Ask HN/PG: How often does karma average get updated?

4 pointsby shaddiقبل 16 سنة2 comments

Now that the average karma is in the top bar, how often does it get updated? I recently had a comment's score deviate significantly from my current average, but my average did not change (difference was significant enough that I think it should have affected my average by at least 0.01). Thus I'm assuming it is only updated periodically (obviously, I'm also assuming it's an average per post; please correct me if this is wrong).

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pgقبل 16 سنة

I don't know. There's a background process that runs every 45 seconds and picks a random loaded user to update the average of. Empirically, not more than every couple days, at best.

shaddiقبل 16 سنة

Interesting approach. Thanks for the clarification.