If you comment on lots of new stories, where others don't comment, you would be less of a leader. That doesn't sound right.

Flip side is that users who comment a lot on popular stories but don't post much tend to get overcounted. My karma/post is like 25-30, but only because I get the majority of my karma from comments. My posts themselves average like 5 points.

I've picked up literally 100 karma in the last week or so, yet made only one submission in the last month. A couple popular comments can heavily distort the averages.

Sorry about the confusion: by post I meant either news stories or comments, no distinction.

We could use the median rather than the mean, but I see no problem in the fact that a few very popular comments can pump up your average. They boost your absolute count too. And that's OK. Karma measures popularity.

It's a tradeoff between rewarding volume or signal to noise ratio. I think showing both stats gives a more complete picture.