snarkmarks......

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 )

Actually, that would be pretty funny.

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

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.

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 :biggrin: )

oh well. I said I was probably wrong.

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.

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!

pets Cash :biggrin:

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 :razz: 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 :smile:

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

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

noobmaps?....

Doc Brass... :dodgy:

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? :razz:

thats just sad.

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???

scary_jeff said:

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? :razz:

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 :razz:

Kain said:
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...

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 :razz:

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

Snarks aren't real :dorky:

Aah! The dream is dead!

assumes fetal position while clutching head and sobbing

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

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.