MozPoints end of year 2015, top 50 aggregated

[Mobilio]

Ok, here is document:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YGkY2Yz1RefwcG4nqJ1lbnEfTghn7pRtb9di2HICiaA/edit?usp=sharing
captured before hour.
I leave it as-is just extract username but later make regex to extract their posts and ugc posts.

This is Top 4291 as far as i see.

Here is procedure how to get it:

1. wget https://moz.com/community/users  - i love *nix command line tools but you can use web browser and save as HTML.
2. Open HTML for editing.
3. Find "  var top_users =" and delete everything BEFORE it. Now document should start as "[[1,"
4. Find "]];" and delete semicolon and everything AFTER it. Now documents should end with "]]"
5. As you can see we have well formated JSON. Bad news - i can't import it in Sheets due bug in =ImportJSON function.
6. Let's go in PlanB - https://json-csv.com/
7. Copy all JSON into clipboard
8. Paste it on json-csv.com
9. Push button, get CSV
10. Import CSV into Google Docs
11. Enjoy!

Just use some of mine formulas to extract number of posts or UGC. I can make formula for extracting username too.

[Mobilio]

Hey - i just found that we can "scrape" historical MozPoints using their profile pages:
https://moz.com/community/users/397332
if you view source this you can see "var mozpoints_data" with JSON inside.

I can scrape all historical points for Top1000 for example starting from 2015-11-01 so you can built even better sheet.

[donford]

Hi Peter, nice work there.

I'll run some formulas on this today and post a new link.

[donford]

I edited the post to include all active users. I don't see the need to calculate inactive at this time, perhaps if we do it every 6 months or so we can catch those inactives.

Here is a link:

Nice work grabbing the data,

Don

[MattRoney]

Don, this is SUPER cool. I'm pinning it to the top of the forum.

[Christy-Correll]

Don and Peter, I love this so much! Great job, ya'll!

[DirkC]

Great work guys!

Would be nice if Moz would include this info  yearly stats (https://moz.com/blog/the-best-of-2015) - activity in the Q&A section is now completely missing in this overview.

Comparing with total Moz points isn't always the best indicator:

• thumbs up vs total comments makes more sense than thumbs up vs total Moz points
• good/endorsed answers vs total questions answered (idem - don't think that this info is easy to scrape)

As measure for activity in general:

• PPM for the last 12 months (rather than beginning of subscription - little personal bias as I only became active last year - while I created my account in 2008)

Dirk

[Mobilio]

Dirk, Q&A section is missing but they (Mods + community dept + Moz staff) actively track all activity here.

Same here. I reading Moz since 2007 but, make mine account somewhere in 2011 and start contributing here in 2015. So all mine points was in last year.

I'm preparing now small script for tracking all activity in 2016 in Top 1000 users maybe

[EGOL]

I think that PatrickDelehanty is one of the best persons to read.  I read every post of his that I see, and I read some of them twice.  If you look at Don's spreadsheet you will see that Patrick has the highest endorsement ratio.  He is earning lots of Moz points lately because he has lots of good ideas and is generous with them.

I'd like to know if there is a link that I can click and see all recent posts by a certain person.   I would like to have an easy way to read all of Patrick's posts.  And I would read MoosaHemani's posts because his ideas are simple and practical, and AlanBleiweiss because he makes me think twice, and MarieHaynes because I think that she understands Google.  There are lots of people who I read one of their posts and would like to read more.  Just tossing a few out here that come right to mind.

[donford]

Wow, that is really cool.

I was about to mozzie off to bed and thought I would give Moz one last read and saw this.

I'm glad my little project was enjoyed by others. Big thanks to Peter Nikolow for parsing the data to ensure all active users were aggregated and ranked.

Cheers,

Don

[donford]

Hi Dirk,

The point about PPM made me smile, the great thing and the worst thing about data is that it can be viewed so many ways. I really see your point here.

Another thing that didn't quite make sense to be is on the Thumbs % tab. I'm not really sure how somebody could have less MozPoints than thumbs up as you should receive 1 point per thumb. I guess some people could have had some thumbs down which I didn't take into account and actually increased their ranking in this category.

Don

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

Wow really cool, so instead of 18 I must have been 9, then I like it even more ;-)!

[Christy-Correll]

Hi EGOL,

Specifically, would you like to be able to easily view all questions posted by a specific person in the forum, or questions they have answered (or at least responded to)?

[EGOL]

Both would be nice.  

But the one that I use the most at other forums is questions answered.  It allows me to appreciate the wisdom of people who I trust.

Being able to view questions posted by a person is valuable too.  Some members will post the same question again and again.  Sometimes the need to hear the same answer multiple times from different people.  Sometimes their questions will be attempts to manipulate and if we look back we see that it is a pattern.

Thanks for asking.

[Christy-Correll]

Okay, to view questions answered by a person, you'll need to grab their user ID from the URL for their community profile. (For example, your user ID is 446.) Next, swap it out for the user ID in this URL: https://moz.com/community/q/users/446/answers.

To view questions posted by a person, do the same thing with this URL: https://moz.com/community/q/users/446/questions.

Voia! Does that make sense, EGOL? It's not the most elegant solution, but it's what we have (for now).

Christy

[EGOL]

Thanks!    That's mighty nice.  Makes perfect sense.

Thank you!

[MattAntonino]

Thanks for doing this & that's pretty awesome data. I think it's cool to see who the helpful members are and what they're doing to be helpful. It's interesting how the data has changed over time as well. Some of the long-term Moz users have more posts written & more blog comments but fewer Q&A. The top people from the past 12 months are practically the opposite with way more Q&A involvement (people like Patrick, etc.)

[Christy-Correll]

Great! And you are quite welcome, EGOL.

[GPainter]

That's really cool Don, I'd love to see this data over time too.

[TakeshiYoung]

Very cool analysis! In the past I've found it interesting to see how people have gotten to the top of the leaderboard, whether it's blog posts, thumb ups, or answers in the Q&A section.