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>>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

>>keifer+kaa
#33 here. I have written .. a lot of words. I don't know whether they're correctly excluding ">" quoted words though.

A quirky feature of HN is that you can only see detailed karma counts for your own posts. One of these days I plan to scrape all of mine so I can sort by karma and do some meta-commentary.

>>pjc50+4ma
I tried to do exactly this, but you need to hit the actual HTML news.ycombinator.com site, since karma is not visible through the API or in any of the public data dumps. And HN appears to have rather robust anti-scraping provisions. Even after trying a few different back-off strategies, my scraper was rate limited quickly, so I gave up.

>>ryandr+8kb
What about having a browser and having a tampermonkey script which can do that? I have found that works really great. Ooh this is giving me some ideas.

A lot of people have given me some really great ideas. Commenting to have them in backlog whenever I get bored and think to add addition. I would just be interested in having a dump/export of my comments personally as well (someone else wanted to/analyze all of their comments and have them in a floppy disk, maybe this can help their idea too!)

>>Imusta+AMb
It would be better if HN simply made karma scores available through the API. Such a strange omission--they obviously have the data.