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Posted by Kain on Wed Jan 14th at 9:43pm 2004

how on earth do you calculate this leperous?? it's just frustrating for any math lover not to understand wehre this number comes from? (if i ever find out there is a RANDOM in the formula i'm gonna break something )



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Posted by Hornpipe2 on Wed Jan 14th at 9:46pm 2004

Actually, that would be pretty funny.

I bet it's based on the phase of the moon or something.

[addsig]



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Posted by Crono on Wed Jan 14th at 10:19pm 2004

This is what it looks like to me, but I'm probably wrong.

Forums:
Post = +1
Correct Answer = +1 (with the original post it's 2)
Incorrect Answer = -1 (with the original post it's 0)

Maps And Tutorials:
Map = +24
Tutorial = +24
Comment = +1

Rating:
5 = +200
4 = +175
3 = +150
2 = +125
1 = +100

And the floating values add inbetween values.

Well thats about the only way I can rationalize this system. [addsig]



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Posted by Yak_Fighter on Wed Jan 14th at 10:24pm 2004

That can't be right, because I would have something like:

~90 posts = 90

3 maps = 72

4 rating = 175
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total = 337

eh, snarkmarks are no big deal anyways (says the person who has around 200 )





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Posted by Crono on Wed Jan 14th at 11:09pm 2004

oh well. I said I was probably wrong. [addsig]



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Posted by Cash Car Star on Wed Jan 14th at 11:38pm 2004

Lep posted the SnarkMark scheme back when they were first introduced. He recently updated how maps fit into the whole deal. If I remember correctly, the rating is multiplied to the post count somehow, tutorials and maps are worth a large amount, multiplied by average rating, comments on maps and tuts are worth more than normal posts, a correct answer is ~5 I think and I don't remember incorrect answers figuring into the equation at all.

Since it does seem rather like a black box system, it may be a smart thing to show the equation used somewhere. Then again, hiding it kinda keeps anyone from bothering to come up with strategies specifically for increasing snarkmarks.





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Posted by 7dk2h4md720ih on Thu Jan 15th at 12:09am 2004

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hiding it kinda keeps anyone from bothering to come up with strategies specifically for increasing snarkmarks.


Damn you and your tomfoolery. Hindering my plans shall bring you to an abrupt end!



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Posted by Leperous on Thu Jan 15th at 12:43am 2004

*pets Cash*

Hiding it keeps people from bitching about it, usually, they just 'went down' as they're recalculated when you login or check your CP and I probably changed the formula since then Buuuut if you must know, make of this what you will:

SM = ceil((40*tutaverage*tuts) + (5*answeredqs) + ((posts+(5*topics)+(2*comments))*(userrating/5)) + ((mapratingaverage+1)*5*noofmaps) + (mapdownloads/5) + (profilehits/5))

So you can get quite a lot from writing lots of good tutorials and uploading lots of good maps, among other things





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Posted by Monqui on Thu Jan 15th at 1:09am 2004

Took me a while to figgure out what a "noofmap" was (I was thinking of it as "noof map", not "no. of maps"). [addsig]



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Posted by Dr Brasso on Thu Jan 15th at 1:43am 2004

ROFL!!....i took it on first glance as a typo monqui man.....

noobmaps?....

Doc Brass...





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Posted by scary_jeff on Thu Jan 15th at 8:04am 2004

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So you can get quite a lot from writing lots of good tutorials and uploading lots of good maps


Or by downloading your own map loads of times and refrehing your profile over and over?



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Posted by matt on Thu Jan 15th at 9:38am 2004

thats just sad. [addsig]



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Posted by Kain on Thu Jan 15th at 10:10am 2004

Still it doesn't explain how they drop suddenly; it used to be a couple of hundreds and the next morning i only find 65!!! and there is nothing new in my Control Panel, so none of the factors u said caused it (profile hits, maps etc...).

Look, they may be abstract but i liked my snarkmarks... why the hell did they go???





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Posted by Leperous on Thu Jan 15th at 10:44am 2004

? posted by scary_jeff
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So you can get quite a lot from writing lots of good tutorials and uploading lots of good maps


Or by downloading your own map loads of times and refrehing your profile over and over?

Well, the counters for both don't update when you refresh your own profile/download your map, but yeah if you logged out and did it... but then again if you do have a map with thousands of downloads for no reason, it will look a bit suspicious





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Posted by Tracer Bullet on Thu Jan 15th at 6:44pm 2004

? posted by Kain

Still it doesn't explain how they drop suddenly; it used to be a couple of hundreds and the next morning i only find 65!!! and there is nothing new in my Control Panel, so none of the factors u said caused it (profile hits, maps etc...).

Look, they may be abstract but i liked my snarkmarks... why the hell did they go???

I'm betting the drop you experienced was due to Lep changing the formula...





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Posted by 7dk2h4md720ih on Thu Jan 15th at 6:59pm 2004

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Well, the counters for both don't update when you refresh your own profile/download your map, but yeah if you logged out and did it... but then again if you do have a map with thousands of downloads for no reason, it will look a bit suspicious


I think anyone who downloads their own map loads of times deserves the snarkmarks. And by snarkmarks a mean snarkbites.. to the groin.



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Posted by scary_jeff on Thu Jan 15th at 7:03pm 2004

Snarks aren't real



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Posted by 7dk2h4md720ih on Thu Jan 15th at 7:05pm 2004

Aah! The dream is dead!

*assumes fetal position while clutching head and sobbing*



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Posted by Diarmaidx2 on Thu Jan 15th at 10:08pm 2004

wernt snarks hunted in some book or other? dont know why but allice in wonerland springs to mind.



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Posted by Gollum on Thu Jan 15th at 10:37pm 2004

There's a poem called The hunting of the Snark: an agony in eight fits by Lewis Caroll, who also wrote Alice in Wonderland/Through the looking glass. [addsig]




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