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I'm interested in increasing the chance of happening upon personally interesting content on Lesswrong - represented by my 'saved' posts.
Based on my saved pages, it is clear that the content is heavily biased towards particular high profile users
I am interested in accessing more data on the karma of Lesswrong users without going to each user profile.
To answer who are the the most reliable LW users, I intend to see if I can predict whether a particular LW user will post something of interest to me based on their karma/post or another metric beyond the aggregate karmic data available in the sidebar.
Can you help me answer the questions that I'm interested in?
Between (1) the 15 all-time top users listed in the sidebar, (2) the 15 last-month top users listed in the sidebar, and (3) a few minutes' clicking on the usernames attached to recent posts and comments, it's hard to see that you're in danger of missing a lot of high-karma/high-profile users. How much value is there in what you're looking for, really? (If it isn't obviously trivial -- which I'm pretty sure it isn't -- then it's probably quite a lot of work to get more, because supporting LW isn't a very high priority for the people who do it.)
(If you've found that the posts you've found most interesting tend to be from high-profile users, that suggests that your preferences match fairly well with those of the LW community as expressed through karma, which in turn suggests that you can probably find promising articles to harvest promising usernames from just by running through the recent-articles list and picking out ones with high scores.)
Note, though, that any process that uses karma to select which users or articles you'll investigate further may introduce a selection bias that will corrupt your estimates of the relationship between karma and interest-to-you.
Can you still see this? I don't see it now or when I'm not a logged-in user. (But it disappeared for me right after I made it into the top 15, so it wouldn't surprise me if there's some conditional visibility going on.)
Oh, sorry, I think you're right. I don't see it either. I think I was just remembering it being there. I don't generally pay that much attention to the sidebar :-).
I doubt it's conditional visibility. Why would anyone do that? (FWIW I don't currently see the all-time top 15 but do see the 30-day top 15; I am in the 30-day top 15 but am about 99% sure I'm a long way from being in the all-time top 15.)
Apologies if I misled anyone.
Specifically, the monthly list is here and the all-time list is still here.
Neat. Is that documented somewhere?
Surely it is a bug. Either the all-time info is supposed to appear in the sidebar or it is not supposed to exist. Either way, surely we are not supposed to directly access these URLs. I suppose that the wiki is free to document the world as it is, but I did not even try looking there.
If you are interested in something specific, search by topic, not by user.