On: Hacker News comments I'm tired of seeing

[hollerith]

>A better algotithm calculating the karma as an average over all your comments maybe could help

The metric I would most like to know is how many votes my comments got divided by the total number of words in my comments.

[jacques_chester → hollerith]

Wouldn't this favour the short smartarsery that's one of the not-done things hereabouts?

[polymatter → jacques_chester]

It would also favour the short and succinct over the long and rambling. Which sounds like a good thing, if you believe that useful information can be distilled losslessly.

[jacques_chester → polymatter]

Pithy wisdom only really works when it lands in a mind on the edge of understanding it.