G'day eyepopslikeamosquito,

When logging back in after several hours since this morning, I was quite astonished to see that.

I thought maybe a bit might have been flipped, but you'd need to flip at least seven bits to get from 8 to 1008; potentially more if it was less than 8 before the 1000 was added. 

$ perl -E 'say sprintf "%010b", $_ for 8, 1008'
0000001000
1111110000

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I also wondered, with somewhat of a grin, if one of the gods had been hitting the nectar a little too vigorously, thought my post was utterly hilarious, and added 1000 votes as a birthday present. :-)

It certainly looks like a 1000 was added in one hit; as opposed to 1000 monks separately upvoting it. When I logged back in, I saw "You gained 6 experience points."; which seemed a reasonable amount for the various posts I'd recently made. Anyway, those extra 1000 Rep points did not appear to give me any extra XP.

It also knocked a genuine high-Rep node of mine off the top 20 list: "Emoji Progress Spinners" (current Rep 39).

If someone can find out what the problem was and remove the extra 1000 Rep, that's fine with me.

Update: I changed the wording slightly regarding the number of bits needing to be flipped. Also note that the 1008 (to which I've referred) was the current Rep shown in the top 20 of the year at the time of writing. Obviously, that number is not static.

— Ken

In reply to Re: The Highest Rated Node of All Time by kcott
in thread The Highest Rated Node of All Time by eyepopslikeamosquito

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