[verisimi]

It would be fascinating to see a word to karma ratio. (Mine would be incredibly low).

[tzs]

You can see the karma of the people with the 11th-100th highest karma at https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders . Here are the 60 of those people who are also in the top 1000 on the word count list, sorted by increasing word to karma ratio.

Columns are words/karma, words, karma, name.

   3.5  308431  88008 mooreds
   4.1  307127  75567 stavros
   4.3  314850  73503 minimaxir
   4.3  575909 133629 ColinWright
   4.5  429663  96135 walterbell
   5.5  320283  58461 wallflower
   5.9  463540  78823 paxys
   6.1  298839  49063 paulpauper
   7.1  450573  63823 cperciva
   7.1  685484  97028 simonw
   7.2  415385  57466 mpweiher
   8.8  435188  49452 Waterluvian
   9.4  912601  97058 steveklabnik
   9.5  484782  51089 pavlov
   9.5  514233  54028 nkurz
   9.6  738986  76912 jedberg
   9.9  538580  54533 pavel_lishin
  10.5  523765  50113 wmf
  10.5  562066  53697 kibwen
  11.1  649587  58521 pmoriarty
  11.2  554531  49316 petercooper
  11.3  626706  55613 sp332
  11.3  674598  59635 tyingq
  11.3  997305  88154 ceejayoz
  11.4  774926  67711 davidw
  11.8  892827  75358 hn_throwaway_99
  12.5  652216  52309 duxup
  12.5  627078  49987 Someone1234
  12.6 1999366 159310 Animats
  13.3 1168121  87843 userbinator
  13.5 1425286 105817 pjc50
  13.5  771686  56994 lisper
  14.1 1143293  81306 crazygringo
  14.2  698215  49002 JoshTriplett
  14.3  867103  60494 saagarjha
  15.4 1628467 105619 toomuchtodo
  16.2  787659  48722 amelius
  16.3 1285245  78792 WalterBright
  16.5 1058282  64324 ryandrake
  16.6  892312  53904 ksec
  18.8 1038783  55136 bane
  19.8 1950935  98675 anigbrowl
  19.9 1355066  67997 masklinn
  20.0 2510303 125350 pjmlp
  20.2 2110424 104359 PaulHoule
  20.3 2251499 110917 ChuckMcM
  20.5 1497782  73213 jrockway
  21.0 1168930  55722 btilly
  21.9 2747766 125470 rayiner
  22.2 1822427  82045 nostrademons
  22.4 1319812  58825 wpietri
  24.7 1275113  51702 brudgers
  27.6 3131449 113256 TeMPOraL
  29.7 2701314  90987 jerf
  30.1 2696913  89718 coldtea
  31.7 1911252  60198 Retric
  37.6 4785959 127149 dragonwriter
  38.5 2130838  55318 derefr
  39.3 2583878  65748 dredmorbius
  42.5 2141376  50383 tzs

[verisimi]

Thanks, that's really great.

I did my own too - and I was right - 156,501 / 327 = 478.6

Has anyone got a worse ratio than that?!?! lol

[cperciva]

If you're going to do that analysis, you would really want to distinguish "karma from comments" from "karma from posts", since only the former is associated with words of comments.

I'm not sure if that data is available though.