HACKER Q&A
📣 O__________O

What is formula for karma per comment for other users?


Trying to figure out how to accurately get the average karma per comment and appears it is not possible.

(For example, karma for posts and comments is merged together — but quick Google appears to show karma points for posts are calculated as the number of upvotes a given user's content has received minus the number of downvotes; since HN hides downvotes, appears it’s impossible to separate karma from submissions and comments.)

Am I missing something?

EDIT: Title to include “for other users” since it appears per comments below it’s possible to get average karma per comment for yourself per this formula:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35069761

  👤 yorwba Accepted Answer ✓
You can get any user's total karma from their profile. You can get the karma for each of their submissions from the submission's score, which is also public (and the conversion factor is 2:1, I think). Since submissions and comments are the only sources of karma, total comment karma is the difference. Then just divide by number of comments.
👤 fsflover
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30459276
👤 anenefan
That's about it from what I see, but I'm just a newbie, however I don't think there's any additional prizes after reaching more than 500 or 1000 ... I could check the FAQ but I'm about to get off the web for the night.

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