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We gave that some consideration, but the queries weren't all that interesting. The vast majority of those lists (something like 80%) consist of people with only one post. To illustrate this, here are the top tens for those queries:

  Top Points per Submission
  +-------------+------+----+---------+
  | username    | pts  | ct | avg     |
  +-------------+------+----+---------+
  | dwaters     |   95 |  1 | 95.0000 | 
  | keesj       |   78 |  1 | 78.0000 | 
  | brl         |  122 |  2 | 61.0000 | 
  | a-kill-ease |   60 |  1 | 60.0000 | 
  | zombo       |   58 |  1 | 58.0000 | 
  | markovich   |   58 |  1 | 58.0000 | 
  | fresno      |   55 |  1 | 55.0000 | 
  | jdale27     |   53 |  1 | 53.0000 | 
  | qwertyy     |   48 |  1 | 48.0000 | 
  | jsomers     |   48 |  1 | 48.0000 | 
  +-------------+------+----+---------+

  Top Points per Comment
  +------------+------+----+---------+
  | username   | pts  | ct | avg     |
  +------------+------+----+---------+
  | hazchem    |   37 |  1 | 37.0000 | 
  | capablanca |   36 |  1 | 36.0000 | 
  | jdrake3    |   24 |  1 | 24.0000 | 
  | juanjose   |   24 |  1 | 24.0000 | 
  | cetaganda  |   41 |  2 | 20.5000 | 
  | cysh       |   19 |  1 | 19.0000 | 
  | chime      |   17 |  1 | 17.0000 | 
  | zamfi      |   17 |  1 | 17.0000 | 
  | kilik      |   17 |  1 | 17.0000 | 
  | loumf      |   15 |  1 | 15.0000 | 
  +------------+------+----+---------+


Like baseball statistics, these are only interesting if you have a minimum number of at-bats.


Add a cutoff of, say, 10 comments or 10 posts...


Done. I set a minimum of 10 comments or 10 submissions to get on the list:

http://searchyc.com/top/points_per_submission

http://searchyc.com/top/points_per_comment


Would be neat to be able to see the pps and ppc values for an individual... I don't make either of those lists, but I'd be interested what my averages are.


Now when you search for your username on searchyc.com, you can see your stats: http://searchyc.com/Xichekolas


I'll look into that when I have some time.

  +-------------+------+-----+--------+
  | Xichekolas  | pts  | ct  | avg    |
  +-------------+------+-----+--------+
  | Submissions |   64 |   7 | 9.1429 | 
  +-------------+------+-----+--------+
  | Comments    |  497 | 199 | 2.4975 | 
  +-------------+------+-----+--------+


Interesting. Perhaps you could aggregate the numbers by time and compare the relative rates of change in karma and subissions for different time periods?


It might be interesting to see a scatter plot of number of submissions/comments vs. average points per submission/comment.

What would be really cool is if you opened up a simple API or just the raw data so we could go wild with it :)




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