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Re: Show HN: Visualize your Hacker News activity

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Post by 21stio »

FillardMillmore wrote: post #21

Initially got the Network Error but after a few tries it worked. This is really cool - thanks for sharing! I noticed you have an avg points indicator for submissions but not for comments - any reason for that decision?

thanks for the kind words!

good spot, unfortunately, the points for comments aren't publically available as well as the upvotes of a user

Re: Show HN: Visualize your Hacker News activity

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Post by 21stio »

jamestimmins wrote: post #20

This looks great! Very cool to see the distribution of what does/doesn't get comments and upvotes. You may want to consider caching the results for the most popular accounts. May address the network issue.

Hey James, it makes sense! Will be added to the backlog, cheers for the heads up

Re: Show HN: Visualize your Hacker News activity

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Post by glaugh »

motohagiography wrote: post #15

Very interesting data set. Appears the average number of people who reply to my comments is 1.03, which suggests a style of writing/thinking can contribute consistent net-growth. 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…

Cool idea. Just to explore it further, I think it’d be interesting to create a model that included a couple other major factors, like when the comment was posted relative to the front-paging of the article and where the parent comment fell on the page (this comment is responding to the top comment, which will help it a lot).

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.

Re: Show HN: Visualize your Hacker News activity

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Post by montenegrohugo »

motohagiography wrote: post #15

Very interesting data set. Appears the average number of people who reply to my comments is 1.03, which suggests a style of writing/thinking can contribute consistent net-growth. 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…

Not sure I agree with your conclusions. A high amount of response could just mean a controversial/inflammatory comment or a comment of inquisitive nature that people want to respond to, instead of a high-value comment.

I apparently have an avg reply rate of 1.8 and would not say that my comments are somehow better than patios.

Re: Show HN: Visualize your Hacker News activity

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Post by jannyfer »

About a year ago, I saw a Hacker News comment by someone claiming to sleep on average 0-2 hours a day. There were 20 replies to that comment but (he) never responded to any questions, and continued posting replies to other threads in the coming days.

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 :)

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