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>>Imusta+(OP)
There's something about the numbers I can't figure out. Look at the top three HN contributors by karma[1]:

      username    words       karma
  1.  tptacek     4,310,896   416351
  2.  jacquesm    3,841,209   237961
  3.  ingve       2,273       215283

How did ingve get to #3 with just 2 thousand words, whereas tptacek and jacquesm authored 3-4 million words? Looking at his 14-year history, it's true that he hasn't written that much. I suppose one possibility is that his writing is 1000x better at earning karma. But I'm going to hazard a guess that it's the quality of his 3-4 submissions per day that brings up his karma when one of his submissions is a hit (I think that submissions do count toward karma).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders

>>myster+oia
Globally, karma comes from submissions and writing comments.

4 minutes later ...

    1. dragonwriter 4 785 959 words
    2. tptacek      4 310 896 words
    3. jacquesm     3 841 209 words

I don't know why you got ingve, their global rank is now 79469 / 774235

>>Bengal+ija
I was looking at rank by karma (not rank by word count):

https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders

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