Re:To Paul Graham
by pg on Wednesday June 02, 2010 @05:09PM
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You can check by looking at the average comment scores on http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders (the second column). They haven't changed much as far as I can tell.
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They probably wouldn't change much if the commenter had a long history to be averaged in. You'd want to look at the delta of the delta (2nd order stats) to see if any noticeable effect was occurring.
IIRC averages are calculated over a set of your most recent posts - so it can go up or down quite quickly depending on your current comment quality.
I wasn't aware it was a sliding window. In that case the method Paul mentioned is probably a good enough solution.
Re:To Paul Graham
by ivankirigin on Wednesday June 02, 2010 @07:44PM
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What is your average comment score? Any exception for your account? I don't think there needs to be one, just curious.
http://top.searchyc.com/users_by_average_points_per_comment
(you will notice the numbers are different on the HN leaders page for people, I think perhaps searchyc is an all-time average?)
SearchYC seems to be off on its karma counts--some of my comments, HN and SYC disagree on the score.
10.2 as of now. No, the ranking algorithm treats every account the same.
