Thanks, ww. I was lazy and didn't reread the Voting/Experience System explanation.

Script changed to only deduct 0.5 XP per day as a monk. This makes a meaningful difference in score to certain Monks who were lurkers for a long time and later became active posters -- but that doesn't guarantee an upward change in ranking since everyone else also benefits from the change.

Before: 

+---------------------------------------------------------------------
+-----------------+
| Pos | St. | Monk name    |  XP  |     Level      |  Age  | XP/Age | 
+Posts | XP/Posts |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------
+-----------------+
|  134   nnn CertainMonk     nnnnn       Vicar (15)   4,963   0.3876  
+   791    2.1024 |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------
+-----------------+

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After: 
+---------------------------------------------------------------------
+-----------------+
| Pos | St. | Monk name    |  XP  |     Level      |  Age  | XP/Age | 
+Posts | XP/Posts |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------
+-----------------+
|  139   nnn CertainMonk     nnnnn       Vicar (15)   4,963   0.9662  
+   791    5.2396 |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------
+-----------------+

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The way forward always starts with a minimal test.

In reply to Re^2: Ranking the Saints by XP Efficiency by 1nickt
in thread Ranking the Saints by XP Efficiency by 1nickt

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