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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?

Sorry, I became so excited on seeing sundialsvc4 breathing down LanX's neck on your top 50 list that I totally missed the point that you and LanX were making, namely that there are a number of non-active/low-posting monks (FunkyMonk, cguevara, and uksza, for example) who appear to be steadily gaining XP by voting regularly, but without ever posting anything.

I can only see two logical explanations for that:

  1. They are turning up regularly to read and enjoy our many excellent and entertaining PM nodes and voting on them.
  2. They are using some sort of (illegal) votebot.

I hope it's the former. At least, I don't see any worthwhile (or financial) gain from deploying a votebot.

I suspect only the gods could answer this question but -- given that "XP is just a game" -- doubt they would spend any time on an investigation. I'm sure they have more important tasks to fill their limited time. Note that very little time was spent investigating the much more serious crime of the bizarre hacking and vandalisation of brian d foy's account and XP back in 2010.

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Re^16: "" but true
by LanX (Saint) on May 17, 2021 at 01:22 UTC
    > They are using some sort of (illegal) votebot.

    There is no reason to believe this:

    >25% of cast votes result in XP.

    It's not difficult to see how this accumulates in thousands of XPs over the years.

    And I find it disturbing that monks who turn up regularly to read and cast votes are doubted.

    Just because they don't fit into some simplistic model to rank postings, it must be their fault?

    edit

    > "XP is just a game"

    exactly!

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

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