As one extra data point: When I look at the EA Forum profile of users whose Forum posts are relatively well-known, I’m often quite surprised:
That the typical karma on their posts seems notably lower than what I’d have guessed
That they wrote a bunch of posts I didn’t know about (which tend to have notably less karma than the posts of theirs which I do know about)
This seems pretty consistent with the explanation Aaron provides.
(Also, I too found this an interesting post!)
Then, there is Buck.
As one extra data point: When I look at the EA Forum profile of users whose Forum posts are relatively well-known, I’m often quite surprised:
That the typical karma on their posts seems notably lower than what I’d have guessed
That they wrote a bunch of posts I didn’t know about (which tend to have notably less karma than the posts of theirs which I do know about)
This seems pretty consistent with the explanation Aaron provides.
(Also, I too found this an interesting post!)
Then, there is Buck.