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[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

Sorry Moe, forgot to answer the Bunny part. Bunnies are covered. Completely.

Fetch a stat from http://www.cmve.net/~merijn or https://www.beepz.com/personal/merijn and check the last few columns. The headers should say enough. The last column is the avarage number of points a member has gotten asigned to his answers.

If you want some other sorting, just fetch the list and reorder using sort or perl.

Enjoy, have FUN! H.Merijn

[Moe Wodnicki]

I am aware of the Bunny stats on beepz. I was trying to get you to add it next to a person's point totals on the forum pages. Maybe an icon of a bunny with a number. Maybe you could remove the meaningless self-assigned star and replace it with a bunny and a number representing the number of bunnies that person has accrued. The self-assigned star IMHO is a mistake. A lot of people are experts only in their own minds. The bunny count would be more representative of a person's expertise IMHO. Thanks for listening.

[Patrick Wallek]

Moe,

There is NO WAY that Merijn (procura) would be able to replace the star under a persons name with something else. The main reason is: Merijn does NOT work for HP. The stuff he has done is purely on his own time and out of the goodness of his heart.

The stat you request would have to come from HP and Dan Gazzaniga and his team.

I personally don't see much use in such a stat, but each person is entitled to his/her own opinion.

By the way, probably 99% of those of us that answer questions on this board are NOT HP employees. We just enjoy helping people and getting them going in the right direction when they have a problem.

[John Bolene]

Just about like clockwork, the forums got dog slow again today around 9:30 CST

I have given up using the forums between 9 AM and noon CST as I just cannot stand the pain.

I waited until 15:00 CST to find the current gripe list and add to it.

[Wodisch]

"atlantic" - do I have to say more?

[Moe Wodnicki]

Patrick, I was unaware that Merijn wasn't affiliated with HP. I wouldn't imagine anyone would devote so much time to doing what he did with no affiliation. I'm a volunteer myself. Say you're the average first time customer visiting the forums. You post a question and someone with a self assigned "expert" star next to his name answers. He has a green cap, 2 bunnies. His response is totally wrong, but how would the customer know? Another person with an HP logo, Wizard hat, 10 bunnies answers and directs him to a page on the HP site with absolutely no relevance to the problem, but again how would he know? Then someone answers with a grad cap and 100 bunnies. He has a totally different take on it and is right. How else would he get all the bunnies? You're the first time customer. Who's advice would you believe, knowing nothing about your equipment? Another point to consider is that the bunnies would feed our egos more than points because the bunny is more representative of actual "solves". There aren't many forum helpers that know about Merijn's stats page and it takes time to go there and check your standings. Mine are still 2 weeks out of date.
Dan, what do you think about the bunny idea?

[Patrick Wallek]

Hi Moe,

Not to start too much of a debate here, BUT, The number of "magic rabbit" answers a person has, does not necessarily mean that his / her answer is going to be any better than anyone elses.

I do understand what you mean though. All answers here are "No Lifeguard On Duty - Swim At Your Own Risk". I sincerely HOPE that everyone that posts realizes that. The best of us make mistakes. No one that I know would purposely post something that would kill your machine, but ANYTHING is possible.

By the way, you can see how many 8-10 point answers each person has by going to their profile (click on the name), then scroll all the way down to the "Solutions" column and click on the "more..." link at the bottom of that list.

Here's the link to mine as an example:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/TopSolutions/1,,CA18242!1!solutions,00.html

Don't get me wrong, I am probably one of the Forums biggest supporters, I LOVE THIS PLACE, but I don't particularly like the bunny idea, but that's just my opinion.

You should also look at it this way though -- If you added that functionality, then EVERY TIME a person loads a page, the Forums servers would have to go through EVERYONE'S profile, compute the number of "Magic Rabbit" answers they have, generate the graphic, and display it. Let's face it, the Forums are slow enough at times (sorry Dan!), let's not add anymore work for them to do when you load a page.

OK, I'll get off my soapbox now.

Have fun in the Forums, Moe.

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

Thanks for the kind words Patrick :)

Moe, for what it's worth, it takes more time to answer the FAQ about the stats, than it takes to maintain the stats, which is by now (I run it since April 2002) is almost fully automated.

Enjoy, have FUN! H.Merijn

[John Bolene]

Somebody fed the rabbits last night.

At least at 8:00 CST this forum is positively the fastest it has ever been.

I can't wait until the magic 9:30 to see if it takes the normal nose dive.