bayareaguy on SearchYC Presents: Best of Hacker News

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It would be nice to see two additional lists ranked by average karma/submission and average karma/comment. Being able to specify a time range qualification on the searches would be nice too.

chengmiOP18y

We gave that some consideration, but the queries weren't all that interesting. The vast majority of those lists (something like 80%) consist of people with only one post. To illustrate this, here are the top tens for those queries:

  Top Points per Submission
  +-------------+------+----+---------+
  | username    | pts  | ct | avg     |
  +-------------+------+----+---------+
  | dwaters     |   95 |  1 | 95.0000 | 
  | keesj       |   78 |  1 | 78.0000 | 
  | brl         |  122 |  2 | 61.0000 | 
  | a-kill-ease |   60 |  1 | 60.0000 | 
  | zombo       |   58 |  1 | 58.0000 | 
  | markovich   |   58 |  1 | 58.0000 | 
  | fresno      |   55 |  1 | 55.0000 | 
  | jdale27     |   53 |  1 | 53.0000 | 
  | qwertyy     |   48 |  1 | 48.0000 | 
  | jsomers     |   48 |  1 | 48.0000 | 
  +-------------+------+----+---------+

  Top Points per Comment
  +------------+------+----+---------+
  | username   | pts  | ct | avg     |
  +------------+------+----+---------+
  | hazchem    |   37 |  1 | 37.0000 | 
  | capablanca |   36 |  1 | 36.0000 | 
  | jdrake3    |   24 |  1 | 24.0000 | 
  | juanjose   |   24 |  1 | 24.0000 | 
  | cetaganda  |   41 |  2 | 20.5000 | 
  | cysh       |   19 |  1 | 19.0000 | 
  | chime      |   17 |  1 | 17.0000 | 
  | zamfi      |   17 |  1 | 17.0000 | 
  | kilik      |   17 |  1 | 17.0000 | 
  | loumf      |   15 |  1 | 15.0000 | 
  +------------+------+----+---------+

far33d 18y

Like baseball statistics, these are only interesting if you have a minimum number of at-bats.

nostrademons 18y

Add a cutoff of, say, 10 comments or 10 posts...

chengmiOP18y

Done. I set a minimum of 10 comments or 10 submissions to get on the list:

http://searchyc.com/top/points_per_submission

http://searchyc.com/top/points_per_comment

Xichekolas 18y

Would be neat to be able to see the pps and ppc values for an individual... I don't make either of those lists, but I'd be interested what my averages are.

chengmiOP18y

Now when you search for your username on searchyc.com, you can see your stats: http://searchyc.com/Xichekolas

chengmiOP18y

I'll look into that when I have some time.

  +-------------+------+-----+--------+
  | Xichekolas  | pts  | ct  | avg    |
  +-------------+------+-----+--------+
  | Submissions |   64 |   7 | 9.1429 | 
  +-------------+------+-----+--------+
  | Comments    |  497 | 199 | 2.4975 | 
  +-------------+------+-----+--------+

bayareaguy 18y

Interesting. Perhaps you could aggregate the numbers by time and compare the relative rates of change in karma and subissions for different time periods?

tlrobinson 18y

It might be interesting to see a scatter plot of number of submissions/comments vs. average points per submission/comment.

What would be really cool is if you opened up a simple API or just the raw data so we could go wild with it :)