Most and Least prolific researchers on GA

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bowler

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Dec 21, 2006, 3:52:11 PM12/21/06
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Ok, I know the final numbers are not in but below is a hastily compiled
list of the most prolific and least prolific of the "500" researchers
that have participated with GA. Next to each name is the number of
questions answered.

Most Prolific Reseachers:

1) Bobbie7 - 3570
2) Pinkfreud - 2361
3) Juggler - 2065
4) Tutuzdad - 1813
5) Pafalafa - 1742
6) Scriptor - 1581
7) PoliticalGuru - 1458
8) Easterangel - 1332
9) Rainbow - 1291
10) Hummer - 1150
11) JustAskScott - 1142
12) Crabcakes - 1065

These are the only researchers who have answered over 1000 questions.
There are many more just under 1000 such as Answerfinder, CZH,
Tlsspiegel, and Denco.


Least Prolific Researchers

1) Kf - 1
2) Jickster - 1
3) Goniff - 1
4) Berean - 1
5) Dhale - 1
6) AreleneGreen - 1
7) Leslie - 2
8) Cheeser - 2
9) BobJames - 2
10) Mork - 2
11) StWriley - 2
12) Sabine -2 (Answered 2 questions, both received a 1 star rating)
13) Crys - 2
14) Eloise - 2
15) nocky -2

There are many more under 10 questions answered.

pinkfreud

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Dec 21, 2006, 4:15:59 PM12/21/06
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In addition to the One-Answer Wonders, there are lots of GARs who never
answered a question. Dunno exactly how many, but I'm sure there are
several dozen Google Answers Researchers who never posted an answer.
GARs can see who has a question locked, and it wasn't uncommon to see
that a question was locked by someone whose profile contained not a
single answer. Frequently these folks unlocked without answering
(presumably so that their perfect record of zero answers wouldn't be
sullied).

I wish the Editors had inactivated long-dormant GARs and hired some new
blood. And Bowler, my young fellow, you'd have been at the top of the
"new blood" list if I'd been in charge.

barneca

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Dec 21, 2006, 5:38:51 PM12/21/06
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hi bowler,

by coincidence, i stumbled across an answer by app_security-ga a night
or two ago. this researcher was also a one-answer wonder, who's not on
your list. but what they lacked in quality they made up for in speed.

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=750868

-cab

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Steph53

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Dec 22, 2006, 10:26:19 AM12/22/06
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Wow.....I've never seen the " one answer wonders" before. Makes me
wonder why they ever applied to GA, if they didn't want to bother
answering questions. I guess there really were 500 originally....

Thanks, Bowler, for that info.

Carmen

On Dec 21, 6:38 pm, "aceresearcher" <ace.researc...@gmail.com> wrote:


> barneca wrote:
> > by coincidence, i stumbled across an answer by app_security-ga a night
> > or two ago. this researcher was also a one-answer wonder, who's not on
> > your list. but what they lacked in quality they made up for in speed.
>

> > http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=750868Note that this is the only Question that Customer ever asked as well.
> I'm betting that app_security-ga's real name is Jesse Burns, and he was
> trying to figure out how to get some page rank for himself, and
> remembered that he had Google Answers Researchers privileges. Two PCs
> side-by-side, signed into one as sfinfosec-ga and into the other as
> app_security-ga.
>
> How lame. If he is so good, he ought to be able to figure out more
> legitimate ways of promoting his company and his paper.

myoarin

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Dec 22, 2006, 7:09:21 PM12/22/06
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I can imagine that among the original 500 GARs, many were chosen for
special expertise, who then discovered that there were too few
questions for them to make it worth their while to stay active. When
chosing 500, the originators had to include specialists - a great idea
- but the questions just didn't come. The wonderful Chromedome-ga,
for example, who also admitted that his work schedule didn't allow him
to be very active.
That was probably a problem for others, perhaps for the lawyer Hagen-ga
(or Hagan-ga?), who seemed to be a late recruit and provided a few
great answers.
Redhoss-ga came on strong when someone had a construction problem.
These GARs brought their expertise, rather that search skills , to
bear.
For the generalists and search experts and the specialists for popular
subjects, questioners provided enough activity to keep them interested.


I wonder if the proportion of answered questions was greater in the
early days.

Myo

bowler

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Dec 23, 2006, 10:53:34 AM12/23/06
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Thanks to Bryan for pointing out the researcher Anlon-ga, who only
answered one question (and a personalized one from Bryan, to boot).

bowler

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Dec 23, 2006, 1:55:15 PM12/23/06
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Another 1 hit wonder:

Davesch7 - 1

A few other "notables":

Petrossian - 3
Sa - 3
Unicon - 3
Jonathon - 3
Thefriendlylibrarian - 3
Dumdumdiga - 4
Pinky (not our Pinkie) - 4
Coral - 4
Authorshelper - 4
Bizwhiz - 4
Gigi - 5
Skmitchell - 5
Westie - 5
Djmetz - 5

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Archae0pterYx

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Dec 23, 2006, 3:11:04 PM12/23/06
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Bowler, how are you doing this?

Tryx

bowler

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Dec 23, 2006, 4:13:38 PM12/23/06
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Well, the most prolific researchers are pretty obvious. Just browse
through the various categories.

For the least prolific, I went into each category and sorted the
answers by date with the earliest questions first. Many of the early
researchers are no longer active and I knew that many of them would
perhaps only have answered a few questions. I just went through, page
by page, until the odd researchers just seemed to filter away. I
probably missed some because my browsing usually ended around 2004 and
when looking through the categories, GA will only list the first 1000
questions.

Any others anyone finds, please feel free to comment.

Also, as Pinkfreud pointed out, there are a number of researcher who
never answered a question. Not sure how to find their names out
though.

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czh

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Dec 28, 2006, 3:41:04 PM12/28/06
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Here's a researcher that never answered a question. I wonder how many
more there are who are in the Zero Answers Club.

brave3-ga
This researcher has not been rated yet.

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=786508
Subject: Re: Where do we all go from here?
From: brave3-ga on 29 Nov 2006 09:59 PST

http://answers.google.com/answers/ratings?user=2655902642117827031
This researcher has not been rated yet.

keystroke

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Dec 28, 2006, 10:51:54 PM12/28/06
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I only started answering questions this year and I wish I'd started
sooner, but oh well. I just never felt like I had the time before and
I was so busy with other things that I never felt like I was missing
anything. I'm sure there were others like me who just never got a
"round tuit."

I don't think that long-dormant researchers should have been
deactivated (this is in my own self-interest, admittedly), but new ones
definitely could have been hired and that would have breathed new life
into the service.

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