topic What's going on with the Top Solution leaderboard? in All Things Community

What's going on with the Top Solution leaderboard?

PaigeMiller — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 18:11:43 GMT

I thought at one time, the SAS Communities Top Solution leaderboard showed Reeza in first place all-time with over 10,000 (maybe even over 20,000) correct answers. Now he's still in first place with under 4,000 correct answers.

In addition, I thought I was 13th and had just passed Patrick, and now I see I have jumped three more places to 10th and Patrick is way behind me instead of being just behind me.

Could it be that I'm remembering these things incorrectly? Could it be that some of Reeza's answers were later deemed incorrect? Could it be that Henry Aaron only hit 321 home runs?

Re: What's going on with the Top Solution leaderboard?

ballardw — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 18:31:34 GMT

I think that there might be some time component involved and something else not knowable to mere users.

On the leader board it shows, on Mar 10, 2021, that I have 2,685 solutions. When I look at my profile it shows 2,226. So yes, something a touch "odd" is going on with the total somewhere. I think one possible difference is the "solution accepted by original poster" and ones marked as "solution" by SAS staff which may occur quite a while after the question activity dies down.

I believe @Reeza has gently correctly a few posters about the assumption of male gender.

Re: What's going on with the Top Solution leaderboard?

ChrisHemedinger — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 19:14:23 GMT

Hi @PaigeMiller I think you might be thinking of Reeza's number of posts...not solutions. She has been celebrated for having 10,000+ posts (but now she's over 30,000).

Regardless - the people in the "All-time Solutions" leaderboards represent a tremendous contribution to the community, and we are extremely grateful!

P.S. At this time we have "only" about 45,000 solutions in the system...so your respective solution totals represent a big chunk of those!

Re: What's going on with the Top Solution leaderboard?

FreelanceReinh — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 21:05:23 GMT

An inconsistency in the Top Solution Authors leaderboard I noticed a while ago is that @Cynthia_sas is not listed there -- although with 720 solutions (according to her profile) she should be ranked 15th "All Time" (which is my current rank). Not sure if more people are missing and why this should be the case.

Re: What's going on with the Top Solution leaderboard?

ChrisHemedinger — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 21:15:07 GMT

Good eye @FreelanceReinh -- but Cynthia (and several other SAS employees) have a role that allows us to accept a solution (usually when an OP has not come back to do so). For fairness, members in those roles are not included in the Solutions leaderboard. But @Cynthia_sas does earn many solutions on her own and she knows we appreciate her.

Re: What's going on with the Top Solution leaderboard?

PaigeMiller — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 21:51:26 GMT

@ballardw wrote:

I believe @Reeza has gently correctly a few posters about the assumption of male gender.

Thank you, and apologies to @Reeza

Re: What's going on with the Top Solution leaderboard?

PaigeMiller — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 21:54:39 GMT

@ChrisHemedinger wrote:

Hi @PaigeMiller I think you might be thinking of Reeza's number of posts...not solutions. She has been celebrated for having 10,000+ posts (but now she's over 30,000).

Regardless - the people in the "All-time Solutions" leaderboards represent a tremendous contribution to the community, and we are extremely grateful!

P.S. At this time we have "only" about 45,000 solutions in the system...so your respective solution totals represent a big chunk of those!

You are probably right, @ChrisHemedinger , although somehow when I was told I had jumped 3 places on the list, it wasn't my memory that was being relied upon, and I'm still darn sure that I had just Patrick. Nevertheless, my memory has been suspect since I survived Ferdinand Magellan's round-the-world voyage in 1920 ... or was that 1520? I can't remember.

I'm surprised I can ever remember enough SAS to get a correct answer, but if I simply suggest PROC SUMMARY is the solution to everything, I do get quite a lot of correct answers.