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With the available data points, how would you rank users, both on a site basis as well as globally?

Right now I am simply sorting on reputation desc, creation_date, user_id, display_name.

This closely approximates the order of appearance on the Users page but seems to me simplistic.

Does anyone have any thoughts about how to arrive at a valid ranking?

Assume that you have a current database of all users.


yes, this is me asking a question, not setting up a dev-tip ;-)

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Well, would it work to rank globally based on relative rankings for each site? I'm just thinking out loud.

Here's how it works:

  • For each site, the user's relative ranking is determined as a percentage.
  • The percentages are averaged.

The last step isn't very good - I don't think it'll work very well, but it's an idea.

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    can you think aloud in detail? ;-) Sep 16, 2010 at 5:21
  • @Sky: I added some more detail. Sep 16, 2010 at 5:32

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