"again" what? I called you neither pompous nor an ass. I simply pointed out that you are among the last people who should be harassing Bod or anyone over the quality of their posts.

$ perl xpe.pl --sort_by posts --recent 2 --min_posts 1000 --no_adjust 
+--order desc

+---------------------------------------------------------------------
+-----------------+
| Pos | St. | Monk name    |  XP  |     Level      |  Age  | XP/Age | 
+Posts | XP/Posts |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------
+-----------------+
|    1    43 FunkyMonk      35,059  Chancellor (21)   5,136   7.9003  
+ 1,024   34.2373 |
|    2    21 Athanasius     50,601  Archbishop (23)   3,301  17.7395  
+ 1,964   25.7643 |
|    3    32 eyepopslikeam  42,749      Bishop (22)   6,901   7.1690  
+ 1,716   24.9120 |
|    4    51 talexb         29,602       Canon (20)   7,094   4.8296  
+ 2,172   13.6289 |
|    5    59 afoken         27,178       Canon (20)   4,459   7.0544  
+ 2,046   13.2835 |
|    6    22 syphilis       48,484      Bishop (22)   5,595  10.0286  
+ 3,756   12.9084 |
|    7    36 hippo          38,426  Chancellor (21)   3,756  11.8401  
+ 3,026   12.6986 |
|    8    27 kcott          46,190      Bishop (22)   3,888  13.7502  
+ 3,667   12.5961 |
|    9    28 haukex         46,115      Bishop (22)   4,070  13.1128  
+ 3,666   12.5791 |
|   10    70 johngg         24,731       Canon (20)   6,050   4.7308  
+ 1,978   12.5030 |
|   11    25 toolic         46,810      Bishop (22)   5,079  10.6666  
+ 3,776   12.3967 |
|   12     3 Corion        154,211        Pope (28)   7,732  23.0830  
+12,597   12.2419 |
|   13    10 davido         64,018    Cardinal (24)   6,493  11.4114  
+ 5,264   12.1615 |
|   14    20 Your Mother    50,909  Archbishop (23)   6,616   8.9056  
+ 4,187   12.1588 |
|   15   106 derby          17,749       Abbot (19)   7,690   2.6713  
+ 1,474   12.0414 |
|   16   138 dave_the_m     13,551   Monsignor (18)   6,254   2.5075  
+ 1,128   12.0133 |
|   17    39 roboticus      37,565  Chancellor (21)   5,553   7.8291  
+ 3,256   11.5372 |
|   18   156 dsheroh        12,425   Monsignor (18)   6,952   2.0685  
+ 1,084   11.4622 |
|   19    83 Tux            22,180       Canon (20)   6,808   3.7706  
+ 1,951   11.3685 |
|   20     5 GrandFather    81,496       Saint (26)   5,828  16.1825  
+ 7,182   11.3473 |
|   21     7 merlyn         71,352        Sage (25)   7,689  10.7391  
+ 6,325   11.2809 |
|   22   166 BillKSmith     11,518       Prior (17)   3,358   3.9699  
+ 1,027   11.2152 |
|   23    89 1nickt         21,171       Abbot (19)   2,163  11.3252  
+ 1,974   10.7249 |
|   24    57 bart           27,565       Canon (20)   6,846   4.6600  
+ 2,645   10.4216 |
|   25   130 mr_mischief    14,283   Monsignor (18)   7,375   2.2415  
+ 1,383   10.3275 |
|   26    94 Discipulus     19,364       Abbot (19)   6,911   3.2427  
+ 1,876   10.3220 |
|   27    65 NetWallah      25,120       Canon (20)   6,968   4.1724  
+ 2,551    9.8471 |
|   28    13 chromatic      59,605  Archbishop (23)   7,813   8.8293  
+ 6,088    9.7906 |
|   29    38 Fletch         38,251  Chancellor (21)   7,395   5.9860  
+ 3,955    9.6716 |
|   30    96 kennethk       19,191       Abbot (19)   4,622   4.8056  
+ 2,014    9.5288 |
|   31    11 marto          62,294    Cardinal (24)   6,317  11.4134  
+ 6,584    9.4614 |
|   32    17 choroba        56,175  Archbishop (23)   4,061  16.0091  
+ 6,000    9.3625 |
|   33   170 bliako         11,185       Prior (17)   1,799   7.1948  
+ 1,228    9.1083 |
|   34    26 AnomalousMonk  46,480      Bishop (22)   5,015  10.7257  
+ 5,115    9.0870 |
|   35   110 poj            17,207       Abbot (19)   6,719   2.9639  
+ 1,939    8.8742 |
|   36   116 holli          16,273       Abbot (19)   6,642   2.8356  
+ 1,842    8.8344 |
|   37   112 karlgoethebie  16,794       Abbot (19)   3,116   6.2372  
+ 1,957    8.5815 |
|   38    82 salva          22,355       Canon (20)   5,880   4.4002  
+ 2,640    8.4678 |
|   39   132 jwkrahn        14,263   Monsignor (18)   5,524   2.9881  
+ 1,687    8.4547 |
|   40    69 stevieb        24,974       Canon (20)   4,287   6.7422  
+ 2,961    8.4343 |
|   41    53 jdporter       29,327       Canon (20)   6,925   4.9014  
+ 3,529    8.3103 |
|   42   143 hdb            13,426   Monsignor (18)   2,993   5.1912  
+ 1,640    8.1866 |
|   43    66 tobyink        25,085       Canon (20)   4,416   6.5746  
+ 3,136    7.9990 |
|   44    91 ambrus         20,709       Abbot (19)   6,436   3.7239  
+ 2,799    7.3987 |
|   45   219 QM              8,734      Parson (16)   6,441   1.5694  
+ 1,199    7.2844 |
|   46     8 LanX           68,266    Cardinal (24)   4,637  17.0380  
+10,111    6.7517 |
|   47     4 ikegami       136,760        Pope (28)   6,122  25.8542  
+20,831    6.5652 |
|   48    81 Marshall       22,938       Canon (20)   4,523   5.8692  
+ 3,557    6.4487 |
|   49   118 sundialsvc4    16,168       Abbot (19)   4,946   3.7828  
+ 4,667    3.4643 |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------
+-----------------+
[download]

46     8 LanX
47     4 ikegami
48    81 Marshall
49   118 sundialsvc4
[download]

LanX, I expect you're well-satisfied to make the top 50 ... and proud of being a full three spots ahead of your hero sundialsvc4.

Sorry, but any list of top 50 all time monks that has eyepopslikeamosquito in third place has no credibility. As if that were not enough, the inexplicable appearance of sundialsvc4 in the top 50 had me checking if the date of the post was early April.

I was further surprised by the non-appearance of PM legends Erudil and brian_d_foy. While Erudil only made 13 posts, they all garnered over 100 XP, their current node reps being: 793, 667, 415, 373, 320, 225, 211, 210, 205, 159, 144, 116, 104.

Two more pieces of PM arcana:

• The vandalism of brian_d_foy's account was a tragedy. Not sure how your script can adjust for this sort of thing.
• As pointed out by PM trailblazer chromatic, XP wasn't part of this site from the start ... which has probably unfairly denied Sainthood to the deserving pioneer Brazilian monk BBQ, our second international Perl Monk, joining on Dec 24 1999 at 00:09 UTC (just eleven hours before chromatic joined).

Hi,

Sorry, but any list of top 50 all time monks that has eyepopslikeamosquito in third place has no credibility.

The script run posted above deliberately excluded non-active monks and low-posting monks, to produce as close to accurate a picture as possible of those who are here and active now.

Here are the top 20 plus Lanx and eyepopslikeamosquito, without limit on posts or recent activity:

$ perl xpe.pl --sort_by posts --order desc --limit 20 --force eyepopsl
+ikeamosquito --force LanX

+---------------------------------------------------------------------
+-----------------+
| Pos | St. | Monk name    |  XP  |     Level      |  Age  | XP/Age | 
+Posts | XP/Posts |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------
+-----------------+
|    1   325 cguevara        6,243       Vicar (15)   5,222   0.8050  
+     5  726.4000 |
|    2    72 uksza          24,593       Canon (20)   6,099   4.0883  
+    45  478.7444 |
|    3    95 lepetitalbert  19,350       Abbot (19)   5,682   3.3623  
+    80  206.3625 |
|    4   176 SankoR         10,732       Prior (17)   5,810   1.5591  
+    39  200.6923 |
|    5   168 bojinlund      11,373       Prior (17)   3,639   3.0385  
+    48  199.0313 |
|    6   239 ablanke         8,048      Parson (16)   1,822   4.5319  
+    36  198.2500 |
|    7    44 roho           34,378  Chancellor (21)   7,054   5.0615  
+   180  171.3944 |
|    8    30 Perlbotics     44,268      Bishop (22)   5,005   9.6570  
+   449   93.0189 |
|    9   482 shriken         4,352      Priest (14)   6,217   0.2315  
+    15   82.9000 |
|   10    24 Gavin          47,608      Bishop (22)   5,548   9.3515  
+   626   71.6198 |
|   11   100 gryphon        18,353       Abbot (19)   7,592   2.2191  
+   221   65.8688 |
|   12    71 scorpio17      24,626       Canon (20)   5,202   4.8996  
+   339   64.9705 |
|   13    62 TStanley       25,760       Canon (20)   7,619   3.3343  
+   474   46.3091 |
|   14   457 jaredor         4,549      Priest (14)   4,591   0.5680  
+    51   44.1863 |
|   15    73 hsmyers        24,328       Canon (20)   7,402   3.2253  
+   526   39.2148 |
|   16   218 bibliophile     8,810      Parson (16)   6,968   0.8846  
+   142   37.5070 |
|   17   171 ajt            10,948       Prior (17)   7,177   1.1868  
+   202   36.4332 |
|   18   161 pme            12,231   Monsignor (18)   7,215   1.3832  
+   258   33.4244 |
|   19    43 FunkyMonk      35,063  Chancellor (21)   5,136   7.3217  
+ 1,024   31.7334 |
|   20   148 dvergin        12,918   Monsignor (18)   7,774   1.3445  
+   311   29.0386 |
|   27    32 eyepopslikeam  42,756      Bishop (22)   6,902   6.5909  
+ 1,718   22.8783 |
|  110     8 LanX           68,269    Cardinal (24)   4,637  16.4581  
+10,112    6.5220 |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------
+-----------------+
[download]

I'd be very interested to hear your theory on how such low-posting monks achieved such heights of XP and sainthood. Votebot? Login-bot?



The way forward always starts with a minimal test.

> and proud of being a full three spots ahead of your hero sundialsvc4.

Actually I was feeling bad for Ikegami.

On the other hand ...

> was further surprised by the non-appearance of PM legends ...

Look at the parameters, this was designed to show the author much higher than me.

But there is still a good side, I'm totally impressed by FunkyMonk.

He stopped posting 9 years ago, but steadily continued climbing the XPs.

This man is a voting machine. .. xD

Cheers Rolf
_{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery}

Sigh ... since many people tend to believe in such "science", here some background:
• Going into deeper discussions, like foolishly replying at level 13 (sic) destroys the XP/Post ratio.
• Coming late to the party too, since the voting average is deflating over the years°

Here some "alternative" facts: ²

• Your top 5% posts (98) range between 56 and 31
• Bod's top 5% posts (23) range between 28 and 15
• My top 5% posts (506) range between 70 and 28

Let's put this into relation with your alleged "top-monk" (which I respect nevertheless)

• FunkyMonk's top 5% posts (54) range between 108 and 38 ³

But well ... this doesn't prove that I'm not saying foolish things from time to time ...

So please show me those threads where I stated anything like ...

> "That really shouldn't be allowed"

... without giving plenty of evidence, links and even example code?

I think I also tend to reply to every new argument without resorting to a cheap "you know I'm kidding"

According to your "statistic" this should be an easy game ...

Cheers Rolf
_{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery}

°) eyepopslikeamosquito can tell you more about it. Ask yourself, how comes 30% of the top 20 saints haven't been here for years without loosing rank?

update

And one also gets XP for voting, which makes it even more complicated.

²) NB: this isn't adjusted to the deflation over the years, because that's not easily done. But it was always consensus that "XP is only a game" anyway.

³) he barely passed your 1000 posts minimum, because he has only 10% of my volume. But if you look at my 54th best post you'll see a reputation of 40 and his 506th only at 16.

For more How to Lie with Statistics

the voting average is deflating over the years
°) eyepopslikeamosquito can tell you more about it.

Thanks for the reminder! I'd totally forgotten to update my Best Nodes stats over time for a while. Just updated it now and see the current Best Nodes of the Year range is 40-57.

While a best node rep of 57 (for Announcing Perl 7) is outstanding, I see the next best node is only 47 ... so we are in danger of the Best Node of Year dropping below 50 for the first time ever! This is an emergency because Announcing Perl 7 expires next month, on June 24 2021.

Oh, and I see the lowest node at Best Nodes of the Year has never dropped below 40 before, so the two lowest Best Nodes of the Year could also use an upvote or two. ;-)

I also keep a (scrappy) list of similar nodes at: Re: Perl Monks in numbers?