I notice that we now have a top 10 tutorial posters list on the home page (nice work btw JP)
Just to raise one concern however - the ORDER BY algorithm for this list seems to be directly related to the number of tutorials posted - which includes the copy and paste variety and those paraphrasing the FAQ to try to get their APs out of the red. (NOTE: I am in no way implying that this is the case with any of the listed tutorial writers - but it does open up the system to abuse by people posting worthless tuts).
Unless Neg is going to moderate all posts and move/delete posts that break the rules (which sounds like a mammoth task) it might be better to change the ORDER BY clause of this algorithm to:
This would have the effect of weeding out the worthless tutorials (ie the ones just posted to get on the top 10 tut posters list) from the fine work that is posted here by many contributors.SELECT TOP 10 ... FROM ... ORDER BY sum(Antipoints received for tutorials)
Just a thought. Once again JP, thanks for another cool feature![]()




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