naraburns
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naraburns
nihil supernum
6d ago
Dare I ask who has the highest AAQCs/Total comments ratio?
At a guess, I would bet that at least some of the single-AAQC posters have zero other comments--lurkers do occasionally pop up to say "hey, I actually know something about this topic..." and proceed to publish an absolute banger, only to return to lurking afterward.
But if you went with, say, users over 10 AAQCs, I would guess that /u/barnabycajones would be high on the list, considering he accumulated at least 60 AAQCs in the SSC era--about the same number that Dean has accumulated in the years since the switchover. /u/yodatsracist may have a similar comment ratio. I would also guess /u/gemmaem not for an overwhelming number of AAQCs but for a lower number of non-AAQC posts. /u/darwin2500 accumulated about thirty that in the SSC era, edging out myself and /u/TracingWoodGrains by a handful there, but all three of us were prolific commenters so our ratios wouldn't be very high.
Similarly, Doglatine pulled over 60 in the Motte sub era, while (say) fcfromssc and efficientsyllabus were half that in the same era. Fivehourmarathon has drawn more than 70 here, but themotte.org is the longest timeframe.
Longevity is of course the main driver in terms of sheer numbers, but I was honestly surprised to be the only unitary username over 100 AAQCs. I know my ratio would be much lower than many even if you don't count my modposting in the sub. Dean and Ilforte are also over 100 across usernames, and TracingWoodGrains should also be regarded as in the hundred club since I know there are probably few dozen AAQCs out there that weren't properly included in this compilation. One thing this project has resulted in is slight improvement to the /r/thethread wikis, so I could run the project again and likely improve the list, but I am a little burned out on wrestling with janky LLM tools this moment. A real coder like Zorba could do a much better job, but real coders like Zorba have more important things to do--like keeping the site operational!
You can talk to Zorba about the details, but there is a "janitor" bot that already does this, and has been doing it since late 2019. The AAQC list is not strictly handcrafted but rather the bot compiles the entire list of user AAQC nominations, and then the moderators (in theory; in practice this is my contribution) whittle those down from about 200 per month to the top (roughly) 40. The final list gets a "commit" which (mostly) auto-formats the monthly post, and Zorba keeps that "commit" list in a database somewhere. That database was at one point fed into the "Vault" project for sorting but I don't think Zorba has touched the Vault in quite some time.
I do assume it would for someone with coding experience indeed be "trivial" to generate a list like this from that database. My suspicion however is that anyone who is both (A) adept at coding and (B) willing to contribute to the Motte's code needs would be significantly more valuable to the site working on, like, literally anything else in our list of priorities. But if spinning up a "running tab" of per-user AAQCs seems like a fun project for you, I doubt anyone would discourage its development.
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