From: Jim Freeze <jim@...>
Date: 2005-05-09T10:09:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Stats comp.lang.ruby (last 7 days)

* Balwinder Singh Dheeman <bsd.SANSPAM@cto.homelinux.net> [2005-05-09 09:44:22 +0900]:

> Stats comp.lang.ruby (last 7 days)
> Top 10 posters for the period:
> 
> rank posts kbytes  name <address>
>    1    50  132.3  Ara.T.Howard <Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov>
>    2    50  102.7  Ilias Lazaridis <ilias@lazaridis.com>
>    3    34   80.2  David A. Black <dblack@wobblini.net>
>    4    29   82.6  Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com>
>    5    27   65.7  Robert Klemme <bob.news@gmx.net>
>    6    27   53.1  Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@gmail.com>
>    7    21   49.9  James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net>
>    8    20   36.1  James Britt <james_b@neurogami.com>
>    9    19   46.5  Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@gmail.com>
>   10    18   46.4  Mark Hubbart <discordantus@gmail.com>
>      ----- ------
>        295  695.3  Total for top 10

When this was first published, I thought, wow this is cool.
But, since then I have been reading a book called Freakonomics.
And now, well, I wonder if this email provides an incentive
(that did not previously exist) for those seeking public
recognition, to post 'junk' so their name appears near the
top of the stats.

Anyway, just wondering...

-- 
Jim Freeze