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To continue this vein of useless information, I've just been having a look back at my historic newusers data (collected for another project last year), and I've managed to pull out that at this point I've been here for 2.447909 years.

Now all I need to do is shove it in a database and make it easily searchable!

spelugx --

I've been here for a year and two days

You're old.

2.447909 years

Hope im here for that many years too

It's not that old, although I did realise recently that h2g2 has now been with the BBC longer than it was with TDV, which has to say something.

I do remember that I used to think of Whoami? and JimiX as being the prolific volunteers, but I can't remember either ever having *six* badges, Jodan. I'm very impressed; I never thought I'd even get to 4, I was always too scared to try to be a sub.

spelugx - young!

Jimi X does have six badges

I've not been a very good ACE or Scout lately I plan to get back into PR but every time I try, something distracts me.

Argh...

* wonders if the sudden surge of unwelcomed newbies correlates to Mort's writing activites *

Looks like I'll do some welcoming...



... after lunch though.

spelugx -- an <./>ace</.> occasionally

I have to say it has made no difference - having done 30 newbies last night . I have yet to to check those already posted to. I hoped they may have disappeared by this morning

I'd forgotten quite how much work it is to do this throughly. It's just a pity that I seem to be getting to them so late. I think a lot of people will just leave if not welcomed promptly. It's even more of a shame since I'm trying to look up links for each of them

And then there is this stupid Liam business. A lot of jumped up, officious idiots going around at the moment.

spelugx

"I'd forgotten quite how much work it is to do this throughly"

Exactly!! Not to mention all the follow up help requests!! Now you know why I am getting fed up of it, and moaning about sharing of duties all the time It's not just because I am a grumpy beggar The list builds up so fast these days, it only takes one day missed and the list becomes 2 pages long

I had the world and his wife drop by my space last night asking for help Wasn't even people I had aced! I don't mind - I love helping people, but it made me laugh as I was desperately trying to get an entry finished and determined to submit it to PR last night! Ended up falling asleep on the sofa!

Assuming the list of aces in the drop-down on Aces is correct, there are 98 aces. This means that exactly half of them have bothered to actually welcome new users since October when I started this page.

That's really quite bad.

I anticipate a small change to my program...

spelugx

I am not sure if the lists are fixed yet - there are only 88 on the aceforum.

I did put out a request for all people not invited to the aceforum to let me know and there were a few. that was a couple of months back. Since there hasn't been any more recruiting apart from a couple, then the aceforum should have the correct number

But yep, about half seems to right.

*waits with intrigue to change in stats program*

I've just knocked up some magic to download the list, and then compare it to my cache.

Here's the results: (spammy)

U200238 is cached as an ace, but isn't
U202717 is cached as an ace, but isn't
U205101 is cached as an ace, but isn't
U218534 is cached as an ace, but isn't
34006 is an ace, but isn't cached
40077 is an ace, but isn't cached
40285 is an ace, but isn't cached
43530 is an ace, but isn't cached
45152 is an ace, but isn't cached
47285 is an ace, but isn't cached
48304 is an ace, but isn't cached
50994 is an ace, but isn't cached
51488 is an ace, but isn't cached
53507 is an ace, but isn't cached
94957 is an ace, but isn't cached
95649 is an ace, but isn't cached
106694 is an ace, but isn't cached
113478 is an ace, but isn't cached
128652 is an ace, but isn't cached
129266 is an ace, but isn't cached
130666 is an ace, but isn't cached
131651 is an ace, but isn't cached
146116 is an ace, but isn't cached
150500 is an ace, but isn't cached
157298 is an ace, but isn't cached
165794 is an ace, but isn't cached
167550 is an ace, but isn't cached
169997 is an ace, but isn't cached
172011 is an ace, but isn't cached
173132 is an ace, but isn't cached
173998 is an ace, but isn't cached
175854 is an ace, but isn't cached
177581 is an ace, but isn't cached
178874 is an ace, but isn't cached
180423 is an ace, but isn't cached
180644 is an ace, but isn't cached
182827 is an ace, but isn't cached
185194 is an ace, but isn't cached
188047 is an ace, but isn't cached
188069 is an ace, but isn't cached
188330 is an ace, but isn't cached
188754 is an ace, but isn't cached
194668 is an ace, but isn't cached
195006 is an ace, but isn't cached
195643 is an ace, but isn't cached
196357 is an ace, but isn't cached
196603 is an ace, but isn't cached
198110 is an ace, but isn't cached
198984 is an ace, but isn't cached
208370 is an ace, but isn't cached
210828 is an ace, but isn't cached
211604 is an ace, but isn't cached
214967 is an ace, but isn't cached
216365 is an ace, but isn't cached
218079 is an ace, but isn't cached
218182 is an ace, but isn't cached

I'm going to check the top four now, and find out why my program is confused about them.

spelugx

The list is out of date a bit, as the top four are all aces, who are new, and have done some welcoming (good for them!).

I wonder how many aces know about this page? The most new users always seems to gather in the 'unaced' category which means they've had postings to their personal space (often from themselves). It's common to think that this is some kind of message board where everyone can see your postings to your personal space.

spelugx

I am sure I have posted about it to the aceforum, as it saves looking through the ** list (which no-one does now anyway)

Maybe you should post about it again and advice folks to check it.

Afterall, you have done the hardwork so why not brag about it

Natalie knows about it as I mentioned it to her amidst some feedback on Aceings!

I've just checked all 98 aces, and I've found the following 8 aren't aces any more.

U94986 is not really an ace
U129266 is not really an ace
U167550 is not really an ace
U178874 is not really an ace
U195006 is not really an ace
U198984 is not really an ace
U210384 is not really an ace
U214967 is not really an ace

I'll pull them from the database in a minute.

I'll email this off to the ace forum so Natalie can poke the list tomorrow.

spelugx

Looks like 46 aces who haven't done any aceing There may be a few more, as that is based on names from the drop-down that are still aces, so someone may have been added since the list was updated (I only picked up the four who had done some work).


Any ideas what I should do with their names? Pop round to this PSes, and give them reminders, and send a list of Elvis impersonators to Natalie?

spelugx

I would email Natalie.

I also find it interesting that some people giving feedback on aces being meet and greet haven't actually done any for at least 3 months

I've sent an email to the forum with a list of people who've been idle for months, hopefully it'll jog their memories and get them back to h2g2, always good to have old faces back.

I know that a few of the others on my list, do a lot of things other than direct greetings that can be considered aceing, so I think I'll be very careful, with who I name.

spelugx