For reasons unknown, I wanted to figure out what the karma leaders average karma/post was (i.e. who is submitting the highest quality posts?)<p>It appears that news.YC only lists up to 180 submissions, rendering my little experiment useless. However, I was able to determine that:<p>staunch's karma/post is 7.66
paul's is 19.41 (celebrity effect?)
brett's is 6.58
mine (who gives?) is 7.38
Sam_Odio's is less than 6.63 (assuming 180+ posts)
danw's is less than 6.51 ("-----")<p>news.YC should have another leader board for quality in addition to just absolute karma.
I thought about this too. One related point is active users. Some folks were active then left. Sam_Odio's most recent submission is 55 days old.<p>I think karma/day, over the last N days, would be a fine measure.<p>Also, I think comment-karma/day would be the best measure. It is easier to get points by reposting titles of other people's work as submissions than through thoughtful comments.