Probably, and note that I’m talking here about the wedrifid account. At last count wedrifid had more comments than any other and also likely exposure and votes on more comments than most.
How many bytes would it need to retrieve?
Less than a gigabyte is my estimate. If your account has only been around for a year or two you can likely save time/downloads there too.
(I’m considering the practicality of using a script/program to cancel an account’s votes and recast them from another account; upvotes (also subscriptions) initially and downvotes once enough karma is earned.)
Interesting thought. That certainly seems possible. If you do create it for your own use may I perhaps suggest that you never release it to others? While automatically cancelling votes and casting them from a different account is perfectly fine a single line of code commented out makes this same script into a troll-sockpuppet nightmare.
Probably, and note that I’m talking here about the wedrifid account. At last count wedrifid had more comments than any other and also likely exposure and votes on more comments than most.
Isn’t that irrelevant, since a vote-counting script would have to check every comment on the site regardless?
Isn’t that irrelevant, since a vote-counting script would have to check every comment on the site regardless?
I was allowing for an imperfect optimisation of your ‘move account’ script where you don’t bother checking posts from years before you arrived. Most of the votes can be expected to be on more recent content so returns would be diminishing the further back you go. Obviously this doesn’t work well with all possible usage patterns so mileage may vary.
Probably, and note that I’m talking here about the wedrifid account. At last count wedrifid had more comments than any other and also likely exposure and votes on more comments than most.
Less than a gigabyte is my estimate. If your account has only been around for a year or two you can likely save time/downloads there too.
Interesting thought. That certainly seems possible. If you do create it for your own use may I perhaps suggest that you never release it to others? While automatically cancelling votes and casting them from a different account is perfectly fine a single line of code commented out makes this same script into a troll-sockpuppet nightmare.
Isn’t that irrelevant, since a vote-counting script would have to check every comment on the site regardless?
I was allowing for an imperfect optimisation of your ‘move account’ script where you don’t bother checking posts from years before you arrived. Most of the votes can be expected to be on more recent content so returns would be diminishing the further back you go. Obviously this doesn’t work well with all possible usage patterns so mileage may vary.