Thread: Who are the blabbermouths ?

Geez, and to think that I used to be up there on the first page. But, time and tide and post counts wait for no man.

Originally Posted by JLStorm

Joe I thought it was wise guys that flourish where you come from

That, too.

as far as rating systems

Agreed. 75% of what we tell them will be the same regardless of which one of us does it. I'm still not sure how those ratings get there. In any case, I think guys are more likely to scan their favorite forums, or if they filter for new posts, like me, those threads that sound interesting.

Secondly, as far as the blabbermouth icon, I think an over all post count of 2000 is perfect.

I don't think it's perfect, because it excludes the king, you. Nobody even comes close to your number of posts per day, and I don't think you're about to let up. Although you'll be there within the next few days, how could we possible declare a blabbermouth without that kind of consideration.

I've created a monster.

Gary

Originally Posted by garythepenman

I've created a monster.

Gary

Indeed you have!

I haven't thought about the formulae problem yet, but in real life I'm an academic statistician. I never thought my skills in this area might be useful on a list like this, but I'd like to offer my services (free of charge, of course!) to create interesting (or not) stats and the like for our forum. It would be nice to be able to give back a bit.

James.

Originally Posted by Jimbo

... in real life I'm an academic statistician. ... I'd like to offer my services ...

I look forward to hearing your suggestions.

X

I still like the 2000 post criteria....even if someone has a high post per day count if they havent acheived 2000+ posts they havent been around long enough. And it should be hard to achieve, or else it wouldnt be so special. right now we have 3 blabbermouths and 1075 members, which is around 0.2%, I dont think that the number of blabbermouths should ever rise above .5% or the balance is off, and that figure allows for the rate of membership growth to drop off by half, while we all post at the same rate, which I dont see happening.

Anyway thats my opinion, but Im not really a math person either.

Well, in terms of the blabbermouth issue, a straight cutoff is one way to go for sure. An adaptive cutoff would solve the problem of too many blabbermouths, as Josh alluded to. If you were to decide that there should never be more than about 0.5% blabbermouths, we could just adjust the cutoff so that this proportion is never exceeded. Of course, this would mean we'd have to monitor total posts at regular time intervals and update/upgrade the cutoff accordingly. One potential problem with this is that some people who obtain the level of blabbermouth at a certain time might get dropped off the list down the track...

Originally Posted by Joe Lerch

Randy, you deserve special recognition, because I think I see you on almost every shaving site I visit, and you're active on all of them.

BTW, I don't think anything you have posted anywhere would qualify as wiseass. That requires a special talent that flourishes where I come from. Just ask Rich.

What scares me is that I am in the top 5 here and at SMF, and #2 at B&B! I've got to shut up!

RT

This is getting complex.... Ahh if only honing and straight razor shaving was this easy.