MozPoints end of year 2015, top 50 aggregated

[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.

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[KeriMorgret]

There are a few of us that throw off the curve, in that we are former Moz employees so we've spent considerable time on the site, and had that "staff" banner, which made people more likely to mark what we said as Good Answer. It also made us less likely to get an answer Endorsed. Current staff and associates are not included on the leaderboard, so when someone active leaves Moz, suddenly there's a new person appearing high up. I started as an Associate with 35 Moz points, and left with about 9000. I'm sure I surprised a couple of people that paid attention to the top ten.

[MattAntonino]

Oh how right you are. There was nothing like the feeling of fighting my way into spot #20 and then someone came "online" (either active again or staffer) and I was suddenly 21 ... #no #notNOW

Trivia: I think you and I are the only two people in the top 20 of both Inbound & Moz. You have the lowest combined "number" of anyone at 3 + 17 = 20. I am 20 + 13 = 33. Rand would be tied with you (15+5, I think) if he were on the Moz board.

[Christy-Correll]

We are glad to see you active in Q&A, Kristen!

[RobertFisher]

Keri, 
This is why I always have thought you were a rock!!! You are still my hero.

[DonnaDuncan]

This was fun. I was glad to see some of the names I watch closely pop to the top.

Will Don earn extra Mozpoints for having earned at "pin to the top"? He should

[RobertFisher]

I found your work on this quite interesting and I have wondered about it from time to time myself. A couple of things to consider are that many of us who have been on Moz a while have had points in time where we were able to be more engaged and others when we are less engaged. So the longer someone is on MOZ, they are less likely to have a consistent input. (Also, I appreciated Keri's input about former employed Mozzers, etc.) 
For me, as someone who has been on Moz a while, the real value has come from relationships I achieve as the result of contacting other Mozzers who posted or answered questions. Really, there are too many to list, but I can say there are at least a half dozen people that I met through Moz who are regular contacts for me. There are several of those with whom I have contracted out SEO work to who did/do a great job.

Another thing someone may have mentioned already is that if you were answering questions 3 or 4 years ago you would have gotten less thumbs up, etc. versus today as Moz has improved things like getting people to say yes or no their question was answered.

Thanks again for taking the time to aggregate all that data, it is quite interesting.

[DonnaDuncan]

There must be more than a few of you because there's a big difference in ratings when Don includes all active users. His example shows EGOL ranking 5 and RyanKent 2. When all active users are included, EGOL drops to 43 and RyanKent 59. That, I guess, and perhaps there's a recency bias when you look at only the top 50.

[TimHolmes]

Very cool.. be nice if it could be extended to the top 100

Note just seen the Edit - great to see it is now showing pretty much everyone that is active.

[BlueprintMarketing]

It is interesting I believe it is a good method even though I drop down. However, I will be honest and say this it would complicate things for new users dramatically. Also, there would be a lot more fluctuation so how would you be determined if someone were to get something based on their rank and then lose it?

For the record I love the idea I like that Q&A is being paid attention to and I'm all for either way!

Tom

[Andy.Drinkwater]

My MOZ Rank = 10th... Adjusted Rank = 10th

[donford]

I noticed MozPoint rank was pretty close to the aggregated rank for everybody in the Top 50 list. But when you look at all 4291 users there is some big differences. I think maybe in June I'll do just a top 1000 or have a minimum point requirement.