Interesting point r.e. karma. I do think it increases somewhat non-linearly, i.e. a post above 50 karma is one I am very likely to include in the digest, and I think that people do vote based on some sort of fixed deservingness number for karma. I.e. a post can hit 60 karma very quickly from the first day’s voters, and then be read by many others who don’t vote much at all (because they think the post is worth about 60 objectively). Maybe I’m wrong though, I should check if karma totals anchor around particular numbers or not.
Makes sense. I also think tracking the monthly value of posts and comments along the lines I suggested outside events would be useful. CEA’s dashboard has the number of posts with at least 2 upvotes excluding self-votes, but this accounts very little for quality (nitpick; I would account for self-votes, as I guess a post with no votes still has some value).
Interesting point r.e. karma. I do think it increases somewhat non-linearly, i.e. a post above 50 karma is one I am very likely to include in the digest, and I think that people do vote based on some sort of fixed deservingness number for karma. I.e. a post can hit 60 karma very quickly from the first day’s voters, and then be read by many others who don’t vote much at all (because they think the post is worth about 60 objectively). Maybe I’m wrong though, I should check if karma totals anchor around particular numbers or not.
Makes sense. I also think tracking the monthly value of posts and comments along the lines I suggested outside events would be useful. CEA’s dashboard has the number of posts with at least 2 upvotes excluding self-votes, but this accounts very little for quality (nitpick; I would account for self-votes, as I guess a post with no votes still has some value).
Also, whoops- should have linked to this