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		gjm11 on Aug 24, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Karma Should Be Measured It's worse. The additional term is undefined (it's 0/0-1) for days with no comments.

eric-hu on Aug 25, 2011 [–]

I figured that was just a special case they didn't explain directly. The equation follows their description if you treat the 0-comment days as a 0 for the term in the parenthesis: people who post infrequently will see a shrinking karma.

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