Hmm ... is it possible to $NORM-alize the list somewhat? I've not been curious enough to figure out whether there's a history of $NORM outside of jcwren's stats, but there's yer basis for a function; a node that got 50 back in the early days could possibly show up on the list, that way.

I could swear this discussion's been had before, but I was again too lazy (bad way) to do a search on it beforehand.

UPDATE props to kudra, who pointed out that previous discussion (one I even took part in), wherein she suggested normalizing the reps for the 'best of all time' list. No wonder I stole it and presented it as my own =)

perl -e 'print "How sweet does a rose smell? "; chomp ($n = <STDIN>); 
+$rose = "smells sweet to degree $n"; *other_name = *rose; print "$oth
+er_name\n"'
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