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Re: Weird anomaly in brian_d_foy experience points
by Anonymous Monk on Dec 13, 2010 at 13:34 UTC
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brian here:
I haven't really bothered to log in to Perlmonks since the password database was published. I think I changed my password, but either I can't remember it or it isn't what I think it should be. I don't get the email for the password reminder. The one in my keychain doesn't seem to work anymore.
As for any worries about my well being, it is the weekend you know. Some of us don't actually use the interwebs all day every day, and someone finally managed to figure out someone like me has a well known and easy to find email address (although googling seemed a bit extreme).
I'm not speculating on what happened, why it happened, and so on, but I didn't do anything on purpose to reduce my XP. I'm not terribly concerned about it either unless there's some new way to turn in-game money into real money. :)
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just wanna approve, this is no hoax, it's Brian speaking.
I got an email from his official mailaddress with identical message.
And - FWIW - I'm real. Me and one of the gods have an "Erdős 1" distance in RL! :)
PS: Could one of the gods please - after fixing Brians account - reestablish the 98735 XPoints I lost in the last week? ;-)
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Well, someone's using your account because each time I'm looking the "last time here" flag is to some low value : 19 minutes ago, 2 hours ago. So obviously one of the gods should do something about it.
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Maybe a complicated publicity plot from Brian, to get onion wide attention and prime time in perl medias? ¹
And in some weeks he will announce his new "Post Modern Quantum Perl#" book and start the merchandising...
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PS: desperately waiting for the John Grisham depiction of these events...
1) Who knows when the videos showing him and Paris Hilton will mysteriously leak to youtube...
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Re: Weird anomaly in brian_d_foy experience points
by planetscape (Chancellor) on Dec 13, 2010 at 18:58 UTC
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I was idly browsing the Saints in our Book page a week or so ago and noticed there were no monks at all in the 19,000s. None. That was most unusual and caught my eye. At that time, I was in the high 18,000s (with Your Mother and his gang of four sneaking up on me from behind). When I finally scaled the 19,000 peak, I checked again, hoping to see myself, and myself alone, in this exalted 19,000 category. I was shattered when I saw that an interloper had got there before me, one brian_d_foy! Now, his many blockbuster nodes notwithstanding, I doubted that he could have got past Your Mother and his gang of four that quickly, so the only other possibility was that he had sneakily descended onto the 19,000 plateau.
At that time, brian was still ahead of me, but has since dropped one behind me.
Hmmm ... I hope I'm not a suspect now.
Here's how it currently stands:
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57 jdporter 20115
58 eyepopslikeamosquito 19123
59 brian_d_foy 18904
60 FunkyMonk 18756
61 toolic 18755
62 Your Mother 18716
63 wfsp 18340
FunkyMonk and toolic are currently engaged in a gripping duel I see.
Update: Twelve hours after writing this, I notice that toolic has just moved from one behind FunkyMonk to one ahead (18759 to 18758).
Update: as at 24-Jan-2015 it is now:
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22 toolic 39046
39 Your Mother 28788
40 eyepopslikeamosquito 28540
57 jdporter 23861
61 FunkyMonk 22652
73 wfsp 19164
74 brian_d_foy 19008
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Update: as at 17-July-2020 it is now:
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20 Your Mother 49364
23 toolic 46524
34 eyepopslikeamosquito 40267
42 FunkyMonk 34277
55 jdporter 28429
94 wfsp 19183
96 brian_d_foy 19055
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Update: as at 1-June-2022 it is now:
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20 Your Mother 52595
28 toolic 46968
30 eyepopslikeamosquito 46129
44 FunkyMonk 35328
51 jdporter 30464
97 wfsp 19188
98 brian_d_foy 19106
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Update: as at 21-Aug-2023 it is now:
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21 Your Mother 53484
27 eyepopslikeamosquito 50210
30 toolic 47122
42 FunkyMonk 35961
52 jdporter 30990
98 wfsp 19191
99 brian_d_foy 19145
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Thanks for the explanation.
I observe that if brian_d_foy's points were restored to the Jan 15 2008 level by godly fiat, he would then displace strat from slot 34. While not bearing strat any ill will, I hope that the contents of this thread provide adequate evidence that brian_d_foy's fall from grace was not of his own accord, and would consider restoring what is rightfully his.
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Hmmm, ... I hope I'm not a suspect now
You're probably safe ... as long as jdporter's XP doesn't suddenly start diminishing.
Cheers,
Rob
syphilis heads off to embark upon a systematic downvoting of jdporter's nodes ....
;-)
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Re: Weird anomaly in brian_d_foy experience points (address)
by tye (Sage) on Dec 11, 2010 at 20:20 UTC
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If you are curious, you should probably just ask brian. If brian cares to ask for an investigation, then one of the gods might find time to look into it. Not that I'm convinced such would turn up much given the very wide time span involved.
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Clearly the gods need to disable brian d foy's account, at the very least, because someone is logging in as him and gnawing away at his XP. They should be able to figure out where this person is logging in from and take countermeasures, too. Such a person is a criminal, at least in the virtual state which is PerlMonks.
What is the sound of Windows? Is it not the sound of a wall upon which people have smashed their heads... all the way through?
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> given the very wide time span involved.
Hmm
the OP wrote:
>that today he is reported as having only 19315
My last check was Experience: 18955
It's thinkable that someone hacked his account...
I'm sending him a /msg to clarify that it's not his own concept of mortification. :)
Update: Hmm well maybe the hacker replies... xD
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For the record, his experience points are down to 18899 now -- as at Mon 13 December 2010 12:24 PM, Chicago time (I'm using Chicago time because that's where brian d foy lives, assuming he hasn't been kidnapped).
The suspense is killing me.
Update: Seems to have stabilised at 18920, as at Wed 15 December 2010 2:25 PM, Chicago time (with the account unused for 2 days).
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Re: Weird anomaly in brian_d_foy experience points
by Anonymous Monk on Dec 11, 2010 at 11:37 UTC
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You can lose experience points in increments of 5 at any time of your own free will, heck, you can even voluntarily go into negative experience | [reply] |
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So you hypothesize that brian_d_foy "voluntarily" invoked his "own free will" more than 1,330 times to reduce his XP?
Maybe he used PBP to program execution of the point-reduction mechanism? Or, less gracefully, did he do it in a C-style loop? Using Fortran? ADA?
Even though some adepts have -- in the past, it is rumored -- acted to reduce their XP by large amounts, /me thinks eyepopslikeamosquito has a reasonable question.
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I answered the question how can it be possible
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Out of curiosity how do you do that? I can seem to be able to downvote myself :)
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Visit thepen, click the button, lose 5 xp
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Re: Weird anomaly in brian_d_foy experience points
by Anonymous Monk on Dec 13, 2010 at 06:09 UTC
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I can't wait for someone to get to the bottom of this. The suspense is keeping me up at night. | [reply] |
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