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1. keifer+kaa[view] [source] 2026-02-03 08:19:11
>>Imusta+(OP)
Very cool. I made the top 1,000 too.

It would be interesting to see karma-per-word, as well, as a kind of succinctness density factor. Although karma points are not equivalent to quality, and you’d need to also factor in average comment length and some other things.

To use myself:

31,273 karma / 351,012 words ≈ 0.0891 karma per word

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2. kqr+Cea[view] [source] 2026-02-03 08:53:34
>>keifer+kaa
Interesting. I'm at 18,176/392,187 ≈ 46 millikarma per word. I did not expect any of those numbers to be so high.

But at almost 90, I have to ask: do you have a blog I should follow?

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3. keifer+aga[view] [source] 2026-02-03 09:04:45
>>kqr+Cea
Thanks, no I have written various substacks and little blogs over the years, but I really ought to just make a personal blog and put them all there. +1 for the reminder.
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4. Imusta+cha[view] [source] 2026-02-03 09:13:38
>>keifer+aga
Author here. That's actually why I had written this for myself (although compared to you, my karma's comparatively low)

I felt as if I had written quite a lot on HN and I was always referencing my past comments. I just usually write what I am thinking so I do have quite a filler words in my HN comments, but still, I wanted to see how many words have I written in the first place & I wrote this thought in another comment & thought that its pretty interesting, let's do it. Maybe others would be curious too :)

But essentially, some part of me wanted to write blog too to quickly reference it and be part of the indie-web.

>>46828331

This is something that I wrote in that comment

"I guess I can write it but I already write like this in HN. The procastination of writing specifically in a blog is something which hits me.

Is it just me or is it someone else too? Because on HN I can literally write like novels (or I may have genuinely written enough characters of a novel here, I might have to test it or something lol, got a cool idea right now to measure how many novels a person has written from just their username, time to code it)"

So you aren't alone in having the procastination around making a personal blog. This is literally why I had made this idea so if this project (or discussion) helps you in making a personal blog & helps atleast a single person (meaningfully). I would consider my project to be success :)

Have a nice day and good luck for your personal blog!

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