Top 50 Posters Extrapolated, July 2013

[Doctor Q]

Interesting. Does MR have associated metadata with a post total? As in date/time and of each post? that then can be binned? What about # of times been quoted? Give a sense of most quoted or amt of up votes/post (perhaps most useful advice? who knows), words per post..etc

If so, all sorts of statistical goodness can be had (ie replication of your charts, times users post most often...seasonality, time of day, etc)

The database underlying vBulletin has all of that information, although I don't think it counts the number of quotes, noticing them only long enough to notify the quoted person. Profile pages reveal only a bit (join date, #posts, post rate) while searches can get you dates/times of posts. I don't know of a way to get vote counts, but if a researcher had direct database access they could gather facts like vote counts more directly. Counting quotes might require scanning the text of posts, but the data is all there in one form or another.

Very neat, I did it and it worked. However, is there any advantage to using Terminal over just looking at a profile page for the count? Can any of the thing dukebound85 asked about be done?

The advantage is that you can write a script or program to search or collect information from profile pages. For example, you could probably build an Automator script that tells you if you are approaching a new user title.

You could also scan the whole membership to tally information, but a program that fetches profile pages as fast as it can could affect forum performance, so that's not a good idea.

 

[MacNut]

mad jew is going doooowwwwn (at long last).


Either way, it's better than a blocked road.

Is that really a good thing, Mad Jew was helpful in his barrage of posts.

 

[-aggie-]

mad jew is going doooowwwwn (at long last).


Either way, it's better than a blocked road.

mad jew was a very helpful and respected member of this community.