Hunters and Gabberers

Ereddit REDDIT.COM comments related dailydot (13) | M preferences | logout search reddit If Karma is the currency of Reddit, the haves are far above the have nots. (self.reddit.com) submitted 1 hour ago by dailydot this post was submitted on 20 May 2011 3 points (61% like it) The top ranking reddit users can be split in to two groups: "Hunters" and "Gabberers". Hunters vie for link karma and gabberers for comment karma. The top 1000 of those two groups are overwhelmingly in the lead above everyone else, though at the very top, the distance between users is even greater. Here's a breakdown of what we found in our observation period. 8 up votes 5 down votes shortlink: http://bit.ly/17AUJS reddit.com 9 comments share save hide report frontpage 660,600 readers created by spez a community for 5 years Instead of an ad, here's a corgi Hunters and Gabberers Of the top 1000 link karma holders, 700k the top 135 users account for 50% of the total. Of the top 1000 comment karma holders, the top 300 users account for 50% of the total. Highest Karma 629,706 Average Karma 31,182 600k Lowest Karma Just our way of saying thanks. Highest Karma Lowest Karma 5,463 reddit this ad 249,218 17,323 Average Karma Submit a link 500k 17,345 The playing field on the comment karma side is more competitive among the top 4 but it quickly falls off for the 5th ranked and remaining. to anything interesting: news article, blog entry, video, picture... http: In the race to the top, 9 of the top 10 have a lot of work to do. With a roughly 300,000 karma point difference between #1 and #2, and a 100,000 point differ- 250k 400k --- MODERATORS message the moderators ence between #2 and #5, there doesn't seem to be any ranking changes hap- pening any time soon. hueypriest jedberg KeyserSosa 200k Paradox 300k .. spladug alienth krispykrackers 1000 216 1000 ...... 150k RECENTLY VIEWED LINKS 200k Carl Sagan's Last Interview. It's Still 100k The two camps of users are pretty divided. Only 216 find themselves on Extremely Relevant Today. 512 points | 59 comments Wish I was a little bit taller... 100k both top 1,000 karma 1195 points | 316 comments holder lists. 50k Your favorite graphic design websites? DATA AND REPORTING BY 128 points | 60 comments rmuser - 264, 136 Dr JulianBashir - 269,544 qgyh2 - 331,919 nomdeweb - 186,165 Ethical Reasoning - 187,575 IAmperfectlyCalm - 194,679 anutensil - 143.848 Orangutan - 170,589 The Daily Dot ani625 - 131,733 Poromenos - 135374 raldi - 135.903 Gravity13 - 151,788 rmuser - 264,136 karmanaut - 211,689 wang-banger - 183,302 The best Space Shuttle launch -629,706 picture of all time? STS-133 bechus - 149,038 IN A SSOCIATION WITH 280 points | 62 comments clear ProbablyHitting OnYou - 236,622 11 87 PUBLIC g99gbabybabybabybaby - 141,378 SCHOOL Number of users who are on both the top 1000 users with most links submit- ted as well as top 1000 users with high- est link karma. Number of users who are in both the most comments submitted during our monitoring period and top 1000 highest comment karma lists. DAILYDOT.COM & GOTOPUBLICSCHOOL.COM