtokelly | | 5.0424 | pc | | 5.0417 | crocus | | 5.0343 | ckinnan | | 5.0323 | dilanj | | 5.0000 | jeeringmole | | 4.9848 | abstractbill | | 4.9690 | tdavis | | 4.9569 | jbyers | | 4.9529 | spencerfry | | 4.9457 | absconditus | | 4.9421 | amix | | 4.9286 | ksvs | | 4.9254 | luckystrike | | 4.9245 | fleaflicker | | 4.9167 | Mystalic | | 4.9020 | kennyroo | | 4.8857 | joao | | 4.8658 | menloparkbum | | 4.8621 | timr | | 4.8571 | shalmanese | | 4.8403 | marcusbooster | | 4.8333 | jkkramer | | 4.8188 | daeken | | 4.8113 | TimothyFitz | | 4.8040 | plinkplonk | | 4.8000 | jefffoster | | 4.7962 | acangiano | | 4.7716 | sachinag | | 4.7545 | halo | | 4.7500 | lackbeard | | 4.7491 | nir | | 4.7486 | tsally | | 4.7434 | shadytrees | | 4.7429 | imgabe | | 4.7342 | ionfish | | 4.7301 | mixmax | | 4.7265 | swombat | | 4.7222 | wolfish | | 4.7209 | kalvin | | 4.6970 | alecst | | 4.6875 | forsaken | +---------+-----------------+

DanielBMarkham 17y ago

Upvoted for pointless use of data to create a graph that involves me.

10ren 17y ago

I thought this was going to be the submissions of a day, sorted by karma, and the top 100 of those. i.e. HN top-100 submissions (sorted by karma) per day I've been hoping for such a list, because it would enable me to catch a day's top stories without having to check in throughout the day. This would help reduce the time I spend on the site... The "best - Highest voted recent links" extends over at least 8 days. It's not restricted to the last 24 hours. (It looks like the same ranking algorithm as the frontpage with less gravity (no, I'm not going to download the source just to check that).

ivankirigin 17y ago

Some names of people confirmed to be idiots from their comments pop out. I wish I could just hide them.

mahmud 17y ago
Guilty as charged, Ivan! :-D
jfager 17y ago
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/55745 http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/55745
- ivankirigin 17y ago
  awesome. Installed
run4yourlives 17y ago
That's an interesting stance. If a user "respected" enough to get into the top 100 is saying things that you don't want to read, there are only two real possibilities: 1. The community (or a large sub-section)is full of idiots. 2. You are the "idiot". (quotes for a reason - I'm not calling you an idiot.) 2. Can be clarified as: perhaps this is a message you need to hear/are not understanding. I always read these comments extra, in the view of bettering myself. I find it interesting that your response is to ignore them. Why?
- ivankirigin 17y ago
  Trolls should be ignored. Generally, people who consistently spew inflammatory and poorly reasoned garbage rarely yield edifying conversation. I'd rather not waste my time.
  - run4yourlives 17y ago
    By that definition though, those people wouldn't be in the top 100 would they? Regardless, don't you as a member of the community have the responsibility to down-mod trolls? By simply ignoring them, you don't alter the S to N ratio any...

swift_coder 17y ago

I don't see pg on the list.

tsally 17y ago
Isn't it obvious why?

vlad 17y ago

Very misleading. Does not account for point inflation over the years (when a 15 point article or comment was equivalent to 230 points now.) There is not much one can infer from simply dividing points by days registered. Maybe we need to find out the average point total of the top 20 comments (separately, articles) for each month before calculating anything else. Would pg or the search.yc guy(s) be able to calculate these numbers?

chengmi 17y ago
SearchYC doesn't scrape the user pages containing the account creation date. We could generate numbers based on days since the user's first post, though.

chrischen 17y ago

I have 4.413, but I'm not the list!