Has the idea of showing or counting karma-per-reader ratios been discussed before? The idea just occurred to me, but I’d rather not spend time thinking at length about it (I’ve not noticed any obvious disadvantages, so if you see some please tell me) if multiple other LWers have already discussed or thought about it.
If you hover over their karma score, the ratio appears, and the same if you hover over the score for a post or comment. So far as I know, it’s a feature which was added recently.
The next frontier would be a chart which showed how the karma ration changed with time.
I meant something along the lines of (upvotes + downvotes) / (markCommentAsRead hits). Perhaps with some fancy math to compare against voting rates per pageview and zero-vote “dummy views” and other noise factors.
Something to give a rough idea of whether that “4 points” comment is just something four statistical outliers found nice out of a hundred readers who mostly didn’t vote on it, or that all four of four other participants in a thread found it useful.
I haven’t yet thought through whether I would really prefer having this or not and/or whether it would be worth the trouble and effort of adding in the feature (lots of possible complications depending on the specific mechanism of “mark comment as read”, which I haven’t looked into either).
What I thought I was asking, specifically: Should I think about this more? Does it sound like a nice thing to have? Are there any obvious glaring downsides I haven’t seen (other than implementation)? Does anyone already know whether implementation is feasible or not?
Apologies for the confusion, but thanks for the response! I really like the karma ratio feature that was added.
The first thing that came to mind is it would only be possible to do this for the original post because it would be nearly impossible to be able to calculate how many of the readers read each comment. Further if it was implemented it would have to be able to count one reader per username, or more specifically one reader per person that can vote. that way if lets say i were to read an article but come back multiple times to read different comments it would not skew the ratio.
As a side note to this we could also implement a ratio per username that would show (post read)/(post voted on) so we would be able to see which users participate in voting at all. This however is nowhere near as useful to those who post as the original ratio and could have many possible downsides that i’m not going to take the time to think about because it will probably not be considered, but it is a fun idea.
A bit of a meta question / possibly suggestion:
Has the idea of showing or counting karma-per-reader ratios been discussed before? The idea just occurred to me, but I’d rather not spend time thinking at length about it (I’ve not noticed any obvious disadvantages, so if you see some please tell me) if multiple other LWers have already discussed or thought about it.
If you hover over their karma score, the ratio appears, and the same if you hover over the score for a post or comment. So far as I know, it’s a feature which was added recently.
The next frontier would be a chart which showed how the karma ration changed with time.
Oh, that’s not what I meant.
I meant something along the lines of (upvotes + downvotes) / (markCommentAsRead hits). Perhaps with some fancy math to compare against voting rates per pageview and zero-vote “dummy views” and other noise factors.
Something to give a rough idea of whether that “4 points” comment is just something four statistical outliers found nice out of a hundred readers who mostly didn’t vote on it, or that all four of four other participants in a thread found it useful.
I haven’t yet thought through whether I would really prefer having this or not and/or whether it would be worth the trouble and effort of adding in the feature (lots of possible complications depending on the specific mechanism of “mark comment as read”, which I haven’t looked into either).
What I thought I was asking, specifically: Should I think about this more? Does it sound like a nice thing to have? Are there any obvious glaring downsides I haven’t seen (other than implementation)? Does anyone already know whether implementation is feasible or not?
Apologies for the confusion, but thanks for the response! I really like the karma ratio feature that was added.
The first thing that came to mind is it would only be possible to do this for the original post because it would be nearly impossible to be able to calculate how many of the readers read each comment. Further if it was implemented it would have to be able to count one reader per username, or more specifically one reader per person that can vote. that way if lets say i were to read an article but come back multiple times to read different comments it would not skew the ratio.
As a side note to this we could also implement a ratio per username that would show (post read)/(post voted on) so we would be able to see which users participate in voting at all. This however is nowhere near as useful to those who post as the original ratio and could have many possible downsides that i’m not going to take the time to think about because it will probably not be considered, but it is a fun idea.