FYI a similar I’ve thinking about is “you see the total karma of the user’s top ~20 comments/posts”, which you can initially improve by writing somewhat-good-comments but you’ll quickly max that out. That metric emphasizes “what was their best content like?”, your metric is something like “how much ‘at least pretty solid’ content do they have?” and I’m not sure which is better.
There are some viral posts (including on community drama) where (half of) everything gets unusually highly upvoted, compared to normal. So the inclination I get is to recalibrate thresholds according to post’s popularity and the current year, to count fewer such comments (that’s too messy, isn’t worth it, but other things should be robust to this effect). This is why I specifically proposed number of 15+ Karma comments, not their total Karma. Also, the total number still counts as some sort of “total contribution” as opposed to the less savory “user quality”.
Mmm. Yeah something in that space makes sense.
FYI a similar I’ve thinking about is “you see the total karma of the user’s top ~20 comments/posts”, which you can initially improve by writing somewhat-good-comments but you’ll quickly max that out. That metric emphasizes “what was their best content like?”, your metric is something like “how much ‘at least pretty solid’ content do they have?” and I’m not sure which is better.
There are some viral posts (including on community drama) where (half of) everything gets unusually highly upvoted, compared to normal. So the inclination I get is to recalibrate thresholds according to post’s popularity and the current year, to count fewer such comments (that’s too messy, isn’t worth it, but other things should be robust to this effect). This is why I specifically proposed number of 15+ Karma comments, not their total Karma. Also, the total number still counts as some sort of “total contribution” as opposed to the less savory “user quality”.