Is there something significant about the date 2010-03-16 that explains why SioB stopped updating my total on that day?

With the rise and rise of 'Social' network sites: 'Computers are making people easier to use everyday'
Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
"Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". I knew I was on the right track :)
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Re: The significance of 2010-03-16?
by Your Mother (Archbishop) on May 18, 2016 at 20:22 UTC

    You stats appear to match your profile… Saints in our Book. And say you were here 8 seconds ago. What exactly is wrong with them?

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      See the total at the bottom of http://perlmonks.com/?showspoiler=1163351-1;node_id=1163351.

      Further, this is a snip from a script that runs through the data from my stats page in date order totaling the scores and displaying them day by day. According to that, I reached my current listed total, 161809, by the 17th March 2010, and have to date accumulated 277470:

      C:\test>Perlmonks.postsByDate.pl | more
2002-06-04:[  0] 0
2002-06-05:[ 23] 23
2002-06-06:[ 77] 100
...
2010-03-16:[106] 161736  <<<<<<<<<
2010-03-17:[161] 161897  <<<<<<<<< 161809 occurred here
2010-03-18:[ 32] 161929
...
2010-04-14:[204] 165092
-- More  --
...
2016-05-16:[106] 277437
2016-05-17:[ 22] 277459
2016-05-18:[ 11] 277470
low:-55 2005-09-03 high:373 2007-05-09

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      It doesn't bother me -- hell, its taken me 6 years to even notice -- but I just wondered why?

      I also wonder which other site stats are wrong?

      With the rise and rise of 'Social' network sites: 'Computers are making people easier to use everyday'
      Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
      "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". I knew I was on the right track :)
      In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.
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        Perhaps you should read some Monastery FAQs (or even recent threads in this very section) if you believe that (a user's) "Experience" is equal to "sum of Reputation over all nodes" (by that user). Or is my guess as to what your code is doing incorrect?

        - tye        

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        Be not dismayed! You have accumulated XP faster than anyone else and you're the top dog where it counts! 

        [500]&#9658; perl XP_efficiency.pl -s age -l 10 -r 1 -m 500 -o desc -f
+ BrowserUk -f ikegami
+---------------------------------------------------------------------
+-----------------+
| Pos | St. | Monk name    |  XP  |     Level      |  Age  | XP/Age | 
+Posts | XP/Posts |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------
+-----------------+
|    1     2 BrowserUk     161,811        Pope (28)   5,097  36.1627  
+22,676    7.0234 |
|    2     3 ikegami       128,087        Pope (28)   4,299  33.9025  
+19,773    6.3692 |
|    3     4 Corion        126,232        Pope (28)   5,909  24.1447  
+10,471   11.7732 |
|    4     8 moritz         65,845    Cardinal (24)   3,285  22.6170  
+ 6,420   10.0004 |
|    5    46 Athanasius     27,462       Canon (20)   1,478  20.9184  
+ 1,571   17.0102 |
|    6     5 GrandFather    73,558        Sage (25)   4,005  20.6742  
+ 6,639   10.7781 |
|    7    37 choroba        31,840  Chancellor (21)   2,238  15.8848  
+ 3,961    7.7559 |
|    8   424 1nickt          4,603      Priest (14)     340  15.0575  
+   634    6.9921 |
|    9    19 toolic         43,883      Bishop (22)   3,256  15.0187  
+ 3,647   11.5862 |
|   10    99 Laurent_R      16,585       Abbot (19)   1,347  13.6652  
+ 2,211    7.1965 |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------
+-----------------+

[501]&#9658; perl XP_efficiency.pl -s posts -l 10 -r 1 -m 500 -o desc 
+-f BrowserUk -f ikegami
+---------------------------------------------------------------------
+-----------------+
| Pos | St. | Monk name    |  XP  |     Level      |  Age  | XP/Age | 
+Posts | XP/Posts |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------
+-----------------+
|    1    17 Old_Gray_Bear  47,530      Bishop (22)   4,632  11.2955  
+   607   74.4876 |
|    2    31 Gavin          33,243  Chancellor (21)   3,725   9.7490  
+   600   52.3008 |
|    3    44 borisz         27,946       Canon (20)   4,882   6.0461  
+   913   27.9354 |
|    4    57 FunkyMonk      25,075       Canon (20)   3,313   8.1805  
+ 1,024   22.8696 |
|    5    83 Happy-the-mon  18,570       Abbot (19)   5,204   3.5514  
+   709   22.5219 |
|    6    39 eyepopslikeam  30,907  Chancellor (21)   5,078   6.4648  
+ 1,314   21.5890 |
|    7   128 vinoth.ree     12,865   Monsignor (18)   2,690   4.9555  
+   567   20.3175 |
|    8   108 atcroft        15,511   Monsignor (18)   5,518   2.6744  
+   650   19.6185 |
|    9     9 Ovid           60,582    Cardinal (24)   5,823  11.4612  
+ 3,001   19.2171 |
|   10   144 flexvault      11,854       Prior (17)   2,697   4.5078  
+   601   17.4800 |
|   66     2 BrowserUk     161,811        Pope (28)   5,097  36.1627  
+22,676    7.0234 |
|   71     3 ikegami       128,087        Pope (28)   4,299  33.9025  
+19,773    6.3692 |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------
+-----------------+

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Re: The significance of 2010-03-16?
by Anonymous Monk on May 19, 2016 at 02:19 UTC

    Is there a simple but thorough explanation of how you reached that conclusion?

    Voting/Experience System talks about a weekly $NORM and other odds ... basically anybody voting on node older than 4 weeks doesn't gain you any XP,

    so without knowing the $NORM for each week, the amount of voters for each week...

    So math something? I dunno

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      How dare you question the monk with the most experience points and the fastest rate of accumulation when he says he is being cheated!?!
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        he says he is being cheated!?!

        Where? When?

        (Hint:'devalued' ne 'cheated'. eg. You devalue this place by posting anonymously; but its not cheating. )

        With the rise and rise of 'Social' network sites: 'Computers are making people easier to use everyday'
        Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
        "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". I knew I was on the right track :)
        In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.
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      I love to pull apart statistics. There's a wonderful phrase that turns up CFO reports and national Treasury stats all the time:

      ... the rate of share decline/recession is falling.

      If you hear it said or read it quickly without thinking about it, it sounds like good news. It sounds like something is getting better.

      What it really means is, things are getting worse more slowly. But still getting worse.

      Take a magic number calculated by an undisclosed formula; wrap it in a few plausible but nonsensical pseudo-axioms, and multiply it by some random percentage of chance; what do you call the results?

      I call it: something that no one can check or verify or challenge. I'd prefer no stats to bad ones.

      With the rise and rise of 'Social' network sites: 'Computers are making people easier to use everyday'
      Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
      "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". I knew I was on the right track :)
      In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.
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        Yes, now I see the similarity between SoB amd TIOBE: Both rankings that could be informative but are based on obscure measurements and therefore saying nothing.

        I had misunderstood your OP as if you were complaining that your XP is not equal to the sum of votes collected by your posts. The latter would make for nice ranking, too :-)

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        Maybe I call it a silly game? Its about participation not node reputation...

        proposal: Maybe the homenode should list a Total node reputation: 10:-1/+11 that is different from XP?

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        I call it: something that no one can check or verify or challenge. I'd prefer no stats to bad ones.
        Then close your eyes, #1. What could possibly more revolting than the winner bitching about not winning enough? #Sportsmanship
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Re: The significance of 2010-03-16?
by talexb (Chancellor) on May 20, 2016 at 21:08 UTC

    My number on SioB matches the number on my home node. Whatever. I've written a few useful posts and voted on a few nodes. I've also had my bacon saved a couple of times from stuff that I've read. And I've been entertained many, many times. Some of the stuff on people's home nodes is amazing.

    My Dad had stroke last week (he's recovering, thanks), and that sort of puts things into perspective. XP is just a number. Who cares.

    PS Have a nice weekend, everyone. :)

    Alex / talexb / Toronto

    Thanks PJ. We owe you so much. Groklaw -- RIP -- 2003 to 2013.

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Re: The significance of 2010-03-16?
by GotToBTru (Prior) on May 19, 2016 at 14:19 UTC

    I get 8695 as the sum of my post values. My XP is 8158, which is about a 6% difference. It seems the discrepancy widens with time and post volume.

    But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8 (NASB)
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Re: The significance of 2010-03-16?
by jdporter (Paladin) on May 19, 2016 at 20:26 UTC
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