And BTW to @crutschow, Congrats on hitting the 10,000 post mark!
Or is it condolences? Having just crossed that mile marker myself recently, I had to think about it a while.

 

And BTW to @crutschow, Congrats on hitting the 10,000 post mark!
Or is it condolences? Having just crossed that mile marker myself recently, I had to think about it a while.

Maybe we should queue up O Fortuna ~ Carmina Burana by Carl Orff

 

Always get good advice from @crutschow .
Congrats!

 

Sorry I'm a little late to the party, but that's nothing new for me, sometimes I miss them entirely.
Thanks for the recognition. I enjoy this forum greatly, and answering electronic questions or coming up with a circuit to do a particular task is my hobby.
Ready for the next 10,000.
Regards,
Zapper

 

...answering electronic questions or coming up with a circuit to do a particular task is my hobby.

What is your degree/career?

 

What is your degree/career?

I got a BSEE from the U of Wisconsin in '63. I then worked on Aerospace projects for Aerojet (sold to Northrop-Grumman in 2001) doing circuit design work (mostly analog) and retired in 2011. Since then, besides some general puttering around, I've been answering questions, as best I can, for the motley bunch of you on these forums (anyone got a 555 question?).

 

You called?

 

It is not the number as much as it is a symbol of consistently making thoughtful and helpful posts that have helped many, and even offered help to the otherwise hopeless. Please keep it up.

 

Here is an interesting metric, FWIW.
Take the number of Likes and divide it by the square-root of the number of Posts.
#12 takes top spot (from a small sample of users):

#12 43.21
GopherT 33.58
WBahn 32.89
MrChips 28.20
crutschow 23.02
Lestraveled 22.84
wayneh 20.68
Tracecom 19.97
boatsman 19.47

 

@crutschow : Congrats on hitting the 10,000 post mark!

Yes, it's just a number, but it's good to celebrate even the meaningless achievements from time to time.

Keep it up!!

It's not just a number, and it's not meaningless either... I'd say that Mr Crutschow has reached an odometer milestone...

 

Here is an interesting metric, FWIW.
Take the number of Likes and divide it by the square-root of the number of Posts.
#12 takes top spot (from a small sample of users):

#12 43.21
GopherT 33.58
WBahn 32.89
MrChips 28.20
crutschow 23.02
Lestraveled 22.84
wayneh 20.68
Tracecom 19.97
boatsman 19.47

Wow... a root mean square relationship between likes and posts, uh? Sort of a power-likability ratio... intereting

 

#12 43.21
GopherT 33.58
WBahn 32.89
cmartinez 30.28
MrChips 28.20
tcmtech 27.03
crutschow 23.02
Lestraveled 22.84
wayneh 20.68
Tracecom 19.97
boatsman 19.47
MaxHeadroom 19.25
JohnInTX 18.66
HP 18.58
shortbus 18.58
ErnieM 17.60
Wendy 16.65
Bertus 16.58
AnalogKid 16.01
JoeJester 15.80
Papabravo 15.15
ronv 13.96
Sinus 12.61
Kermit2 12.56
atferrari 12.29
Alec_t 11.87
loosewire 10.81
DickCappels 10.07
Dodgydave 9.66
KJ6EAD 8.82
gerty 8.77
dl324 8.65
Aleph(0) 8.46
shteii01 7.39
Kmoffet 4.22

@cmartinez, that puts you in 4th place.

As noted, this is just a sampling. If I missed anyone, my apologies.

 

Someone is very bored.

 

#12 43.21
GopherT 33.58
WBahn 32.89
cmartinez 30.28
MrChips 28.20
tcmtech 27.03
crutschow 23.02
Lestraveled 22.84
wayneh 20.68
Tracecom 19.97
boatsman 19.47
MaxHeadroom 19.25
JohnInTX 18.66
HP 18.58
shortbus 18.58
ErnieM 17.60
Wendy 16.65
Bertus 16.58
AnalogKid 16.01
JoeJester 15.80
Papabravo 15.15
ronv 13.96
Sinus 12.61
Kermit2 12.56
atferrari 12.29
Alec_t 11.87
loosewire 10.81
DickCappels 10.07
Dodgydave 9.66
KJ6EAD 8.82
gerty 8.77
dl324 8.65
Aleph(0) 8.46
shteii01 7.39
Kmoffet 4.22

@cmartinez, that puts you in 4th place.

As noted, this is just a sampling. If I missed anyone, my apologies.

Thanks... but I'm pretty sure I'd be close to the vey bottom if you were to factor in the usefulness of each post...

 

It's a bit unfair that I should be on that list since most of the likes I've got is in off topic.

 

It's a bit unfair that I should be on that list since most of the likes I've got is in off topic.

Thanks... but I'm pretty sure I'd be close to the very bottom if you were to factor in the usefulness of each post...

Being a fun person is useful.

 

It's pretty much impossible to even try to come up with a meaningful metric. As Sinus23 and #12 have pointed out, many of their likes come from posts in Off Topic, and since those posts don't count toward the post total, the numbers are skewed. By the same token, of course, their total posts is considerably higher than what their official numbers say. There's no way to come up with an apples-to-apples comparison between people that have different fractions of posts made in Off Topic.

And perhaps that's just as well because it makes us at least a tiny bit less likely to read meaning into numbers that intrinsically have very little (I can't really say they have zero meaning, because I think that they do convey some information -- it's just hard to figure out precisely what).

 

The logic of turning off off topic post counts is good though. To a limited degree expertise is shown by post count.

We have had people come and stay because they like the Off topic area. I monitor this area very carefully, since that is where the mud slinging usually starts.

 

The logic of turning off off topic post counts is good though. To a limited degree expertise is shown by post count.

We have had people come and stay because they like the Off topic area. I monitor this area very carefully, since that is where the mud slinging usually starts.

By and large I agree with not counting posts in Off-Topic. I guess one way would be to count them fractionally -- maybe an Off-Topic post counts as 3/5 of real post -- but that is putting too much effort into a metric that is pretty squishy to begin with.

 

-- maybe an Off-Topic post counts as 3/5 of real post --

Wendy is going to slam the door on this thread if you go political (or politically incorrect) on this thread.