Rayiner, to his credit, engages controversy without fear. I'm sure it leads to some interesting voting.

The average score is limited to recent comments (for some definition of recent, no idea about the specifics).

The API we used has a limit of 0.5MB data, so pushed all the recent comments up to that limit.

I had assumed ameister14 was talking about the avg shown on user pages:

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kolinko