Highest Contribution Indexes

1. 9.28   Artw
2. 8.96   The Whelk
3. 7.04   EmpressCallipygos
4. 6.18   cortex
5. 5.88   hippybear
6. 5.24   delmoi
7. 5.24   jessamyn
8. 4.99   praemunire
9. 4.94   homunculus
10. 4.82   filthy light thief
11. 4.79   empath
12. 4.63   Anonymous
13. 4.3   flabdablet
14. 4.27   klangklangston
15. 4.26   Brandon Blatcher
16. 4.13   ericb
17. 4.08   Miko
18. 4.02   DU
19. 4.01   Justinian
20. 3.99   rtha
21. 3.77   Sys Rq
22. 3.76   Sara C.
23. 3.74   griphus
24. 3.65   zarq
25. 3.62   languagehat

Most MeFi Posts

1. 2107   Fizz
2. 2055   filthy light thief
3. 1688   the man of twists and turns
4. 1515   homunculus
5. 1394   Artw
6. 1339   hippybear
7. 1329   The Whelk
8. 1298   mathowie
9. 1059   MartinWisse
10. 1034   Johnny Wallflower
11. 1020   fearfulsymmetry
12. 976   zarq
13. 935   kliuless
14. 931   Etrigan
15. 867   Kattullus
16. 842   chavenet
17. 742   flapjax at midnite
18. 737   roomthreeseventeen
19. 730   stbalbach
20. 699   y2karl
21. 648   adamvasco
22. 648   Brandon Blatcher
23. 643   Postroad
24. 627   jonson
25. 598   Chrysostom

Most MeFi Comments

1. 54268   Artw
2. 36270   The Whelk
3. 36049   homunculus
4. 33791   delmoi
5. 26633   hippybear
6. 23518   ericb
7. 22346   EmpressCallipygos
8. 22137   Justinian
9. 21507   jonmc
10. 21397   empath
11. 21244   DU
12. 19236   amberglow
13. 18608   five fresh fish
14. 18386   filthy light thief
15. 16967   zachlipton
16. 16892   JHarris
17. 16690   klangklangston
18. 15698   Sys Rq
19. 15631   dhartung
20. 15346   Pope Guilty
21. 15063   octothorpe
22. 14902   srboisvert
23. 14789   Thorzdad
24. 14690   GuyZero
25. 14589   koeselitz

Most Meta Posts

1. 528   mathowie
2. 252   cortex
3. 197   Eyebrows McGee
4. 173   MiguelCardoso
5. 124   taz
6. 118   jessamyn
7. 109   WCityMike
8. 108   Fizz
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

MeFi Username: MeFi User ID:

Updated Aug 02, 2018

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.