On Wed, Jul 05, 2000 at 01:27:34PM +1000, Matt wrote:
> Well I haven't been following the discussions about the SLUG rankings very
> closely .. but as I understoode (sp?) it from the last post by Aussie - the
> amount of bytes you post is directly proportional to your ranking (excuse this
> post if i'm off here) .. well anyway .. if this is true then the ranking script
> (or whatever) will have no way of distinguishing (no I dont think by
> having it cut out the > characters will do the trick) between the things you
> have posted, and the messages you have appended to your replies (as you do when
> replying) therefore I could reply to a 50k thread and the ranking script would
> record a post of 50k. I suppose if everyone will do their share of
> replying it may even out, but still it's not that accurate. Some posters also
> trim previous posts to make it nice and pretty !
>
> Did anyone bring this up yet ? Not that I care about rankings, or anything :)
quoted text is noise, not bytes but lines are counted; shall we play a game?
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