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Isn't "karma / #stories" a bogus measurement, considering that karma is obtained both from stories and from comments? I (as I write this) have 89 karma, but only 8 points of that is from submissions...

How about computing [karma obtained from submissions] / [# of submissions] and [karma obtained from comments] / [# of comments] separately?



Whoops. Sure enough. Good thing I posted the source. I fixed the code and of course got different answers. Now PB is number 1.

(If anyone reading this later wonders what the parent comment is talking about, my original attempt to calculate this was wrong.)


comment-karma/comment is probably a bad measure as commenting on threads that don't make it to the front page would be discouraged.

comment-karma/time is probably a good measure.


I recall nostrademons pointing out that most of his karma came from comments over submissions.


All 40 of his submissions are visible and the average is 6.95

I suspect he'd still have the highest comment/karma average. He makes lots of great comments.




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