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.
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.