Some users have posted in 2,3 to 7-8 years. Does this count? Do you mean to ask active users? That would be interesting to know for sure but not essential. What makes HN great is the quality of users’s input. If there were 10000 active users it would seem not very much but it’s quite a lot if you think about it...
Anyway, it’d be interesting to know the answer to this query
I guess you could walk the stories API, extract all the user IDs, and then enum those through the users API to get the Karma values, and then run stats on that... it's a big effort, and I'm not sure what the useful payoff would be.
I meant haven’t. There are accounts whose last comments were 7-8 years ago. Technically those shouldn’t count as the active users. Also lots of users have a few handles or use throwaways for certain delicate subjects. Should those count as well? I guess it’d be hard to come up with a correct number even for HN
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