Of course I would promote that idea, but really I'd be willing to bet it looks something like a pareto distribution, and it would be interesting to see what puts a user on one side of that curve or the the other.
patio11's 1.39 average reply rate would be an outlier, and there are people whose comments have the authority to simply close discussions that would need upvote stats to distinguish them might get lost viewed in that narrow dimension, but for all the time people spend on this site, it would be interesting to get a sense of what that might mean.
I apparently have an avg reply rate of 1.8 and would not say that my comments are somehow better than patios.
Popular claptrap might not be valuable. Engagement can be value, and a many-to-many thread is typically good, except when it becomes a 1:1 drill down match. I think a sincere controversy is exceptionally valuable because it frames something essential about the topic, at least when it isn't just the iteration of talking points. A bold provocation can also be useful because the quality of the responses may reveal unexamined assumptions.
Better? Meh, but indicative of a certain quality factor, I'd say no doubt.
I guess I’m not aware of an analysis with this goal (who and what types of comments engender more conversation) anywhere else, and actually doing it would probably be pretty fascinating. Again, cool idea.
I pulled all of (his) comments and their post times via the Hacker News API and plotted it, which revealed an interesting lack of posts from midnight-6AM EST across ~150 comments. I'm calling BS on the 0-2 hours of sleep :)
We know there have been some who really needed much less sleep but they are widely known to be geniuses or hyper-productive (Nikola Tesla, Elon Musk etc.)
Most people who claim to sleep only 2 hours a day or whatever are probably being a little dishonest or are miscounting.
I don't buy this. I don't know life of Nikola Tesla, but the recent activity of Elon Musk might be explained by a serious and chronic lack of sleep.
Ah, nevermind - finally failed with "Network error".
Second, the username on your app is case sensitive, not sure if it is on HN (haven't tested).
Other than these, nice work.
Also: if you are located in Berlin you should create a Privacy Policy and Imprint. That's more important than a cookie banner ...
I couldn't recognise some old comments (10 yrs ago) as my own. I don't know what this means.
I was reading my old emails like what's this shit about, who's this? LOL
EDIT: obviously, this comment broke the "curve". This distribution is known for being unstable.
I noticed you have an avg points indicator for submissions but not for comments - any reason for that decision?
good spot, unfortunately, the points for comments aren't publically available as well as the upvotes of a user
You may want to consider caching the results for the most popular accounts. May address the network issue.
> I'd like to see the same visualization on posts and submissions
Would you like to see the same visualization for the top-stories feed? If not, could you elaborate on your request?
https://hnprofile.com/author_profiles?search=user:kohtatsu
Would be cool to see average mood per topic :)
trimmed from 7855 to 3000 etc. (I'm sure no one cares about the rest)
So maybe try again?
