Is there any way I can see other people's average karma?
The individual users pages (except my own) still seem to display total karma.
The leaderboard is still ranked by total karma. If we are adopting (temporarily perhaps) average karma as a metric , it would be great to see who is ranked highest on it or even just how much average karma a user has, just as we can check total karma of a user today
I also suspect that the frequency of average karma calculation may need to be increased.
Agreed - people whose behaviour might be changed by the move from total to average are people who care about how they look, so if no-one else can see it they won't care, surely.
Showing (total, avg) may be a good compromise. Showing the average is an incentive for / against certain kinds of comments (i.e. against answering questions in old threads), showing both might soften that. Also, I use changes to my karma as a quick proxy for if I have more comments in any threads.
Come to think of it - a "new responses" link on the profile page could be very helpful.
Is there a reason flag isn't shown on comments until the reply page?
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Ok, let's try that for a while.
Is there any way I can see other people's average karma?
The individual users pages (except my own) still seem to display total karma.
The leaderboard is still ranked by total karma. If we are adopting (temporarily perhaps) average karma as a metric , it would be great to see who is ranked highest on it or even just how much average karma a user has, just as we can check total karma of a user today
I also suspect that the frequency of average karma calculation may need to be increased.
There is now, on the profile page.
Agreed - people whose behaviour might be changed by the move from total to average are people who care about how they look, so if no-one else can see it they won't care, surely.
Showing (total, avg) may be a good compromise. Showing the average is an incentive for / against certain kinds of comments (i.e. against answering questions in old threads), showing both might soften that. Also, I use changes to my karma as a quick proxy for if I have more comments in any threads.
Come to think of it - a "new responses" link on the profile page could be very helpful.
Is there a reason flag isn't shown on comments until the reply page?
I usually end up posting on old threads (since I only check once or twice a day), which means I rarely get more than 1-2 upvotes per comment (if any).
I've got .77, which seems a lot lower than I would expect. I rarely end up in negatives on my comments. But when I do, the negative is a high one.