There is a lot of discussion around meta about how to raise a helpful flag and flags getting declined, but I wonder:
Who raised the largest number of helpful flags on Stack Overflow and Meta?
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2Related / duplicate (at least for the SO part): Is there any place to see a leaderboard of top “Helpful Flaggers”? – Glorfindel Aug 26 '19 at 5:27
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@Glorfindel yes and also true about meta and one more thing should I add more popular site or it will be too broad. – NickCoder Aug 26 '19 at 5:28
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The answer there gives a procedure for getting the leaderboard yourself. There are only 64 Marshals here, it shouldn't be too much work. – Glorfindel Aug 26 '19 at 5:30
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Yes! but is my question wasn't wrong or offtopic or else right so that it's not answerable?? – NickCoder Aug 26 '19 at 5:32
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1It's on-topic (unless you mean Meta Stack Overflow by Meta, in which case it's better posted there), I just fear it might get downvotes for lack of research, just like you can't always dump your coding assignment on Stack Overflow. – Glorfindel Aug 26 '19 at 5:47
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No not at all! and thanks for the heads up. – NickCoder Aug 26 '19 at 5:50
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1I've updated the top list for SO in this answer. – Glorfindel Aug 27 '19 at 12:16
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I've read somewhere that one of the SO mods made a python script which found the obsolete comments by AI, and then flagged them. Probably he is the winner. – peterh - Reinstate Monica Dec 14 '20 at 16:37
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2Can the close voters please state why they don't believe this question seeks input/discussion from the community (i.e. isn't a constructive question)? – Sonic the Curiouser Hedgehog Dec 14 '20 at 21:39
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On here, the current leader would appear to be PeterJ with 3760 helpful flags. He even has more than the Smoke Detector spam bot. Peter is the only person with more than 3000 helpful flags so he's some way out in front.
To determine this, I simply went through the profiles of everyone who has the marshal badge.
Stack Overflow has 2.9K marshals so it would be rather more tedious to go through all their profiles. There's at least one person with tens of thousands of flags there because they've written a bot that comment flags on their behalf so they (or some other bot writer) are likely to be the winner there.
On Stack Overflow's Meta, there are 4 Marshals, so the winner is honk with 859 helpful flags.
The number of helpful flags used to be something that was kept secret, that changed when profiles were rewritten and the information was accidentally leaked. When someone pointed that out, they decided that it simply wasn't something that needed to be secret, so we can now see it on everyone's profiles, but as far as I know it's only there, so you'd need to scrape all profiles with Marshal on a site for any other site. Fortunately, they are all smaller than Stack Overflow.
answered Aug 26 '19 at 6:51
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2I think @PeterJ shoupd be more respected for his tremendous amount of helpful edits. The best editor in the world. – iBug says Reinstate Monica Aug 26 '19 at 7:22
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1@iBugsaysReinstateMonica not to discredit PeterJ, but I think you meant @PeterMortensen. – Glorfindel Dec 1 '19 at 18:38
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@Glorfindel How stupid I was... must have been dizzy when typing that comment. – iBug says Reinstate Monica Dec 2 '19 at 4:40
Here's a list with all users with at least 500 helpful flags on Meta Stack Exchange as of 2020-12-14. To update this list, follow the instructions here, and please do not bump this post too often. Flags are important but not that important, and it's not a competition.
- greg-449, 4290 helpful flags
- PeterJ, 3965 helpful flags
- rene, 2674 helpful flags
- gnat, 2543 helpful flags
- SmokeDetector, 2523 helpful flags
- Glorfindel, 2267 helpful flags
- Sonic the K-Day Hedgehog, 2100 helpful flags
- iBug says Reinstate Monica, 2065 helpful flags
- πάντα ῥεῖ, 2024 helpful flags
- bummi, 1938 helpful flags
- John Dvorak, 1886 helpful flags
- Shree, 1719 helpful flags
- Shadow 10 Years Wizard, 1677 helpful flags
- user289905, 1659 helpful flags
- Fish Below the Ice, 1392 helpful flags
- honk, 1368 helpful flags
- Pang, 1318 helpful flags
- Mysticial, 1183 helpful flags
- Anne Daunted GoFundMonica, 1165 helpful flags
- Meta Andrew T., 1057 helpful flags
- Mithical, 1039 helpful flags
- Jamal, 1024 helpful flags
- CRABOLO, 1020 helpful flags
- M.A.R., 1000 helpful flags
- Robert Columbia, 987 helpful flags
- ale, 986 helpful flags
- n8te, 955 helpful flags
- S.L. Barth - Reinstate Monica, 949 helpful flags
- Himanshu Jansari, 941 helpful flags
- Thomas F, 927 helpful flags
- tripleee, 924 helpful flags
- Mureinik, 917 helpful flags
- PolyGeo, 887 helpful flags
- Pika lè Sorcerer of the Whales, 874 helpful flags
- ProgramFOX, 873 helpful flags
- Floern, 869 helpful flags
- hichris123, 851 helpful flags
- Bart, 848 helpful flags
- Robert Longson, 839 helpful flags
- D.W., 830 helpful flags
- V2Blast, 828 helpful flags
- Martijn Pieters, 796 helpful flags
- Arulkumar, 788 helpful flags
- srank, 782 helpful flags
- Unihedron, 778 helpful flags
- Aziz Shaikh, 738 helpful flags
- P.Mort. - forgot Clay Shirky_q, 735 helpful flags
- kiamlaluno, 727 helpful flags
- Lucifer, 715 helpful flags
- MattAllegro, 699 helpful flags
- Patrick Hofman, 693 helpful flags
- Mad Scientist, 668 helpful flags
- sempaiscuba, 666 helpful flags
- Nog Shine, 664 helpful flags
- Wrzlprmft, 651 helpful flags
- Chenmunka, 636 helpful flags
- Jenayah, 634 helpful flags
- Makyen, 624 helpful flags
- user642796, 622 helpful flags
- Flexo, 602 helpful flags
- Christian Rau, 597 helpful flags
- Nick Stauner, 588 helpful flags
- Tetsuya Yamamoto, 585 helpful flags
- DavidPostill, 566 helpful flags
- Rand al'Thor, 557 helpful flags
- Undo, 553 helpful flags
- Ral Zarek, 543 helpful flags
- Azik, 538 helpful flags
- Big Brother, 527 helpful flags
- jonsca, 527 helpful flags
- Nij, 525 helpful flags
- a cat, 525 helpful flags
- Cai, 519 helpful flags
- JonathanDavidArndt, 517 helpful flags
- Antony, 507 helpful flags
- Andy, 502 helpful flags
