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Message: <blockquote data-quote="invitro" data-source="post: 240802" data-attributes="member: 446">I am thinking about making a supplementary document that goes with my top 100 list.  This document would have lots of detail -- all the details used in the calculation of the list.  Reasons for doing this: more transparency (a nice political buzzword <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />), people can check for my bugs more easily, more questions can be answered without having to ask me.  Reason for being a supplementary document rather than in list itself: the list would be way too big then... I don't mind big lists with tons of data, but I think this would be just too much.Here are some things that would be in this supplementary document:- Every top 100 score for every table, and any score below #100 that is used in my calculations.- For every one of these scores, the points awarded, and (probably the main thing in this document) if no points were awarded, the reason why.  Such as:.... The player has a higher score for this table..... The player has >1 usernames that are being merged..... I/we have judged the player to be a hacker..... I/we have judged the score to be a hacked score or glitched score..... The score is not in the top half of scores for this player..... Etc., etc.?- Also for each score: the date made (by my observations and as reported by Farsight?); the platform; any other worthwhile "field" for the score.- All formulas used in my process.- Perhaps some information on my process of calculation and data-gathering, and how & when I decide scores are hacks or glitches.- Any bugs in my programs/methods I know of at the time (which will hopefully be none most or all of the time).- Maybe all known hacked/glitched scores?  Or only the ones in the top 100 for some table?I don't know if the document should be a .txt file, or a .csv file, or perhaps something else.  That's what I need to decide first.  Then I need to make a "mockup" of it, a hard-coded version including a few tables / scores, then I'll write code to make it get programmatically generated.  Then I need to find a place to put it, which will probably be github if that's appropriate because I want to learn to use git anyway.I'm making this post as a request for comments, so, any comments/requests? <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />.</blockquote>

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