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Re:Who Are The Most Influential Posters on HN? by brudgers on Wednesday November 07, 2012 @12:01PM (#4754086)
Depends on what you mean by "Posters."

Some people such as ColinWright post many influential articles.

Others such as Grellas [average comment score 38.8] are known for authoritative comments in their areas of expertise.

The most influential poster is PG.

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Re:Who Are The Most Influential Posters on HN? by ColinWright on Wednesday November 07, 2012 @11:42AM (#4753989)
http://news.ycombinator.com/lists

http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders

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Re:Who Are The Most Influential Posters on HN? by blacksmythe on Thursday November 08, 2012 @12:23PM (#4758753)
Rather than a list of lifetime karma, I would rather see a list of users with the most karma within the last year.
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Re:Who Are The Most Influential Posters on HN? by schusterfluke on Wednesday November 07, 2012 @11:46AM (#4754005)
So Influence goes in order of posters with most Karma to least?
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Re:Who Are The Most Influential Posters on HN? by ColinWright on Wednesday November 07, 2012 @11:49AM (#4754025)
This isn't really an answer to the question of influence, but it gives you a start on the question. There's the list of the top 100 people ranked by karma - that doesn't mean they're influential, of course.

So, maybe you should define "influence".

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Re:Who Are The Most Influential Posters on HN? by schusterfluke on Wednesday November 07, 2012 @11:53AM (#4754045)
Aight: How about "The capacity to have an effect on the character, development, or behavior of [the collective mind of the people who read HN] ...something like that.
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Re:Who Are The Most Influential Posters on HN? by ColinWright on Wednesday November 07, 2012 @12:01PM (#4754087)
Hmm.

* How would you measure that?

* How would you get everyone to agree?

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Re:Who Are The Most Influential Posters on HN? by lewisflude on Wednesday November 07, 2012 @11:48AM (#4754014)
Tell me, how else could it be done?
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Re:Who Are The Most Influential Posters on HN? by schusterfluke on Wednesday November 07, 2012 @11:59AM (#4754080)
Why isn't Paul Graham on that list? Isn't he influential?
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Re:Who Are The Most Influential Posters on HN? by ColinWright on Wednesday November 07, 2012 @12:02PM (#4754096)
Check PG's profile - he has 124701 (at the time of writing) and would be significantly off the top. He has deliberately removed himself from the listing.
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Re:Who Are The Most Influential Posters on HN? by blacksmythe on Thursday November 08, 2012 @12:21PM (#4758744)
Paul Graham does not post his best writing directly on HN, but he writes really insightful blog posts

which get submitted here (in my opinion some of the most insightful comments posted on HN are from his blog).

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Re:Who Are The Most Influential Posters on HN? by anujkk on Thursday November 08, 2012 @12:43AM (#4756628)
pg,patio11,swombat,edw519 to name a few.
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Re:Who Are The Most Influential Posters on HN? by michaelkscott on Wednesday November 07, 2012 @01:06PM (#4754419)
patio11
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