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Message: <blockquote data-quote="invitro" data-source="post: 162155" data-attributes="member: 446">Maybe ten minutes of effort.  It is all programmed.  I issue one command to suck down the scores, and one to print the HTML leaderboard.  Then I copy and paste the HTML to this site.  Sucking the scores from the Farsight webpage takes maybe an hour or two, so I start that command and let it run, and check on its progress later.  But there are usually a couple of things I have to check.  The webserver usually fails a response a couple of times, and my program is unfortunately not robust enough to handle that without my telling it to resume at the last successful table.  And I manually check which is the latest table with scores on the website, and manually update some numbers and dates in my programs.But I'm not real sure about the time it takes, because I'm generally very interested in seeing what has happened this month, who has had a really good month of scores, and so I take time looking at the data, maybe writing more programs, and so I generally take an hour or two messing around with this stuff.Scanning the top ten scores for possible hacked scores takes some time, mainly because I'm rarely comfortable with calling a score a hack.  And I still don't have a good way of telling if a score is a hack (which results in that username being deleted), or a glitch (which results in only that score being deleted).  So the only things I call glitches right now, I think, are the RBioN 10B and 20B scores.  Someone a few posts above mentions a SS glitch.  I have had that happen in I think one game.  I don't know how to test for it, so I'm ignoring it unless you folks say something forceful <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />.I have actually spent more time on this leaderboard, than in playing TPA, for the last four or so months.  I have been too hooked on Skyrim and then Oblivion to play any other computer games.  I am hoping that I haven't gotten bored of playing TPA.</blockquote>

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