At 8/22/03 05:51 PM, Syme wrote: ewwwwww if it's going to takeyou til captain it'lltake me at LEAST until colonel. oh well back to blamming

LOL go check his list now. I'm not listed but you are. Go figure.

At 8/26/03 02:14 AM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 8/22/03 04:08 PM, D0GMA wrote:

Don't feel TOO bad about it. Your exp isn't THAT much lower than mine, I was level 11 3 months or so ago myself. And look at me, #79 (was #78 a week ago, grrr) on the top 160 VP list...

Even if it takes you more rankups than it took me to break the top 100 VP on NGlings list, as long as you don't stop depositing, and don't stop blamming and saving, you'll make it fairly easily. It'll just take time, that's all.

I know, it's just a matter of time until I get solidly on it. It's kind of like we were talking about back when I passed Bob, it's my base VP that's lacking presently. The only thing that fixes that is keeping at it for deposits. Heh, I only broke into the top 1500 for XP in the last week =( Come fall I'll have to cut back a bit on active voting on under judgement stuff, but I'll still get my dailys in. ~50/day shouldn't be too far off from what I should be able to maintain then. I just wanted to make Captain before I had to cut back, but I'll likely have to do so sometime during First Lieutenant.

At 8/26/03 02:27 AM, D0GMA wrote: I know, it's just a matter of time until I get solidly on it. It's kind of like we were talking about back when I passed Bob, it's my base VP that's lacking presently. The only thing that fixes that is keeping at it for deposits. Heh, I only broke into the top 1500 for XP in the last week =( Come fall I'll have to cut back a bit on active voting on under judgement stuff, but I'll still get my dailys in. ~50/day shouldn't be too far off from what I should be able to maintain then. I just wanted to make Captain before I had to cut back, but I'll likely have to do so sometime during First Lieutenant.

Hmmm... ranked #1425 with 1675 exp, eh?

well, for reference, I was ranked #1431 way back when I had 1240 exp (February 18th), and by the time I got to 1680 exp, I was then ranked #931 (April 3rd).

So... I guess I'd undersestimated how many months behind me in terms of exp you are. Ah well. It'll still happen. Oh, and with the 7.40 voting power cutoff that still seems to be in effect on NGling's list... I crossed that mark when I ranked up and jumped past it on May 17th, from 7.32 to 7.44... and that was my Praporshchik rankup. Hmmm...

At 8/26/03 03:09 AM, gfoxcook wrote: So... I guess I'd undersestimated how many months behind me in terms of exp you are. Ah well. It'll still happen. Oh, and with the 7.40 voting power cutoff that still seems to be in effect on NGling's list... I crossed that mark when I ranked up and jumped past it on May 17th, from 7.32 to 7.44... and that was my Praporshchik rankup. Hmmm...

the only real way too go higher on that list is too rank up but that take's too long so that list all most never really changes a lot

At 8/26/03 06:18 AM, _lightning_ wrote: the only real way too go higher on that list is too rank up but that take's too long so that list all most never really changes a lot

Well, that, or just regular depositing combined with a few people ahead of you who are dropping voting power every day by not depositing. There's quite a few spots on the list that open up that way, from people like agent66 who are falling like stones towards the bottom.

At 8/26/03 08:29 AM, gfoxcook wrote: Well, that, or just regular depositing combined with a few people ahead of you who are dropping voting power every day by not depositing. There's quite a few spots on the list that open up that way, from people like agent66 who are falling like stones towards the bottom.

Yes, but there is a long fall to make! =) His current VP is 11.64! I wonder how many years left until he get 7.39...
With newgroundling's fomulas you could calculate that, but I am too lazy to that.
But his dropping will leave a spot open in the top, so someone will get rankups!

At 8/26/03 01:02 PM, -_-PZY-_- wrote: Yes, but there is a long fall to make! =) His current VP is 11.64! I wonder how many years left until he get 7.39...

why would you whant too know when he get's too 7.39?? =S and yes you do get higher some time's when some one is dropping but that all most never hapens

At 8/27/03 11:07 AM, _lightning_ wrote: why would you whant too know when he get's too 7.39?? =S and yes you do get higher some time's when some one is dropping but that all most never hapens

Then he would be out of newgroundling's list (with 7.39 VP). Nothing more than that.

At 8/27/03 11:07 AM, _lightning_ wrote:

At 8/26/03 01:02 PM, -_-PZY-_- wrote: Yes, but there is a long fall to make! =) His current VP is 11.64! I wonder how many years left until he get 7.39...

why would you whant too know when he get's too 7.39?? =S and yes you do get higher some time's when some one is dropping but that all most never hapens

Guys, guys... it's not really about Agent66 falling over 4 full votes in his VP, though. It's more about the people right BEHIND him having a bit of an easier time in getting past him, that's all.

And yes it does happen a lot, lightning. Look how many people never rank up, even on the top 50 list. Those people never get big boosts in VP. And just as many, if not more, of high level people are not depositing very often, if at all, and they either gain VP slowly, are UNCH all the time, or drop VP. It makes it possible, if not "easy" per se, for people who deposit every day and get a rank up now and then to pass them and get up the list faster.

protections rank, number, name -- as of 07/26/2003 at 05:36 CDT

protections rank, number, name -- as of 07/28/2003 at 03:21 CDT

protections rank, number, name -- as of 08/02/2003 at 02:42 CDT

protections rank, number, name -- as of 08/08/2003 at 15:21 CDT

protections rank, number, name -- as of 08/15/2003 at 05:45 CDT

protections rank, number, name -- as of 08/21/2003 at 09:36 CDT

protections rank, number, name -- as of 08/28/2003 at 18:45 CDT
01 11,940 *** ramagi
02 10,977 *** RyoHahn
03 9,155 *** fixit
04 7,803 *** thisisasignin
05 7,251 *** gfoxcook
06 6,666 *** DrMSM
07 6,598 *** Bila
08 6,594 *** Recon_Rebel
09 6,269 *** TheJoe324
10 6,038 *** poxpower
11 5,606 Toocool100
12 5,148 *** alexsmolik
13 5,133 *** Stormwarden
14 5,092 *** Crono-
15 4,843 *** NemesisM66
16 4,497 *** helldoll81
17 4,342 *** Mr_Chuckles
18 4,287 *** vuorimies
19 4,220 *** XkwiziTOnE
20 4,163 *** leeboy105
21 4,112 *** chaotic1
22 4,095 *** HeRetiK
23 3,932 *** Newgrundling
24 3,762 *** HAQnSPITT
25 3,596 *** RageVI
26 3,551 the_phantom_spancker
27 3,527 *** D0GMA
28 3,458 *** XwaynecoltX
29 3,455 *** Captain_Bob
30 3,422 CTTcrew_l2edfoX
31 3,405 *** GridLock
32 3,238 *** stafffighter
33 3,223 *** b33r53x
34 3,192 Ppk3000
35 3,161 *** Dark00Stir-fry
36 3,161 *** kevr1
37 3,146 Mystboy
38 3,100 _redruM_
39 3,086 biteme2514
40 3,077 ImportRacer666
41 3,048 *** staphita
42 3,044 pingpong08
43 3,043 Bigmanbrainy
44 2,967 agent66
45 2,948 Overtired
46 2,865 Mike277
47 2,811 *** YoinK
48 2,799 *** Denvish
49 2,794 *** _lightning_
50 2,720 HernetheHunter

Congrats to:

fixit on his promotion to Elite Guard General (3rd)
pingpong08 on his promotion to Elite Guard Master Sergeant (~56th)
Bigmanbrainy on his promotion to Elite Guard Sergeant First Class (~67th) &
Denvish on his promotion to Elite Guard Praporshchik (33rd)

since the last update of the list.

Welcome to:

Denvish, who only needed about 10 saves to get on the list LAST time I updated it, and of course, got those (and more) and is now here!

Farewell to:

Drimarki, who will be missed... this is his first top 50 list drop off, but if he never comes back... it's looking like the top 50 combined and then the top 50 blam list will be next.

DANGER ZONE:

Well, Herne's fallen to 50 after jumping onto the list last week at 49, due to Denvish's prowess. However, I do not believe there will be much activity around #50 in the foreseeable future, so there's not much danger to the people at the bottom of this top 50 (the other list is another story...).

Greg's Notes:

Rankups are down from last time, but there's plenty of jockeying for position going on. In an interesting side note, I noticed while pulling stats from profiles that DrMSM's popularity rank is 999 and DarkStirFry's popularity rank is 1004, just 5 apart! Neato.

Bila squeezed past Recon to just barely take #7

alexsmolik pushes Stormwarden down and grabs #12

leeboy jumps over Heretik and chaotic for #20

D0GMA kicked the asses of CTTcrew, Captain Bob, and XwaynecoltX to leap up to #27

but Captain Bob fortunately passed CTTcrew, to hold steady at #29 during the above

stafffighter moved on up to #32

biteme jumped over a few people for #39

and Denvish jumped onto the list way up at #48, good job!

You may check out the most recent Top 50 Blammers List by clicking the link I just posted. Enjoy comparing the lists to each other and to the Top 50 Combined B/P List. People on both the Top 50 Blammers List and the Top 50 Protectors List are denoted with ***.

At 8/29/03 12:12 AM, gfoxcook wrote:

D0GMA kicked the asses of CTTcrew, Captain Bob, and XwaynecoltX to leap up to #27

I kick no arses thanks :-P~~ CTT is totally inactive, while Xwayne is only barely active, so passing them was no real accomplishment. Trying to get past Bob was my real target for this week, since he's my "list" idol =)

At 8/29/03 12:12 AM, gfoxcook wrote: Bila squeezed past Recon to just barely take #7

By the skin on his teeth is more like it. Damn, I'm gonna have to start dropping more 5's on submissions!

At 8/29/03 12:20 AM, D0GMA wrote:

At 8/29/03 12:12 AM, gfoxcook wrote: D0GMA kicked the asses of CTTcrew, Captain Bob, and XwaynecoltX to leap up to #27

I kick no arses thanks :-P~~ CTT is totally inactive, while Xwayne is only barely active, so passing them was no real accomplishment. Trying to get past Bob was my real target for this week, since he's my "list" idol =)

Sure you did! Bah. Stationary kicked ass is still kicked ass. #;-}>

But okay, fine.

Congrats to D0GMA on just getting past Captain Bob. Nothing else D0GMA did this past week merits any mention. Yes.

HAPPY NOW?!!?? #;-}>

anyway, what do you mean by "list idol"? As in, you wish you had his place on the top 50 exp list and the VP list?

At 8/29/03 12:26 AM, Recon_Rebel wrote:

At 8/29/03 12:12 AM, gfoxcook wrote: Bila squeezed past Recon to just barely take #7

By the skin on his teeth is more like it. Damn, I'm gonna have to start dropping more 5's on submissions!

heh! Shouldn't be hard to get #7 back if you really want it. Same goes for #6. DrMSM doesn't move THAT fast, after all.

But yep... it's gonna take some liberal use of the 2-5 range on the voting panel. :::nods:::

At 8/29/03 12:36 AM, gfoxcook wrote:

At 8/29/03 12:20 AM, D0GMA wrote:

Congrats to D0GMA on just getting past Captain Bob. Nothing else D0GMA did this past week merits any mention. Yes.

HAPPY NOW?!!?? #;-}>

Yes, thank you =)

anyway, what do you mean by "list idol"? As in, you wish you had his place on the top 50 exp list and the VP list?

As I recall, Captain Bob was the one who originally was keeping track of the VP lists that spawned NGling's list, which supplied a bunch of names for me to use in mine.

At 8/29/03 12:40 AM, D0GMA wrote:

At 8/29/03 12:36 AM, gfoxcook wrote:
Congrats to D0GMA on just getting past Captain Bob. Nothing else D0GMA did this past week merits any mention. Yes.

Well, getting pass me should be a momentous occasion...or something ;) It was bound to happen considering you vote much more per day than I do.

As I recall, Captain Bob was the one who originally was keeping track of the VP lists that spawned NGling's list, which supplied a bunch of names for me to use in mine.

Yes, my original VP list that I made for the BC and later posted on NG spawned all of these lists. Newgrundling started doing it when I didn't have the time to do it, because it was taking so long each update. So I feel you guys pain when updating.

At 8/29/03 02:03 AM, Captain_Bob wrote: Well, getting pass me should be a momentous occasion...or something ;) It was bound to happen considering you vote much more per day than I do.

Thanks much =) It's another of those happy/sad bits where I'm happy to have passed someone but not happy that I did at the same time. My first was passing Narcissus and my next one should be sometime today when I pass NGling. =)/=(

Yes, my original VP list that I made for the BC and later posted on NG spawned all of these lists. Newgrundling started doing it when I didn't have the time to do it, because it was taking so long each update. So I feel you guys pain when updating.

Told ya he's my idol =)

At 8/29/03 02:03 AM, Captain_Bob wrote:

At 8/29/03 12:40 AM, D0GMA wrote:

At 8/29/03 12:36 AM, gfoxcook wrote: Congrats to D0GMA on just getting past Captain Bob. Nothing else D0GMA did this past week merits any mention. Yes.

Well, getting pass me should be a momentous occasion...or something ;) It was bound to happen considering you vote much more per day than I do.

heheheh.

As I recall, Captain Bob was the one who originally was keeping track of the VP lists that spawned NGling's list, which supplied a bunch of names for me to use in mine.

Yes, my original VP list that I made for the BC and later posted on NG spawned all of these lists. Newgrundling started doing it when I didn't have the time to do it, because it was taking so long each update. So I feel you guys pain when updating.

My pain is mostly that excel is sometimes finicky, and too much multi-cell underlinings or italicising can crash it.

But in any event, I'd love to give you credit for inspiring my list, but I'd begun making it before I ever saw a version of your list on the BBS.

The top 50 saviors list was simply inspired by me being frustrated about my rank, and noticing I had way more protects than most people between me and the top 10 combined blammers/saviors.

IOW, I wanted a higher rank than 40 or so, so I made this list and bam, I've got 25 or higher, if you look at only saves! #;-}>

if no one get's a lot of points at my part of the list then me be i can be come #46 next time =)

At 8/29/03 07:57 AM, _lightning_ wrote: if no one get's a lot of points at my part of the list then me be i can be come #46 next time =)

agent and Mike aren't moving at all, while Overtired and Yoink aren't moving very much. Denvish had to cut back, but it remains to be seen by how much. You've got a good shot to make some gains in the next few weeks =)

At 8/29/03 12:12 AM, gfoxcook wrote: and Denvish jumped onto the list way up at #48, good job!

Hello!

At 8/29/03 08:28 AM, D0GMA wrote: Denvish had to cut back, but it remains to be seen by how much.

Yeah, as of Monday I'm officially a p/t NGer. I'll still try and get a few points a day, enough to keep me on lists anyway, but I won't be going at anywhere near my original manic pace.

Ooo!! Neat!! I finally managed to track down what was preventing me from seeing some of the animated sigs AS animated. Turns out it was also preventing me from seeing some of the sigs at all, not even a slot showing that something had been blocked, and yours was one of them. So now I get to see the sig you worked so hard on. I like it =) The font at the end doesn't seem to go with the artwork tho ... but that's just me picking nits again ^^

At 8/29/03 02:50 AM, gfoxcook wrote: The top 50 saviors list was simply inspired by me being frustrated about my rank, and noticing I had way more protects than most people between me and the top 10 combined blammers/saviors.

IOW, I wanted a higher rank than 40 or so, so I made this list and bam, I've got 25 or higher, if you look at only saves! #;-}>

The reason I orignally did the VP list was similar, I wanted to know my rank and was bored. I was happy at the time to learn I was #20, and now I'm #10, although I may go down to #11 when TheJoe ranks up again.

At 8/29/03 08:41 AM, Denvish wrote:

At 8/29/03 08:28 AM, D0GMA wrote: Denvish had to cut back, but it remains to be seen by how much.

Yeah, as of Monday I'm officially a p/t NGer. I'll still try and get a few points a day, enough to keep me on lists anyway, but I won't be going at anywhere near my original manic pace.

good good now i can catch you again (i hope) but what do you call a few points?? 20 or 50??

At 8/29/03 03:58 PM, _lightning_ wrote: good good now i can catch you again (i hope) but what do you call a few points?? 20 or 50??

I'm not sure. Since I'm only voting evenings it's unlikely to be over 20-30 per day. In fact, once I go away from NG for a bit, I may lose interest altogether, and drop to like 50 per week or less. That's not a promise though, I'd like to stay on the blam, protect & combined lists so I'll probably try to get enough points to do that. The Protector's list is my most precarious one. The other thing is, I have a Flash to finish & submit (3D shooter), but I'm stuck on some Actionscript, so that's probably going to take priority for a short while. Check my BPs per day on D0GMA's next weekly update, that will probably give you (and me) a better indication of how many points I'll be getting in my next period of life (the week after will be even more accurate, since I have still been voting Thurs-Sun this week)

At 8/29/03 08:28 AM, D0GMA wrote:

At 8/29/03 07:57 AM, _lightning_ wrote: if no one get's a lot of points at my part of the list then me be i can be come #46 next time =)

agent and Mike aren't moving at all, while Overtired and Yoink aren't moving very much. Denvish had to cut back, but it remains to be seen by how much. You've got a good shot to make some gains in the next few weeks =)

Pretty much what he said. #;-}>

Just aim for 3000 saves for now, and you'll be fine.

At 8/29/03 08:41 AM, Denvish wrote:

At 8/29/03 12:12 AM, gfoxcook wrote: and Denvish jumped onto the list way up at #48, good job!

Hello!

Hi there!

But please, don't drop off the list as quickly as you got on, okay? #;-}>

At 8/29/03 09:21 AM, D0GMA wrote: Ooo!! Neat!! I finally managed to track down what was preventing me from seeing some of the animated sigs AS animated. Turns out it was also preventing me from seeing some of the sigs at all, not even a slot showing that something had been blocked, and yours was one of them. So now I get to see the sig you worked so hard on. I like it =) The font at the end doesn't seem to go with the artwork tho ... but that's just me picking nits again ^^

Neato. You neglected to mention exactly WHAT "it" was that was preventing you from seeing so many sigs, though! Mind sharing the revelation of this mysterious bug with the rest of the class? #;-}>

At 8/29/03 10:45 AM, Captain_Bob wrote:

At 8/29/03 02:50 AM, gfoxcook wrote: The top 50 saviors list was simply inspired by me being frustrated about my rank, and noticing I had way more protects than most people between me and the top 10 combined blammers/saviors.

IOW, I wanted a higher rank than 40 or so, so I made this list and bam, I've got 25 or higher, if you look at only saves! #;-}>

The reason I orignally did the VP list was similar, I wanted to know my rank and was bored. I was happy at the time to learn I was #20, and now I'm #10, although I may go down to #11 when TheJoe ranks up again.

When you were #20 in VP, what were you in exp? I know you didn't make the top 50 list till after that point (at least I think you didn't... I remember when you got on the top 50 exp, for one thing, it was in March or April, I believe).

My guess is around 75?

Anyway, my ranks on the save/combined/blam lists now stand at 5/9/11, and none look to be moving any time soon.

Well, my VP rank does... but that doesn't matter to me quite as much. Still, nice to head up towards the top 50 VP. I'll make THAT list a WHOLE lot sooner than I'll make top 50 exp. #;-}>

Drat my 3-years-not-voting-often-enough ass.

At 8/30/03 06:12 AM, gfoxcook wrote:
Neato. You neglected to mention exactly WHAT "it" was that was preventing you from seeing so many sigs, though! Mind sharing the revelation of this mysterious bug with the rest of the class? #;-}>

Ah, sorry, I was chattering about it with Sphere, or whatever it is he calls himself these days, over in another thread.

The privacy settings on one of my firewalls were te cause. If any ad, cookie or script blocking is enacted, I lose a bunch of peoples sigs entirely. They don't even get a blank spot where there should be a sig; the page acts as if they didn't have one at all.

The loss of animation I haven't managed to nail down specifically yet, but one cause is one of the cookie blockers, and the other an ad blocking function. Apparently it's reading those sigs as stuff I wanted to block and I can't convince it that there's a difference.

I've turned them all off for now until I can make the time to retest all of them again.