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Ask YC: How about some other user/karma stats on news.yc?
4 points by tlrobinson on Dec 4, 2007 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments
The leader board and user pages have total karma, but what about things like average karma per post? (perhaps with some minimum karma cutoff)

Surely someone with 20 posts with an average of 5 should be higher than someone with 100 posts with an average of 1, right?

Others could include min, max, even standard deviation. Maybe I just really like statistics... does anyone else want this stuff?



Karma per submission was calculated once: http://ycombinator.com/newsnews.html. (Scroll down to August 6th's entry.)


Not really interesting to me...

Any leader board just tempts me to game the points and get to #1 anyways.


That's the point, it's hard to cheat "average karma per post"... you have to actually have posts that people like and upvote, instead of zillions of crappy posts.


Not sure it's so hard... with a leaderboard there's much more incentive to start working with others to vote up your submissions, use multiple accounts, etc.


if you 'game' the system by submitting a bunch of news or insightful posts, I think we all benefit




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