Topic: What is the daily report?

Posted under General

Back in July of last year I got a Dmail that I was on the daily report with a score of 4236.

I still have no idea what the score means or why I haven't been on it since.

Updated by Mulcens Instrumentum

You'll have to ask the person who send you the dmail, that's not something automated.

Updated by anonymous

I sent it :/

The daily report was an experiment someone else started to help track large user activity over the page. I heard about it and asked if I could get the report and was told yes, and for a while I inconsistently messaged people that were on it to encourage them but stopped when some people got annoyed.... so that is what that was :/

I think it was started to be able to easier catch vandalism but it was more useful for catching good behavior since most of the people doing enough to get on it knew what they were doing. The way stuff was scored was changed a few time so it's ...kind if arbitrary. Idk if the creater would want to be public or not so I won't say who made it here, sorry

Updated by anonymous

I remember the daily report too. I liked getting those messages, though I can also see why people would be annoyed by it. Maybe the best way to do it would be giving people a way to opt-out.

Updated by anonymous

Odisaodi said:
I sent it :/

The daily report was an experiment someone else started to help track large user activity over the page. I heard about it and asked if I could get the report and was told yes, and for a while I inconsistently messaged people that were on it to encourage them but stopped when some people got annoyed.... so that is what that was :/

I think it was started to be able to easier catch vandalism but it was more useful for catching good behavior since most of the people doing enough to get on it knew what they were doing. The way stuff was scored was changed a few time so it's ...kind if arbitrary. Idk if the creater would want to be public or not so I won't say who made it here, sorry

I honestly found it really uplifting when I got it but I do understand how it might get a bit annoying if you were active every day.

It might be nice to make a point system on user accounts, though!
100(day)+1000(all time)=1100(new total)
and maybe the "day" value would be a link to the daily report. That would make it more of a constantly accessible leaderboard than a static table of values.

Updated by anonymous

The user reports were a thing I started. I was attempting to make a tool to help prevent tag vandalism, because vandalism can go unnoticed on very old posts. This report would assign a "risk value" to users based on tag edits and a variety of other factors. The exact formula is

risk_value = 
    ( 1 * tag_updates)
  + (20 * note_updates)
  + (20 * wiki_updates)
  + ( 3 * post_uploads)
  + (15 * pool_updates)

All of this information is viewable with the various report pages. I just wrote some code to parse the page.

I offered running this tool and sending the output to a few people. I did not feel it was acceptable to advertise this everywhere. The main factor was people would view this report as a competition and would submit many more low quality contributions to increase their score.

What people have done with the reports I send out, I have no idea; that is not really my concern.

I do not expect this tool to last into the new site. I do not have any intention on continuing support of this tool as a standalone product. If you would like the user report to continue on its life, I would recommend you to ask for it on the new site.

If you want to receive a copy of the report every day, send me a dmail. If you would like for your account blocked from the report, also send me a dmail. If enough people ask for the user report, I may set up a script to edit my profile description and post it there every day instead. The code is not public, but if asked I will make it public.

Updated by anonymous

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