Highest Contribution Indexes
  1. 9.09   Artw
  2. 8.51   The Whelk
  3. 6.88   EmpressCallipygos
  4. 6.06   hippybear
  5. 5.98   cortex
  6. 5.09   jessamyn
  7. 5.06   delmoi
  8. 4.84   praemunire
  9. 4.77   homunculus
  10. 4.59   empath
  11. 4.58   filthy light thief
  12. 4.48   Anonymous
  13. 4.31   flabdablet
  14. 4.15   Brandon Blatcher
  15. 4.1   klangklangston
  16. 3.96   ericb
  17. 3.94   Miko
  18. 3.86   Justinian
  19. 3.84   DU
  20. 3.81   rtha
  21. 3.59   Sys Rq
  22. 3.57   griphus
  23. 3.55   Sara C.
  24. 3.5   zarq
  25. 3.49   languagehat


Most MeFi Posts
  1. 2167   Fizz
  2. 2055   filthy light thief
  3. 1688   the man of twists and turns
  4. 1515   homunculus
  5. 1505   hippybear
  6. 1430   Artw
  7. 1329   The Whelk
  8. 1298   mathowie
  9. 1092   chavenet
  10. 1061   MartinWisse
  11. 1036   Johnny Wallflower
  12. 1020   fearfulsymmetry
  13. 1001   Etrigan
  14. 976   zarq
  15. 951   kliuless
  16. 894   Kattullus
  17. 742   flapjax at midnite
  18. 737   roomthreeseventeen
  19. 730   stbalbach
  20. 714   y2karl
  21. 650   adamvasco
  22. 650   Brandon Blatcher
  23. 643   Postroad
  24. 627   jonson
  25. 598   Chrysostom


Most MeFi Comments
  1. 55500   Artw
  2. 36270   The Whelk
  3. 36049   homunculus
  4. 33791   delmoi
  5. 29068   hippybear
  6. 23518   ericb
  7. 23028   EmpressCallipygos
  8. 22246   Justinian
  9. 21507   jonmc
  10. 21397   empath
  11. 21244   DU
  12. 19236   amberglow
  13. 18608   five fresh fish
  14. 18386   filthy light thief
  15. 17432   JHarris
  16. 16967   zachlipton
  17. 16712   klangklangston
  18. 15698   Sys Rq
  19. 15631   dhartung
  20. 15431   Pope Guilty
  21. 15264   srboisvert
  22. 15177   Thorzdad
  23. 15077   octothorpe
  24. 14846   kirkaracha
  25. 14690   GuyZero


Most Meta Posts
  1. 528   mathowie
  2. 252   cortex
  3. 197   Eyebrows McGee
  4. 173   MiguelCardoso
  5. 125   jessamyn
  6. 124   taz
  7. 110   Fizz
  8. 109   WCityMike
  9. 105   pb
  10. 105   signal
  11. 101   stavrosthewonderchicken
  12. 79   scarabic
  13. 79   stupidsexyFlanders
  14. 78   dobbs
  15. 77   feelinglistless
  16. 74   empath
  17. 74   wendell
  18. 71   ParisParamus
  19. 71   grumblebee
  20. 68   timeistight
  21. 68   sgt.serenity
  22. 66   desjardins
  23. 64   drezdn
  24. 63   crunchland
  25. 61   ThePinkSuperhero


Get a MeFi user's Contribution Index

Updated Mar 11, 2024

What is the Contribution Index?

Excellent question. It is simply the sum of all the times a user has posted on Metafilter (comments or posts in any section of MeFi) divided by the number of days they have been a member.

Tamim's user profile discusses the idea and while reading this discussion I saw moz's reference to tamim's user page. After reading that and seeing tamim's suggestion, I wrote a quick script to do it. If you see any problems please let me know.