suggestions about whom to exclude or modify, as inactive users who get the overwhelming majority of their points via voting are not really representative of the ratio

I added fields in "Ranking the Saints by XP Efficiency" to require having visited the site in the most recent N weeks, and having made a minimum number of posts. Did not add a filter to require having posted in the last N weeks, which would have improved the quality of the rankings even more, but I think it could be done. Also my script can be configured to deduct 0.5 XP per day in an attempt to get closer to the XP gained from posting rather than longevity.


The way forward always starts with a minimal test.

In reply to Re^3: Querying Saints in our Book (2) by 1nickt
in thread Querying Saints in our Book (2) by chacham

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