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Hm, we're up to Karma Average. Soon we will be tracking Karma Assists and Total Karma Created. But it is only when Nate Silver unveils PEKOTA that we will fina

Hm, we're up to Karma Average. Soon we will be tracking Karma Assists and Total Karma Created. But it is only when Nate Silver unveils PEKOTA that we will finally know the ONE TRUE SCALE on which greatness is measured. [1] -- [1] Poster Empirical Karma and Optimization Test Algorithm

tptacek 17y ago
Total karma created would be a really good metric.
- mechanical_fish 17y ago
  Come to think of it, it might. I presume "total karma created" is all of your karma, plus all of the karma accumulated by other comments that are in response to your comments and submissions? Wait, don't tell me... searchyc already has a page for this, right? I'd also love to see that stat broken down by link destination instead of by submitter. My money is on Techcrunch, though 37signals might do well in the PACK rankings. [1] --- [1] Per-post Average Creation of Karma
  - jacquesm 17y ago
    What's a karma assist ?
    - mechanical_fish 17y ago
      This must be how Douglas Adams felt when people would come up to him and ask why he'd chosen "forty-two". Okay, let me see what I can do with this one. You score one karma assist when a given user upvotes your comment immediately before or after upvoting a comment higher up on the same branch. The idea is that you can help other comments rise in prominence by adding your comment to them, thereby increasing their value. Thus, if someone upvotes your comment above and upvotes this comment at the same time, I get a Karma Assist. Naturally, you can't Assist your own comment, because everyone knows that's a sin. But I worry that this definition still isn't arbitrary enough. You actually might be able to compute this with an algorithm, which ruins the humor value. If the jokey analogy to NBA assists is going to hold up, Karma Assists need to be both poorly defined and arbitrated by bored human minions with a serious conflict of interest: http://deadspin.com/5345287/the-confessions-of-an-nba-scorekeeper http://deadspin.com/5345287/the-confessions-of-an-nba-scorek...
      - jacquesm 17y ago
        42 was obvious ;)

tptacek 17y ago

Total karma created would be a really good metric.

mechanical_fish 17y ago
Come to think of it, it might. I presume "total karma created" is all of your karma, plus all of the karma accumulated by other comments that are in response to your comments and submissions? Wait, don't tell me... searchyc already has a page for this, right? I'd also love to see that stat broken down by link destination instead of by submitter. My money is on Techcrunch, though 37signals might do well in the PACK rankings. [1] --- [1] Per-post Average Creation of Karma
- jacquesm 17y ago
  What's a karma assist ?
  - mechanical_fish 17y ago
    This must be how Douglas Adams felt when people would come up to him and ask why he'd chosen "forty-two". Okay, let me see what I can do with this one. You score one karma assist when a given user upvotes your comment immediately before or after upvoting a comment higher up on the same branch. The idea is that you can help other comments rise in prominence by adding your comment to them, thereby increasing their value. Thus, if someone upvotes your comment above and upvotes this comment at the same time, I get a Karma Assist. Naturally, you can't Assist your own comment, because everyone knows that's a sin. But I worry that this definition still isn't arbitrary enough. You actually might be able to compute this with an algorithm, which ruins the humor value. If the jokey analogy to NBA assists is going to hold up, Karma Assists need to be both poorly defined and arbitrated by bored human minions with a serious conflict of interest: http://deadspin.com/5345287/the-confessions-of-an-nba-scorekeeper http://deadspin.com/5345287/the-confessions-of-an-nba-scorek...
    - jacquesm 17y ago
      42 was obvious ;)