Wednesday, March 1, 2017

My infamous "The Force Awakens" spree in Dec 2015/Jan 2016. Records galore!

On December 18, 2015 an auspicius set of circumstances converged for me:
  • Much anticipated and very popular Star Wars Episode VII ("The Force Awakens") was released to theaters.
  • I was bored, being banned from SE chat.
  • I had plenty of free time, having 2 weeks of vacation and almost nothing I needed to accomlish in those 2 weeks.
  • I was motivated to show off my SFF.SE chops


As a result, I decided to spend my time answering "[the-force-awakens]" questions on SFF.SE.
How did I do? Not too shabby.

  • Earned a GOLD "[the-force-awakens]" tag badge, the only one on the site
    • This involves answering >=200 questions in the tag; with at least 1000 cumulative upvotes on those answers.
    • My count was 2600 cumulative upvotes instead of requisite 1000
  • Earned 11K of reputation in just 1 month, despite being hampered by repcap
    • Dec 17, 2015 (start): 180587
    • Jan 19, 2016 (end): 191257
  • While at it, set several single-day records or near-records on the site:
    • 1 day I earned 840 total rep (despite rep cap), from votes+accepts+bounties.
    • Same day I earned the most uncapped vote rep on the site of any user, ever (2265 rep)
    • On 2 days I earned 240 and 210 rep from just accepts on my TFA answers
      • (this was 2d and 3rd best ever result on the site, and the only reason they aren't #1 is because Richard literally went on a comment spree one day and asked everyone to accept his unaccepted answers - on the same day. All of my accepts were natural, without prompting users).
  • Lost 10K rep to repcaps in just 1 week (this means that without repacaps, in that month I would likely have earned ~35-50K rep, not 11K as I did)
  • Repcapped daily for a month. Not simply repcapping but often, repcapping by 9pm EST (meaning, within 4 hours of repcap being reset).
  • Not only that, but after I completely stopped posting any new posts on SFF.SE, I kept rep-capping - doing so for 10 out of 12 subsequent days without any new posts.