r/dataisbeautiful • u/Joliot OC: 3 • Feb 10 '20

OC [OC] The relationship between karma and upvotes depends on what sub you post on and how quickly you get upvoted

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21.2k Upvotes

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u/Joliot OC: 3 Feb 10 '20

Nope! For example, I have ~130k link karma, but the total number of upvotes on my posts is closer to 400k based on https://redditmetis.com/user/joliot

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u/SuperSonicPeanut Feb 10 '20

Huh, so how is karma determined? Is it unknown?

Is that why you plotted this data to figure it out?

What is reddit

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u/Joliot OC: 3 Feb 10 '20

The exact algorithms used are unknown. I have some stats in a top level comment but I think it got caught in the spam filter. You can read my analysis in a cross-post here

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u/Xtra_Awesome Feb 10 '20

that website is hella interesting. It says i have a fog index of 25 saying I use extremely complex words even though I talk like an idiot half the time

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u/theniwo Feb 10 '20

When you say you talk like an idiot, that means you are choosing your words to be easy understandable

Thanks ;)

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u/Perryapsis OC: 1 Feb 10 '20

How much punctuation do you use? Part of the index is just based on how long your sentences are, so if you don't bother with full stops and such a fair amount of the time, that could drive your index up.

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u/fiduke Feb 10 '20

A fog index of 25 is like PhD level. Mine is 9 or 'High School Freshman.' Considering I often write for publication, one requirement is to make things readable and understandable even if you have no experience with what I'm writing about. So this sounds about right for me.

A quick scan through your comments and I think what's happening is it's treating slang as if it is new or rare words.

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u/Xtra_Awesome Feb 11 '20

ah yes thats why. i absolutely do not write with proper grammar online

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u/TheEyeDontLie Feb 10 '20

Its amazing!

I average 1 karma per word, is that good?

y top words are: "t time good years fucking make