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Gunnar_Zarncke comments on Open Thread, May 11 - May 17, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 14 May 2015 06:29:57AM 2 points [-]

You can detect newbies by their low karma and moderate positive ratio. The registration age doesn't mean much really.

Comment author: philh 14 May 2015 01:39:04PM *  0 points [-]

You have to click through to discover that though, and there are exceptions who have a low ratio but don't need downvotes explained to them. (I don't know if there are such users with a low ratio and low total, though.)

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 14 May 2015 03:46:37PM 0 points [-]

You can see the ration in the tool tip over the karma.

Interestingly there are users with positive ratios arbitrarily close to 50%.

Comment author: philh 14 May 2015 05:31:34PM 2 points [-]

You can see a comment's karma ratio by hovering on the comment's karma, but to see the user's ratio you need to click through to the user's page and hover over their karma there.