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Google was showing 27,200 results so if they are all valid user id's without repetitions, I would assume around 27,200 registered users but that seems pretty low, doesn't it?
Google was showing 27,200 results so if they are all valid user id's without repetitions, I would assume around 27,200 registered users but that seems pretty low, doesn't it?
Based on the referrals the site sends (often 4,000+) I would have thought it was much higher than that. My guess is that there are a lot of lurkers & only something like 2% of site visitors even create an account.
I'd be interested to see some analytics, such as how many users are there with 100+ karma because that's likely a better measure of the number of active users than the number of registered users (many of which are likely inactive). However, that doesn't account for lurkers. Or, the number of users that have logged in within the past week though this is probably something pg would have to give us because I can't think…
Rough Estimate of users with Karma > 100: http://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy&hl=en&biw=1...
http://google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Anews.ycombinator...
(search phrase with wildcard and range in it, I didn't even knew this combination was possible)
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The sad thing is that it's not just spammers who need to do this. Even people who are genuinely creating great content in an attempt to help others still need to create backlinks from social sites if they want to show up in Google. I've made all sorts of resources that are far better than anything else that currently exists, but without actively going out and building a few backlinks these pages would get literally z…
While the core of what you say is true, I think the overall message, in the context of the comments above you, is slightly misleading. Yes, you cannot just create a great website and magically get hits, you do have to tell people it exists! This isn't news, and "SEO" while much maligned these days is still a valid, useful and in many cases necessary skill. However, it is not necessary to engage in blackhat SEO practi…
I'd be interested to see some analytics, such as how many users are there with 100+ karma because that's likely a better measure of the number of active users than the number of registered users (many of which are likely inactive). However, that doesn't account for lurkers. Or, the number of users that have logged in within the past week though this is probably something pg would have to give us because I can't think…
# of users on HN: http://api.thriftdb.com/api.hnsearch.com/users/_search
Filtering on karma is possible then, and more.
Source: http://hnarchive.in
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If pg wouldn't mind me scraping the site, in a manner that would not impact the sites performance, I will write an app to collect this data and publish it to the public domain.
Can't speak for pg, but you should probably follow the site's robots.txt file's rules: http://news.ycombinator.com/robots.txt It sets a crawl-delay of 30 seconds.
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100+ karma won't exactly be a good parameter. I am a regular at Hacker News for around 3 months now , mostly just to read the content & up-vote the ones I really like. But my karma has been at 1 forever now, maybe because I don't comment much, not sure. Still karma does not say much.
Yeah, I agree. Karma shouldn't be an indicator of how often one visits HN, it's merely an indicator of how much one participates in the HN community. For me, getting karma is not desirable at all. What's the point of it? I only comment, when I think I have something useful to say, which is not often the case. I never felt the urge to post just so that my karma increases. I think, this really reflects the good design…
Let's start a count. +1