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.

In reply to Re^15: "" but true by eyepopslikeamosquito
in thread "" but true by Chuma

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