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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. thomas+Lta[view] [source] 2026-02-03 10:52:29
>>keifer+kaa
+1 and also add a feature for unique words to show how you vocab ranks
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3. Yizahi+pTa[view] [source] 2026-02-03 13:46:21
>>thomas+Lta
It will be skewed due to all the jargon, slang and grammar errors.
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4. kqr+HUa[view] [source] 2026-02-03 13:53:27
>>Yizahi+pTa
But if it is equally skewed for everyone, does it really matter?
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5. pc86+nEb[view] [source] 2026-02-03 17:14:10
>>kqr+HUa
It probably doesn't have a large enough effect to matter, but I would expect that it would negatively impact the people you're trying to positively impact by using this metric. If you're careful with your words, a better typist, refrain from slang, reread your posts multiple times, edit out typos or inconsistencies or rambling thoughts, this type of vocabulary ranking would "hurt" you. But if you do that you're also probably the type of person to write longer more well thought out comments. So it's probably a wash to slightly "achieving the opposite of what you want but not really enough that you'd notice it" if I had to guess.
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