Would be nice to see some qualitative analyis to know if it's just slop, or actually more interesting projects. Not sure how to do that though. I think just looking at votes wouldn't work. I would guess more posts causes lower average visibility per post which should cause upvotes to slump naturally regardless of quality.
Edit: maybe you could:
- remove outliers (anything that made the front page)
- normalise vote count by expected time in the first 20 posts of shownew, based on the posting rate at the time
Edit: maybe you could:
- remove outliers (anything that made the front page)
- normalise vote count by expected time in the first 20 posts of shownew, based on the posting rate at the time