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Re:To Paul Graham by aswanson on Wednesday June 02, 2010 @09:46PM (#1400103)
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.
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Re:To Paul Graham by ErrantX on Thursday June 03, 2010 @08:32AM (#1401083)
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.
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Re:To Paul Graham by aswanson on Thursday June 03, 2010 @10:10AM (#1401337)
I wasn't aware it was a sliding window. In that case the method Paul mentioned is probably a good enough solution.
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