Points Leaderboard?

Question

I have some questions on the Points Leaderboard on Flashcards. When someone earns the most points in the week, they get the Student of the Week badge. Until this week, Esteban_317(no disrespect to you) has won the Student of the Week at least 5 times in a row without getting into the Top 10 point leaders. Also, when a person has won the Student of the Week, it says he has won it with Reputation Gain. What's up with that?

This confused me originally.. Jan. 2014, I first set aim on Bosquederoble & Heliotropeman. They had dominated SOW the previous months - Jan 17 I reached 1st wkly chart, but no report. Using links( Bosque offers: 'badges-S.oW.') found 5 wk delay! - Esteban_317, Apr 10, 2016

Answer 1

Congrats to bryonr, who became our 342° Student of the Week with a one-week gain of 24,435 pts. View leaderboards

There is a several week delay before the winner is posted, so the announcement reflects winning it several weeks ago. Currently it lists byronr- who had the highest total a couple of weeks ago- I don't remember exactly when. I think it is assigned based on a point total sometime Saturday evening. But that persons name does not show up for several weeks.

I don't see anything about the reputation there.

Here is the history of winners, you can see until recently when he dedided to take a bit of a break, Esteban essentially monopolized it with all his hard work:

http://www.spanishdict.com/users/badges/student_of_the_week

Here is the history of the reputation based winners (the points from votes), again it is on a delay of several weeks. Porcupine tends to dominate that one:

http://www.spanishdict.com/users/badges/user_of_the_week

The current leaderboard also has a delay of 1-2 days on it, so the posted totals are not the totals of the minute.

http://www.spanishdict.com/flashcards/leaderboards

On the board I am listed at number 9. with 5523 for the week.

If you go to my profile on reputation you will see I currently have: 16,011

The difference is what I have done since the board last updated minus any that have expired since then for the week.

Go to flashcards and click on student of the week. You will see that the one-week gain is a little different, as it has reputation gain instead of points - Matjam, Apr 1, 2016

Thank you for the info :) - Matjam, Apr 1, 2016

Oh, now I see where you are talking about- that needs to be sent to the feedback button. That is clearly an error. :) - bosquederoble, Apr 1, 2016

Answer 2

Well, Matjam, all I can think of is that Esteban_317 just really likes to practice his vocabulary every week, and he works really hard on it, so he would get the Student of the Week badge every week.

Wihtout earning any points to do it? - Matjam, Apr 1, 2016

I chose to end my streak as Student of the Week Valentine's Day this year. There is a 5 wk delay - so although I said so- that byronr was new SOW [See tribute link Bosque made (6 mil.pt man)]- Leaderboard didn't show until after 5wk. - Esteban_317, Apr 10, 2016