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iconmaster on May 22, 2007

This. Is. Awesome.

Note that the script has caught you twice.

JBVisions on May 22, 2007

Aaron will have to be banned, He has two accounts. ;-)

aaroncampbell on May 22, 2007

Doh...Dang the case sensitive nature of array_unique.
I took one of me out.

seanhussey on May 22, 2007

Wow, yeah, I figured I was way behind. Top 20 ain't bad!

seanhussey on May 22, 2007

Well, I _am_ way behind, but I figured there were a lot more people close to 10K. :)

seanhussey on May 22, 2007

Let's make it 3 posts in a row!

@aaroncampbell: Can you list which ones are VIP?

aaroncampbell on May 22, 2007

I figured there were a lot more people close to 10K.
There could be. Unfortunately I don't have a comprehensive list of names. Hopefully people will post their names here if they have high scores.

Better yet, maybe a chef could pull the *official* top 50 from the database, whisper me the names, and I could monitor them and keep up this thread (until they make an official leaderboard).

Jen on May 22, 2007

How neat!

davethegr8 on May 22, 2007

I'd love to see a vip/non-vip leaderboard. That way we could get a better sense of the big traders. It would also be neat to see a points per set stat, because a lot of those people have tons of sets

aaroncampbell on May 22, 2007

I can't do images in a post, but I made all VIPs bold.

Jen on May 22, 2007

Could you perhaps add an edited date/time/timezone to your post? :D

tamashii on May 22, 2007

damn aaron - way to go! This rules!

aaroncampbell on May 22, 2007

@Jen: I had the script that I copy/paste from add a date/time at the bottom.

@Tamashii: thanks

rajr19 on May 22, 2007

sweet im number 16

KatieK on May 22, 2007

Holy cow, I exist!

Forevagrey on May 22, 2007

is there a place to see who is in the top 50 of your list? (i assume they have more then 3K in points at least)

lisamac on May 22, 2007

Oooh. I've been waiting to see this. I'm up there somewhere cuz I'm at 4720 :)

aaroncampbell on May 22, 2007

Well, currently my top 50 (48 actually...I had a couple duplicates) goes as low as 2080 points. I'm sure it's not very accurate (although I think the top 20 is more accurate).

I don't want to give out the link to this one unless I get the OK from the chefs first. It has to pull 48 pages from their server to parse, so if it gets a lot of visits, it will pound their servers a bit.

aaroncampbell on May 22, 2007

lisamac: take a look now...#20
You were one of the people whose name was not on my list of people to check. You're there now.

whoisgregg on May 22, 2007

You can cache the pages to reduce the load. I see you're using PHP so I can send you a code example if you'd like, just comment on my page if you are interested.

iqon on May 22, 2007

Shiver me timbers! I be but a humble clown fish in the presence of killer whales.

anti on May 22, 2007

Great work!

I am only 40 points away from top 20. *waves*

I had no idea.

aaroncampbell on May 22, 2007

whoisgregg: If I cache the pages, the content wouldn't be up to date. Which is the whole point of having a link rather than just the list that I keep here.

bjendrick on May 22, 2007

Okay, being a programmer, I'm dying to know... how did you script this? Just very curious. You can whisper in my box if that's easier.

dishg on May 22, 2007

Hey congrats to everybody! glad to know I'm near the top 30s, lol... =)

aaroncampbell on May 22, 2007

The code is sloppy and uncommented (not a lot of time to do this kind of thing), but the basics involve grabbing the HTML from iconbuffet, and running some carefully crafted regular expressions to pull the data that I want. It's called "scraping" and it's a nasty way to collect data...but sometimes it's the only way.

bjendrick on May 22, 2007

Right... I'm familiar with the concept, but not the practice myself. As it is, someone says regular expressions, and I just stare in awe.

:-O

SuperLlamel on May 22, 2007

Thanks! I'll be working my way up to there.

SuperLlamel on May 22, 2007

Yes, I'm in the top 50 (I have more than 2080)!!!!

I'd like to thank the academy for this great honor. I'd also like to thank my mom, my dad, my brother, my uncle, my dog...

soprano on May 22, 2007

Oh I'm 9th!!!

soprano on May 22, 2007

How about you don't capitalize the usernames? :)

aaroncampbell on May 22, 2007

I just think it looks nicer.

dyar on May 22, 2007

@aaroncampbell - Excellent job on this

MobiTec on May 22, 2007

Yeh great stuff AC! :o)

SuperLlamel on May 22, 2007

How often do you update this?

aaroncampbell on May 23, 2007

A couple times a day. There is a timestamp at the bottom of the list.

SuperLlamel on May 23, 2007

Ah, I can't believe I missed that. *embarrassed*

whoisgregg on May 23, 2007

I only meant to cache it for an hour or so in case you get a big rush to the site. It puts that little buffer between your server and the "target" server that makes sure you and your visitors don't ever accidentally DOS the target. (I even cache for my own internal pages that, ahem, "scrape" in case I forget that refreshing my page means xx downloads from a third party server.)

Jen on May 23, 2007

Iconmaster is top chef!
Grats xD

socrates on May 23, 2007

... and i noticed Filosof has the "100 Referals badge" kewl!

Jen on May 23, 2007

Very nice! ^.^

soprano on May 23, 2007

woah

tamashii on May 23, 2007

that’s quite insane.

gswd on May 23, 2007

I've said it before, and I will say it again. Filosof has one powerful blog. (jumping to the conclusion that his referrals came from there)

SuperLlamel on May 24, 2007

I have noticed that most of the people on the top 20 list have almost if not all of the icons. Would it be possible to make a leaderboard for people with under 50 icons? They work just as hard they just don't have the same number of stamps and icons to send. :)

dyar on May 24, 2007

Well, Filosof (#3) on the list only has 22 Sets, so you don't have to have them all to do good, and he still has 1,000 Stamps to use.

lparziale on May 24, 2007

Nice.... #10 - but I am OUT OF STAMPS

**sobbing uncontrollably**

aaroncampbell on May 24, 2007

Now that the Leaderboard script uses IB IDs, and not the user pages, it reduces the load on IBs servers enough to post a link.
I now have a small script that keeps an eye out for usernames on here, and store them. The Leaderboard script runs once a day, checking all those users (currently over 1250 users), storing the top_50 in a file. The script that you see is simply grabbing the scores for those 50 people and putting them all in order. So, the 50 people will only change once a day, but the points for those 50 people will be current.

Forevagrey on May 25, 2007

nice, now i need another 3k before i can join the club.

ChickAzul on May 25, 2007

really nice script aaron :D

BlackBart on May 25, 2007

Aaron, when does the top 50 repopulate?

aaroncampbell on May 25, 2007

2am by my server time (CDT).
00 2 * * * /scripts/ib_update_top_50.php

gswd on May 25, 2007

I keep getting closer. Just a few hundred from the bottom rung.

aaroncampbell on May 25, 2007

Things to note:
There are 3 NON-VIPs in the top 20 (congrats).
There are 3 chefs that are not VIP (this seems odd).
Mobitec is less than 4k from the big 20K mark (and 34 tokens a month). Nice going!

BlackBart on May 27, 2007

Aaron - Could you put you link to the top 50 at the top?

aaroncampbell on May 27, 2007

Link added.

BlackBart on May 27, 2007

Thanks! I'm climbing but it will be a few days before I reach the top 20!

gswd on May 27, 2007

Woo-hoo. #26

SuperLlamel on May 28, 2007

I'm only 260 points from the top 50!

caradotcom on May 29, 2007

@SuperLamel - Looks like you made it :)

lparziale on May 30, 2007

Way to go SuperLlamel!! You are on the board!

aaroncampbell on May 31, 2007

As a side note, I broke 15k!

lparziale on Jun 02, 2007

Woo Hoo Aaroncampbell!!!!

lparziale on Jun 02, 2007

I lack 40 points for 10,000 and have 0 stamps **sulking off to find someone to sign up for IB membership**

heinzelman on Jun 02, 2007

wow I made the list

iconmaster on Jun 03, 2007

Good to see a few folks closing in on 20k. Rack up those bonus tokens!

gswd on Jun 03, 2007

up 2 more to #24

lparziale on Jun 03, 2007

Made 10K - woo hoo. And subsequently, moved to #9. A few of us keep juggling positions!

seanhussey on Jun 03, 2007

Yeah, Lisamac and I are right next to each other. I can't seem to get out of position #13. :)

But she and I agree--leaderboard, shmeaderboard. We just want to hit 10K!

lisamac on Jun 03, 2007

Darn right! :)

aaroncampbell on Jun 04, 2007

And Tamashii takes the lead!

mrspoomp on Jun 04, 2007

wow, seeing this leaderboard makes my goals look a little pathetic :-(

Betty on Jun 04, 2007

Happy to be 29!

anti on Jun 04, 2007

I bet there is >100.000 individuals here. Happy to be alive. :)

ChickAzul on Jun 05, 2007

oh I made 20 :D

aaroncampbell on Jun 05, 2007

Another lead change, as the users race for 20k.

Iconmaster is 1 gold delivery away from 1M! That's right, 1,000,000! One Million! One...well, you get it, he has a lot of points.

JBVisions on Jun 06, 2007

Must have infinite stamps as well. :-(

On the bright side, I just landed on the leaderboard. :-)

wmostrey on Jun 06, 2007

You should make a seperate list for people who never took VIP, since it is much harder for them to make points. The current bold listing doesn't really mean anything.

JBVisions on Jun 06, 2007

How does he tell whether they had VIP or not? If they had it on a monthly basis they'd stop when they got all the sets.

aaroncampbell on Jun 06, 2007

That's true. I would have no real way of knowing if they had VIP, unless I started tracking that in a database or something. I'm still confident that some day the chefs will start a leaderboard, and this will be obsolete.

silveria on Jun 06, 2007

you don't need vip to get points though.

aaroncampbell on Jun 06, 2007

True. There see to always be 4, sometimes 5 non-VIPs in the top 20 (Go silveria). Now, take into consideration that (generally) VIPs are more likely to spend more time here, etc. It doesn't seem that off.

tamashii on Jun 06, 2007

@wmostrey: my soap box is on vacation…

aaroncampbell on Jun 06, 2007

It's official, Iconmaster broke 1M!

seanhussey on Jun 07, 2007

Woo! 10K!

lisamac on Jun 07, 2007

OMG soooooo close to 10K...

filosof on Jun 08, 2007

10k.. 10k is nothing ;-) - all u need is community, that baaaadly wants free icons.. and I was lucky to have one :-) btw. I still have 1776 stamps - so if anyone wants some of my sets, just post me a comment :-)

tamashii on Jun 08, 2007

Sweet Sassy Molassy! That stamp count is insane… Wish I could trade tokens for those bad boys.

JBVisions on Jun 08, 2007

Errrrr hang on. How?

You have 24 deliveries and 14940 points so how on earth have you got 1776 stamps?

Please send the secret of stamp production on massive scale to my box. Pronto!

iconmaster on Jun 08, 2007

Note the 100 referrals "blogosphere" badge. ;)

JBVisions on Jun 08, 2007

Erk, you're going to tell me it's all referrals aren't you.

filosof on Jun 08, 2007

dark arts of magic.. ehm refereals magic.. ;-)

JBVisions on Jun 08, 2007

I do wish posts on here would appear as they happen. You come back later and you look like a right idiot. :-( When I posted my last one John's wasn't there. Honest.

Which raises something I thought of before, Is it possible to put the time on the posts as well as the date?

JBVisions on Jun 08, 2007

@ filosof. Torture is illegal. ;-)

lparziale on Jun 10, 2007

@JBVisions - in SOME countries.... but IB is a whole different animal...

** grumbling about 100 referrals and 1700+ stamps **

lisamac on Jun 11, 2007

I am painfully close to 10k... hook a sista up yall. Send your friends to me for icons? Then I can sleep again... LOL

JBVisions on Jun 12, 2007

I'm getting there. All I need is 1700 stamps :-}

tamashii on Jun 12, 2007

Wow, Silveria! 1800 point shoot up! Awesome!

bjendrick on Jun 12, 2007

I find it amazing that in the Top 50, there are 11 that are not VIPs. That's pretty cool.

lisamac on Jun 12, 2007

Whoooowah! Ninja moved right up past 10K today!

lisamac on Jun 13, 2007

And then she dooooooove into the top 10. :D Heehee. This is me not being ninja stealth. :)

dyar on Jun 14, 2007

Congratulations to silveria on being the first to reach 20,000 Points.

ChickAzul on Jun 22, 2007

The leaderboard script is gone, and so is aarons blog :(

hope everything is ok on his side

tamashii on Jun 22, 2007

I haven’t heard from him in a while, actually… Here’s to everything being OK. I assume he is moderately ok, he has the new set in his collection.

JBVisions on Jun 22, 2007

Xavisys is undergoing some maintenance. It will be back up shortly.

ChickAzul on Jun 22, 2007

ooh that's good to know :D thanks!

dyar on Jun 25, 2007

Xavisys is still down

aaroncampbell on Jun 25, 2007

Sorry, all the iconbuffet stuff is back up. The new address to my personal blog is http://aaron.xavisys.com but the old addresses should forward fine, passing a 301 redirect. The Icon Buffet stuff is set up as 3 pages on my personal blog, with links on the left.

Everything ended up taking a lot longer. In the middle of a revamp of xavisys.com, we got a rush project. I *STILL* haven't got it all back up.

As for my not having been around a lot, read Losing Interest

a2 on Jun 25, 2007

Worked for me just now...

aaroncampbell on Jun 26, 2007

Silveria:
What's your secret! How'd you get 100+ referrals?

JBVisions on Jun 26, 2007

Looks really good Aaron

silveria on Jun 28, 2007

No secret! I just post a link on my website!

JBVisions on Jul 03, 2007

and then she sends threatening letters to everyone she knows. ;-)

aaroncampbell on Jul 12, 2007

Apparently JBVisions is upset that he's missing from the list when clearly he should be on there. There could be others too. The script updates the top 50 once a day, and often gets timeouts or server errors. If one of those two things happens when it's checking your name, it skips it...and checks it again the next day.
Patience is a virtue.

KatieK on Jul 12, 2007

I think JB is upset that she's been called a smelly old boy. ;)

JBVisions on Jul 13, 2007

!!!!!

I'm a she!!!!

And I'm not upset. I believe what I said was something along the lines of....

Dropping me from the list will not stop me from taking over the world!!!! MUWAHAHAHAHAHA.

:)

SlyRaskal on Jul 24, 2007

WOO HOO! I'm almost there, only 9,000 points to go! :D

iqon on Jul 24, 2007

They should start a new group "IB Points Leader"
20 members 295,370 combined points
14,768 avg points per person

dyar on Jul 24, 2007

hmmm... Silveria has 39,910 Points

KatieK on Jul 24, 2007

Wow, she's got so many points that she off the chart.

seanhussey on Aug 17, 2007

Ryuzaki isn't an active account anymore. Can it be removed?

aaroncampbell on Aug 18, 2007

No, his IB badge is still active, so the leaderboard still gets a total for him. The chefs need to remove his badge, or make it show 0 points.

rajr19 on Aug 18, 2007

yeah soprano sent an email to the chefs about that.

tamashii on Aug 20, 2007

i don't know what i'm talking about, but don't you technically have to tell your program that generates the Leaderboard who to look at? i mean, if you remove his id badge from the script, it shouldn't see it, no?

aaroncampbell on Aug 20, 2007

The program scans the Iconbuffet site for valid usernames, and keeps them in a list. As long as there are still links to to his user page (which there are), his username will be picked back up.

It's not that it couldn't be told to ignore his name, it's just that I don't want to start accepting changes to the script, because I'm not all that interested in putting that kind of time into it.

tamashii on Aug 20, 2007

ah - that makes sense. clever bit of script there, aaron.

carry on.

aaroncampbell on Aug 29, 2007

silveria is no longer the leader...she's been beaten out by Jsfreire!

jsfreire on Aug 29, 2007

I'm on the top for now... the challenge is to stay here!

SawanM on Aug 29, 2007

congrats jsfreire, how long have you been a member?

jsfreire on Aug 29, 2007

I've been a member since December 30, 2005...

SawanM on Aug 29, 2007

oh good luck with your future milestone at IB...

aaroncampbell on Sep 20, 2007

I don't want to be mean here, but I'm tired of getting comments in my box, and E-Mails. I do not add or remove anyone from the leaderboard. This has been talked about in this thread, and it's stated clearly at the top of the leaderboard itself. It is what it is. If people don't stop bothering me about it, it's going to get taken down.

laulena on Nov 02, 2007

you should add the newest chef: Brian!

MrDee on Nov 05, 2007

We humble minions bow before you mighty ninja chieftain.

aaroncampbell on Nov 26, 2007

Updated this thread. As you can see, it takes a lot to make the list!

dyar on Nov 26, 2007

Yeah, it would be nice if 2 booted users weren't taking up space on the list. I know you can't do anything about it Aaron.

aaroncampbell on Dec 06, 2007

It's official, you have to be over 20k to make the list.

soprano on Dec 06, 2007

Holy cow!

I'm starting to lose my spot…

jameshilton on Dec 06, 2007

I was hoping to get a spot!

shohom67 on Dec 19, 2007

Congrads to all!

cartuning on Dec 20, 2007

Hi Aaron,

when I click on the profiles of:
- Ryuzaki (14th)
- Ioma (17th)
I get "This account is no longer active".
Are they gone?
Cheers

aaroncampbell on Dec 20, 2007

Yes, they are gone. The problem is that their IB IDs are still active, and return a points total.

cartuning on Dec 21, 2007

I see, or you maybe add an if-clause when generating the top-list.
Merry xmas

aaroncampbell on Dec 21, 2007

I've said a few times before that I'm really not interested in making any changes to the script. I don't have enough interest in IconBuffet anymore. I did link to the source code a couple times, so if you want to get it, modify it, and run your own thread, you are more than welcome to. You are also welcome to create your own, or use my top 50, and manually remove the ones you don't want.

dyar on Jan 03, 2008

You can see the current scores of the top 50 any time.

How come the top 50 are now the top 49?

soprano on Jan 03, 2008

I'm not sure. Tomorrow, look for a new leaderboard from me that doesn't have dead people.

elnitido52 on Jan 10, 2008

This one updates automatically even though it has dead people in it...

aaroncampbell on Jan 10, 2008

I fixed the problem with only seeing 49 people. My name harvester was still seeing otherbrian as a regular user, and putting him in the top 50. Then the script to display the users recognized that he was a chef and filtered him back out.

As for the dead users, I'm sending an E-Mail to the chefs now to ask again if they will reflect that somehow in the user's IB ID. If they will do that (or give me access some other way), I'll fix the script.

aaroncampbell on Jan 10, 2008

I guess that if a bunch of people asked them to do it, it might help. Here is what I sent:
As you know, I have a leaderboard up for your site <http: />. To reduce load on your system I use the IB IDs to pull the points for a user. The problem is that dead accounts still show a points total on their IB ID. Take a look at Ryuzaki <http: /> and his IB ID <http: />. If you could make a way for my script to tell if a user is "live" or "dead" it would be very helpful. You might be able to make their IB ID show zero points or get tagged as "This account is no longer active." You could even make a different way for me to access points totals if you'd like.

Thanks.

sloan on Jan 10, 2008

I see dead people...

aaroncampbell on Jan 10, 2008

So send a letter to your favorite chef and ask for the repair.

aaroncampbell on Jan 10, 2008

I actually recognized the quote, but was taking the opportunity to tell people to ask the chefs for the upgrade. It should be a 15 minute project for them...

sloan on Jan 10, 2008

hehe, will do...hope they don't beat me up doh, I'm fragile

aaroncampbell on Jan 18, 2008

There have been some position changes since that packrat set came out!

aaroncampbell on Jan 22, 2008

Looks like the dead people are gone. The IB ID's now forward to the user page on dead accounts. See: Ryuzaki's IB ID

a2 on Jan 24, 2008

How long do accounts have to sit inactive before the chefs kill it off?

soprano on Jan 24, 2008

@a2: They only kill off accounts which are cheating, trolling, spamming, or that sort of thing. You'll also get the same message if go to an account that's been canceled by the user.

opello on Feb 01, 2008

Kind of sad, never seen my name on the list, and I've got ~11k these days. Oh well :)

mcgurgu on Feb 02, 2008

where is
jsfreire: 122490 points

aaroncampbell on Feb 02, 2008

opello: takes over 20k to make it in the top 20.

mcgurgu: Sometimes if IconBuffet is slow, some people get skipped. If that happens, it'll correct itself in a couple hours

opello on Feb 06, 2008

aaroncampbell: I was referring to the top 50 on your site, but yeah, I figured ... lowest user having more than me kind of excluded me from the top 20 listed above.

Now the lowest one in your top 50 is 14k anyway (before it was 9k or so) so I wouldn't make that cut either.

Thanks for the response though!

thedudedean on Feb 23, 2008

With any luck I should be top 20 soon.

renbot on Feb 29, 2008

Whoa, what happened to the Top 20? A ton of people are missing...

soprano on Mar 01, 2008

@renbot: That's what happens when the site is slow.

heinzelman on Mar 02, 2008

site performance continues to well, suck, sorry chefs. Pack rat might be a drain on resources...

aaroncampbell on Mar 03, 2008

It was pretty bad before packrat.

elnitido52 on Mar 06, 2008

This Leaderboard blog is working properly...thanks Aaron...

soprano on Mar 06, 2008

@elnitido52: Mine was working fine, but I stopped it, because aaroncampbell's works fine, so there was no longer any need for mine.

gswd on Mar 11, 2008

Is PR hosted on OUR IB servers? Oh the HORROR!

aaroncampbell on Mar 12, 2008

I honestly don't think so gswd, but only the chefs would know for sure.

soprano on Mar 12, 2008

I have a hunch that PackRat is hosted on one of Joyent's accelerators.

thedudedean on Apr 14, 2008

Yay!! I got on the Top 20!

anti on Apr 14, 2008

Congrats!

thedudedean on Apr 23, 2008

Now for the top ten....

JSun on Apr 24, 2008

It's not that far away :)

thedudedean on Apr 25, 2008

Not far off, just got my gold hat and when I get my planet medal....

richardm on Apr 28, 2008

Yay!!! I made the top 50 ... now my life is complete!!! :)

thedudedean on Apr 28, 2008

Yeah but being on the top 20 is so much more choice.

soprano on May 03, 2008

I will be pushed off the top 20 soon. =(

thedudedean on May 03, 2008

Sorry its partly my fault.

aaroncampbell on May 15, 2008

Yeah, I'm no longer a to 20 contender either.

dyar on May 16, 2008

hmmm... it appears there have been some changes.

thedudedean on May 17, 2008

Change is good.

tamashii on May 26, 2008

wow - somebody woke up...

soprano on May 28, 2008

I'm still #18!

thedudedean on Jun 06, 2008

I'm still six.

MrDee on Jun 09, 2008

some people never grow up.

SawanM on Jun 16, 2008

Oh, is it possible to have the source code of this script, please?