Neat, agreed! I am a little confused by “gems”—is that basically selecting for things with the higher proportion of strong upvotes (and no/few downvotes)? Are there other ways to have karma per vote be higher than 1?
The gems list is the head of the list when comments are sorted by karma per vote (baseScore / voteCount), filtered for comments that received at least 3 votes. The only way to have this be higher than 1 is to receive a strong upvote, or a weak upvote from someone with >1000 karma. It can also be much less than 1, if the comment also got downvotes. I explicitly decided not to add a “controversial” sort, i.e. comments that received a lot of votes with karma (or karma per vote) close to 0.
Neat, agreed! I am a little confused by “gems”—is that basically selecting for things with the higher proportion of strong upvotes (and no/few downvotes)? Are there other ways to have karma per vote be higher than 1?
The gems list is the head of the list when comments are sorted by karma per vote (
baseScore/voteCount), filtered for comments that received at least 3 votes. The only way to have this be higher than 1 is to receive a strong upvote, or a weak upvote from someone with >1000 karma. It can also be much less than 1, if the comment also got downvotes. I explicitly decided not to add a “controversial” sort, i.e. comments that received a lot of votes with karma (or karma per vote) close to 0.