I think we need to adjust further, since most of the top posts are about 1 year old or newer, and 4 of the top 9 to 11 posts are about 3 months old or newer.
EDIT: Maybe rather than average, use the average of the top N or top p% of the month?
I think we need to adjust further, since most of the top posts are about 1 year old or newer, and 4 of the top 9 to 11 posts are about 3 months old or newer.
Maybe rather than average, use the average of the top N or top p% of the month?
I would imagine the forum has a record of the total voting power of all users, which is increasing over time, and the karma can be downscaled by this total.
Does it adjust the karma for when the post was posted? Or does it adjust for when the karma was given/taken?
For example: The post with the highest inflation-adjusted karma was posted 2014, and had 70 upvotes out of 69 total votes in 2019 and now sits at 179 upvotes out of 125 total votes. Does the inflation adjustment consider that the average size of a vote after 2019 was around 2?
It’s just the posted-at date of the post, and makes no attempt to adjust for when the karma was given. So if something has stayed a classic for much longer than its peers, it will rank highly on this metric.
You can now look at Forum posts from all time and sort them by inflation-adjusted karma. I highly recommend that readers explore this view!
I think we need to adjust further, since most of the top posts are about 1 year old or newer, and 4 of the top 9 to 11 posts are about 3 months old or newer.
EDIT: Maybe rather than average, use the average of the top N or top p% of the month?
Or, instead of normalizing, just show the top N or p% of posts of each few months?
Out of curiosity: how do you adjust for karma inflation?
Relative to average of ~the month. It’s not based on standard deviation, just karma/(avg karma).
I think we need to adjust further, since most of the top posts are about 1 year old or newer, and 4 of the top 9 to 11 posts are about 3 months old or newer.
Maybe rather than average, use the average of the top N or top p% of the month?
(I also mentioned this higher in the thread.)
Thanks :)
I would imagine the forum has a record of the total voting power of all users, which is increasing over time, and the karma can be downscaled by this total.
Yes, by the way, this is sort of immediately available.
You can see all downvotes/upvotes and whether they are weak or strong.
So a 4-tuple of votes is available for each comment/post.
Sorry if I’m being dense, but where is this 4-tuple available?
I sent a PM.
That’s very cool!
Does it adjust the karma for when the post was posted?
Or does it adjust for when the karma was given/taken?
For example:
The post with the highest inflation-adjusted karma was posted 2014, and had 70 upvotes out of 69 total votes in 2019 and now sits at 179 upvotes out of 125 total votes. Does the inflation adjustment consider that the average size of a vote after 2019 was around 2?
It’s just the posted-at date of the post, and makes no attempt to adjust for when the karma was given. So if something has stayed a classic for much longer than its peers, it will rank highly on this metric.
I love this. I’ve been really noticing the upvote inflation, and that’s when I only started being active here last November.