Hear, hear!
This has happened many times with @hobbit and shrdlu in the past. What's more strange is how shrdlubcoyld have left the community months ago yet still retain and even gain reputation points. This anomaly has been discussed in various other threads that I'm too lazy & tired to dig up now.
It all that clean living she does. I miss her quick wit. She has many other irons in the fire that keep her busy. Perhaps one day a new incarnation will reappear, but for now, only her ghost remains.
I miss her on here too.
Wish I had saved that flounder so I could THWACK the OP upside the head with it.
[Edit]: Given the joined date and quone color, I'm assuming the OP knew better and was trying to be funny.
I think that it may have just been a glitch since now she only has 99.99% again.
@perkalicious11 Maybe whenever she thinks about deals.woot, she gains reputation?
@armagedon: no it happens about once a week her reputation goes up to 100% again. she has even passed me.
@armagedon: @hobbit is right, all of our reps (well maybe not @hobbit's) change a little bit each day, even hour to hour. just depends when you look.
[edit] hey check it out, Perkalicious11 is #11 at the moment. Look quickly before I move! hehehe
@perkalicious11: I was too slow you are down to 12 now. ;(
@armagedon: It's been mentioned in one of these threads that anytime a person is mentioned by username, ( @armagedon ) the mentioned person will gain rep. I assume there are other similar things that one will gain rep for, for example, if I were to comment in a thread started by @shrdlu she'd prob gain rep as well. But I don't think it's random. Maybe she even has a fan club who go around searching for ways to up her rep. Who knows?
@moldyearwax: they fixed the mention bit. but shawnmiller mentions in wootvan's thread on the fresh page something interesting. You should go read it.
While the reputation algorithm works in mysterious ways and @mentioning users COULD raise their rep, I'm not really feeling that one. I think a bit of it is the changing scores of staff accounts that are factored in when calculating percentiles but that do not appear on the leaderboard, the odd person voting for @shrdlu's deals/questions/comments, and @hobbit's raw reputation score dropping (as if by posting a deal/question/comment that doesn't immediately gain votes), lowering the average and raising percentile scores.
edit: @hobbit: They fixed the @mention bit? You mean mentioning users really raised their scores? Did they say that publicly? It's not that I don't believe you; I'm just in disbelief.
@chris12345: actually myself and another member discovered it and I tested it one sunday by mentioning folks, i think you were even one of them. I mentioned them by name and watched their reputation go up a few thousandth of a percentage points, it was enough to move @perkalicious11 back into 15th place even. But it seems that they fixed the mention portion of the algorithim.
@chris12345: (and others) I can't stand this any more. Sure, every once in a while, I look around (but don't log in). I even logged in long enough to buy patriotic monkeys, but you folks are all making me crazy.
Until @hobbit spilled the beans, mentioning someone with an @ in front of their name would add to their reputation, yes. This stopped within hours of her mentioning it (as it should have, since gaming the system is not something that the folks who run the place really want to help with). Yes, it made a difference in past, and no, it doesn't now.
Why am I still on the leaderboard, and why do I keep going back to 100%? This is actually an easy answer. When someone posts a controversial topic, or deal, many people without prior reputation suddenly feel the need to express their opinion, no matter how pointless, moronic, or repetitive.
This thins the pool of Reputation, and causes those who are high to be higher. Simple.
@shrdlu: Mary, Mary, how does your garden grow?
Welcome back! We've missed you terribly. But how do we know you're not just some AI sent to toy with us?
While we have your attention: you've noticed that the order of things has deteriorated since you holstered that flounder and went riding off into the west. Might you anoint a successor? @hobbit has probably earned it, but she isn't curmudgeonly enough (though her patience is finally wearing thin). Maybe @lavikinga? Though in her case, a nice Norwegian Salmon might be more appropriate.
@shrdlu, I missed you. Will you be staying long? Please?
@heymo: I'll give you a salmon smack just for suggesting that the Flounder could EVER have a successor.
@shrdlu: Wow, nice explanation.
Stay.
@lavikinga: Gravlaks me up and throw away the key!
@heymo: There is no anointing necessary. Hobbit achieved the top position long before I walked away. I haven't really returned, other than this brief pause. I do look now and then, as I'd said, but really, it just isn't that much fun. I'm retired. If I'm going to work, I expect to get paid, and my rates are not favorable.
On the other hand, you all have my attention for a while, this afternoon, since I cleverly infected one of my machines with a virus, and I'm watching with a certain sick fascination as the virus checker grinds through the files. I knew I was toast the second I clicked on a link, and I'll need to backtrack through the history on that browser to see precisely where it was. I don't think it was here; I'm almost positive it was not.
Haiku
The Turing test passed,
Welcome back our friend @shrdlu.
The garden will wait.
@hobbit has always played a leadership role, at least as long as I've been around. But she's always been a good cop sort of leader. And every once in a while, someone around here needs a good smack upside the head. Putting someone in their place gently, yet firmly, and with good enough humor that they aren't offended-- that's a [different] skill. Miss you.
@heymo: Garden? Hah! Downloader. The bad thing about running a virus checker on this machine is that I had live viruses in an archive, so it took FOUR hours to run, helpfully cleaning out all my old pets. sniff No more girlfriend. No more ILoveYou. Netbus? Gone. Back Orifice? History.
Of course, they're on a backup CD, and when will I ever need them again, seriously?
@shrdlu: One assumes you'll never need them from your archive. They're so old and so outdated as to be only useful for the occasional history lesson. And even then, you'd need a historically old OS in order to show off their havoc, as everything's been patched a zillion times since their initial release.
Now if you had the source... well... that'd be different. Don't delete the source. That's far more valuable for a history lesson than the binary code.
@eneref: Well, of COURSE, I have the source. That's the whole point, isn't it? Actually girlfriend can still get you, and so can ILoveYou. Netbus? Pretty doubtful.
@shrdlu: Hello! I missed you as well! I hope you've been doing wonderfully and living life to the fullest!
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