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Possible bug: Top commenters on the leaderboard

Just for fun, I decided to check out the leaderboard today, and noticed in the top commenters section, I didn't see any of the people that I expected to see. I decided to do a little investigating and clicked on the first user @stmiki to see what's s/he's commented on that's so popular. I was only able to find one comment posted and it only had one vote. This seems odd since you must have 10 comments to even be ranked, and @stmiki was rated to have 4.18 votes/comment.

by reemus
asked a year ago

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@stmiki's one comment appeard on page 11 of the thread. Here's a link so you don't have to do the searching that I did.

http://deals.woot.com/questions/details/3daaee4a-7ae9-43c5-84bd-4b7675bdada7/i-feel-stupid-but-i-just-didnt-see-the-voting-buttons-until-tonight?page=11&sort=oldest

reemus
a year ago

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It appears that they have problems today.
http://deals.woot.com/questions/details/4f9ae641-9b44-49d4-8897-cfc0987af685/where-were-the-deals?sort=oldest
Hopefully the index will be available later. For now probably many searches will not be accurate.

bsalusa
a year ago

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You know what's even stranger? I believe that top commenters refers ONLY to comments on Deals, and not on Questions, so it makes the leaderboard statistics more suspect. It also says minimum of ten comments, and we see that there is only one, at most. Hopefully someone in the know will show up and explain how this happened (because I'm now very curious).

[Edit] I'll bet anything that the user in question has commented on older #sponsored deals, and that it just isn't showing.

shrdlu
a year ago

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these are related:

http://deals.woot.com/questions/details/71dd0750-937d-4b12-becb-d7042d4d8f7b/what-is-going-on-with-the-added-deals-under-the-user-tab-bug#1

All in all, and to say the least, the speed of our data recovery process could use a little improvement... give it a bit.

josefresno
a year ago

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@josefresno: Hey, as long as you're paying attention...

How about calculating reputation with the following slight change: Don't add in the users with zero. In other words, keep your current algorithm, but use as divisor only those people with better than zero as a reputation, so that it would be more reflective of actual participation. Who knows, maybe it would speed it up, too.

shrdlu
a year ago

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@shrdlu: The system currently does throw out all the zero reps before calculating the percentage. However, the reputation calculation is really @shawnmiller's pet project... It is something that will get better as we refine the algorithm and more people become active on the site.

josefresno
a year ago

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@shrdlu: It does count voted comments on questions. I have watched mine slowly inch up over the past few weeks from .67 to over 1.3 right now. I generally only comment on questions so I feel safe saying this.

sgoman5674
a year ago

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@sgoman5674: Yeah, I think you are right. Still, the errors that are part of the cleanup will fix most all of this, as our friend, @josefresno, has suggested.

shrdlu
a year ago

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