This only measures the number of comments; it would be interesting to know the karma difference accrued in a year. It may produce the exact same ranking, as intuitively karma is probably heavily correlated with comment frequency... but maybe not?
It would really scare me if dang wasn't the first one. But at the same time, I feel immense pain thinking about what he has to deal with on a daily basis. Literally the entire functioning of the last somewhat civil, fully moderated, independent, anon-friendly board on the internet in 2021 on the shoulders of one admin. I'd like to say how a million flowers should bloom from this shining example, but it seems more like a superhuman attempt to hold back the flood.<p>In any event, it's been worth it and it's been a job well done.<p>Also, I'm surprised and a bit ashamed to be #415 in this list. That's probably a whole side-project's worth of time I could have spent elsewhere. But I guess we all need somewhere to commune, talk shop, make friends or blow off some steam. FWIW I've learned far more from HN in the last year than I've been able to bring to it, and I'm thankful for the avenues it leads me down every day as a reader. I would post a lot less if I stopped drinking but, yeah.
Does HN have about 10K active users? Then this entire post is more or less clickbait because we are all in here ( I just found myself in the list as well).<p>More useful is knowing<p>* What were 2021's most upvoted articles?<p>* Wat were 20201's most upvoted comments?
I was able to garner some karma in 2021, but being in a Far East timezone seems to be disadvantageous. Basically, much activity appears to happen while North America wakes up in the morning, which is when I am already asleep.<p>Sometimes I break my vow of online detoxing before sleeping; when I find trending topics related to my domain of knowledge, I frantically respond before the comment section gets too crowded. On the other hand, I can think through more diligently during my noontime, but my effort towards quality commenting is not met by karma from otherwise asleep HNers. It seems like reaping karma is not just about knowing the subject well, but being in the right place at the right time(zone).
I think it would be even more interesting to see the list of highest average comment karma or something.<p>Maybe that would better highlight what I really enjoy with HN: A story about aviation and suddenly 4 airline pilots appear and share insight, or when some tech legend dies and several colleagues pop in and tell stories about them. Or like the other day when one of the authors of the BLAKE3 algorithm (?) participated in some friendly flame-waring.
It would be fun if there were rankings and statistics for karma/upvotes/submissions for all users and from all available years. I'm sure there must be a web page for it somewhere :-)
BTW, I barely made it to the list in #9279 with 77 comments. I agree that we're a somewhat niche community here but there are more readers than users and most users just read/vote and rarely submit and comment.
While I have on occasion been given a "stern talking to" by dang, I guess we can all appreciate his work. Though I sometimes wonder when does he sleep.<p>(Though yes I should probably be more conservative with my comments)
A query on methodology:<p>Near the end of the list, it’s sitting at around a hundred accounts for each number, yet 70 comments has only 18 accounts listed before the 10000 cutoff is reached. Presumably some 80 or so more accounts were also at 70 comments, but are not mentioned. How wewre items ordered? Not by username, not by creation date, not by karma, I guess it’s just random? Alas for the ~⅘ of the 70-comments-per-year users who were excluded by capricious randomness!
I like how the article header helpfully offers a 366 minute read time.<p>I'm also surprised that my name shows up. Like another poster said, small world.
Heh, I came here to lurk for a better slashdot/lower-volume r/programming, but I'm actually in the upper Nk because I get dragged into all kinds of political discussions against the part of my will that I endorse.<p>It would be nice if there was a "solving the world's problems" tag and an rss feed without it ;)
If OP is here: Would be really great to see each users top comment for the year as well, so we can get an idea of A) what kind of topics they are passionate/knowledgeable about and B) how much of the score for just one comment related to their overall score of the year
Looks like I made spot #844. I already knew I spent too much time on HN, but that seems excessive, so it boggles my mind how anyone could have the time to be in the top 100.
Interesting observation: I'm place 3501, I have been reading HN since 2009 and I only recognize 2 handles in the top 10.<p>I guess this is because HN de-emphasises usernames.
Heh, the fact that (IMO) I don't comment that often but still am in the top 5k (rank 4228, 185 comments) just goes to show how all things considered HN is still a <i>very</i> niche/small community.
I was hoping I wouldn't be on this list. Lots of time spent here. Maybe too much.<p>HN is such a good community though... No other place like this exists on the internet.
I'm number 536, suprising I made it that high :)<p>Reading over the top few names, even though HN doesn't emphasize usernames at all, I recognized quite a few of them. Quite fascinating and a compliment to their comment quality.