MVA = Most Valuable Author - The Definitive Mathmatical Value of Ubersite's Authors (3680 hits)
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Submitted by Rawrg (View user info) at 2005-03-05 22:45:32 EST
Everyone on Ubersite is familiar with the MVA. The MVA will always exist, and so it should rightfully exist! Most of the people on the MVA have worked long and hard to get there, posting tirelessly. Some are hitwhores or they had a stroke of genius and made it to Bored At Work, others simply have a cult-like following because of their charisma and knowledge of what Ubersite truly is: The Mob, and still others are just that good and post often enough that they made it to the MVA on sheer talent.
Today though, I strike a blow for the underground Uber Elite and have constructed a new MVA: The Most Valuable Author list. This list factors in heavily the Average Rating of a user, his ratio of reviews to hits and reviews to posts and combines them proportionally to come up with a numerical value that is equivalent to their Uber worth.
SKIP OVER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW THE MATH OF THINGS
The formula is as follows:
(((Average Rating + 3) ^ 10) / 100000000) * ((Times Reviewed / Total Hits) * 100) * ((Times Reviewed / Total Posts) / 10)
The reasons for the divisions by multiples of tens are to make the number under 1000. The reason for adding 3 to the average rating is so that there aren't any negative integers in the formula. This would be relevant if the exponent of the Average Rating were odd because it would give it a negative value.
MATH OVER
I factored the times reviewed vs hits and posts to give favor to those more often reviewed rather than viewed. This eliminates a lot of traffic from Bored At Work and hitwhore titles that get picked up on google. Overall rating has a big impact and the best rated of the MVA are still on top, such as comicbookguy, Loren1, BLITZKREIG_BOB, Sideburns, etc...
I factored in 55 users, the MVA and approximately the top 30 rated users who have posted more than 10 times and have been active in the last month. Using this information, the following list was composed. I did not include UberMadness or LordOfThePost as they were Uber-Specific posters.
THE DEFINITIVE LIST
1 Badlands 133.19
2 thecaes 98.58
3 Circe 90.66
4 Snark 87.51
5 FilthyAssistant 86.17
6 Bickerstaff 85.76
7 comicbookguy 81.68
8 Kre8rix 74.82
9 Pentameter 72.61
10 Spam 66.91
11 drankallmywine 64.84
12 Loren1 62.49
13 DonkeyOnTheEdge 60.67
14 BLITZKREIG_BOB 58.50
15 Impassive-Digressive 52.16
16 Saxon 46.48
17 Sideburns 42.75
18 TimeCop 41.52
19 stardamage 38.58
20 AshK 34.08
21 Scott_James 31.16
22 NerfHerder 30.41
23 Smurfs 29.79
24 Rawrg 29.16
25 Kristen 28.30
26 tinactin 26.66
27 Bigmike 23.94
28 Pallic_Cymbals 21.54
29 WillZone 19.63
30 loki 19.58
31 maiorano84 18.39
32 BuckeyesTHEGAME 18.08
33 jimbo 17.83
34 JMG114 17.82
35 Coyote 16.93
36 jack11058 16.43
37 youaresoghey 16.26
38 Method 11.80
39 hidden101 10.82
40 antluvdog 9.02
41 gibberish 8.96
42 reallybored 8.32
43 Razor 7.60
44 iddqd 7.35
45 MickGinny 5.18
46 professorfuckface 4.88
47 Jonukah 3.92
48 Tom 3.18
49 drink_DDT 3.14
50 Bart 1.69
51 ryandonovan 1.09
52 ChristPuncher 0.64
53 JP 0.40
54 tuesdaydelay 0.22
If you'll notice, overall rating factors very heavily and the people who post more often but with less quality material fall to the bottom, however their post/review counts are still factored in. Otherwise, Bickerstaff would be at the very top with a rating of 1.93
I created this formula because there are a lot of unsung authors out there that don't get the credit that they deserve. I'm not complaining or saying that this should be a menu on Ubersite. I'm just putting their names out there, the top 40 of this list are the true cream of the crop and Ubersite's most popular and well liked authors. I hope that this gives them the motivation to keep posting, because without them, all Ubersite would be is SPT, porn and shitty one-liners.
This list can be expanded, but it's a lot of trouble converting the data into excel. To anyone who wasn't listed, I apologize. As you can see, some of the MVA would be at the bottom of the list, for obvious reasons. This is about as close as I can get with math to guage something so subjective.
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I know, I know, -2 DIE!
User Reviews
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2005-03-13 13:28:54 EST (#)
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Submitted by sg11588 (user info) at 2005-03-10 12:02:00 (#)
Ranking: 1
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Submitted by Envenom (user info) at 2005-03-08 12:52:51 (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2005-03-08 11:07:45 (#)
Ranking: 0
This response is for Bart...
There is a flaw in the stat-keeping for the site. Whenever you try to post with a picture file that is incorrectly labeled, i.e. with an apostrophe etc., even if the post was unsuccessful, the attempt registers as a post anyway in your user statistics.
If you count my posts, I actually have 109 posts, not 114.
Inaccurate stat-keeping is not the only reason this formula is flawed. There is just no way to account for all the factors that have gone into making our individual stats what they are.
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Well yes, but this is something most everyone encounters so it's a wash
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Yea, everyone encounters this, but my rating went down like, .5 because I had about 10 posts trying to post the same picture.
I guess that's my fault though...I spelled "governor" wrong each of those 10 times too...
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NO NO NO....... I should have been more specific. This happened to me during UBERMADNESS. I'm not talking about actual repeat posts that show up in your user info.
In other words, if you count my posts in my user info, you'll come up with less that it says I have... So, those are posts that are being counted, but I cannot even register hits OR ratings from. This is the equivalent of having about 5 posts with zero rating and no hits on your permanent record you can do nothing about.
I doubt it will ever be fixed, but I'm not that concerned about it.
Submitted by Socialist_Joe (user info) at 2005-03-13 13:07:51 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
zwei für fünf aller Tag
Submitted by Sherman (user info) at 2005-03-13 12:59:30 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Meh...
Submitted by Burn (user info) at 2005-03-11 05:15:25 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
1.72 meh, thats good enough for me. I probably got it wrong tho.
Submitted by FatTony (user info) at 2005-03-11 00:34:04 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Speaking ov MVA, I should make the list by tomorrow afternoon. I only need 100 hits.
Hmmmm. To hot whore or not to hit whore? Fuck it, I'll let the hits come naturally.
Submitted by Rawrg (user info) at 2005-03-10 13:09:21 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
to the 13th power, not the 10th, my error.
Submitted by sg11588 (user info) at 2005-03-10 12:06:33 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Now, either I did this completely wrong, or I am an incredibly shitty poster.
.0241?
Submitted by sg11588 (user info) at 2005-03-10 12:02:00 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
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Submitted by Envenom (user info) at 2005-03-08 12:52:51 (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2005-03-08 11:07:45 (#)
Ranking: 0
This response is for Bart...
There is a flaw in the stat-keeping for the site. Whenever you try to post with a picture file that is incorrectly labeled, i.e. with an apostrophe etc., even if the post was unsuccessful, the attempt registers as a post anyway in your user statistics.
If you count my posts, I actually have 109 posts, not 114.
Inaccurate stat-keeping is not the only reason this formula is flawed. There is just no way to account for all the factors that have gone into making our individual stats what they are.
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Well yes, but this is something most everyone encounters so it's a wash
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Yea, everyone encounters this, but my rating went down like, .5 because I had about 10 posts trying to post the same picture.
I guess that's my fault though...I spelled "governor" wrong each of those 10 times too...
Submitted by NetProphet (user info) at 2005-03-10 10:55:54 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Come to think of it, I'm in favor of using this algorithm for the MVA list. I mean, damn. ME, on a LIST? That's like... never happened.
No, not even on the MRR.
Submitted by NetProphet (user info) at 2005-03-10 10:54:29 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Sorry, BigMike... I'm taking your title as the 27th best author on Ubersite with my score of 26.37.
You have nearly twelve times the hits I do, and I'm "retired".
It's a bitch, isn't it?
Submitted by Jocko_Johnson (user info) at 2005-03-10 04:01:54 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
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Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2005-03-08 11:07:45 (#)
Ranking: 0
This response is for Bart...
If you count my posts, I actually have 109 posts, not 114.
Inaccurate stat-keeping is not the only reason this formula is flawed. There is just no way to account for all the factors that have gone into making our individual stats what they are.
Shut the fuck up.
Submitted by mrwolf (user info) at 2005-03-10 03:23:38 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I like Johns list the best cause I'm right near the top and yet don't even appear on the original list!
Submitted by Envenom (user info) at 2005-03-09 20:55:03 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by bart (user info) at 2005-03-09 20:08:17 (#)
Ranking: 0
Yeah, "Best Ever" is an old name that I put in a long time ago. I've never changed it even though in time I have come to disagree with the term.
A more accurate name would be something like "Highest Rated Ever".
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Speaking of changes, would it be a major ordeal to create an "oldest" tab under user info to go along with the "older" and "newer" tabs that currently exist? That way you could easily jump to the user's oldest message without have to scroll through page by page. Not a big deal for people who don't have many messages, but for those who have been here a while it can be a bit of a headache.
Thx
Submitted by YELLOW-MAN (user info) at 2005-03-09 20:17:18 EST (#)
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Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2005-03-09 20:16:22 EST (#)
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When you gonna do something for the losers like me who keep this dump interesting...like a "Lowest Rated Ever" column?
After all I do for you, is it too much to expect a little gratitude in return, Captain Numbnuts?
Submitted by bart (user info) at 2005-03-09 20:08:17 EST (#)
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Yeah, "Best Ever" is an old name that I put in a long time ago. I've never changed it even though in time I have come to disagree with the term.
A more accurate name would be something like "Highest Rated Ever".
Submitted by rad1101 (user info) at 2005-03-09 02:06:51 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
http://www.ubersite.com/cgi-bin/users.cgi
Submitted by shandythedog (user info) at 2005-03-08 21:01:27 EST (#)
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where is that page where you can view all users by number of hits, by ratings, by times reviewed, etc etc??
Submitted by tuesdaydelay (user info) at 2005-03-08 17:42:36 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Fifty four? What a shitty list.
Submitted by Envenom (user info) at 2005-03-08 12:52:51 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2005-03-08 11:07:45 (#)
Ranking: 0
This response is for Bart...
There is a flaw in the stat-keeping for the site. Whenever you try to post with a picture file that is incorrectly labeled, i.e. with an apostrophe etc., even if the post was unsuccessful, the attempt registers as a post anyway in your user statistics.
If you count my posts, I actually have 109 posts, not 114.
Inaccurate stat-keeping is not the only reason this formula is flawed. There is just no way to account for all the factors that have gone into making our individual stats what they are.
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Well yes, but this is something most everyone encounters so it's a wash
Submitted by Envenom (user info) at 2005-03-08 12:34:07 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Well sir bart, you state that posts like Tom's are valuable to the site because of the traffic they create, then counter that with comments such as...
In my opinion, it's extremely important that the lists on the left side are not really presented with any sense of "Best" or anything subjective like that. They literally are nothing more than "Most".
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The whole MVA thing is a bit of a catch 22. The fact that these users are posted on the front page perpetuates this whole scenario, and pretty much ensures that the MVA will always be MVA unless they just suddenly stop posting. The growth of this site pretty much ensures that. Six months ago my stats would have put me on the MVA, but due to growth the MVA's hits have more than doubled. I long ago came to the conclusion that it's pretty much impossible to make the MVA without either a) making B@W at least once if not multiple times, or b) writing stuff that is either blatant hitwhoring a la "naked olson twins" or writing stuff deliberately to get a rise out of people.
Submitted by Snark (user info) at 2005-03-08 11:32:50 EST (#)
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Submitted by bart (user info) at 2005-03-08 04:15:07 (#)
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No, I'm right.
To try to label something as "Best" is to impose some sort of governing statistic on a creative process. While there are comments and ratings, the structure of the site is generally rooted in facts and not on subjectivity. Things don't get filtered out because someone doesn't like them. The site does not care about your sex, religion, or political preference.
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Yet you still have a "Best Ever" category.
Submitted by JohnGalt (user info) at 2005-03-08 11:25:03 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by bart (user info) at 2005-03-08 04:15:07 (#)
Ranking: 0
Blah blah blah, can't we all just get along?
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Damn it! NO! I need recognition for being better than everyone else! Everyone, look at ME, MEEEEEEE. Now, tell me how awesome I am. Say it you lousy fuckers before I start shooting!
Thanks for the file, by the way. And umm, you win for starting your argument with "No, I'm right."
Submitted by electrictoothsyndrome (user info) at 2005-03-08 11:07:45 EST (#)
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This response is for Bart...
There is a flaw in the stat-keeping for the site. Whenever you try to post with a picture file that is incorrectly labeled, i.e. with an apostrophe etc., even if the post was unsuccessful, the attempt registers as a post anyway in your user statistics.
If you count my posts, I actually have 109 posts, not 114.
Inaccurate stat-keeping is not the only reason this formula is flawed. There is just no way to account for all the factors that have gone into making our individual stats what they are.
Submitted by phuzzygish (user info) at 2005-03-08 05:18:56 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Eh, 753 out of 5774 ain't bad, I spose.
Submitted by Siren (user info) at 2005-03-08 04:50:59 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Well, this just goes to show how misunderstood I am. Just like the bee girl... just like the bee girl...
Submitted by Spam (user info) at 2005-03-08 04:46:53 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
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Submitted by bart (user info) at 2005-03-08 04:15:07 (#)
Ranking: 0
No, I'm right.
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I Disagree.
A large portion of the shit on this site could be removed simply by not having an MVA. There's a wealth of people who, for some reason, think that getting on the MVA will enrich their lives in some way. These people are posting useless shit almost daily in order to obtain their goals - Look at IHAKF, he contributed next to nothing to this site other than pissing everybody off and if he hadn't been banned, he'd currently be sitting in the upper end of the MVA right now. That's Bullshit.
I've no objection the occasional shit post, but when somebody posts nothing other than a shitload of links to what appeared to be a kiddy porn site (as happened recently), it's not contributing anything. Sure there are gaps in the system suggested and probably a few ways around it, but I doubt very much that I could top it by posting nothing other than porn and blank posts titled "my six yr old sister gets her first facial".
I don't think that rawrg is saying that this system should replace the MVA, just that the MVA is flawed and that this is another way of looking at it.
Submitted by bart (user info) at 2005-03-08 04:15:07 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
No, I'm right.
In my opinion, it's extremely important that the lists on the left side are not really presented with any sense of "Best" or anything subjective like that. They literally are nothing more than "Most". "Most Recently Reviewed" is a factual statement that basically says "These are the last ten things reviewed". You can't argue with that and it doesn't involve any kind of moral or opinionated conclusion.
"Most Viewed Authors" is also just a fact. I have never stated or implied that it has anything to do with being good. There are plenty of people on this site that I think are better writers than I am. The list isn't about being good, it's about being viewed, hence the name "Most Viewed".
To try to label something as "Best" is to impose some sort of governing statistic on a creative process. While there are comments and ratings, the structure of the site is generally rooted in facts and not on subjectivity. Things don't get filtered out because someone doesn't like them. The site does not care about your sex, religion, or political preference.
If the site was designed to care about what was in each post, the material on the site would end up being skewed towards that designed target. For example, if I took Ubersite exactly as it is, didn't change a line of code, but modified the logo to say "Ubersite - The Future Of Cars" with a little picture of a car on it, lo and behold people would suddenly start talking about cars. It's magic.
Since there is no topic presented to anyone, people talk about what is most natural - themselves.
Blah blah blah, can't we all just get along?
Here's a tab delimited file: http://www.ubersite.com/everyone.txt
Submitted by Spam (user info) at 2005-03-08 03:46:45 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by FilthyAssistant (user info) at 2005-03-06 14:36:06 (#)
Ranking: 0
Heheheh. If anyone here has not had the pleasure of rattling a stick along the bars of Mickginny's cage, I thoroughly recommend it - literally hours of fun.
Do that whole bit where you type 'nothing' in capitals again MG...that gets me so fucking hot...
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This is the moment where I think I fell in love with Filthy.
Submitted by rad1101 (user info) at 2005-03-08 03:31:39 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
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Fuck you for making me feel inadequate.
Submitted by kai070169 (user info) at 2005-03-08 03:27:56 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
c'mon.
Submitted by Snark (user info) at 2005-03-08 03:17:23 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
The thing I like about Ubersite (that no set of numbers could ever measure) is the near Anarchy.
I like the fact that, on any given day, I can read a post that actually makes me think, and that's sandwiched between a pair of tits and a fart joke.
I like the fact that some posts make me laugh and some piss me off and some turn me right the fuck on.
I appreciate your efforts, and I think there is some merit to your formula, but the term "Most Valuable Author" isn't accurate.
This site would suck if it was full of a bunch of motherfuckers writing pretentious pulp like I do.
It rocks because of the myriad of talents here.
Granted I have done my share of bitching when the shit post tide is in, but with the exception of the obvious one liner posts, sometimes a good shit post hits the spot.
The funny thing about this all is...
You're right.
Bart's right.
Shitfuck's right.
Pretty much every opinion I have read on here is right, yet they're all at odds.
For what it's worth, I think your stats have as much merrit as any Bart has already implimented. I just can't bring myself to care about them any more than I do hits.
Submitted by DarthFaded (user info) at 2005-03-07 21:09:42 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Hey there... I fit the criteria for this list and was not included... Bastard.
That being said I am a .835283
WTF? Why aren't I on the damn list?
Submitted by JohnGalt (user info) at 2005-03-07 20:29:43 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by bart (user info) at 2005-03-07 19:53:49 (#)
Ranking: 0
You people who are screwing around with these numbers, would you like a tab delimited or XML file of all that information to make your lives easier?
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Screw you! I like to get my data the hard way.
Actually, I will take access to the server if you don't mind. That way next time I can just get the files without bothering you. :-)
By the way Bart, your argument sounds like those people arguing about how "important" Hitler was to history. Yeah, he made a big impact, but we're looking for the best damn it. And I will not rest until some formula spits out a number that says I'm better than all of you losers.
Submitted by UlfGabe (user info) at 2005-03-07 20:25:00 EST (#)
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"You people who are screwing around with these numbers, would you like a tab delimited or XML file of all that information to make your lives easier? "
God yes.
please do
Submitted by Razor (user info) at 2005-03-07 20:18:05 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
The problem with trying to do an analysis like this is the same sort of problem that you run into when trying to compare, say, Willie Mays and Ken Griffey, or Babe Ruth and Barry Bonds.
The older users of Ubersite, like the older baseball players, simply came from a different area.
Today you can write a post about how you took a shit with a piece of corn in it and drum up 1,000 hits.
Here's a post I wrote a few years ago that garnered under 200 hits and only had 17 reviews, 5 of which came from me: http://www.ubersite.com/m/4211
How about this one? http://www.ubersite.com/m/4208 It got 99 hits and has ONE reply, from bart. There is no way humanly possible to get one review on a post today.
How do you quantify the enormous contributions of users like Loren, Loki, Hidden, Nicole3, Sky, and others who fostered a sense of community and helped turn Ubersite from a place where people occasionally came to rant into a community?
How do you account for the ratings inflation that started about two years ago? Should you do some sort of inversely proportional function to account for how long people have been on the site?
How do you account for the enormous contributions of the people who spent hours making UberMadness I and II a reality?
The simple fact is that Ubersite has gone through at least five or six very distinct phases and the best people from each era tend to be similarly placed in terms of hits, ratings, etc.
Before you even try to answer that, what is your base criteria for what makes a good Uber-user?
If someone writes a phenomenal political rant that engenders discussion, how is that even comparable to a short story that brings a tear to your eye? Simply trying to calculate rating against hits and responses does absolutely nothing to help anyone.
Submitted by Degreeless_Capibara (user info) at 2005-03-07 20:17:36 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Why isn't electro on top?
Submitted by williamson (user info) at 2005-03-07 20:15:22 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by sword (user info) at 2005-03-07 02:39:40 (#)
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and thats when Rawrg realized he had way too much free time
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Submitted by Envenom (user info) at 2005-03-07 20:14:15 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
the other person who comes to mind is insanethemind. sadly he's not around much recently anyway.
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Yes, Michael is sorely missed around here. And Sausage King...god only knows what happened to him...
Submitted by Envenom (user info) at 2005-03-07 20:09:01 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Ok, now John Galt, you have some explaining to do. You said you are using Rawrg's formula, correct?
According to his calculations, my rating of 25.31 would put me ahead of bigmike for example, but on your list I'm below him. What gives?
Heh heh.
Submitted by shandythedog (user info) at 2005-03-07 20:02:28 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by bart (user info) at 2005-03-07 19:53:49 (#)
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Plus, what if someone like Jesus Christ came in and posted one really good message revealing the true word of God himself, and yet he got filtered of your algorithm because he didn't meet the minimum posting criteria?
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er, ahem, cough cough
(though admittedly i have done more than one post)
actually, i had been thinking of doing a post on this topic myself. my criteria was simply the question 'who would be missed most if they left'
it's already been shown that the show will go on regardless of who leaves, but i still think it's an interesting question.
my answer, by a very clear margin, is Loki. It's hard to pinpoint exactly what she adds to this site, but taking her away would be like taking away someone's backbone.
the other person who comes to mind is insanethemind. sadly he's not around much recently anyway.
(this is leaving bart out of the picture, as he does not really qualify as a user, he is part of the infrastructure)
Submitted by bart (user info) at 2005-03-07 19:53:49 EST (#)
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See, the flaw with your calculations are that they don't put enough emphasis on hits. One's value to the whole of Ubersite is not just how good you are as an individual, but how well you play with others. Part of that lies in your ability to attract new users either through links to posts on other websites, emailing to friends, or matching highly in Google.
No kidding.
For example, Tom is great and all, but the fact that his one post attracted a whole bunch of new users to the site is actually valuable to the site because it means there are more people here. Now, depending on the kind of people that were drawn, you may decide for yourself whether that was good or bad, but the point is that there are more.
Yes, in some sense high ratings are good, but it's also very valuable to the site to have debate. A post in which someone attempts to make a highly educated or aggressively opinionated assertion on some controversial topic like politics or religion or abortion will also have value, although it may not necessarily result in that post having a high rating.
On top of that, there are plenty of users like firefly and mystiamoon who provide their own value without posting any messages of their own.
Plus, what if someone like Jesus Christ came in and posted one really good message revealing the true word of God himself, and yet he got filtered of your algorithm because he didn't meet the minimum posting criteria? Don't mess with JC.
You people who are screwing around with these numbers, would you like a tab delimited or XML file of all that information to make your lives easier?
Submitted by jgreening (user info) at 2005-03-07 18:22:22 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
I'M NOT LISTED????
WHAT THE HELL MAN, IF THEYRE COMING etyc etc etc
Submitted by Rawrg (user info) at 2005-03-07 14:57:18 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Hahahaha. Wow. I'm pretty good with computers, but you're on that tier above guys like me who learn all the finer points of everything. I'm impressed. I know nothing of Unix. That's good to know though because now it's easy to convert stats into spreadsheets and give out fun facts at times.
Submitted by JohnGalt (user info) at 2005-03-07 14:38:14 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Now, in return for sharing my secret, I demand that you play around with that spreadsheet until the formula says I'm the best user on Uber!
Submitted by JohnGalt (user info) at 2005-03-07 14:29:26 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
The replacing of the double spaces with singe ones is so that every other line isn't empty in the Excel spreadsheet. You could skip that step and sort once in Excel, but I didn't think of that until just now.
Submitted by JohnGalt (user info) at 2005-03-07 14:28:02 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Step 1: http://www.ubersite.com/cgi-bin/users.cgi?sort=age&days=ALL
Step 2: Copy/Paste into Notepad.
Step 3: Convert from DOS to Unix ASCII format so that the LFs show up as a charater.
Step 4: Replace all ")LF Registered: " with commas and all double LFs with LFs.
Step 5: Save the file, convert back to DOS ASCII and open with a program called Notepad2.
Step 6: Replace all the common stuff between each number with commas, save as a .csv.
Step 7: Open in Excel, remove the date column, apply some formatting and filters and put the right formula in the last column.
Note: Step 4 is really freakin' slow. Replace all takes forever in Notepad. Notepad2 does it a lot faster, but you can't replace LFs even if you convert to Unix, so that's why you have to use the regular notepad for it.
Notepad2: http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html
To and From DOS: http://www.thefreecountry.com/tofrodos/index.shtml
Submitted by FilthyAssistant (user info) at 2005-03-07 14:24:09 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by JohnGalt (user info) at 2005-03-07 12:27:43 (#)
Ranking: 1
You knew someone would get bored enough to do it.
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Good god man, you've got a cock - play with it. There's never a reason to be *that* bored.
Submitted by Rawrg (user info) at 2005-03-07 14:09:39 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Jesus Galt, how'd you do that? (Despite your strong vindiction and self reliant morality)
Submitted by AwesomeJohnson (user info) at 2005-03-07 13:33:36 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
looks like i need to start responding to all of my posts over and over
Submitted by MyNameIsTim (user info) at 2005-03-07 13:25:43 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
i'm a 30-something. thats not right.
Submitted by Adamdidit2u (user info) at 2005-03-07 13:18:22 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
http://www.ubersite.com/m/61340
Shlongy at his new job
Submitted by foodman (user info) at 2005-03-07 12:53:45 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
6.6
Submitted by JohnGalt (user info) at 2005-03-07 12:40:56 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
New sheet added, file location still the same.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2005-03-07 12:40:53 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
There sure are a lot of well-known homosexuals on that last list that blockhead John Galt just posted.
Submitted by JohnGalt (user info) at 2005-03-07 12:36:43 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
I'm about to add a new sheet to the file, the top 50 when only counting people with 50+ posts:
Circe
Snark
mrwolf
comicbookguy
1Point21Gigawatts
DonkeyOnTheEdge
BLITZKREIG_BOB
creep_firebombing
Sideburns
munkeypants
ohlookasquirrel
SpikeGoddess
TigerLilly
Stin
Teephphah
Scott_James
NerfHerder
Smurfs
Kristen
GodLovesALittleLovin
tinactin
lojope
Yes
Ainkara
Adamdidit2u
Bigmike
AlwaysAnEagle
corn_nugget
Envenom
Davros
Phallic_Cymbals
Phinch
potatomanjack
WillZone
loki
maiorano84
Zod
BuckeyesTHEGAME
jimbo
JMG114
TaK
gascs
volklcess
youarsoghey
Brdn_Nkd
electrictoothsyndrome
espo
itchy
polyamorousaj
JohnGalt
Submitted by JohnGalt (user info) at 2005-03-07 12:27:43 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
You knew someone would get bored enough to do it. Here's the MVA score using your system for every person with at least 1 post. I took out all the ones with 0 posts because the file was too big, and the formula is simple...0 posts = division by 0 = no score.
Anyway, after looking this thing over I realized a few things. First off, Loki posts too damn much. Second, you need to set a cut off number of posts and cut off number of reviews. And even then I think it's still off.
Here's the link for anyone that wants to see it:
http://atlas.walagata.com/w/johngalt/MVA_Score_Is_Dumb.zip
Submitted by WhatTheHell (user info) at 2005-03-07 11:22:10 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
I hate math.
Submitted by congo (user info) at 2005-03-07 10:23:03 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Ouch.
359235734938473) Congo -- 0.031846679408649307810087769368027
I feel so unvaluable.
Submitted by firefly (user info) at 2005-03-07 10:12:55 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
No Comment
Submitted by BLITZKREIG_BOB (user info) at 2005-03-07 10:07:18 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
A couple of comments:
1)That math is kind of sketchy.
2)I'm on another uberlist. WOO!
3)The meaning of ratings have changed over time.
and:
Submitted by Jack_McCallum (user info) at 2005-03-06 14:27:29 (#)
Ranking: 1
Funny how Domenad and I, who have an almost equal number of posts and similar ratings and made it to the top two Ubermadness slots, will never be on a list like this. Funny how we are two of the most outspoken Republicans. Funny how this conspiracy to silence us is accepted as fact. Art Bell will be exposing this whole scam any day now.
AHEM! I learned my lesson. Don't make political posts - you will get torpedoed. I just spew forth my republican vemon on other people's posts.
Submitted by potatomanjack (user info) at 2005-03-07 08:51:34 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Man, you slack off posting for a little while, and it's like you've fallen off the face of the planet.
Submitted by maiorano84 (user info) at 2005-03-07 08:09:32 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Huh......
Still up there, I guess.
How about you just do the highest averages of those who've posted 10 or more articles?
Submitted by Sphagnum (user info) at 2005-03-07 07:49:19 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Humour me... Would that mean that in the future, your overall rating would also include any hits and reviews you get from this post?
Submitted by mrwolf (user info) at 2005-03-07 04:01:31 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I thought I'd be on there... that's it now, I'm posting nothing but boobies and three line posts.
Submitted by phuzzygish (user info) at 2005-03-07 03:56:14 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Yay! Another list I didn't make it on to.
Nice maths skillses, Rawrg
Submitted by Spam (user info) at 2005-03-07 03:52:20 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
10 Spam 66.91
I fucking rule.
Submitted by Rawrg (user info) at 2005-03-07 03:04:16 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
That's why I would never suggest this as an idea that should be adopted. Ubersite's beauty is in it's simplicity, it's lack of complications such as these.
No math will ever truly calculate an Uberer's worth, and truly, this was an exercise in futility. However I had fun with this, most of the readers did, and that was enough.
I'll let the post kindly die now.
Submitted by bart (user info) at 2005-03-07 02:48:27 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
The moral of the story is that you should just be happy with who you are and stop trying to find some calculation in an attempt to quantify creative elements into an infinitely precise scale of value.
The whole issue with this is that if there were a listing structured the way you suggest, people would always find posts by the person who was #1 on the list and give them low ratings just to alter that person's position in the listing.
Submitted by sword (user info) at 2005-03-07 02:39:40 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
and thats when Rawrg realized he had way too much free time
Submitted by TuTs (user info) at 2005-03-07 01:53:37 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
My favourites were all quite low
Submitted by bob (user info) at 2005-03-07 00:48:19 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
horrible formula
Submitted by SullyThePirate (user info) at 2005-03-06 21:40:31 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I'm 14.08 if I did it right.
Submitted by tinactin (user info) at 2005-03-06 21:32:05 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Because I'm relatively high on this list.
Submitted by williamson (user info) at 2005-03-06 21:31:37 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Envenom (user info) at 2005-03-06 19:43:41 (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by williamson (user info) at 2005-03-06 19:30:43 (#)
Ranking: 2
I may get a +1.9 average off 200 reviews on one post and a -2 off 1 review for another.
Thus according to the Uber average rating I'm at -0.05.
Hardly fair.
________________________
Yes, but this also keeps you from being penalized for one giant faux pas had the scenario been the other way around. (Actually happened to me, see my Fetish hate post - which is still the most hits/reviews I've ever had from a single post)
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True. I'm just bitter cause I have a negative rating because of a complete -2nami of all my posts by 3 guys. If anyone remembers I fucked up posting one of the ps comps a few times and this has ripped down my aveage rating by about 0.5 with less than 20 reviews while my posts have been reviewed 2836 times.
Submitted by Envenom (user info) at 2005-03-06 19:43:41 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by williamson (user info) at 2005-03-06 19:30:43 (#)
Ranking: 2
I may get a +1.9 average off 200 reviews on one post and a -2 off 1 review for another.
Thus according to the Uber average rating I'm at -0.05.
Hardly fair.
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Yes, but this also keeps you from being penalized for one giant faux pas had the scenario been the other way around. (Actually happened to me, see my Fetish hate post - which is still the most hits/reviews I've ever had from a single post)
Submitted by williamson (user info) at 2005-03-06 19:30:43 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I may get a +1.9 average off 200 reviews on one post and a -2 off 1 review for another.
Thus according to the Uber average rating I'm at -0.05.
Hardly fair.
But +2 for effort.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2005-03-06 19:09:01 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Seriously...who, besides Little Tommy Boy Sorrell, who's an nancyboy idiot, and Adam the whiner, who's a closet homo, REALLY gives a fuck about "ratings" on a stupid web site, particularly this one?
Huh? HUH?
Submitted by Saxon (user info) at 2005-03-06 18:35:26 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Clever idea, +2 for the effort.
Submitted by Thored (user info) at 2005-03-06 18:07:36 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Holy Shit.
Submitted by Envenom (user info) at 2005-03-06 17:31:00 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Rawrg (user info) at 2005-03-06 17:00:50 (#)
Ranking: 0
I can't, that's not a monitored statistic.
____________________________
You can, and it is. If you use this link all you really have to do is click on the name and then scroll down.
http://www.ubersite.com/cgi-bin/moreinfo.cgi
Submitted by Rawrg (user info) at 2005-03-06 17:12:08 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
This list isn't supposed to shock anyone or take away any user's credibility. I know that there are some authors now that I didn't know existed that I'll be looking out for. When I saw Badlands at the top, I thought to myself, "Who the fuck is Badlands!?" That's all this is for, and for fun.
Submitted by Sideburns (user info) at 2005-03-06 17:11:35 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Ubercon Charlotte-- I'll be there.
Submitted by Rawrg (user info) at 2005-03-06 17:09:34 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
It's not monitored individually I mean. Sure, I can go through every user's information and subtract those, but it's not readily available is what I mean. If I could, I would, although it's normally such a small proportion unless they're putting up heat posts all the time, in which case, their ratings will suffer.
*cough Chris Evan *cough
Submitted by zakalwe (user info) at 2005-03-06 17:06:14 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Rawrg (user info) 0 on 97 = 0.00
Submitted by zakalwe (user info) at 2005-03-06 17:05:40 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
yes it is:
zakalwe (user info) -26 on 391 = -0.07
Submitted by Rawrg (user info) at 2005-03-06 17:00:50 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
I can't, that's not a monitored statistic.
Submitted by Envenom (user info) at 2005-03-06 16:51:48 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Plus if you are going to incorporate "times reviewed," you would want to exclude the number of times the author has reviewed themselves.
Submitted by Envenom (user info) at 2005-03-06 16:48:45 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Yeah, I'm not so sure about this.
These folks for example
29 WillZone 19.63
30 loki 19.58
31 maiorano84 18.39
32 BuckeyesTHEGAME 18.08
33 jimbo 17.83
34 JMG114 17.82
are all easily better writers than I, and have a much bigger following
Submitted by Envenom (user info) at 2005-03-06 16:45:47 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Ok Sideburns, but you have to return the favor on St Patty's Day! Happy B-Day dude. Keep an eye out for a possible Ubercon Charlotte in the near future.
Submitted by Sideburns (user info) at 2005-03-06 16:43:48 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
..and it's my birthday today. Somebody acknowledge that.
Submitted by Envenom (user info) at 2005-03-06 16:38:08 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Sideburns (user info) at 2005-03-06 16:35:47 (#)
Ranking: 2
Ratio of hits to reviews would be lopsided to those of us that have made boredatwork.com several times. That would automatically factor against us, because those hits come from random web surfers, knocking us to the bottom of your list.
+2 for this cool list though
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Yeah, that's a tough one for users like myself who have absolutely no idea how to appeal to bart's sense of humor. (Not that I would try even if I did...I write what I know)
Submitted by Rawrg (user info) at 2005-03-06 16:37:48 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
There are some interesting anomalies due to this formula and perhaps it should be weighted differently, but some of the MVA survived because I factored these two factors:
Reviews / posts
Hits / reviews
Take Sideburns for an example. His hits from being on B@W and one of the most popular authors on Ubersite actually lower his rating a bit, and I think this is accurate because there is a slight bandwagon effect that skews more well known authors. BUT when you factor in that he has over 8000 reviews to 192 posts, this is indicative that his posts are of such quality to cause a high percentage of people to read most of the way through and actually take the time to review them. That gives him a massive boost that overcomes his rating, and his hits from B@W which isn't part of Ubersite. His rating is almost .2 lower than the other posters in his range of the list, but he still maintains a high standing.
Submitted by Envenom (user info) at 2005-03-06 16:36:35 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Rawrg (user info) at 2005-03-06 01:19:01 (#)
Ranking: 0
Envenom 25.31
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WOOOOO! 25.31! I am better than some and worse than others, alright~!!!
Oh wait, I knew that already. Heh. It's an interesting way to look at things, but Davy Jones does have a point. Because of issues like that there will never be a way to gauge something as subjectuve as the quality of a writer's work through numbers.
Submitted by Sideburns (user info) at 2005-03-06 16:35:47 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Ratio of hits to reviews would be lopsided to those of us that have made boredatwork.com several times. That would automatically factor against us, because those hits come from random web surfers, knocking us to the bottom of your list.
+2 for this cool list though.
Submitted by will72 (user info) at 2005-03-06 16:32:47 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
pretty cool, and i agree that thecaes should be up there in the top 5. he (she?) is a very talented/valuable author.
Submitted by Rawrg (user info) at 2005-03-06 16:27:39 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by polyamorousaj (user info) at 2005-03-06 16:19:44 (#)
Ranking: 0
I'm higher than DDT?
This list is bullshit.
Here's an idea, find someone you like to read, and read them. I couldn't give less of a shit that Bickerstaff or Circe or Shandy or Apollo or anyone for that matter isn't on the MVA. If they entertain me, I'm going to read them.
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THAT'S THE WHOLE FUCKING POINT OF THIS.
...
Wow.
Submitted by Rawrg (user info) at 2005-03-06 16:26:38 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
darko 2.00
Submitted by Rawrg (user info) at 2005-03-06 16:25:33 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Slight error, here you are AJ. I screwed up excel. Darko's is coming...
AJ 14.14
Submitted by jimbo (user info) at 2005-03-06 16:20:23 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Here's what I take away after reading this post:
By any measure, I kick ass.
Thank you for the V&V.
Submitted by polyamorousaj (user info) at 2005-03-06 16:19:44 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
I'm higher than DDT?
This list is bullshit.
Here's an idea, find someone you like to read, and read them. I couldn't give less of a shit that Bickerstaff or Circe or Shandy or Apollo or anyone for that matter isn't on the MVA. If they entertain me, I'm going to read them.
Submitted by darko (user info) at 2005-03-06 16:12:54 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
umm do me?
Submitted by Rawrg (user info) at 2005-03-06 16:09:25 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
GLALL 27.35
Submitted by GodLovesALittleLovin (user info) at 2005-03-06 16:02:20 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
i just don't think this is a good idea
Submitted by TimeCop (user info) at 2005-03-06 15:48:28 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Allright! #18 WOOO!
Now all I have to do is kill to people above me and I'll be in the sweet-sixteen. For now I'll just have to settle for the attractive 18.
Submitted by NerfHerder (user info) at 2005-03-06 15:31:53 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
woooooo! #22!
Submitted by spedmonkey (user info) at 2005-03-06 15:12:37 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Wow, I'm pretty shitty as far as this list goes.
Submitted by Rawrg (user info) at 2005-03-06 14:50:26 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Shlongy 0.68
Submitted by Adamdidit2u (user info) at 2005-03-06 14:46:02 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
http://www.ubersite.com/m/61340
What about this guy?
Submitted by FilthyAssistant (user info) at 2005-03-06 14:36:06 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Heheheh. If anyone here has not had the pleasure of rattling a stick along the bars of Mickginny's cage, I thoroughly recommend it - literally hours of fun.
Do that whole bit where you type 'nothing' in capitals again MG...that gets me so fucking hot...
Submitted by Rawrg (user info) at 2005-03-06 14:33:41 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by shitfuck (user info) at 2005-03-06 14:21:26 (#)
Ranking: 0
Hey listen kid--I'm touching my wang right now, you wanna come up with a formula to discern what direction the ejaculate will launch in for me?
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Hmm, my formula predicts that it will launch right onto the little boy's face that you're straddling.
...
Sorry, had to.
Submitted by MickGinny (user info) at 2005-03-06 14:32:27 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by FilthyAssistant (user info) at 2005-03-06 14:05:26 (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by MickGinny (user info) at 2005-03-06 12:34:57 (#)
Ranking: 1
Unfortunately, your formula does not take into consideration how difficult...nearly impossible it is to be able to retain a high average rating with 200 or more posts.
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Heheh. Do you mention this because you've got over 200 posts? Nigger please, your rating was still shit when you only had 30.
Light the fuse and.....
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I mention it because it is a fact. I mention it because there are people who have been posting for years who never will get any recognition in posts similar to this because they fall below the radar despite the fact that they consistently post great stuff.
It hat nothing to with me. If it had anything to do with me, if I had intended for it to be about me I would have used a number like 500, a number that better represents my contributions you dizzy bitch.
Again I will tell you as you seem to have sieve like memory retention. My existence on that list, my overall rating, or my name recognition-negative or positive mean NOTHING.
I have been able to find and enjoy an invaluable use for this silly website. A use that I cannot explain to those like you who are hung up on the left hand frames.
Get over it, and you will find out what I am talking about.
Submitted by Rawrg (user info) at 2005-03-06 14:29:13 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Jack_McCallum (user info) at 2005-03-06 14:27:29 (#)
Ranking: 1
Funny how Domenad and I, who have an almost equal number of posts and similar ratings and made it to the top two Ubermadness slots, will never be on a list like this. Funny how we are two of the most outspoken Republicans. Funny how this conspiracy to silence us is accepted as fact. Art Bell will be exposing this whole scam any day now.
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The formula is never perfect, and someone will always find a way to exploit any system there is, whether it be hits or not.
Submitted by Jack_McCallum (user info) at 2005-03-06 14:27:29 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Funny how Domenad and I, who have an almost equal number of posts and similar ratings and made it to the top two Ubermadness slots, will never be on a list like this. Funny how we are two of the most outspoken Republicans. Funny how this conspiracy to silence us is accepted as fact. Art Bell will be exposing this whole scam any day now.
Submitted by shitfuck (user info) at 2005-03-06 14:21:26 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Hey listen kid--I'm touching my wang right now, you wanna come up with a formula to discern what direction the ejaculate will launch in for me?
Submitted by Rawrg (user info) at 2005-03-06 14:09:19 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by FilthyAssistant (user info) at 2005-03-06 14:05:26 (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by MickGinny (user info) at 2005-03-06 12:34:57 (#)
Ranking: 1
Unfortunately, your formula does not take into consideration how difficult...nearly impossible it is to be able to retain a high average rating with 200 or more posts.
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Heheh. Do you mention this because you've got over 200 posts? Nigger please, your rating was still shit when you only had 30.
Light the fuse and.....
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Damn straight. Most older authors started out posting shit (when the site was shit) and then improved over time with the site. The standard has gone up considerably over time.
Submitted by Adamdidit2u (user info) at 2005-03-06 14:07:36 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2005-03-06 13:30:00 (#)
Ranking: 0
No Adam...you've smoked way too much pole today.
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Somebody has the Ghey on the mind....again
Submitted by FilthyAssistant (user info) at 2005-03-06 14:05:26 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by MickGinny (user info) at 2005-03-06 12:34:57 (#)
Ranking: 1
Unfortunately, your formula does not take into consideration how difficult...nearly impossible it is to be able to retain a high average rating with 200 or more posts.
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Heheh. Do you mention this because you've got over 200 posts? Nigger please, your rating was still shit when you only had 30.
Light the fuse and.....
Submitted by Rawrg (user info) at 2005-03-06 14:01:21 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Are you kidding? I pissed off half of the MVA probably.
Submitted by shitfuck (user info) at 2005-03-06 13:57:55 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
So what is this--your attempt at sucking more dick in one instance than any other jerk off artist on this site?
Submitted by Rawrg (user info) at 2005-03-06 13:54:43 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
polyamorousaj 7.40
Submitted by shitfuck (user info) at 2005-03-06 13:52:50 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
am I the only one here that thinks mickginny stinks?
change your diaper fat man.
Submitted by DonkeyOnTheEdge (user info) at 2005-03-06 13:31:24 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by polyamorousaj (user info) at 2005-03-06 04:24:24 (#)
Ranking: 0
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think I got .2665.
I'm worse than Habeeb?
WTF
___________________________________
Yes. Yes you are.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2005-03-06 13:30:00 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
No Adam...you've smoked way too much pole today.
Submitted by Adamdidit2u (user info) at 2005-03-06 13:21:40 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Ignore me
I've smoked way to much fucking weed today
Submitted by Rawrg (user info) at 2005-03-06 12:39:40 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Zak - I used the user function and took the top 30 rated users with 10 or more posts active in the last month.
Submitted by MickGinny (user info) at 2005-03-06 12:34:57 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Unfortunately, your formula does not take into consideration how difficult...nearly impossible it is to be able to retain a high average rating with 200 or more posts.
However Your formula is quite accurate to get a current glimpse.
Apply it in 6 months. I would be curious to see the results.
Submitted by nitty34 (user info) at 2005-03-06 12:21:14 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
With the new math I'm 11.85
not too good - but in the top 40.
Wheee
Submitted by zakalwe (user info) at 2005-03-06 12:17:59 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
you seem to have chosen the subjects of this poll from those you have seen recently - for a definitive list of posters, many of the best being inactive for some time, consult:
http://www.ubersite.com/cgi-bin/users.cgi
for reviewing behaviour see:
http://www.ubersite.com/cgi-bin/moreinfo.cgi?uber=zakalwe&cutoff=1 (change name in URL for other users)
Submitted by Rawrg (user info) at 2005-03-06 12:15:20 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Rawrg (user info) at 2005-03-06 01:15:29 (#)
Ranking: 0
Adamdidit2u 24.94
Submitted by Adamdidit2u (user info) at 2005-03-06 12:13:08 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
=SUM(((1.32+3) ^ 13) / 100000000) * ((4458 / 125369) * 100) * ((4458 / 118) / 10)= 24.51865642
That makes me 27th.
-2DIE JIHAD ON YOUR MOTHER BITCHES
Include me next time....
Submitted by Rawrg (user info) at 2005-03-06 12:05:38 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by zakalwe (user info) at 2005-03-06 06:16:26 (#)
Ranking: 0
i think posts like these are a stage people go through reading this site. give it another few months and you wont care anymore.
previous examples: http://www.ubersite.com/m/47723 http://www.ubersite.com/m/46147
and it gives me 0.025...ranking alongside tuesday and habeeb. have i sunk so low?
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Yeah, because every post on this site is 100% orgininal. I'll take the Pepsi challenge that mine's the most extensive anyday.
Submitted by Rawrg (user info) at 2005-03-06 11:56:07 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
(((Average Rating + 3) ^ 13) / 100000000) * ((Times Reviewed / Total Hits) * 100) * ((Times Reviewed / Total Posts) / 10)
Submitted by Rawrg (user info) at 2005-03-06 11:55:46 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Whoops, to the 13th power, not the tenth, I changed it to make it more dramatic but forgot
Submitted by zakalwe (user info) at 2005-03-06 10:57:10 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
by your formula i get
badlands: 1.154
thecaes: 0.917
cbg: 0.801
razor: 0.128
nitty appears to be right - you have made a serious mistake somewhere.
Submitted by RamJetMax (user info) at 2005-03-06 10:05:49 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
bravo.
Submitted by nitty34 (user info) at 2005-03-06 10:04:47 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
+2 for the work involved.
Why does my math not work with this?
Have I forgotten my exponent rules? Does x to the 10th power not equal x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x*x?
If so, I have Badlands for:
4.87 * 4.87 * 4.87 * 4.87 * 4.87 * 4.87 * 4.87 * 4.87 * 4.87 * 4.87 = 7503944.48
7503944.48 / 100000000 = .075039
reviewed / hits = 546/13840 = .0395 * 100 = 3.95
reviewed / posts = 546/14 = 39 / 10 = 3.9
.075039 * 3.95 * 3.9 = 1.155
Where did I go wrong?
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2005-03-06 09:35:48 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
THE DEFINITIVE LIST
1 Badlands 133.19
2 thecaes 98.58
3 Circe 90.66
4 Snark 87.51
5 FilthyAssistant 86.17
6 Bickerstaff 85.76
7 comicbookguy 81.68
8 Kre8rix 74.82
9 Pentameter 72.61
10 Spam 66.91
11 SHLONGY 64.84
12 Loren1 62.49
13 DonkeyOnTheEdge 60.67
14 BLITZKREIG_BOB 58.50
15 Impassive-Digressive 52.16
16 Saxon 46.48
17 Sideburns 42.75
18 TimeCop 41.52
19 stardamage 38.58
20 AshK 34.08
21 Scott_James 31.16
22 NerfHerder 30.41
23 Smurfs 29.79
24 Rawrg 29.16
25 Kristen 28.30
26 tinactin 26.66
27 Bigmike 23.94
28 Pallic_Cymbals 21.54
29 WillZone 19.63
30 loki 19.58
31 maiorano84 18.39
32 BuckeyesTHEGAME 18.08
33 jimbo 17.83
34 JMG114 17.82
35 Coyote 16.93
36 jack11058 16.43
37 youaresoghey 16.26
38 Method 11.80
39 hidden101 10.82
40 antluvdog 9.02
41 gibberish 8.96
42 reallybored 8.32
43 Razor 7.60
44 iddqd 7.35
45 MickGinny 5.18
46 professorfuckface 4.88
47 Jonukah 3.92
48 Tom 3.18
49 drink_DDT 3.14
50 Bart 1.69
51 ryandonovan 1.09
52 ChristPuncher 0.64
53 JP 0.40
54 tuesdaydelay 0.22
There. That's better.
Submitted by TigerLilly (user info) at 2005-03-06 09:30:03 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I was very happy to see Pentameter in the top 10.
She rules!
Submitted by Pentameter (user info) at 2005-03-06 08:19:05 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
PR rules all.
Submitted by Lisa (user info) at 2005-03-06 08:13:44 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
I like to chew them.
Submitted by Lisa (user info) at 2005-03-06 08:13:15 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
A chromium picolinate capsule is stuck in my molar.
Submitted by Pentameter (user info) at 2005-03-06 08:12:45 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Yay for me...top ten!
Interesting way to do this...even though I don't understand math too well.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2005-03-06 08:09:31 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Where the fuck is Shlongy on the list?
This list must be defective.
Submitted by Circe (user info) at 2005-03-06 07:34:24 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I like it. I'm on it. All is right with the world.
Submitted by Tastycat (user info) at 2005-03-06 07:17:06 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
0.00860372
I suck.
Submitted by zakalwe (user info) at 2005-03-06 06:18:44 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
you also might wish to make a term including reviews written - under this system non-posters like mystiamoon and frequent reviewers like shlongy and munkeypants are penalised.
shlongy's reviews are arguably a greater contribution to this site than his posts.
Submitted by zakalwe (user info) at 2005-03-06 06:16:26 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
i think posts like these are a stage people go through reading this site. give it another few months and you wont care anymore.
previous examples: http://www.ubersite.com/m/47723 http://www.ubersite.com/m/46147
and it gives me 0.025...ranking alongside tuesday and habeeb. have i sunk so low?
Submitted by Lisa (user info) at 2005-03-06 05:54:21 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
FUCK this list.
Submitted by FilthyAssistant (user info) at 2005-03-06 05:28:59 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Which is exactly the irony of it.
(insert maniacal cackle here)
Submitted by darko (user info) at 2005-03-06 05:23:54 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
you sure? that sounds more like sarcasm to me...
Submitted by FilthyAssistant (user info) at 2005-03-06 05:17:07 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Well, it looks like I rock pretty fucking hard. Who knew?
(Yes, Americans, that's irony...EYE-RON-EE)
Submitted by grandturismo (user info) at 2005-03-06 05:06:39 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Since I used to be on that list, fuck you.
Submitted by BuckeyesTHEGAME (user info) at 2005-03-06 05:02:30 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by shitfuck (user info) at 2005-03-06 04:39:49 (#)
Ranking: 0
Oh yeah I almost forgot--Tom Sorrell is a fucking pussy wanna be loser.
Have fun with your internet fame Tom, without it you're just a piece of gay shit.
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Wow, that was random. Thanks buddy.
Submitted by shitfuck (user info) at 2005-03-06 04:43:02 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Fuck this is just gay beyond all previously known gayness.
I mean really--you created a formula???
Go jerk off with your left hand for a change, fucking asshat.
Submitted by shitfuck (user info) at 2005-03-06 04:39:49 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Oh yeah I almost forgot--Tom Sorrell is a fucking pussy wanna be loser.
Have fun with your internet fame Tom, without it you're just a piece of gay shit.
Submitted by shitfuck (user info) at 2005-03-06 04:31:49 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Snark is the man, the rest, and you, we all suck.
So fucking hurru up and die.
Submitted by thecaes (user info) at 2005-03-06 04:24:53 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Fucking +2 for all the effort this must have taken. Color me impressed.
I've been swearing a lot lately.
Submitted by polyamorousaj (user info) at 2005-03-06 04:24:24 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think I got .2665.
I'm worse than Habeeb?
WTF.
Submitted by MrWillard (user info) at 2005-03-06 04:10:13 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by darko (user info) at 2005-03-06 03:55:51 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
wardy, i've written 1000 more than you and have been here 8 leff months than you have...
Where can I get one of these "lifes" you speak of?
Submitted by wardy (user info) at 2005-03-06 03:48:12 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
wow... you've made 1000 reviews to my 1300... and you've been here about 12 months less than me.
consensus:
get a fucking life.
Submitted by BuckeyesTHEGAME (user info) at 2005-03-06 01:48:58 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
"I factored the times reviewed vs hits and posts to give favor to those more often reviewed rather than viewed. This eliminates a lot of traffic from Bored At Work..."
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Your system tells me that people who get reviewed more = better quality. But you fail to take into account that some people post their tits, or make a poll, or make a general post looking to argue and they get bumped up because of the hundreds of reviews they receive.
I disagree with this idea, thus the 0 rating.
Submitted by Teephphah (user info) at 2005-03-06 01:45:49 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
21.20 - good to know.
But (because I have been drinking and unleashed the egomaniac within) how do I come out when you add "itchy" (my former/semi-new name) to the mix?
The question is PURELY to stroke my ego, just so you know . . .
Submitted by DavyJones (user info) at 2005-03-06 01:43:11 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Why the laughing? It's clear this doesn't quite work.
Submitted by bush_for_god (user info) at 2005-03-06 01:42:58 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
+2 for this taking over 3 hours
Submitted by Rawrg (user info) at 2005-03-06 01:31:46 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by darko (user info) at 2005-03-06 01:28:26 (#)
Ranking: 2
does your scale hold correct on the negative raters too though?
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Yes. That's what the +3 is for in the formula. -2 +3 = 1, therefore the exponential growth of the rating will not be exponential decay or negative growth.
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Submitted by DavyJones (user info) at 2005-03-06 01:26:32 (#)
Ranking: 0
This is an ok concept, but it fails when implemented because of the following reason:
Uber used to be a lot harsher with it's ratings, and a nearly fiction free website. It was mostly work/politics with the occasional rant. It was more discussion than story telling. For a post to be rated over 1.0 was actually fairly rare.
Uber has transformed tons since than, and now any humor fiction writer can consistently get 1.5+ on anything they post. No offense to people like Sideburns, 1.21, badlands, etc. but to be honest they aren't half the writer's people like Razor and JMG are. People who were around in uber's original state, and have gone on through the transition.
Honestly, to think JMG or Razor are only 34 or 43 is simply ridiculous.
Back to the think tank with you.
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Hahahahaa
Submitted by rad1101 (user info) at 2005-03-06 01:28:46 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
This +2 is brought to you not because you called for changing something areound here.
Its for actually following through with it instead of but whinging about things.
Submitted by darko (user info) at 2005-03-06 01:28:26 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
does your scale hold correct on the negative raters too though?
Submitted by DavyJones (user info) at 2005-03-06 01:26:32 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
This is an ok concept, but it fails when implemented because of the following reason:
Uber used to be a lot harsher with it's ratings, and a nearly fiction free website. It was mostly work/politics with the occasional rant. It was more discussion than story telling. For a post to be rated over 1.0 was actually fairly rare.
Uber has transformed tons since than, and now any humor fiction writer can consistently get 1.5+ on anything they post. No offense to people like Sideburns, 1.21, badlands, etc. but to be honest they aren't half the writer's people like Razor and JMG are. People who were around in uber's original state, and have gone on through the transition.
Honestly, to think JMG or Razor are only 34 or 43 is simply ridiculous.
Back to the think tank with you.
Submitted by Rawrg (user info) at 2005-03-06 01:21:42 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Teephphah 21.20
Submitted by Rawrg (user info) at 2005-03-06 01:20:17 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Oh C'mon Tom, after I came to your aid when people were -2 bombing you because they disagreed with your viewpoint? This deserves at