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Is there any way to list users by reputation gained within the last x days/weeks? If not, could one be added?
Edit post-reading back/reading comments and realising I sound terrifyingly like a stalker:
I'm mostly interested because most SO users are way ahead of me, which makes the competitive aspects of SO a bit less fun. A daily reputation scoresheet would level the playing field somewhat.
Reputation leagues are now rolled out:
https://stackexchange.com/leagues
Blog entry:
https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/network-central-stackexchange-com/
If competition is your thing, you can redefine the goalposts to make it more fun.
I joined SO near the beginning, but didn't really become active until about June. I decided to compete by tracking my page number every so often and see how it moved up. Even though my rep was low, I took satisfaction from seeing myself move from page 120, up to page 100, past page 50 and so on. I don't think I have ever hit the daily rep cap (so getting a badge for this would be really cool), but I've come close, and I definitely enjoy waking up to see my score higher ("I got rep in my sleep! I'm a super-hero!")
So I'd definitely get a kick out of seeing more stats, but the data dumps and stackql makes it so anyone can generate a lot of these stats ourselves.
I suspect that a daily score-sheet would be a bit too volatile - and would also act slightly strangely due to different time zones (i.e. when people actually post vs the UTC day).
However, I'd be in favour of a weekly or monthly "league" - I'd find that interesting, certainly. It's been suggested before, however, and the tag stats were put in place partly as an alternative. I don't remember Jeff being particularly against it, but I don't think he was overly wild about the idea either. At the time, I think the overall leaders were much the same as the "recent history" leaders - but that may well have changed since the idea was originally suggested.
Jeff, care to run some tests and see whether it's actually any more interesting than just being a copy of the first page? (The "no tag" stats page gives the last month, so we can all see that. That only shows votes rather than rep though.)
