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Top 50 Posters Extrapolated, January 2018
- Thread starter Doctor Q
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
Recent Likes per post
As I've mentioned, interpreting Likes is a tricky business. Not only do Likes accumulate in the PRSI and Console Games forums while those posts don't accumulate, but old posts gain Likes unrelated to the Likes on new posts.
Still, I can't resist throwing my abacus into the mix again.
If we divide the number of Likes in the last 6 months by the number of posts in the last 6 months, we get a recent rate for Likes/Post, and we can see who ranks highly by that measure.
I give the top awards to these members who rarely if ever post in PRSI or the Console Games forum:
Some kind of award should go to MrMacman for making only a single post in 6 months and having 11 other people Like it. Obviously, that's 11.00 Likes/post and proves that he's very Likeable. Perhaps he's even likeable, but I don't measure that.
For what it's worth, here are the Likes/post rankings for members who post regularly in PRSI. The higher the percentage of their posts in non-counted forums, the more inflated their ratio becomes. Still, most of these members get a lot of Likes in PRSI, so that's worth recognition even if it I can't quantify it fairly.
As I've mentioned, interpreting Likes is a tricky business. Not only do Likes accumulate in the PRSI and Console Games forums while those posts don't accumulate, but old posts gain Likes unrelated to the Likes on new posts.
Still, I can't resist throwing my abacus into the mix again.
If we divide the number of Likes in the last 6 months by the number of posts in the last 6 months, we get a recent rate for Likes/Post, and we can see who ranks highly by that measure.
I give the top awards to these members who rarely if ever post in PRSI or the Console Games forum:
- MacDawg (6.04 Likes/post)
- annk (5.40 Likes/post)
- keysofanxiety (4.33 Likes/post)
Some kind of award should go to MrMacman for making only a single post in 6 months and having 11 other people Like it. Obviously, that's 11.00 Likes/post and proves that he's very Likeable. Perhaps he's even likeable, but I don't measure that.
For what it's worth, here are the Likes/post rankings for members who post regularly in PRSI. The higher the percentage of their posts in non-counted forums, the more inflated their ratio becomes. Still, most of these members get a lot of Likes in PRSI, so that's worth recognition even if it I can't quantify it fairly.
- samcraig (115.38 Likes/post)
- rdowns (107.00 Likes/post)
- BaldiMac (40.67 Likes/post)
- mrkramer (16.82 Likes/post)
- Night Spring (16.00 Likes/post)
- yg17 (11.59 Likes/post)
- MacNut (7.74 Likes/post)
- Peace (6.04 Likes/post)
- Dagless (4.73 Likes/post)
- ucfgrad93 (4.65 Likes/post)
Yes, they are in different bins. Each competition is among its own subset of forum members. Sorry if I mis-explained that.
I’m at 27641 likes. But I did not see how to do the likes to post ratio
Six months ago you had 16,441 counted posts and 6,614 Likes. When I measured this month you had 18,157 counted posts and 9,006 Likes. Therefore, in 6 months you gained 1,716 counted posts and gained 2,392 Likes. The absolute numbers are impressive but the ratio is only 1.39.
By comparison, MacNut gained almost as many Likes (2,183) in 6 months, but with many fewer counted new posts (282), for a ratio of 7.74.
To get a real understanding of Likes/post, we'd need to count all posts, including PRSI. If someone wants to read every thread in PRSI for the last 6 months and tally the totals, be my guest!
Be sure whatever insane asylum you check into has WiFi and inmates have privileges or else all that work will go for naught!
That's official Chart #3, and I'm still working on Chart #2. This is the slowest I've ever been getting these primary charts posted, so clearly I should be forcibly retired!
I PM'ed you some Geritol.
Well, a picture of a bottle of Geritol.
Well, a public post claiming that I PM'ed you a picture of a bottle of Geritol.
Statistically speaking, they should all be equally effective.
Ah! Understood, but no, I don't see it as a retirement reason. I see it more of "I want this data to be as exact as possible".
My real problem is of the "ooh, a shiny object over there!" variety, hence those extra statistics and charts above.
Oh boy! I don't have to do my own work anymore!
All of my passwords are the word lemur. If you need my bank account number, it's posted here.
Any way to easily calculate the all time top 50 counting all posts including excluded forums.
I could if I begged arn for direct database access, but I'd prefer to keep my fingers out of that danger zone, even if I could enter it. I'd rather not break MacRumors just because of curiosity.
Ok, how about an easier one. The total posts of each top 50 list. Curious how the numbers fluctuate.
One way to count the total posts for a given forum member, over a recent time period, would be to search for their posts from their profile page, then page through the results, counting the number displayed per page times the number of pages, until you reach a given starting date. That should work as long as you don't run out of pages before the date you seek.
Anyone is welcome to do that for a few top users and see what their REAL post counts are.
Anyone is welcome to do that for a few top users and see what their REAL post counts are.
Just saw my breakdown. Around 1,500 of my posts are now in the wasteland. That doesn’t count. I have around 1,300 in PSRI. Again, doesn’t count.
I wonder why I have so many posts in Wasteland...? I’ve never posted there. And I doubt mods send the threads there, they usually just lock them out.
Mods send threads to wasteland. Usually when the thread is very off topic or the OP requests it. There are other criteria as well that can get a thread wastelanded.
You can't post in wasteland. Here's a scenario: A thread starts and you post in it. As time goes by, the conversation changes course and devolves into an argument. In some cases, the thread is just locked. In other cases, a moderator sends the thread to wasteland, including your posts. You may not have been following the thread when it happens, so you're not aware that the posts you made are now in wasteland.
6-Month Projections
Chart #2: 6-Month Projected Top 50 Posters
Computed by Doctor Q in January 2018
Columns:
Observations
Chart #2: 6-Month Projected Top 50 Posters
Computed by Doctor Q in January 2018
Code:
Proj Projection Proj Cur Delta
Rank A Jul 4, 2018 Posts Rank Rank
---- - ---------------- ------ ---- -----
1 * maflynn 58,568 1 0
2 * C DM 45,286 3 +1
3 * GGJstudios 44,012 2 -1
4 * Applejuiced 42,028 4 0
5 * GoCubsGo 35,742 5 0
6 * Doctor Q 34,740 6 0
7 mad jew 32,194 7 0
8 * Scepticalscribe 31,026 10 +2
9 mkrishnan 29,641 8 -1
10 * Eidorian 29,062 9 -1
11 * rdowns 27,344 11 0
12 * Weaselboy 27,208 12 0
13 robbieduncan 24,480 13 0
14 * Relentless Power 24,337 42 +28
15 * Abstract 24,329 14 -1
16 * SandboxGeneral 23,353 15 -1
17 * Apple fanboy 22,891 23 +6
18 * jsw 22,814 16 -2
19 Mr. Anderson 22,409 17 -2
20 Hellhammer 22,076 18 -2
21 * Dagless 21,659 20 -1
22 Blue Velvet 21,643 19 -3
23 * alphaod 21,582 21 -2
24 * MacNut 20,556 22 -2
25 * eyoungren 19,854 37 +12
26 Jaffa Cake 19,801 24 -2
27 bartelby 19,790 25 -2
28 iGary 19,583 26 -2
29 miles01110 19,264 27 -2
30 * Peace 19,241 30 0
31 PlaceofDis 19,232 28 -3
32 * Newtons Apple 19,216 46 +14
33 iBlue 19,174 29 -4
34 edesignuk 19,078 31 -3
35 * balamw 19,070 32 -3
36 * Intell 18,789 33 -3
37 * Nermal 18,525 36 -1
38 * MacDawg 18,507 34 -4
39 * Rogifan 18,443 39 0
40 ~Shard~ 18,385 35 -5
41 * kdarling 17,981 43 +2
42 * IJ Reilly 17,968 40 -2
43 * dukebound85 17,853 38 -5
44 DoFoT9 17,486 41 -3
45 * AidenShaw 17,119 45 0
46 -aggie- 16,715 44 -2
47 * ucfgrad93 16,673 49 +2
48 * samcraig 16,594 48 0
49 wdlove 16,570 47 -2
50 * WildCowboy 16,463 50 0Columns:
- Proj Rank = Projected position in order by post count, 1 (highest) to 50.
- NEW COLUMN! A = * for currently active users (at least 1 post over the last 6 months).
- Projection Jul 4, 2018 = members with the 50 highest projected post counts based on current post count and rate for the last 6 months.
- Proj Posts = projected # of posts by that member.
- Cur Rank = current rank, as of January 2018 (see Chart #1 above), or "---" for those who are not in the current Top 50.
- Delta Rank = projected change in rank, i.e., # of slots +higher or -lower in rank over the next 6 months.
Observations
- There are no projected changes to the list of members in the Top 50, only their order. As a result, the Delta Rank column sums to 0. You could call the Top 50 competition a zero-sum game. I considered a stable Top 50 to be unusual last time, but now it seems to be the norm.
- The same is true of the Top 10. No changes to the list except the order.
- By these projections, maflynn will retain the top spot.
- C DM is projected to pass GGJstudios for the #2 spot. At current rates that will occur on May 2, 2018, just as C DM reaches 44,000 posts.
- Scepticalscribe should pass the 30,000-post mark. Relentless Power should pass the 20,000-post mark.
- Scepticalscribe is projected to pass both mkrishnan and Eidorian in the Top 10.
- Most members in the Second 25 change ranks in this projection, but Peace, Rogifan, AidenShaw, samcraig, and WildCowboy are projected to hold their positions in the rankings, although none of them held their position from 6 months ago to the present. They are all within 1 or 2 positions of the projections I made 6 months ago, but none of them were spot on. They all shifted position just enough to prove that they are shifty forum members.
- The Game 161 missed the Top 50 by 168 posts.
- In a Top 100 list, arn would rank #68 and would be projected to be #72 in 6 months. That guy just isn't keeping up!