ITRC Forum statistics for November 2003

[Pete Randall]

Good question, Mark! I just looked at mine, and, with 23628 points from 4679 responses, it seems to me that the average ought to be 5.05 rather than 3.91!!!


Pete

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

The scripts are available guys. Can't you read?

if (my $repl = ($db{responses}{$id} || 0) + ($db{bunny}{$id} || 0)) {
$id{$id}{eff} = $db{bunny}{$id} / $repl;
$id{$id}{ptavg} = sprintf "%5.2f", $points / $repl;
}

HTH, Enjoy, have FUN! H.Merijn

[Pete Randall]

No, I can't!

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

if (my $repl = ($db{responses}{$id} || 0) + ($db{bunny}{$id} || 0)) {

number of replies = numer of responses (0 .. 7 pts) if any + number of bunnies/solutions (8 .. 10 pts) if any

$id{$id}{eff} = $db{bunny}{$id} / $repl;

efficiency = number of bunnies/solutions devided y the number of replies

$id{$id}{ptavg} = sprintf "%5.2f", $points / $repl;

point avarage is number of gathered points divided y number of replies

}

BTW I noted from the logs that when the forum plays up again (service unavailable and such), some id's are not updated, but the process continues, which may cause people to notice point raise delays in my stats. Sorry, I'm not the one to blame here :)

HTH, Enjoy, have FUN! H.Merijn

[Pete Randall]

Thanks, Merijn!

I apologize for being a Perl illiterate.


Pete

[Ralph Grothe]

Hi Merijn,

so far I haven't cared much about your weekly forum stats because I'm not that much interested in point ratings.
Sorry, for this neglect.
However, now I've just downloaded your scripts to have a look at how you'd get them.
I would have thought you used the LWP.
But I guess you thought, why import some hundred lines of Perl when for a sheer HTTP GET request I can use IO::Socket::INET?
But why does your "user agent" claim to be an "Internet Explorer" when you try to avoid this beast like the plague? ;-)

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

Finaly someone who reads (and understands) the scripts :)

1. The original version didn't use internal modules at all, but only used wget with huge timeouts and several retries
2. I identify as M$IE because the forum seems to like that, and you all know /me != forum
3. I tried to use sockets, but somehow they constantly get closed between operations. I'm not a socket guru, so feel free to make improvement suggestions

Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

13373 points this week. 4548 posts (1286 questions, 3262 answers). 8 promotions and 28 waiting in line.

A new Olympian joined the top ranks. Again congrats from here to SEP. Any god seats left to choose from, or only female seats left?

Fast movers are compared to archive/id-20031119.txt.gz
Pre-scanning 50816 members, 8152 have points prev 20031119

Fast Movers:

ID Diff Point Bunn Rate Last Msg Name
============ ===== ===== ==== ======= ======== =========================
CA569821 +412 20189 1104 100.4 % 20031125 Steven E Protter
CA13182 +283 23911 1377 100.9 % 20031125 Pete Randall
BR458 +276 30170 1060 84.0 % 20031125 Stefan Farrelly
BR148616 +247 7124 433 100.0 % 20031125 Robert-Jan Goossens
BR698874 +243 1637 111 100.0 % 20031125 Bernhard Mueller
CA486994 +198 15100 1043 100.0 % 20031126 Bill Hassell
CA984331 +198 613 44 100.9 % 20031125 Michael Schulte zur Surl
CA752641 +186 14919 886 99.7 % 20031122 Jeff Schussele
BR626566 +178 1314 73 100.0 % 20031125 Graham Cameron
CA591749 +177 13954 847 100.0 % 20031125 T G Manikandan
CA677063 +177 909 46 36.8 % 20031125 Nelson Caparroso
BR655479 +174 1749 90 100.0 % 20031124 Vrijhoeven
CA648840 +168 2434 118 100.0 % 20031125 Geoff Wild
CA655597 +164 6858 394 100.0 % 20031126 Ron Kinner
CA765507 +164 2195 114 19.5 % 20031125 RAC
CA874247 +161 6273 508 - 20031125 drew dimmick
BR778774 +157 738 42 100.0 % 20031125 Elmar P. Kolkman
CA615696 +144 4590 264 101.0 % 20031126 Roger Faucher
CA503958 +138 13847 860 100.0 % 20031125 Shiju Wilson
BR746633 +138 1213 74 - 20031125 Ralf Puchner
BR760133 +138 953 38 105.1 % 20031125 Antoniov
CA275236 +135 43750 2820 98.9 % 20031125 A. Clay Stephenson
BR180810 +133 2031 134 - 20031125 john korterman
BR743970 +133 287 12 97.0 % 20031125 Crist Vandendriessche
BR680842 +129 3246 174 100.0 % 20031122 Mark Grant
CA615708 +122 4003 254 34.2 % 20031125 Ken Chahley
BR41967 +121 9190 458 101.1 % 20031125 procura
BR707159 +121 5675 374 100.0 % 20031125 Giovanni
BR89052 +118 6597 363 101.6 % 20031124 Massimo Bianchi
BR25874 +110 7826 535 100.0 % 20031125 John Palmer
CA534433 +102 708 45 99.0 % 20031125 Madhu Sudhan

Marked 31 fast movers in 8152 members

9 Olympian's
18 Pharaoh's
92 Royalty's
152 Wizard's
164 Graduate's
211 Pro's

Promoted to Olympian:
20189 20031125 4875 1104 100.4 % CA569821 Steven E Protter

Promoted to Graduate:
613 20031125 197 44 100.9 % CA984331 Michael Schulte zur Surl
530 20031124 130 30 100.0 % BR759584 Alexander

Promoted to Pro:
287 20031125 92 12 97.0 % BR743970 Crist Vandendriessche
269 20031124 89 16 - CA920847 DGH
266 20031125 149 13 109.5 % CA804433 Joe Knudsen
264 20031126 108 13 - CA888381 Ganesh Babu
252 20031126 66 14 100.0 % BR631406 Mehdi


Almost Pharaoh:
7392 20031105 2334 293 100.0 % CA188158 John Bolene

Almost Royalty:
2476 20031125 1241 157 83.3 % CA698399 Rob D'Adamo
2467 20031125 659 105 100.0 % CA705517 John Meissner
2434 20031125 618 118 100.0 % CA648840 Geoff Wild

Almost Wizard:
998 20031124 254 78 - BR642007 Marco Hogeveen
981 20031125 437 39 100.0 % BR760764 Bruno Ganino
953 20031125 463 38 105.1 % BR760133 Antoniov
941 20031117 328 51 100.0 % BR128770 David Gerrish
915 20031104 256 42 99.3 % CA818950 ZH. Fragon

Almost Graduate:
485 20031125 165 25 94.3 % CA505917 Gino Castoldi
483 20031126 187 28 92.3 % CA408875 Laurie Gellatly
482 20031113 210 19 69.8 % CA297974 Tommy Brown
481 20031124 128 24 - BR742022 Hemanth Gurunath Basrur
477 20031118 252 32 - CA467151 Terri Harris
467 20031125 130 33 - CA847352 Hein van den Heuvel
465 20031122 121 25 100.0 % CA975165 aparna challagulla

Almost Pro:
249 20031124 125 16 - CA1012884 Scott McIntosh
248 20031118 46 16 100.0 % CA562637 Keith Buck
248 20031125 105 14 100.0 % BR679420 Keith Bevan
246 20031114 67 11 100.0 % CA641528 Jim Johnson
244 20031121 78 18 65.4 % BR635031 malvin drakley
243 20031106 110 9 68.8 % BR630293 Alper Ozdemir
240 20031117 224 13 0.0 % CA898307 e4Services.com
238 20031118 81 19 - CA857800 Doug de Werd
238 20031120 50 12 98.9 % BR687869 Nick Brace
234 20031124 71 13 45.0 % BR22437 Jakes Louw
231 20031121 47 14 94.6 % BR690054 Stan
230 20031111 49 12 - CA1004563 Bhuvaneswari Selvaraj

20 .. 29 % 313
30 .. 39 % 316
40 .. 49 % 256
50 .. 59 % 485
60 .. 69 % 426
70 .. 79 % 346
80 .. 89 % 366
90 .. 99 % 323
100 % 979
101 .. 109 % 29
110 .. 119 % 3
130 .. 139 % 1
140 .. 149 % 1
150 .. 159 % 2
180 .. 189 % 1
200 .. 209 % 1
Avarage: 53.1 %

Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

[Ganesh Babu]

Hi Merijn,
Today only i found this thread and found my stats in here

264 20031126 108 13 - CA888381 Ganesh Babu

can i know what each column stands for, i could figure out
264 - is my point
20031126 - last date of post
108 - i don't know
13 - i don't know
"-" - i see this is a percentage (because i saw some of the other members stats)
CA888381 - my forums id
Ganesh Babu - my name

What r the other columns refer to.

Ganesh

Ganesh

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

Go to one of my HP ITRC site pages, which can be found at

Singapore https://www.beepz.com/personal/merijn/
Rotterdam http://www.cmve.net/~merijn/
Seattle http://ww.hpux.ws/merijn/

Go to statistics, and click on the date of your interest. The columns have headers

Enjoy, have FUN! H.Merijn

[Joshua Scott]

Ganesh

108 = number of replies
13 = number of bunnies
the percentage is the percentage of replies to your posted questions that you have assigned points to.

[Ganesh Babu]

Now i get it .

Thanks Merjin and Joshua.

Merjin,
I browsed thru your site and was able to see the informations and i really appreciate your efforts for putting this stats and i would like to go thru scripts also, just to know about it.

Ganesh

[Ralph Grothe]

Please don't get the wrong impression that I'm anything close into sockets.
But maybe these POD references could help (although I'm sure you know them already).

But let me assure you that you are already using sockets!
The IO::Socket is only an OO-layer wrapped round the "hard core" socket calls to make socket writing more comfortable to those casual IPC coders the likes of me.

1st you could try to do non-blocking I/O (perldoc perlopentut, perldoc perlipc)

2nd you could also wrap the critical GET request in an eval block, or even better set up an alarm (the standard Perl way to catch timeouts, see perldoc -f alarm)

3rd provide a signal handler that catches the dreaded SIGPIPE.

4th if you really insist on implementing the protocol (i.e. HTTP) yourself, know it (viz. study the RFCs carefully, but be prepared to find queer webservers or proxies that don't respect standards (especially those M$ breeds ;) )

5th use the wonderful LWP.
It lifts off the burden from you to care for the protocol mess.

[Ralph Grothe]

One thing I've forgotten which may affect your socket I/O if you are using an older version of IO::Socket (e.g. you run your script on another box).
Usually whenever doing socket I/O one should take care that the buffers are immediately flushed to prevent blockings on waits for data.
Since you already imported IO::Socket which subclasses IO::Handle there will be no extra cost in explicitly setting your socket handles to autoflush (e.g. SOCK_HANDLE->autoflush(1) ).
Though this is not necessary anymore with newer releases of IO::Socket.

Also when you open new sockets you can accelerate the flushing of system buffers and their creation by explicitly setting the SO_REUSEADDR (see perldoc -f setsockopt, or use the ReuseAddr key in the constructor of IO::Socket::INET.

[Antoniov.]

Hi Merijn
I've seen in your stats there is difference between uppercase and lowercase country.
May be funny if USA == Usa, Netherlands == NETHERLANDS.
Also, but may question too many, does exit a rank for country?

Thanks for you statistics: they are wonderful!
:-o

Antoniov

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

No rank per country. Just fetch the full list from my site and grep the country

# grep ' Usa ' id-20031125.html | pr -n4

Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn