Trilogy Site Ranking - For those who need to know

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_{SOREP will be taken offline this month. SOREP V2 now lives on StackUsers.com}

SOREP V2: Ranked and aggregated flair

SOREP V2 is a flair service that is built upon the StackUser platform that provides ranked flair, both in standard layout and themes as well as custom aggregations.

Since early this year, before the advent of the API, SOREP has been providing ranked flair for the big 4 trilogy sites. With the advent of the API and improved access to data (so long screen scraping!) the groundwork for SOREP V2 with an improved api and layout was put into motion with the Soapi.CS client library upon which the StackUser data platform is built.

• Site Ranking, both as an ordinal value and a mouseover percentile.
• Aggregated flair - all or specific number, sorted by reputation
• All standard themes supported - default, clean, dark, hotdog
• Custom display formats - default, small, tiny

• Easy selection using a variety of identifiers

  • user id and site

  /users/flair/{user_id}/{site_url}

  • email address

  /users/flair/{email address}

  • association id

  /users/flair/{association_id}

See SOREP V2: Ranked Flair Take 2 for more info.

You may also be interested in the other tools available on stackusers.

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Default flair layout

Small flair layout

Tiny aggregated flair layout

I see a few questions on meta.stackoverflow.com regarding user ranking. There are several existing lists but they are focused primarily on users with higher scores.

So, I wrote a small applet that, via a trickle pull, indexes all users for the trilogy and meta down to the 100 rep mark, in order of appearance.

The 100 rep cutoff seems reasonable. On StackOverflow, the vast majority of users are < 100 and pulling that data seems over the top frivolous.

You may access this data in several ways

INTERACTIVE:

http://skysanders.net/tools/sorep/default.aspx (detailed usage information here)

AUTOGET: (for you Benjol)

http://skysanders.net/tools/sorep/default.aspx?site=stackoverflow.com&userId=1

JSON:

http://skysanders.net/tools/sorep/SEStats.ashx?site=stackoverflow.com&userId=1

JSONP:

http://skysanders.net/tools/sorep/SEStats.ashx?site=stackoverflow.com&userId=1&callback=foo

Flair

An example of using ranking in Flair is available on the interactive page.

Answer 1

Stack Overflow users are programmers, so they should all know better than to make a linear search through the users pages. With a modest extrapolation to bracket your position by score and a binary search you can nail it down in O(logN) time...

Answer 2

Very nice.... now for a bit of feature creep; show how many ranks you could climb if you a) got an answer upvoted, b) got an answer upvoted & accepted, c) hit the repcap for the day

That could provide a bit more motivation for some, especially lower on the rep ranking the separation between ranks is just a couple of points, and some are shared by users with the same number of points.

Answer 3

Ok, the asp.net cache based autoupdate strategy I had implemented failed miserably, as did the ability of the update to run from my host for some reason so I switched to a task running locally.

The data is now reliably updated daily if anyone cares.

Answer 4

Already exists? Easy Way to find out what your user rank is?

Answer 5

I was going to say that this had already been done... but then I realized that there's no ranking in those stats! For shame!

As to how often one does the 35*page + position calculation, I have to say I'm guilty. I have a bookmark in my toolbar (actually under the SO folder, which is in the toolbar) to my current page on SO, as well as the stats page for my main tag (as you can see I'm in a race to claim the 7th gold perl badge).* I look at both of these a few times a week.

*_{I also used to have a bookmark to my meta user's page, but now that I'm on page 1 I can just click "Users" at the top of any page.}

Answer 6

If you're on the front page it's easy :)

Also, where's the ServerFault/SuperUser/Meta version? ;)

Answer 7

I'm guessing that it doesn't include the association bonus in the count towards "100 points"? I officially have 121 points on ServerFault, but you haven't generated a rank for my account on it.

Answer 8

Here is another way to access the data:

Get your flair with a ranking...

<!-- Requirements - jQuery and an SO style sheet -->
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://sstatic.net/so/flair-Default.StackOverflow.css" />


<!-- 

script tag to include on your site 

key: so  - stackoverflow, sf  - serverfault, su  - superuser, mso - meta stackoverflow
userid: the numeric portion of your profile url
-->
<script src="http://skysanders.net/tools/sorep/YourFlair.aspx?key=so&userid=242897" type="text/javascript"></script>

<!-- container into which script will render -->
<div id="flair">
</div>

Answer 9

Minor bug with the "Interactive" version:

Enter an incorrect user number, and the "User does not exist" message comes up. If you then enter a valid user number, the previous message stays there.

Screencap http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/6191/userdoesnotexist.png

(Yes, I know, no hand-drawn circles. How dare I?)