top 250 posters request.Follow

I love this little page, but I was wondering if there is any chance the graphs could be tweeked to show the year and the month, rather then the year and the day, which ends up being completely confusing. Thanks a lot, it's a really cool feature.

http://www.zam.com/cgi-bin/top250.pl

Edited, Jul 27th 2010 8:04pm by Xsarus

It's actually a code that spells out TPO is a dirty rotten spammer. Or something

Without any confirmation I can't of course say for sure, but knowing dates in code, and looking at the numbers I can't imagine what else it'd be. I'd assume he's getting the date, and then doing some string formatting, and that he made the wrong assumption about what order the month and the day was in.

String chopping was my other theory :D

Edited, Jul 27th 2010 9:51pm by Xsarus

Probably because it took me 3 years to get 1k. My first post was april 1, 2004.

It'd be cool to have a graph of posting rate.

You could just calculate it based on the top 250 list. You could even just use an average of posts/day for every week (or maybe 3-4 days), to keep it more stable, instead of bouncing up and down, which would simply require calculating (postcount-postcountfrom1weekago)/7, for 250 people once a week.

Edited, Jul 28th 2010 12:04pm by ThePsychoticOne

Yeah, that's what I mean. I'd imagine doing it daily would be expensive, but if you did it quarterly, I'd think that would be doable.

It's not stored, so he'd generate it when you went to the page. Top 250 posters isn't terribly relevant, as you'd have to click the link to activate it anyway.

Another way to do it is just do a transform on the posting graph which implicitly has the info. First derivative!

Edited, Jul 28th 2010 11:35am by Xsarus

My problem with gaining a high post score has always been slow moving forums. That's why my score increased exponentially back when I posted in the OOT, but the OOT was also not as lively as it is now, so often I'd be "last poster" in the top 10-15 threads. Likewise I find that I have to hold back now that I'm only posting in the WoW forums, because otherwise I'd be "last poster" in every single thread there - except for the contest thread, of course.

I mean, 12k posts in half a year is just nuts. Joph has gained some 8k posts since I last saw him, which is a couple of months ago as well, at the most. How do you guys do it? Is it this new journal thing I've heard so much about?

Partly it's journals. Kirby's journal moves quite quick, considering only ~7 people post in it regularly. Ffxi forums also move pretty quickly too though. I can usually get 30~ posts a day just in ffxi forums. =10 is the most active forum, with about twice as many posts per day as the oot/asylum (see this, i actually just went over this recently).

And it sorts by month alphabetically

Not sure why you would sort by date though, since it does that (properly) by default.