Contributors metainfo: reputation and more
As asked by Vieniava in "How to make a list of user's reputation?", some of us came up with interesting ideas on how to fill an updated list with the reputation scores of the contributors to Answers.
I took the initiative to compile a public list of users with meta info:
- position (desc ordering by reputation)
- id
- nickname (truncated to fit the page)
- reputation
- # of comments
- # of questions asked
- % accept rate
- # of posts answered
- # of accepted answers
The code used to compile the list is available at the bottom.
EDIT
TMW team implemented a page with the metascores: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/contributors
Please refer to it and congrats to the team!
Use this function to retrieve info from the link above:
function [metainfo, elapsedTime] = metainfo(type,order)
% METAINFO - Retrieve metainfo on contributors to www.matworks.com/.../answers
%
% METAINFO Retrieve data sorted by reputation in descending order
%
% METAINFO(TYPE,ORDER) Specify TYPE and sorting ORDER as
% type : 'reputation'
% 'questions'
% 'answered'
% 'accepted'
%
% order: 'asc'
% 'desc'
%
% Examples:
%
% % Standard call (rep, disc)
% info = metainfo;
%
% % Sort by question answered in descending order
% info = metainfo('an','d');
%
% See also: URLREAD, REGEXP
% Author: Oleg Komarov (oleg.komarov@hotmail.it)
% Tested on R14SP3 (7.1) and on R2009b. In-between compatibility is assumed.
% 28 feb 2011 - Created
tic
% Check # inputs
error(nargchk(0,2,nargin))
% Retrieve inputs
if nargin == 0
type = 'reputation';
order = 'desc';
end
if ~exist(type,'var')
sortTypes = {'reputation','questions','answered','accepted'};
type = sortTypes{strncmp(type,sortTypes,numel(type))};
order = 'desc';
end
if ~exist(order,'var')
orderTypes = {'asc','desc'};
type = orderTypes{strncmp(order,orderTypes,numel(order))};
end
% Build url string
url = ['http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/contributors?'...
'dir=' order '&sort=' type '&page='];
% First read
[page, ok] = urlread([url '1']);
% Catch number of pages to read
if ok
totcon = regexp(page,'>1 - 50 of (\d+)','tokens');
totcon = dataread('string',totcon{1}{1},'%d');
nPages = ceil(totcon/50);
else
error('Cannot read ".../contributors?page=1"')
end
% Loop over contributors pages
metainfo = cell(totcon,7);
metainfo(1:end,1) = num2cell(1:size(metainfo,1));
for p = 1:nPages
if ok
endpos = 50*p;
% Id, Rep
expr = '><a href="\/matlabcentral\/answers\/contributors\/(\d+)';
data = regexp(page, expr,'tokens');
if 50*p > totcon; endpos = 50*(p-1)+numel(data); end
metainfo(1+(p-1)*50:endpos,2) = [data{:}];
% Nickname
expr = ['"Reputation: (\d+)">([\w\ ' reshape([repmat(92,1,137);33:59,61:64,91:97,123:126,161:255],1,[]) ']+)</a></h2>'];
data = regexp(page, expr,'tokens');
metainfo(1+(p-1)*50:endpos,[4,3]) = cat(1,data{:});
% Qcount, Ans, Acc
data = regexp(page, '<span >(\d+)</span>[A-z<>"-\s\/]+','tokens');
metainfo(1+(p-1)*50:endpos,5:7) = reshape(cat(1,data{:}),3,[]).';
else
error('Metainfo import stopped. \nCannot read ".../contributors?page=%d"',p)
end
[page, ok] = urlread([url sprintf('%d',p+1)]);
end
% Convert to doubles
metainfo(:,[2,4:7]) = cellfun(@str2double,metainfo(:,[2,4:7]),'un',false);
elapsedTime = toc;
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(Answers Dev) Congrats to our newest Editor, @Paul, for reaching user level 7 at 3k reputation points!! Thank you for all of your efforts in MATLAB Answers!
(Answers Dev) Congrats to our newest MVP, @DGM, for reaching user level 8 at 5k reputation points and getting the Ace Badge!! Thank you for all of your efforts in MATLAB Answers!
Finally! This means I can quit now, right?
Just kidding. Thanks though. Maybe in time I'll do more to earn it.
🥳congratulations! Thank you for the top answers, and a few interesting discussions along the way.
Thanks for your very educational answers. 🙂🎓
Congratulations!
(Answers Dev) Congrats to @Torsten for reaching user level 9 at 10k reputation points and achieving the Master badge!! Thank you for all of your efforts in MATLAB Answers!
(Answers Dev) Congrats to @Matt J for reaching user level 10 at 25k reputation points and achieving the Grand Master badge!! Thank you so much for all of your efforts in MATLAB Answers!
Congrats!
Congratz, Matt!
Congrats!
(Answers Dev) Congrats @Geoff Hayes for reaching User level 9 at 10k points and getting the Master Badge!! Also congrats to @_, our newest MVP for reaching User level 8 at 5k reputation points and getting the Ace Badge!! Thank you both for all of your efforts in MATLAB Answers!
Thanks everyone!
Thank you Rena, Adam, and Chen!
Thanks for your valuable, creative, and committed contributions to the forum @Geoff Hayes and @_ ! I've learned a lot from both of your contributions!
I think it would be a great idea to identify prolific users in each toolbox. For example, I do not have enough leisure time, and of course expertise, to reach to the top of the leaderboard. But I regularly check the questions asked about SimEvents and answer the majority of the questions asked there.
And what @Bruno Luong mentions is a very fair question, sometimes phrased as "Are we going to pay this person to sit around helping outsiders a lot of the time, or do we need them to concentrate on working for us?"
There are cases where helping people would be part of the job, and thus long-established evidence that the person is helpful for sustained periods might be entirely relevant. But would the person be able to switch focus to helping the new organization exclusively (during working hours), or would you be doing the equivalent of paying to "air condition the outside", if they are not likely to focus.
There is a degree to which helping outside people improves the skills of the person doing the helping -- exposing them to new skills and ideas that they might be able to apply to the paying organization. But a lot of organizations are not willing to pay for that.
Does the organization have a continuing education budget that it encourages people to use even if the benefits might not be immediately obvious? To, for example, take an Astronomy course while working in a Telephony position, under the principle that it helps keep the person's mind fresh and innovating and that there could turn out to be skills or questions in the course that turn out to be useful in unpredicted ways, that learning does not go to waste, that the "networking" to new groups of people might come in handy?
Some organizations work on that principle of continuous learning, and so to them the kind of activities implied by long Answers experience might be just fine. But a lot of organizations pay employees to do specific things to directly benefit the organization, and for those (the majority), asking whether the Answerer is going to concentrate on "their work" is relevant.
It might have even an opposite effect; the person who wants to hire you check and see you spend too much time on a Answers and decide that the job is not for you.
I was in the top ten of the reputation points several times. This does not produce any benefits. The provided solutions are not better and the asking persons are not more satisfied or thankful.
If you help a specific person 5 times and this person is responsible for hiring you for a job, you will see that the participation in this forum is connected to a real world reputation beyond the points.
Thanks! Sorry, haven't been around much the last year and a half so didn't see this before.
Congratulations Adam 👏 👍
@Adam: congratulations, it is good having you here!
Amazing achievement! Thanks for sharing your expertise with the community.
Congratulations, Adam! I've learned a lot from your answers.
Congratulations to our latest editor @David Hill at 3k reputation points! Thank you for all of your efforts in MATLAB Answers!
Congratulations David!
Congratulations @Star Strider for getting to 50k reputation points!!! Thank you so much for all of your efforts in MATLAB Answers!!
Thank you!
This is a amazing milestone. Congratulations and thank you for your outstanding contribution to the community. @Star Strider
Thank you!
Congratulations! Try to imagine this emoji clapping 50,000 times: 👏
Thank you all!
50000 claps! It'll take me 4 hours.
(Answers Dev) Congratulations to @Adam Danz for getting to 10000 points and getting the Master badge!!! Thank you so much for your time and effort in Answers :)
Huge congratulations, Adam. Thank you for your outstanding contribution to Answers and the entire MATLAB Central community.
Thanks for your posts Adam, I have learned a lot from you. I hope to learn much more ;)
Congratulations Adam Danz! Thank you for the many interesting discussions and posts!
I knew it was an important vote.
(Answers Dev) Congratulations @darova on 3000 points and reaching editor status! Thank you so much for your efforts in Answers!
(Answers Dev) Congratulations to @John D'Errico for reaching 15k points! Thank you for your work in MATLAB Answers!
Congratulations John D’ Errico 🙏
Congratulations! Thanks for the help through the years.
Congrats, John!
As a wise man once said, "rep just happens when you are not looking".
Yes, thanks John, not only for Answers but for a huge volume of utilities in the File Exchange.
(Answers Dev) Congratulations to Cris LaPierre for reaching editor status at 3000 points! Thank you for your work in MATLAB Answers!
Congratulations!
Congratulations @Cris LaPierre on achieving the Ace badge and being our latest MVP at 5000 points!! Your MVP status will be reflected on the first of May.
Congratulations!
Congratulations Cris!
You are welcome, Cris. This forum needs members, who are "just starting". Thanks for your helpful contributions.
Thanks! Compared to the rest of you, I'm just getting started, but I'm having a lot of fun along the way!
Yes, keep it up. 🙂
Congratulations, Cris! Welcome to the Editors club.
Well done Cris!
Congratulations to Stephen Cobeldick on reaching 25000 points with an impressive acceptance rate of 62+% and officially assuming the title of Grand Master of MATLAB.👏👏👏
Congratulations!! Thank you so much for all your efforts in MATLAB Answers!
Wow. Grand Master Badge! Congratulations, Stephen.
Congratulations!
Congratulations Stephen Cobeldick!
Keep up the great work Stephen!
@Ameer Hamza, Anusha Sridharan, and Kent Millard: thank you! This forum has taught me a lot over the years, so thank you to all contributors who have given me things to think about, who posed fresh challenges, and who wrote detailed explanations.
Remarkable achievement--well done Stephen!
Thank you for helping make Answers the vibrant forum that it is.
Many congratulations to Stephen Cobeldick on reaching 25k points. Thank you for all your efforts in Answers!
Congratulations to Bruno Luong, our newest rising star to reach 3000 points!
Thank you Rena, Chen and Adam !
Congratulations, @Bruno Luong. This is an amazing milestone. Thank you for your outstanding contribution.
(Answers Dev) Congrats to @Bruno Luong, our newest MVP! Thank you so much for all that you do in MATLAB Answers!
Congratulations!
Congratulations Bruno. 👍🏻
Thanks.
Now I become a real danger since I have privilege to delete stuffs around here. ;-)
Congratz Bruno!
Congratulations, Bruno.
Congratulations to Walter Roberson for surpassing 100,000 points! I still don't think that it is possible.
CONGRATULATIONS to Walter Roberson for for reaching 100k points!!!!!! We hope you like your new badge named for you for a contributor that reaches 100k, the Roberson Cup! Thank you for helping shape Answers to what it is today and helping so many people worldwide!!!!!!
Staggering milestone. Well done!
It took another 2 years (and a couple of weeks), but I reached 125000 this morning.
Congratulations!!! Thanks for your tremendous efforts.
Congrats on such an inspiring effort, Walter!
Congrats Walter!
Thank you for all that you've done and continue to do for the Community!
Congrats
Curiouser and curiouser:
numel('100k') = 4
uint8(sqrt(log2(100000))) = 4
log10(100000)-NumberOfWinnnersOfTheRobersonCup = 4
Congratulations Walter Roberson!
Yes, congratulations!
Congratulations and thank you for all the insight you give to everyone here!
Congratulations Walter.
Congratulation! Thank you for your time helping so many MATLAB & Simulink users.
Congratulations!
You’re an inspiration!
Amazing achievement but what's more impressive is the quality of WR's answers, comments, and overall contribution to this community. Legendary.
Huge congratulations! Thank you for generously offering your time and expertise to help millions of community users.
Congratulations Walter, its a stunning milestone!! Thank you so much for your valuable contributions.
Congratulations, Walter!
Congratulations!!!
CONGRATS!
Congratulations Walter on this incredible milestone and thank you so much for helping so many community users!
Walter Roberson, Congratulations, this is an amazing milestone. Thank you for all your contributions to the Community!
(Answers dev) Congrats to Image Analyst who just passed 10,000 accepted answers!!! Thank you for all of your efforts in Answers!!
That many ACCEPTED answers is a lot.
Thanks, and thanks in advance, to everyone. What I learn here for myself makes it all worth it. I learn of new functions and techniques from all of you every week.
Congratulations!!
GOAT in Image Analysis.
Congratulations on a very remarkable achievement!
10,000 accepted answers! Amazing milestone.
incredible.....
Congrats to Rik for reaching the MVP status!
Congratulations, Rik! We have a user spotlight article featuring Rik, which is now highlighted on community landing page.
(Answers dev) Congratulations Rik!! Thank you for all of your efforts in Answers :)
And thank you all for the ride so far, I am enjoying it.
Congratulations, Rik!
Thank you for your help over the years!
Congratulations, Rik! I've admired your contributions!
Congrats Rik !!!
Congratulations Ameer for becoming an MVP!
Thanks, Chen and Stephen!
I memorize some problems before going to sleep, solve them in my dreams, and write down the solution on waking up. That avoids any wastage of time :D
Congratulations Ameer Hamza! Impressive effort... make sure you get some sleep too :)
We just posted a user spotlight for Ameer in our newly created community highlight channel. This article is also highlighted on MALTAB Central community landing page.
We regularly post monthly release notes, user highlights, and interesting content in the community highlight channel. Kindly read this announcement to learn more. We encourage community power users to follow this new channel/forum. Meanwhile, if you have any comments or suggestions on this new channel (e.g. what you want to see in this channel), you can simply add your thoughts in the discussion section of that announcement.
Thanks, Walter!
nice work!
Thanks Everyone :) It was an interesting experience.
(Answers Dev) Congratulations!! Thank you so much for your work in Answers :)
Apparently Ameer broke the site: for me he still 'only' has 4985 reputation points
Congratulations, Ameer. The leaderboard shows Ameer earned 2226 pts in the past 30 days. Awesome job.
Congratulations Ameer!
(Answers dev) Congrats to our newes editor Ameer Hamza! Thank you for all of your efforts in MATLAB Answers!!
Congratulations Ameer! Thank you for your diligence and help in keeping this forum going.
Thank you all!!!
Congratulations Ameer:)
Congratulations, Ameer!
Congraulations Ameer Hamza! Keep up the good work!
Congratulations, Ameer!
(Answers dev) Congrats to James Tursa who recently got the Master badge at 10,000 points! Thank you for all of your efforts in Answers!!
Congratulations James Tursa! ?
Well done James! Thanks for being part of the community.
When I have a question about interfacing MATLAB to C or C++, I always search to see what James has said on the topic!
+1 thank you James Tursa for the detailed insight into the inner workings of MATLAB.
Congratulations to our newest editor KALYAN ACHARJYA! Thank you for your efforts in MATLAB Answers!!!
Thanks @ImageAnalyst sir, for teaching us constantly in MATLAB Answer.
Thanks Kalyan for all your dedicated and continuing participation!
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Welcome Rena Berman & Adam, all because of you people, truly thanks all.
Congrats, Kalyan!
(Answers Dev) Congratulations to our newest editor, Stephan, with 3000 points!
(Answers Dev) Congratulations to the cyclist, the newest person to get 10,000 points and the master badge!
You were a Master of MATLAB long before you got the badge!
Congrats, @the cyclist!
@the cyclist: congratulations on being a master! Your diligence is much appreciated :)
Thanks, Rena!
I don't feel like a Master compared to the others on the list. But one can get the badge by diligence at answering the easy ones (and the occasional stats trickiness!).
(Answers Dev) Congratulations to dpb for getting to 10000 points and getting the Master badge!!! Thank you so much for your time and effort in Answers :)
High quality contributions!
Congratz!
Well done! Thanks for being part of the community.
Congratz dpb!
Congratulations dpb
10000 points! What a milestone. Congts, dpb.
(Answers Dev) Congratulations to Sean de Wolski for getting to 10000 points and getting the Master badge!!!
Thanks!
Congratulations, and thank you for your thoughtful contributions !
Congratulations, Sean!
Well done sir!
Take the rest of the day off!
;)
Congratulations Rik for surpassing 3000 points!
Thanks, Rik!
Well done Rik! Thanks for your contributions to the community.
Congratulations, Rik. Awesome job!
(Answers Dev) Congratulations Rik!!!
Thanks :)
(Answers dev) Congrats to Jos (10584) on getting to 3000 reputation points and and earning all of the editor privileges! Thanks for all of your efforts in MATLAB Answers!
Welcome in Jos.
Big congrats to Jos. Welcome to the Editor's club.
(Answers Dev) Congratultions to our newest MVPs: per isakson and Torsten!! Thank you so much for all of your effort in MATLAB Answers! Just an FYI, MVP status is updated on the first of every month so your new icons will be visible then.
Thank your for your contributions, Per and Torsten!
Congratulations Per!, also to Torsten for reaching MVP status.
Welcome in Per.
Congratulations!
Congratulations, Per! I'm exicted we have another MVP.
A well deserved acknowledgement for all that you've contributed to Answers.
Thank you Per.
Congratz Per! :-)
Congratulations to John D'Errico for reaching 10,000!
And with only 1520 accepted answers too... impressive.
(Answers Dev) Congratulations! Thank you so much for your efforts in Answers!
Thank you. Reputation is not my goal on Answers. Solving problems is the goal in my eyes, and I do my best to not let reputation cloud my thinking in any way. Anyway, rep just happens when you are not looking.
Big congratulations, John! What an amazing milestone.
Many Congratulations, John. Thank you for all your contributions here!
John's worth to the community is far about that 10000 measurement!
Well done John!
Thanks for your ongoing contributions to the community.
Congratulations John D'Errico!!!
Congratulations to madhan for reaching MVP status!
Thank you!
Congratulations and Thank you for all your contributions here, Madhan!
Thank you!
Well done madhan! Thanks for sharing your knowledge with the community.
Thank you!
Big congratulations and thanks for your outstanding contributions, Madhan! I'm so exited to see a new MVP in Answers community.
Thank you Jan! , it‘s an immense pleasure to contribute here!
@madhan: Thank you for your productive work in this forum.
Thank you very much Stephen, Rik and Sir Image Analyst!
Congratulations madhan! You have great enthusiasm and are very helpful to the questionners.
Congratulations Madhan!
Congratulations sir Image Analyst for reaching 50000 reputation points , keep inspiring as always!
(Answers Dev) Congratulations Image Analyst! Thank you for all of your efforts in MATLAB Answers!!
Congratulations, Image Analyst. Thank you for all your contributions!
Big congratulations, Image Analyst! What an amazing milestone!
Congratulations Star Strider for reaching 30000 reputation points!!
Thank you, Walter!
Thank you, Star Strider!
Thank you all!
It is, as always, my pleasure to contribute here!
Congratulations, Star Strider. Thank you for your contributions!
Congratulations, Star Strider! This is another amazing milestone.
Thank you!
(Answers dev) Congratulations to Madhan Ravi our newest (and probably fastest) rising star to get editor status at 3000 reputation points! Thank you so much for your efforts in answers!
Thank you Stephan!
Congratulations Madhan!
Thank you Rena and Stephen!
Welcome to the Master's club madhan ravi!
Congratulations Madhan for being our latest to get the Master badge at 10000!!!! Thank you for all you have ben doing in Answers!
Thank you , I don't think so Rik there are many milestones and sir Walter is a Matlab Legend (GOAT) - the patience and the humbleness that he has is extraordinary!
Congrats with this milestone. If you keep this up you'll overtake Walter within a year or two ;)
Thank you everyone!
Well done Madhan! Thanks for helping the community.
This is an amazing achievement. Congratulations!
Congrats!
(Answers Dev) Congrats to our newest MVP Steven Lord on reaching 5000 points!! Your MVP status will be reflected next to your name on Dec 1! Thank you so much for all of the work you do on MATLAB Answers!!
Congratulations Steven!
Dear Steven: The database thinks that this is your first answer:
Thank you, all.
I don't remember when I started posting to Answers (I could probably find out but eh) but if I keep up this pace of 5000 points in roughly 2 years means I'll get the Grand Master badge in 2026 or 2027 (bearing in mind the perils of extrapolation.)
Steven's answers are usually the best!
Congrats Steven and thanks for the solid contributions! I've learned a lot from your posts.
Many thanks to Steve for his efforts and contributions over the years.
Congratulations!
Thanks!
Steven Lord — 
Congratulations!
Congratulations!
Congrats on getting the Master badge at 10,000 points!! Thank you for all of your efforts on MATLAB Answers!
Excellent!
Well done Steve.
Thanks!
Congratulations, Steven!
Congratulations Steven Lord! Your advice and explanations are gratefully received.
(Answers dev) Congrats to our newest MVP, Fangjun Jiang, who achieved 5000 points and the Ace badge! (The MVP status change will be reflected on November 1st.) Awesome!
Congratulations Fangjun Jiang! Welcome to the club :)
(Answers Dev) Congratulations to KSSV who has passed 10,000 points and got the Master badge!!! Thank you for all of your efforts in MATLAB Answers!
Well done! It was a lot of work to get there!
Well done KSSV! Thanks for being part of the Answers community.
Congratulations to KSSV for achieving this milestone. We have a new Master.
Congratulations KSSV! Your continuous motivation is admirable :)
(Answers Dev) Congratulations to Stephen Cobeldick for reaching 15,000 points in Answers! Thanks for all of your efforts in MATLAB Answers!
@Stephen: In addition you have 25'000 real life points for all the programmers who learned how to avoid eval. You saved a lot of my time also, because I can post a link to your famous thread instead of starting the next fruitless discussion. :-) Thanks again!
Congratulations, Stephen! This is an amazing milestone. Thanks for your outstanding contributions to the community.
(Answers dev) You are most welcome!
Congratz Stephen!
Thank you, Rena Berman. In fact, thank you to all of the staff at TMW who help with my random emailed questions and requests. Most helpful.
(Answers dev) Congrats to Jan who passed 25,000 points and got the Grand Master badge!!! Jan is one of only four people to achieve this badge. Thank you so much for your participation!!
Jan! You - super!
Congratz Jan!
Thank you! There is in fact a long way to go and fortunately there are more milestones in front of me than behind me.
Congratulations on this amazing milestone, Jan!
Well done Jan! Thanks for being part of the Answers community.
Way to go, Jan!
(Answers Dev) Congratulations to Matt J who passed 10,000 points and received the Master badge!!! Thank you so much for all of your hard work in MATLAB Answers!
Congratulations, Matt! This is an amazing milestone.
Congratz Matt!
Thanks for all of the hard work, Matt!
(Answers dev) Congrats to Alan Weiss on getting to 3000 reputation points and and earning all of the editor privileges! Thanks for all of your efforts in MATLAB Answers!
Well done Alan!
Congratulations Alan Weiss!
And thank you for the kind advice and help you have provided to me over the years.
Congratulations, Alan!
(Answers dev) Congrats to Daniel Shub on getting to 3000 reputation points and and earning all of the editor privileges! Also congrats to David Goodmanson and Tom Lane for reaching 1000 reputation points! Thanks for all of your efforts in MATLAB Answers!
(Answers dev) Congrats to Rik Wisselink for getting 1000 reputation points!
Nice to have another skilled contributor!
Congratz Rik!
(Answers Dev) Congratulations to Star Strider for reaching 25000 points and the Grand Master badge!! Thank you so much for all of your efforts in MATLAB Answers!
Thank you!
Congratz Star!
Well done!
Congratulations. What a milestone!
(Answers Dev) Congrats to Thorsten for reaching editor status at 3000 points!
(Answers Dev) Congratulations to Walter Roberson for getting the most accepted answers badge for 2017! Thank you so much for all of your efforts in MATLAB Answers!!
Well deserved! Thank you Walter for your years of tireless dedication and commitment!
Congratz Walter!
And happy new year "20gr18" to y'all .. may the sum of forces be with you!
(Answers dev) Congrats to Torsten for reaching editor status at 3000!
Congratulations!
I always learn from your differential equation Answers.
Congrats!
Congrats, Torsten!
Hi Torsten, Welcome in the team of editors!
Congratulations!
(Answers dev) Congrats to Mischa Kim for reaching editor status at 3000!
(Answers dev) Congratulations to Andrei Bobrov who also passed 10,000 points and earned the Master Badge!
Congrats Andrei and Congrats Stephen!
Congratulations, Andrei!
Thank you very much, my Friends!!!
Big congratulations, Andrei! Great to see we have one more Master.
I've mentioned today already, that you have more reputation in the forum than just the "points". Thanks for your work! :-)
Congratz. Andrei!
>> tic ;
ii*jj+squeeze(mod(permute(kk,[1,8,3,2]),kk)) > 1e4 % !
toc
Elapsed time is negligible.
Hurrah! Congratulations, Andrei Bobrov.
(Answers Dev) Congratulations to Stephen Cobeldick who passed 10,000 points and earned the Master Badge!
Congratulation, Stephen! +1.
What other superpowers does it offer ?
10'000 seems to be a magic limit. But you have more reputation here than just "points", Stephen. Thanks for your work!
Yes, congratulations Stephen!
Congrats!
Thank you all! It did rather creep up on me, I only noticed yesterday.
Congratulations, Stephen. What a milestone!
Congratz Stephen!
(Answers dev) Congrats to Jan Simon who passed 20,000 points!
Do you mean this one:
or the prior one, where I think he had curly hair?
That's both hilarious and intriguing! Now I'm trying to remember his previous picture. Makes me want to try some AB testing on my own profile image.
I kidded Jan that the reason he received so many private requests for help was due to his handsome friendly profile picture. He changed it. Turned out I was accidentally right: the number of requests he got dropped off notably.
I remember when I first started using this forum to find answers I always found Jan's profile picture somehow comforting in my early years of using Matlab.
It is sad to see you leave (partially?), especially for a reason like this. I have learned much from you, and I am sure I'm not alone in that, so I hope to see in future posts as well. I want to thank you for the work you have done to make this community exactly that: a community. Thank you for being a random person on the internet that spends their time helping people.
Thanky you very much. It was a pleasure to participate in this forum.
Unfortunately I have severe problems on my 3 computers to use the interface of the forum in my favorite browser Firefox. I see attached images partially only and cannot use the buttons for flags, delete, insert links or images. The missing auto-correction is hard for me and the too smart auto-indentation and code-completion forces me to delete elements I did not insert before. To reduce such problems I've used an external editor to type my messages, but since the last change of the interface copy&paste of formatting characters does not work anymore.
I'm aware that other people do not suffer from such problems. I've re-installed Firefox, deleted all caches and settings, but to no avail. I do not have such problems in any other web service. I struggle too hard with the usability of the forum's interface and it is time for me to choose another hobby. Therefore I restrict myself now to answer questions for clarifications in my former contributions.
Congratulations Jan!! Thank you for all you do in MATLAB Answers!
Thank you very much Jan!
Thanks to Jan!
And now also congratuations to Jan on 30,000 points!
High quality advice and useful insights into MATLAB: thank you Jan!
Super! You Jan and Walter - my MATLAB's mentors!
+1 for Jan Simon!
Congratulations, Jan!
Thank you!
Congratulations !
Congrats Jan!
Well, belated congratulations as I spot this comment now!
(Answers dev) Congrats to Star Strider who passed 20,000 points!
@Star Strider: After I've read this in your profile message:
MATLAB Answers: Third participant to achieve 20,000 Reputation
(09 Apr 2017)
I thought of inserting this in mine:
MATLAB Answers: First participant to achieve 20,000 Reputation
after Star Strider (02 Oct 2017)
Unfortunately I'm not funny, therefore I left it. ;-)
Thank you, all!
Congratulations
Congratulations, Star strider!
Congratulations to KSSV who just passed 3000 reputation points and now has full editor/moderator privileges.
And to Walter who just passed 30,000 answers.
(Answers dev) Congratulations KSSV!
Better watch out, Walter! Image Analyst is catching up to your volume, with 20,000 answers as of sometime earlier today ;)
Thanks Rena. I just passed 32000 reputation points a short time ago.
(Answers Dev) Congratulations Image Analyst!
Well, it's about time ;-)
I would like to take a moment to thank Azzi Abdelmalek, Jan Simon, and Star Strider, all of whom have now reached the 13000+ reputation range. It takes a lot of work over time to reach those level!
Thank you, too! The 12'000 has been harder than the 13'000.
We have 165'216 members in the forum, 191'594 questions and 135'819 of them are answered. Specialists for many topics are participating and the spam/doItForMe-level is okay currently. This is a nice forum! Thanks to all contributors.
Thank you, Walter!
I look forward to celebrating your reaching 45K.
I'd forgotten about this thread, but I serendipitously ran across it with good timing. I'll toot my own horn a bit, and mention that I passed 5000 reputation, and also sneaked back in to the Top 10 contributors.
I'll take the opportunity to thank all the mega-contributors. While I know I have some expertise in certain corners of the MATLAB universe, I'm regularly humbled when I see the knowledge that other people have!
Congratulations to per who passed 2000 points a few days ago. And congratulations to Star Strider who just surpassed 2000 points last night.
Not only have they given excellent and extremely thorough answers with an extraordinarily high acceptance rates, but they're also enthusiastic fighters in the war against spam in this forum. These extra points will help combat spam since they can now edit the questions to delete the spam content. Another 1000 points and they'll be able to delete the spam entirely, so keep it up Star and per. Hopefully Greg Heath, James Tursa, dpb, Cedric Wannaz, and Roger Stafford will also move up soon.
Thank you all!
Congratulations, Cedric! Welcome to the editor club.
(Answers dev) Congratulations Cedric!
Thank you Jan!
@Cedric: My congratulations. Welcome in the editor team.
Thank you ImageAnalyst! TMW had already given me full privilege so I could do maintenance while slacking far below 3000, but I'll check the mailbox just in case and I'll tell you how it goes ;-)
Congratulations to Cedric Wannaz, who just joined the 3000 points, full privileges club today. Cedric, you should be getting your fully functional light saber in the mail soon ;-)
@All readers: Besides hoping, voting for answers is a certain method to let contributors move up.
(Answers dev) Congratulations John D'Errico!
Congratulations to John D'Errico, who just today officially joined the 3000+ points club!
Thank you, Rena!
(Answers dev) Congratulations Star Strider!
Thank you,Image Analyst!
Congratulations Star Strider on reaching 12,000 points. I just voted for one of your answers and kicked you over that milestone.
Thank you! It has certainly been a learning experience for me :)
Congratulations Stephen!
Nice going, Stephen!
Send one to Stephen Cobeldick too. Congratulations Stephen, I just voted for your answer and it made you reach the exalted 3000 point level so now you have full editor privileges!
Looking forward to it!
Thank you!
Congratulations, Star Strider! A scroll will be sent to you diagramming our secret handshake!
↑ I reached 10000 a few hours ago!
THANKS! I am looking for the guided missile launch button but can't find it ... guess simply deleting the spam will have to do for now.
Congratulations! :-)
It's been a long time coming but finally James Tursa has obtained all editor privileges. Congratulations James!
And congratulations also to Guillaume who passed 3000 today. Now he can also delete spam posts, move misplaced replies, etc.
And also to Per Isakson who got 3000 today. Now he can delete spam posts, like I did with about 10 today that managed to make it past the spam filters into the forum.
Yay! Now Greg Heath also reached the magic 3000 mark.
Thanks, Image Analyst! It's been a great learning experience on this forum (for the past year), and I've had a lot of fun.
Congratulations to Geoff Hayes who just passed 3000 reputation points and now has full moderator/editor privileges.
Congratulations to dpb who just passed 3000 reputation points and now has full moderator/editor privileges (almost Answers version of god mode).
Congratulations again to Roger, one of the most helpful volunteers, who just reached 3000 and now has full privileges!
Congratulations to Roger Stafford who just passed 2000 and is now able to edit posts for clarity, formatting, and to get rid of spam.
And also to Oleg Komarov. I also voted him a bunch of points to tip him over the 3000 threshold. He now has all privileges, such as deleting posts, etc.
Azzi just passed 10,000 points today. Well done Azzi. Thousands of people have been helped by you.
And just this morning dpb passed the 2000 milestone so he should be getting plasma now too. Congratulations dpb - well deserved! You can now edit away spam and fix formatting. "Flag" spam and delete contents, I'll delete the post when I see it flagged.
Thanks! Plasma is finally coming out of my light-saber when I push the button now. (If only there was a "delete/block user and everything they post" button it would be a lot easier).
Congratz James!
James Tursa also just passed 2000. He can now edit away spam links and fix formatting of other's code. Please flag and tag the posts as Spam so I can find them and delete them later.
Congratulations Greg! And yes, the only non-accepted answers that he has are from these unavoidable 30% of people who never come back to click on [accept].
Congratulations to Greg Heath who has passed 2000 reputation points and earned the extra capabilities that go along with it! Greg has far and away the record for the highest percentage of accepted answers - more than double mine. Like Secretariat, his records may never be broken.
Congratulations to Cedric who motivates me to learn MATLAB by sharing his valuable knowledge and great hints.
Thank you Image Analyst! (and thank you for the last few votes!)
I'm on the move, I'll answer later tonight.
Congratulations to Cedric who has earned 2000 points and the extra capabilities that go along with it! We need him, especially since #1 contributor Walter seems to have gone on sabbatical - haven't heard from Walter since around May 22 or so.
Congratz Per and Star!
Spam-wise, may my complaint be heard and editors and/or members with 3k+ rep. given the possibility to block temporarily accounts (or at least block the possibility to post answers and comments), because it is not acceptable that e.g. account Danial Monark could come during a whole week end, post probably a good 30 spams (and way more if it is the same moron + bot behind the other accounts), while the only options that even editors (= benevolent members who spend a lot of time and energy to make this forum as valuable as it is) have, is to clean the mess every single time.
Dear Walter,
10'000 answers are a large and great piece of work!
Thanks.
Don't they do that kind of thing in the Trendy forum? (BTW I meant Accepted answers.)
Yeah. I've written 2460 not accepted answers. Some of them belong to threads I've posted multiple answers in, some of them are simply wrong (and Walter found the problems frequently - thanks!), some of them have been off topic because I always try to see the deeper sense behind a question, some of them are ignored, but in most cases other answers have been better.
Did somebody found out how to inject SQL code in the interface to solve questions like: Number of my unaccepted and unvoted answers, or ratio of comments to questions to comments to answers ?
Jan reached 1000 Accepted Answers. I remember that was a difficult milestone to reach, representing a lot of work.
Jan, so is 1000 answers. Congratulations on exceeding that today!
Thanks!
I held off replying here for a few hours, waiting for another milestone to be reached as well. I am now past 10000 answers, 3200 accepted answers, and 18000 reputation. Which makes me a Community Editor "a dozen times over" :-)
Azzi Abdelmalek is the first to cross the old editor boundary (1500 rep) and now is in excess of 1600 rep. Well done.
Congratulations to Azzi, who has just passed 12345 !
A big Thank You to Image Analyst, who at this very moment is at 5000 reputation!
Congratulations to Image Analyst and Guillaume
(Answers Dev) Congratulations also to Guillaume on reaching 10,000!!
(Answers Dev) Congratulations Image Analyst on reaching 40,000!!
Congratulations to Image Analyst upon reaching 40000 reputation! Getting there takes enormous dedication, countless hours of work, and a heck of a lot of patience!
Ya haw!
IA, the beta version of the Mind Reading Toolbox will be on its way to you as soon as they can get a clean build!
And now just hit 25000!
And now over 15000 for Image Analyst! Congratulations for all the hard work. And our sympathy about all the spam.
12000+ for Image Analyst!
10'000 thanks to image analyst! And notice that his reputation number would be much higher, if the forum users would vote more diligently :-)
Double thanks to Image Analyst, who this afternoon passed 10000 reputation!
Congrats to Jan Simon, who reached 6000 reputation a moment ago!
Jan you could be on to something. I'm leaving for Europe for 2 weeks on Monday. I'll go there at least twice in June, and maybe in August also, after going to Asia and Latin America in July. Still trying to figure out if I'll be in Frankfurt Germany the last week of June but since I've already "done" Heidelberg I'll probably look for some other place to be a tourist. I also second Walter's congratulations.
@Walter: And I thank you for looking at such details.
@Image Analyst: So please say hello the next time. Some days ago I woke up in the middle of the night with an convincing insight: Billions of human use toothbrushes. :-)
Thank You for the many contributions of Jan Simon, who has passed 8000 reputation and 4300 Answers!
I should put some effort into that too. I have several dozen short image processing demos illustrating various things and I keep thinking I should post them all as a "grab bag of image processing demos." But the number of demos keeps growing so I keep putting it off. You do have a nice collection in your FEX. By the way, had I known in advance I might have tried to meet you in person. I was walking around the University of Heidelberg in September 2011 (a Sunday sightseeing trip from Frankfurt where I was staying). I didn't know you were there.
@Image Analyst: You have written 4 month ago:
I think I'll have a long way to go before I pass your reputation points, if ever.
I do not agree with your definition of "long", but without doubt the work is "hard".
I'm going to reduce my contributions here and care a little bit about the FEX.
Jan passed 7000 reputation earlier this evening!
@Image Analyst: I have only 43 more accepted answers. The surprising difference in the points might come from voted answers and my 36 questions. But the counting is still a little bit mysterious for me - I guess the accepted answers are counted in real time, but voted answers once per hour only, or something like this.
Last year my reputation number made a jump of 1500 points over one weekend. I asked TMW for an explanation and they found out, that this have been caused over 700 votes from one user. They asked him or her for an explanation, but did not get an sufficient answer as far as I understood. Finally I got back my old reputation number again.
Perhaps this silent follower voted again, but less striking by distributing it over several weeks instead of hours.
Anyway, my conclusion is, that the reputation number can be influences by cheating or let me calling "strange effects", but the number of given answers combined with the quality is a hard fact.
It could be a cause for users to hesitate to accept your answers, that some of your answers contain a lot of code. A beginner could be overwhelmed by this, although the answer is correct and useful. Look at the difference between the information density in the question and the answer in this Example. But this is exactly the cause, why the editors can accept answers also. I'm going to look for your answers.
But what I wanted to say is: I personally can profit from your answers and the shared knowledge, and this will concern many many of other forum users also. Thanks.
[EDITED] I've checked about 300 of your answers. It was depressing. Most of the threads without an accepted answer have a brute lack of feedback from the OPs. I've seen over 100 of your questions for clarifications without an answer. I have to stop the reviewing for today due to comming near to my frustration limit. There have been a lot of vital discussions between you and Walter, while the OPs did loose the interest.
Therefore my conclusion is: The procedure of accepting an answer does not only measure the quality of the answer, but also the interest of the OP in his/her own answer as well as the respect for the forum. Do you know understand, why I think that the number of answers is hard, while the reputation points and acceptance rates are more fluffy? But without doubt they are a useful democratic method to control the editor powers in the forum.
I'm still way behind you Jan (4666 vs. 6011) in reputation points, though I'm #2 in number of answers posted. I guess your Accepted rate being higher than mine gives you 30% more reputation points. I think I'll have a long way to go before I pass your reputation points, if ever. I doubt anyone will ever surpass Walter. Looking back over my posts I see an extraordinarily high number of questions never accepted - much more than the others. Even though they say in a comment it was solved, they never seem to mark it as accepted, or at least at a lower rate than everyone else for some reason.
Thanks, Walter.
And congratulations to Image Analyst, who ascended to rank 2 in the list of contributors! Due to the aim (and name) of this forum, the number of (good) answers is more important than the "reputation" number.
Andrei Bobrov has reached Double Editor, 3000 reputation!
Congratulations to those who have reached at least 500 Accepted Answers:
andrei bobrov
Fangjun Jiang
Image Analyst
Jan Simon
Sean de Wolski
Walter Roberson
500 Accepted Answers takes a lot of time and dedication and skill (and patience!). I would say that this is the hardest of the milestones to meet!
Dear Walter, thanks and congratulations. I appreciate the respect you show by sorting the list alphabetically - just a tiny detail, but I like it, that you care.
Congratulations to Andrew, Daniel, and the cyclist, all of whom have exceeded 1500!
For the historical record, the people who have currently reached or exceeded 1500 include,
andrei bobrov
Andrew Newell
Daniel
Fangjun Jiang
Image Analyst
Jan Simon
Kaustubha Govind
Matt Fig
Oleg Komarov
Paulo Silva
Sean de Wolski
the cyclist
Walter Roberson
Wayne King
... and today I also snuck over 12000 !
Congrats to Image Analyst, who has reached 3000, and to Sean de Wolksi who has reached 3500!
I missed this when it was first posted, but thanks for the congrats!
I guess I should be happy that Answers hasn't had any down time in the past few weeks, but it would be nice if I could get the keys.
I passed 7000 questions answered sometime in the last couple of days.
Congratulations to Jan for reaching 4000 reputation!
Amusingly, I myself would much prefer the milk (or the cheese.) Just a preference. But Black Forest Cake (Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte) doesn't taste right if it doesn't have Kirsch!
According to the US norms, it is the country in which the beer originates that determines if it is an import, regardless of where the beer is brewed. In the UK, it is the location of the brewery that determines import/domestic status. By the US standards, Guiness is Irish and is therefore an import everywhere expect Ireland.
@Daniel, Thanks, I've known that this forum is fine to improve social interactions and intercultural communication.
@Walter: I'll take a Guiness after sunset and think of you and the other forum members. I have no idea if Guiness is "import or domestic" in Germany, because I drink one beer per year only. I'm not sure if you reached the 15'000 before I got 5'000. Anyhow, you've earned 3 bottles of beer.
While Walter could be refering th cheese (I like that idea) or cars, typically "import or domestic" is a question asked in the US about ones preference for "beer" (which encompasses ale, lager, stout, etc).
I like French and Swiss cheese, but prefer German milk because it needs less resources for the transport. But I'm not sure, which object is meant by "Import or Domestic" and googled this term. The first hit tells me: "Foreign car or domestic? Reputation isn't the only factor".
Jan reached 5000 reputation!
Jan, do you prefer Import or Domestic?
I am not sure but I don't think Andrei, Kaustubha, or IA got their props for making it to editor.
Congratulations to Sean de for passing Matt and moving into 4th.
I cannot tell if Jan's jump was earned or magical, but well done getting past 5000.
Props: 'Slang term for "accolades", "proper respect", or "just dues".'
Editor: last time I checked, they had to enable each person individually. Not just by setting a flag either: it seemed to require a downtime.
There is no special sign or sigal marking editor status: the main way to know that you have it is that suddenly there is a Delete control for _all_ content. Oh yes, and also a big black button with glowing black lettering that says, "Do not click this!" (Urrr, sorry about that last system crash!)
I don't know what props are unless you're talking about regionprops(). I also don't know that I'm an editor - I've never gotten notice of that and don't see any special links on any Answers page for "us editors." I'm #10 on the list - how high do you need to get to get special privileges?
I hear angels singing ...
Alas, Jan magically jumped backwards again :(
But Andrew wandered over the 1500 mark sometime today! Editor Andrew!
If someone feels like playing with curve fitting, here are the figures as of last night for Accepted Answers for the 770 people who have had any Answers accepted:
[1 1 4 1 2 1 2 1 3 1 1 2 1 1 1 5 1 17 1 10 1 1 1 1 1 2 6 309 1 1 1 2 58 1 4 259 1 3 3 1 2 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 12 1 1 2 1 1795 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 3 7 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 5 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 6 1 115 1 2 1 5 31 2 2 1 2 1 3 1 1 2 2 1 1 16 2 2 1 1 252 1 4 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 1 1 1 1 1 1 21 3 1 1 22 1 1 1 10 4 1 1 1 386 1 1 1 1 2 1 4 209 15 1 1 1 1 11 1 1 7 11 3 1 1 1 3 3 1 1 1 1 116 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 10 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 5 3 1 1 1 43 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 5 5 3 1 6 3 2 1 1 4 1 1 9 234 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 1 38 11 45 2 1 3 13 1 5 1 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 78 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 54 4 1 1 1 1 1 15 1 5 3 11 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 3 16 1 1 6 1 4 1 2 4 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 5 2 1 1 1 1 153 6 66 1 1 1 1 1 1 7 2 1 1 22 1 1 1 20 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 3 1 1 2 1 1 34 2 280 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 9 1 1 5 1 1 127 3 1 18 1 5 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 8 1 2 1 5 1 1 1 5 1 26 8 1 1 1 26 1 1 1 1 1 18 1 3 1 1 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 3 1 7 6 1 2 16 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 17 6 3 2 1 1 1 1 48 2 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 518 2 2 1 1 268 1 19 1 1 1 4 1 1 7 1 9 1 1 3 4 1 1 1 1 1 8 16 1 1 1 1 5 29 1 1 1 1 25 1 1 1 2 1 635 1 1 1 11 2 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 2 7 12 10 1 1 1 1 1 1 57 55 1 1 9 1 1 1 2 1 1 359 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 2 2 1 1 1 46 1 42 1 1 1 2 12 10 1 1 11 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 5 1 42 2 1 97 26 97 1 1 2 1 1 4 1 1 2 2 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 10 2 131 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 5 1 1 1 5 5 6 1 2 1 8 4 1 1 1 1 1 423 1 1 23 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 29 1 1 5 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 4 1 8 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 228 93 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 16 3 3 44 12 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 33 1 1 2 7]
I cannot seem to make much of it, even if I remove the obvious outlier. The tail of 1's is so long that it distorts everything else. Though if I remove the 1's, then log-log tends to a straight-ish line.
Recent news:
... and BAM! Walter hits 25,000! Congratulations are in order again. It's impressive to see, but depressing to compare :)
Timeline:
that was 10,000 on 2012-02-05
and then 15,000 on 2012-07-21
and then 20,000 on 2013-03-02
and then 25,000 on 2013-11-09
The countdown to 100,000 continues...
Original:
Has it been noted yet that Walter has reached five figures in reputation? Wow!
Congratulations on 10000 Walter!
Cheers, Sven.
100k today. 8 months for the last 10k; and 50k took 46 months.
(Answers Dev) Congratulations on passing 90,000!!! Amazing!
For some years I've voted for any working solution and nice Matlab code. I admit that I have reduced my voting frequency without a good reason.
I took some time off to play some random computer games.
Well a lot of Walter's answers have actually been in places where they could earn no points, such as in a comment to someone else's answer, or in a comment to the poster up at the top. So changing that could get you back up to your normal warp speed pace.
@Walter: The "slow down" does not necessarily reflect the intensity of your participation, but it can be a result of a changed behavior at voting and accepting.
85001 on May 1, 2019, so 10000 in 10 1/2 months, definitely a slow down for me.
+1 nice to see the data logs it’s amazing to know the records being shattered by sir Walter
(Answers Dev) Congratulations on an amazing achievement!!
Congratulations, but you'd better quit goofing off and get to work.
75003 on June 17, 2018, so this 15000 took 11 1/4 months.
So I am still averaging less than 2 points per calendar hour ;-(
Well done!
What a milestone! Congratulations.
(Answers dev) Congratulations Walter!!!
60000+ on July 6, 2017, so about 8 1/2 months for the last 10000.
(Answers dev) You'll be at 60,000 before we know it!
I reached 55000 reputation in the last couple of days, just shy of 5 months after 50000; so I am averaging about 1000 per month now, which is a little slower than before. About 1 1/3 points per hour ;-)
@walter Congratulations! Another milestone.
Congratulations!!
I just reached 10000 Accepted ;-)
(Answers Dev) Congratulations!!!
Yes, congratulations!
Congratulations again to Walter Roberson who has (as of the time of this Comment) achieved —
50011!
(Answers dev) Congratulations Walter!
Congratulations, Walter!
You’ll likely be at 50K before the end of the year!
May 18, 2016: 45000 reputation today. I passed 25000 Answers last week.
Congratulations, Image Analyst! Thanks for your outstanding contributions.
(Answers dev) Congratulations Image Analyst!
Excellent! I have been watching Image Analyst get so close, but missed seeing the odometer roll over ;-)
My pleasure.
I sort of had a hand in that last vote!
Thanks Star - I didn't even know until now.
Congratulations to Image Analyst for 30,000!
Well earned!
Congratulations, Walter! Awesome!
(Answers dev) Congratulations Walter!
That allusion’s completely lost on anyone under 40!
Nah, this generation is like ours, never trust anyone over 40.
Yeah but not for long. 50 will be here before you know it.
Congratulations, Walter!
A very well-earned 40K!
January 30, 2016: 40000 this morning.
October 4, 2015: I reached 35002.
He would restart at −32,768, which would give us a few weeks ;-)
Even if you did rollover/start over, you'd soon "lap" the rest of us and be in the lead again!
Nah, a 32 bit integer should be good enough for anyone (unless you're planning to post an answer as popular as Gangnam Style.) grin
Next check a little after 65535! ;-) And congratulations!
It turns out that Mathworks does not use a 16 bit signed integer to store reputation. It would have amused me to have "wrapped the table" at 32768 ;-)
For the record, it was another year and a half for the next 5000; I reached 30000 today May 21, 2015.
Congratulations Jan!
Jan just entered the elite 5 figure club! Well done indeed.
And today or yesterday Answers surpassed 100,000 questions. It's at 100,175 now.
Congratulations on attaining a reputation of 27003 on Jan 29, 2014.
Dec 18 2013, 26003. (Noted for my own purposes.)
Today I crossed 25009 reputation.
May 2, 2013 - over 4000 Accepted Answers.
April 1, 2013 - 21000. The end-of-year rush for assignments helps.
I've considered turning Oleg's code above into a trendy... I'd need to plot things on log scale however to give the rest of us some pixels on the graph.
You just passed 20,000 though! Almost 3 times as much as anyone else! You got 5000 points in like 7 months and it takes me maybe a year or two to accumulate 5000 points. Has anyone ever done a trendy on reputation? I think it would show Walter pulling away from the pack.
March 3, 2013 -- apparently I'm slowing down in my old age.
This afternoon, July 21 2012, I reached 15000 reputation -- and I still have two lives and one power-up pill remaining!
I don't know how I managed to sneak in another 1000 in the last 30 days -- I was mostly huddling in bed sleeping off the February Blahs.
So what -- five figures isn't that m... Oh. You don't mean in binary, do you...
Holy crap. Nicely done, Walter. I join Daniel in voting this up to the top.
This one is impressive enough that I am up voting it. Well done Walter.
It's a feat that will not soon be repeated.
Congratulations to Jan and Fangjun, both of whom have exceeded 2500 reputation!
Kaustubha has so many quality answers that I am startled she is not higher. I should take more time to vote for her answers.
And Matt -- come back! We need your humpday puzzlers!
Kaustubha Govind reached the 1000.
And Matt Fig concentrates on other fields of work. Hi Matt!
Oct 9, 2011 22:22 UTC-5:
It was a steep climb, but I made it! I crept over 6000 reputation yesterday, and reached 1000 Accepted Answers late tonight, having also reaching 3700 Answered questions.
The 1000 Accepted Answers point was a hard one to reach! It's getting tougher and tougher to edge out the other great answers ;-)
June 27, 2012:
Today I passed 8000 Answers and 2500 Accepted Answers! Porridge for all my tomte !
March 28, 2012:
While I wasn't looking today, I passed 2000 Accepted Answers. My glasses were broken for a week recently so I didn't think I'd reach that this month.
Jan 1, 2012
This evening, I squeaked through to 1500 Accepted Answers. Now that was tough work!
Dec 16, 2011
Sometime yesterday or today, I passed 8500 reputation and 5000 Answers. Oh! Oh! Jiminy Crickets!
September 4, 2011:
Congratulations to Oleg for reaching 1500 reputation, making him eligible to join the motley crew of Community Editors!
Oleg welcome to the editors and thanks for sharing your knowledge and for all the help provided, the same goes for all regular contributors and editors, good work!
Thanks, happy to join the evil editors!! :)
August 31, 2011: yesterday evening I passed 5000 reputation, and this morning I passed 3000 questions Answered.
Time for a nap, I think.
Walter you should receive MathWorks T-shirts or any other TMW goodies for your help ;)
Walter congratulations, you are also testing the system (MATLAB Answers) while helping others :) thanks for sharing your huge knowledge with us.
Congratulations to Jan Simon for reaching 1517 reputation, and thus becoming our newest Community Editor in Waiting!
Thanks, Walter. Now I'm not waiting just seconds for the characters to appear, but also hours, days, weeks and month until this problem is fixed. Now I'm waiting for something more?! Nevertheless, I like MATLAB Answers.
I'm not sure if a fixed limit is really helpful. I think the TMW team should decide this dynamically.
Does the above code still worK?
I still get the following error message:
>> [metainfo, elapsedTime] = metainfo('reputation','asc')
??? Error using ==> reshape
Product of known dimensions, 3, not divisible into total number of elements, 200.
Error in ==> metainfo at 82
metainfo(1+(p-1)*50:endpos,5:7) = reshape(cat(1,data{:}),3,[]).';
Congratulations to our newest editor-in-waiting, Sean de!
Sean was not available for comment at press time, but rumors are that he and his cousin R. Goldberg have something in the works!
Congratulations to Paulo for achieving 1500 and editorship!
(Apologies for the delay in noticing; I have been traveling.)
Thanks Walter, this spy still doesn't care about Reputation points, just here to learn and help others at the same time :)
Congratulations to Andrew Newell, who has reached 1000 reputation!
Congratulations to Sean de for promotion to Elite 1000 status! Sean is now entitled to complimentary pretzels when his Answers are delayed for 4 hours or more!
Congratulations to Jan Simon, who just become the fourth person to reach 1000 reputation!
Thanks! I hope to provide answers *in* a very short time, if the preview can be disabled in the near future ;-)
Congratulations to Jan also, may he continue to provide good answers for a very long time :)
Congrats to Walter for reaching 3,000 points - a double editor!
O.k., so it is a little early (2999 points as of now), but I may miss the actual rollover tonight. It's a preemptive congratulations.
So now we know what all of Santa's elves are doing during the off months ...
I knew it!!!
Okay, now I can celebrate!
I'd like to thank my team of substitute-sleepers, without whom this would never have been possible!
I don't open my xmas presents early ;-)
A big congratulations to Matt Fig for reaching 2004 reputation!
Speech! Speech! Speech!
And congratulations for reaching 2500!
44% right now! Since you first pointed this out above I have been trying to get to 45%. That is about as good as I could hope for with the amount of questions I answer...
There are others who have near 50% or more: Great job to them!
And your acceptance rate is still going up! I am beginning to suspect an inside job.
Thanks, Walter!
No comment at this time... Haha.
Congratulations to Arnaud Miege for reaching 500!
Arnaud also has 97 Accepted and so will likely be at 100 within days.
We now have 10 Charter Members of the 500 Club :) Dues statements will be sent out shortly ;-)
Congratulations to Arnaud for reaching 100 Accepted Answers!
Please welcome Kaustubha Govind to the 500 Club!!
And congratulations to Kaustubha for having reached 100 Accepted answers!
Thanks to Oleg, who took time from his exams to reach 100 accepted answers!
Thank you Walter! My exams ended today with a mediocre performance in econometrics...was thinking to change completely direction and study computer science or go for maths, but afraid to start over after 3+1 years of uni...
Fittingly, time to congratulate the author of this thread. 600 rep for Oleg!
Thanks! Although for the next week I will have to reduce/stop my answering frequency (exams)
Now that the first 6 on the list have all reached 100 or more Accepted answers, is it time to start a new round? :)
Or do we wait for the first 10 to all reach 100+ Accepted Answers?
Perhaps, just as needed: Pin the Answer to the Comment!
Pin the Meaning on the Question ...
Now you've got me trying to imagine what a MATLAB party would be like... We could play Find and Fseek, and Bobbing For Logical Indices, and Hula-Loops... and we could have Pi à la ModeManager...
Party now!
subsref({'Matt Tearle'},substruct('{}',{Accepted>=100}))
Thank you. Passing 100 is my favorite milestone so far.
And Andrew too! Congrats!
Sean de took a break from his studies long enough to reach 500 reputation! Will he be granted his Master Of Fine Answers??
In less than two years, Sean has increased his reputation 10-fold, to over 5000! Congratulations!
Various congratulations are in order.
- Walter's 1500th answer
- Walter breaking 2500 rep
- Matt Fig's 500th answer
- Paulo breaking 1000 rep (OK, jumping the gun, but it's imminent)
- Jan's 100th accepted answer
- Jan breaking 800 rep
- Andrew stealing 5th place
- Sean's 300th answer
- My 300th answer, but most important of all...
- My rep reaching the appropriate value of 666. Mwahahahaha!!!!
7. Wait - stealing? I paid the admins good money!
yay! thanks Walter although the number still means nothing to me besides that I'm spending too much time here :(
Congrats to Paulo for (factually) reaching 1001!
Gah! How evil of you.
So by voting for this answer I've made you less evil!
Please welcome Oleg to the 500 club!
Seriously, though, congratulations to both of you. I will follow your future careers with interest.
I think Andrew meant,
HEY MATT CAN U FORMAT THIS PLZZZ?! ITS URGENT!!!!!!
Thank you guys :)
Hey, Matt, format this. ;)
Welcome Oleg to the 500 club, also Matt Fig for his new Editor status !!!!
For once I get to scoop Walter:
Congratulations to Walter R for successfully avoiding any Y2K issues in rolling over to the big "double M".
Miss Jelin will be kicking herself for missing out.
While they might be fully justified in firing me for spending too much time here, I think they chose leniency because, after all, I do spend my time telling everyone how great logical indexing is :)
Paulo's almost right, but don't expect a paycheck anytime soon. Apparently the logos have been removed so that we're all, like, one, man. [sing kumbayah here] Or something like that.
or we are all working for mathworks now ahahah the symbol is irrelevant :P
What happened to the logo next to your name, Matt? I hope this is a change in MA rather than your employment situation....
"scheduled maintenance" my backside! It was you, wasn't it, Walter -- your 2038 rep rollover crashed MATLAB Answers!
How will you cope with the guilt? All those desperate people needing urgent help on their secant method homework. All on your conscience!
Nearly there. Be glad Helen Chen isn't Mayan, or your rep would have just reset.
I'm a Unix person: the important roll-over is 2038!
Congratulations to Andrew Newell, who joined the 500 club, and is now presently at 525!
Andrew, you will be sent an autographed picture of Miss Jelin -- as soon as we can convince Oleg to give it up.
I still haven't got that picture ...
Congratulations to Matt Fig for reaching reputation 1001!
Let's see... that's 500 in 27 days... now carry the 1... Ah, about 130 a week.
Congratulations, too, on your amazing 38% acceptance rate. I'm going to have to start studying your methods!
It was only one tinny little line plot! Oh yah, and a few polyfit line plots of course. No more than a handful of spline plots. But no log scale plots, I swear!
I knew there was a reason you were keeping a record! I bet you have even plotted some of this stuff, no? ;)
Thanks Walter.
Congrats Walter for answering 1000 Questions!
Thanks!
Congratulations to Matt Fig for reaching 100 accepted Answers!
Thanks Walter! BTW, we need to talk Oleg into removing that first 4 page answer to ease the scrolling here.
It has been a long day, goodnight...
Congratulations to Matt Tearle for reaching 500!
Thank you. Amusing thing #1: you noticed this before I did. In fact, I noticed only because of this post! Amusing thing #2: forget the elegant one-liners, forget the cunning MATLAB guru tricks, the answer that takes me past the 500 milestone is... http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/3791-how-to-store-5-or-6-files-output-into-same-excel-file
(Using my personal definition of "amusing", obviously)
Congratulations to Paulo for reaching 100 accepted Answers!
Congratulations to Jan for leaping past 500!
Thanks, Walter. I have to decide between leaping and sleeping.
Congratulations to Paulo for reaching 501! One good lap and he could overtake Matt!
Has anyone done a statistical analysis of the distribution of reputations? In my trials, exp() of a polynomial looked to fit a bit better than a plain polynomial. I sampled over the first 22 reputations; degree 5 was the least unsatisfactory. Degree 6 did fit the sample data better, but of course even degrees have to go back up, leading to a projection that further people would have high reputations. Degree 7 complained that the polynomial was badly conditioned.
I didn't sample far enough to get in to the bulk of the values. At the moment, 298 people have non-zero reputations, with 66 of those being reputation 2 and 91 being reputation 1.
I'm curious as to whether it matches some common distribution such as pareto.
Congratulations to Matt Fig for making it to 500 before I made it to 1000! He increased from 388 to 501 in about a day and a half, during which time I only increased from 901 to 966.
Numerical projections last night based upon answer acceptance rates were that it would take another 1310 questions answered each before he caught up, so clearly his solutions have been found vote-worthy.
Next test is at max int32 :-)
Congratz! Next test at max uint32 ;-)
So it turns out Steven Lord was right, that reputations do not "wrap" at 65536...
So, next level 1048576...
Btw, can you give a look at the function in the first post...it stops whenever finds 'strange' chars (I don't understand much about character encoding).
Thanks
Yee haw! I made it to 1024 and beyond! I am now a Level 2 Matlab User, with a gain of +1 Wisdom and +1 Charisma!
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Yes, I know. I was working on a semidefinite version of a single function...but really don't have time (especially to test it) to update now.
Nice function, but the charData output runs into trouble if the user name is longer than 29 characters - as is true for user #1695138.
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@Walter: Sorry, I stopped voting for answers because I got the feeling, that voting is old-fashioned in this forum.
Walter, sleeping too much lately :D!
Looks like I'm slowing down -- barely 300 more reputation points earned in the last two weeks. Matt is accelerating, though!
Matt Fig continues to spoil my plans for utter domination -- curse you, Snoopy!!
I wonder if Mathworks could add a page sub-structure, such as
answers/1058-contributors-metainfo-reputation-and-more/serialnum
where the serialnum was incremented each time some content of the page changed -- especially a new answer, a new comment or an answer or comment deleted, but a upon an edit of some sort would probably be beneficial as well for other purposes. The same reasons you would want to know about text edits might want to know about voting changes a well; perhaps two or more fields could be used.
For stats purposes, you would look at the serial number of the structure changes; if it was the same as what you had recorded, then there are no posts from new people. For people wanting to implement "feeds" of their own, the serial number of the content itself would be the one to test against. For people wanting to do "mirrors", a change in any of the three fields (including voting info) indicate the page needs to be recopied.
I'm trying to find a more efficient way to collapse all the stats...and the fcn below should also be updated...bugs...there will be for now. Testing requires more than 20 minutes now (especially because of my connection...). Btw is there any way to avoid loading the whole page but just to a certain point??
The top 20 points-per-answer amongst those who have posted at least 10 answers:
6.4 | Kenneth Eaton
3.8 | Andreas Goser
3.8 | Matt Fig
3.2 | Rob Graessle
3.1 | Martijn
3.0 | Doug Hull
3.0 | Jiro Doke
2.8 | Jan Simon
2.8 | Ned Gulley
2.8 | Seth Popinchalk
2.5 | Sanchali Purandare
2.4 | David Young
2.4 | John D'Errico
2.4 | Oleg Komarov
2.4 | the cyclist
2.3 | Siddharth Shankar
2.3 | Vieniava
2.2 | Mark Biesiada
2.1 | Andrew Newell
2.1 | Paulo Silva
And special congratulations to Edric Ellis, who has earned his reputation of 66 with just 5 answers.
Take a look on No 28 (reputation=2), No 35 (reputation = 0 ). Bug?
I was actually surprised at how simplistic the reputation calculation is -- no eigenvalues? no graph Laplacians? what gives?! At very least, I'd like to see credit given for an answer that remains the only answer for several days. That generally seems to indicate that it's the right answer but the asker never bothered to accept it. (I guess I should start up-voting those when I see them.)
Walter, you are in the top cause, among others, you experienced Matlab user and smart person.
Oleg, leave the job ("reputation processing") to the Mathworks team :)
Average points per post might be interesting. post = (questions + answers) should be relatively easy to fetch. Points are not allocated per comment (though sometimes I think they should be, so a good comment can be rewarded), but in at least one sense should perhaps count in "posts"; that would require using "parse every Question" strategy though.
If you do decide to do points-per-post then you might want to put a minimum on the number of posts required, as otherwise someone who posts just once and gets a couple of votes could easily end up on top of the list.
I am averaging less than 2 points per post and can see several people from about John D'Errico (20 points) and above whom I would consider valid points-per-post leaders on the basis of sustained contributions. I do _not_ expect to lead the list: I'm at the top of the point totals now through volume, not through quality.
Vieniava, I was wondering the same thing.
I subcontract out my sleep to villages in developing countries, through an Eco-Trade Network.
Walter Roberson, do you sleep? :)
I was thinking maybe log scale ;-)
Walter should get a handicap. ;)
Efficiency gain would stem from the fact that a single post will serve as a reference and it will eventually grow and stay on top as people post here. The retrieval of scores would be faster since only one urlread would be virtually needed and the number of records per author is reduced to 1 (the perfect case)
@Walter: it could be charted day by day. It would be easier if not just I had the ability to edit the initial post (in order to updated the chart)
Now if it can be charted day by day...
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