Comment by chubot
3 years ago
Idle curiosity: which users have the most karma per comment?
And most karma per comment if you filter out "politics" (although that is hard and vague) ?
How many high karma users are inactive? pg (creator of the site) seems to be one: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pg
FWIW here is the leaderboard: https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
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Also my impression is that this list is overwhelmingly male, although I guess that's not too surprising
Or who has the highest h-index. Highest number of comments N with at least N karma.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-index
6 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11512455
why is the karma of the top 10 not listed on that page along with the others? Seems like an odd omission since you can easily find out the karma for each person if you wish
It may have been a compromise from my request that we replace numeric karma scores with something like "lots" after some threshold.
why would you want to do that? genuinely curious
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Karma scores used to be visible next to each username in the leaderboard.
Somewhere down the line, I believe dang hid it, but I forget the reason why.
it's odd because all you have to do is click on the name to see the karma, so why not just list it along with the other 90 names and scores visibly shown on the page?
> Also my impression is that this list is overwhelmingly male, although I guess that's not too surprising
most of the internet is overwhelmingly male, and tech-related places even more so.
Uh, if by "most of the internet" you mean Reddit, 4chan, and HN, then sure.
I'm not even sure if I'd call reddit overwhelmingly male. It's 63.8% male.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1255182/distribution-of-...
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Are you stuck in 1999? :-P
I don't think the Internet is overwhelmingly male
> I don't think the Internet is overwhelmingly male
What you think and what it is may be two different things
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Source (for the former claim)?
Depends on the corners of the internet that you visit. Tiktok, Instagram, and all vapid places like that have many more females than males.
Ah, yes, thing I do not like is vapid, and half the population is also vapid. :thumbsup:
"females" is just the cherry on top.
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