[catinsocks]

Well submission and comment karma are the same karma on HN so it's hard to tell them apart the only other factor you can look at that might be reasonable or a popularity contest is the average as I believe that only pertains to comment karma.

[benologist]

Yeah that's something I wish they would separate out, on top of the combined score the average itself is not calculated in real time and discards outliers and I think only looks at your recent comments so it's not even a perfect measure, just a better one than submission karma.

I would like to see karma more focused on contribution - comments of course, but also finding quality stories that aren't on mainstream sites.