Yesterday, he was the top mathematics answerer with over 1900 best answers. Why is he all of a sudden off the leaderboard?
2007-04-05 08:04:20 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
Can accounts be purged for 'inactivity', as Pascal suggests? I don't think they can because I was inactive for about 9 months without being deleted.
2007-04-05 08:40:34 · update #1
I asked Raj about this in private and he didn't know either. He tells me he was given no heads up that it was going to happen to him.
I asked the same question since MsMath disappeared, and found out that the leader boards have become localized. raj (who now goes by the name gopal) is in the top 10 in the India list:
http://in.answers.yahoo.com/dir/stars?sid=396545161
I don't know what happened to MsMath.
2007-04-05 10:23:57 · answer #1 · answered by Puggy 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I was wondering the same thing. The person they are showing as "top contributor" now is no where near what Raj had.
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Quote: " A Top Contributor ask a question about a former
Top contributor(Leaderboard). Another Top contributor answers! Must be a conspiracy."
No... It just means some of us spend a little too much time here. We notice when things change!
2007-04-05 15:08:01 · answer #2 · answered by Mathematica 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure, since I'm not a Yahoo employee, but since I haven't seen raj answering questions for a long time, it's possible his account was purged for inactivity.
On a related note, when the heck did _I_ make the leaderboard?
Edit: The Yahoo terms of service lists extended inactivity as one of the possible reasons for termination of service (see http://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/utos/utos-173.html , section 15, sentence 2, part f), so it is possible. I think they used to do it after one year of no activity, although since hard drive space is so cheap these days, they may not bother anymore (it only says they _may_ terminate service for inactivity, not that they will). But if, as Puggy states, raj is still online and answering e-mails, then that cannot possibly be the reason. It might still be related to the age of the answers, e.g. they decided to clear out all answers made before a certain date -- but even then, the record of how many best answers he has received, and the points he got for them, should remain even if the answers themselves do not. Curiouser and curiouser, as they say.
2007-04-05 15:19:07 · answer #3 · answered by Pascal 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Weeks agoo I noticed that when i refreshed the browser, his points changed about a 1000.
The current top contributor in math first 1736 best answers, 2 moinutes later 1736. weird.
2007-04-05 15:47:54 · answer #4 · answered by gjmb1960 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe his boss gave hin a 'taking to' and told him to quit spending so much time here!
It does seem odd that he dropped from first to off the list of the top ten.
2007-04-05 15:10:04 · answer #5 · answered by modulo_function 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Top Contributor ask a question about a former
Top contributor(Leaderboard).
Another Top contributor answers!
Ummmmmmmmmmmmm?
Must be a conspiracy.
2007-04-05 15:11:43 · answer #6 · answered by Future 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋