8 points by brett about 1 year ago | link
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3 points by smanek 6 months ago | link | parent | top
cached 5 days ago
very true - that would be enlightening.

You can see something similar at http://top.searchyc.com/points_per_submission . That shows you the top users (on YC at least) by points per submission.

http://top.searchyc.com/points_per_comment is even more interesting in my opinion


2 points by chengmi 11 months ago | link | parent | top
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Done. I set a minimum of 10 comments or 10 submissions to get on the list:

http://searchyc.com/top/points_per_submission

http://searchyc.com/top/points_per_comment


1 point by tlrobinson 11 months ago | link | parent | top
cached about 1 month ago
It might be interesting to see a scatter plot of number of submissions/comments vs. average points per submission/comment.

What would be really cool is if you opened up a simple API or just the raw data so we could go wild with it :)


1 point by parenthesis 4 months ago | link | top
cached about 1 month ago
Principally by making lots of interesting submissions. From http://searchyc.com/user/nickb :

941 comments, 2.97 points per comment

3514 submissions, 6.00 points per submission


-1 points by kirubakaran 7 months ago | link | parent | top
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No kidding! http://searchyc.com/user/edw519

  edw519:
  1436 comments, 3.51 points per comment
  836 submissions, 4.90 points per submission

9 points by chengmi about 1 year ago | link | top
cached 29 days ago
I hope you guys find this website useful. I know there are a bunch of other YC searches out there, but we're trying to improve on all of them.

1. nycs.bigheadlabs.com - a good one created by the Disqus guys, but they stopped updating the index quite awhile ago, so all of the search results are stale.

2. trk7.com/yc - Another YC search, but the interface is really confusing.

3. ycsearch.com, Google - Indexes insanely fast and has an excellent relevancy algorithm, but you can't sort by post date or points.

4. Firefox toolbars, etc - I haven't tried them, but I assume it just uses a Google custom search.

5. SearchYC.com - full text searching, 15 minute updates, and a cool user-search feature (try searching for your username (case-sensitive)). We also enable sorting results/submissions/comments by relevancy (sucks), YC points, or post date.

What we really want to do is to start generating some user stats and interesting queries such as "top points per submission", "most linked-to websites", etc. If you're interested in one, post it here!

Anyways, we want you guys (YC users) to help us decide where this goes. The sky's the limit!

Happy New Year's!


5 points by chengmi 11 months ago | link | parent | top
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We gave that some consideration, but the queries weren't all that interesting. The vast majority of those lists (something like 80%) consist of people with only one post. To illustrate this, here are the top tens for those queries:

  Top Points per Submission
  +-------------+------+----+---------+
  | username    | pts  | ct | avg     |
  +-------------+------+----+---------+
  | dwaters     |   95 |  1 | 95.0000 | 
  | keesj       |   78 |  1 | 78.0000 | 
  | brl         |  122 |  2 | 61.0000 | 
  | a-kill-ease |   60 |  1 | 60.0000 | 
  | zombo       |   58 |  1 | 58.0000 | 
  | markovich   |   58 |  1 | 58.0000 | 
  | fresno      |   55 |  1 | 55.0000 | 
  | jdale27     |   53 |  1 | 53.0000 | 
  | qwertyy     |   48 |  1 | 48.0000 | 
  | jsomers     |   48 |  1 | 48.0000 | 
  +-------------+------+----+---------+

  Top Points per Comment
  +------------+------+----+---------+
  | username   | pts  | ct | avg     |
  +------------+------+----+---------+
  | hazchem    |   37 |  1 | 37.0000 | 
  | capablanca |   36 |  1 | 36.0000 | 
  | jdrake3    |   24 |  1 | 24.0000 | 
  | juanjose   |   24 |  1 | 24.0000 | 
  | cetaganda  |   41 |  2 | 20.5000 | 
  | cysh       |   19 |  1 | 19.0000 | 
  | chime      |   17 |  1 | 17.0000 | 
  | zamfi      |   17 |  1 | 17.0000 | 
  | kilik      |   17 |  1 | 17.0000 | 
  | loumf      |   15 |  1 | 15.0000 | 
  +------------+------+----+---------+