Re:How I ended up with so much Hacker News karma
by jgrahamc on Monday December 03, 2012 @11:45AM
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> It's hard not to believe that a voting ring is involved somehow.
Take that back. It's not true: I have no voting ring for my posts.
And here's some data to back that up. According to the HN Search API I have submitted 373 items that are posts on jgc.org (out of a total of 670). Of those the following karma has been gained:
Points Number of posts
1 81
<5 102
<10 32
<50 74
<100 47
<200 6
<500 31
So, 215 posts out of 373 had less than 10 karma. Only 37 posts out of 373 had > 100. So, as you say, some of my posts (about 10%) are greatly appreciated here, but most are not. No voting ring needed.
All those posts account for 12,624 points of karma (from my total of 18,119 points obtained from submissions, not comments). So 56% of my submissions were for my blog and resulted in 70% of my submission karma.
Take that back. It's not true: I have no voting ring for my posts.
And here's some data to back that up. According to the HN Search API I have submitted 373 items that are posts on jgc.org (out of a total of 670). Of those the following karma has been gained:
So, 215 posts out of 373 had less than 10 karma. Only 37 posts out of 373 had > 100. So, as you say, some of my posts (about 10%) are greatly appreciated here, but most are not. No voting ring needed.All those posts account for 12,624 points of karma (from my total of 18,119 points obtained from submissions, not comments). So 56% of my submissions were for my blog and resulted in 70% of my submission karma.