So The Top 50 All-Time Contributors List is Up! I am Shocked!, page 8

reply to post by TrueAmerican

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I must say I am intrigued...plug me in if you have a second...u2u me the results so I don't have to be shamed in public...

Originally posted by SkepticOverlord
reply to post by TrueAmerican

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The "WATS Index" is calculated as: ((FLAGS x 5) x STARS)/1000000.

Flags definitely have more weight, but someone with lots of stars but solid flags can get into the list.

SkepticOverlord, I hate to correct you, but: if your formula is (Flags X 5) X Stars /1000000, then that's the same mathematically as Flags X Stars X 5 /1000000. Putting parentheses around the Flags X 5 doesn't give flags more emphasis, since the product of Flags and Stars is mutliplied by 5. Therefore, Flags and Stars have equal weight in the WATS Index.

reply to post by mutantgenius

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Apparently, the formula has changed and not so much a user-generated rating anymore.


--airspoon

reply to post by airspoon

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well i dont really understand it in the first place. really. i need to be spoon fed.

Originally posted by mutantgenius
so if my wats index is 2, what does that mean?

It doesn't mean anything just yet. Here's the list of people with the highest WATS ratings (WATS rating calculated by number of flags, stars and post count I believe), to even make it onto the list at this moment in time, you need a WATS rating of at least 74.

reply to post by Rising Against

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oh. well if doesnt mean anything then whats the point? Just kidding....seriously though. I only have two flags! I would think it would be zero! I was hoping somebody would point me to that list though. Thank you. I understand that it is baed on a formula but wasn't sure what to compare it to. Know what I mean?
BTW I will never be on that list!!!!!!
THANKS AGAIN.

reply to post by mutantgenius

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seriously though. I only have two flags! I would think it would be zero!

Yeah, you may have only 2 flags, but you also have 281 posts and 221 stars.

reply to post by avocadoshag

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SkepticOverlord, I hate to correct you, but: if your formula is (Flags X 5) X Stars /1000000, then that's the same mathematically as Flags X Stars X 5 /1000000. Putting parentheses around the Flags X 5 doesn't give flags more emphasis, since the product of Flags and Stars is mutliplied by 5. Therefore, Flags and Stars have equal weight in the WATS Index.

reply to post by FortAnthem

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Not at all and I think TrueAmerican has some very good posts even though I always debate him on them. I just think tooting your own horn is silly and beneath his obvious intellectual gifts

reply to post by kro32

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This thread is almost a year old, and I don't know why someone raised it from the dead. At the time there was a lot of talk about putting up the WATS list. I was expecting it to have many more different names. Names of some who have come and gone. Names of a few that are still here. But all names of some very seriously smart people who I really admired and made some very good contributions to this site- before you joined, kro32. You would have had to been there to understand, because my history here goes back to 2003 really, when I lurked for a year or so before joining. But I wouldn't expect you to understand, as new as you are. Instead you accuse me of posting this as some kind of "look at me, I made it" post.

But it wasn't. I was genuinely surprised to be on the list at all, but I was almost mad that I entered the list at number 7, when I damn sure knew I didn't hold a candle to so many other people intellectually that should have been all over that list. But it didn't work out that way. So would it be too hard for you to understand that this site had a long history before you, and a lot of things happened that are outside your experience? Why don't you just leave it at that instead of making such accusations.

*shrug*

Originally posted by TrueAmerican
reply to post by kro32

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This thread is almost a year old, and I don't know why someone raised it from the dead. At the time there was a lot of talk about putting up the WATS list. ...
*shrug*

Because its still relevant to getting acclimated here, and deserves a bump. Like this...

Originally posted by SkepticOverlord
reply to post by TrueAmerican

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The "WATS Index" is calculated as: ((FLAGS x 5) x STARS)/1000000.

Flags definitely have more weight, but someone with lots of stars but solid flags can get into the list.

Bummer I didn't get to star that post.