"Raj Rijhwani" <raj@rijhwani.org> wrote

vector@vector.net "Vector" wrote:

On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 21:54:31 -0500, Vector <vector@vector.net> wrote:

I made a post patting myself on the back at the 6,000 mark about
20 hours ago ... at which time I stood at 23,919th place.  In twenty
hours, I slipped five whole notches to 23,924th place.  : (

Well, less than two days later, I've risen to 23,891th place.
What's going on here?  With a user base of millions, there must be at
least a million active users, how can such a large glitch in stats
happen?

You call a flicker of 25 in 24000 big?  I could be wrong, but I very
much doubt that positions are re-assessed in real time with every unit
returned.

Rank is re-assesed in realtime - try sending a single result in. ;-)  The
'more than X% of users' figure is re-assesed against a total number of users
that only increases every few hours...

Ciao...

[UK]_Nick...