Ask YC: Redo the Leaderboard

Re:Ask YC: Redo the Leaderboard by DarrenStuart on Friday December 28, 2007 @06:22PM (#93344)

I agree, not sure how easy it would be and if it would upset the people at the top.

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Re:Ask YC: Redo the Leaderboard by majimojo on Friday December 28, 2007 @06:24PM (#93346)

If they receive permanent awards. They get recognition AND they get motivation the next season to say interesting things.

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Re:Ask YC: Redo the Leaderboard by DarrenStuart on Friday December 28, 2007 @07:09PM (#93357)

fair enough, I have worked hard for my massive 96 score and if I lost it I would be a little sad :p

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Re:Ask YC: Redo the Leaderboard by majimojo on Friday December 28, 2007 @07:15PM (#93361)

good point. i only have 70pts so i feel for this.

maybe the total accumulated points of all time are also kept. YC doesn't erase any data. its just writing a new database query.

old query: Points = "select count(votes) where user.id = 123"

new method: "select votes, date where user.id = 123" and do some heuristic magic in the model or results datastructure.

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Re:Ask YC: Redo the Leaderboard by DarrenStuart on Friday December 28, 2007 @07:46PM (#93370)

or they could just keep it and add this months top users etc and we are all happy :P

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