TheDarkness Posted August 25, 2013 Share Posted August 25, 2013 I'll do more researching tomorrow for data to add :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Mack Posted August 25, 2013 Author Share Posted August 25, 2013 This may not be a competition but I am deadly curious as to where this list lies right now.... Well you did a 20,000+ BP jump in a day I need to create a new association, BPA (BrickPoints Anonymous). Great work, but please get some sleep totalUpdates Name 3864 Grolim 3790 DoNotInsertIntoMouth 3511 TheOrcKing 992 mikeur86 884 MartinP 622 comicblast 443 seapotato 364 ctoddlight 310 idunno101 298 Huskers1236 229 Fcbarcelona101 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartinP Posted August 25, 2013 Share Posted August 25, 2013 Well you did a 20,000+ BP jump in a day I need to create a new association, BPA (BrickPoints Anonymous). Great work, but please get some sleep totalUpdates Name 3864 Grolim 3790 DoNotInsertIntoMouth 3511 TheOrcKing 992 mikeur86 884 MartinP 622 comicblast 443 seapotato 364 ctoddlight 310 idunno101 298 Huskers1236 229 Fcbarcelona101 That is a total of 15,307 updates according to those numbers. If 10 points are given away for each update, then 153,070 points were given away. That is amazing. Keep up the good work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seapotato Posted August 25, 2013 Share Posted August 25, 2013 Sweet, I receive my first user award for this! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoNotInsertIntoMouth Posted August 25, 2013 Share Posted August 25, 2013 Sweet, I receive my first user award for this! Whoa I didn't notice they had been added. Nicely done! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comicblast Posted August 25, 2013 Share Posted August 25, 2013 Well you did a 20,000+ BP jump in a day I need to create a new association, BPA (BrickPoints Anonymous). Great work, but please get some sleep totalUpdates Name 3864 Grolim 3790 DoNotInsertIntoMouth 3511 TheOrcKing 992 mikeur86 884 MartinP 622 comicblast 443 seapotato 364 ctoddlight 310 idunno101 298 Huskers1236 229 Fcbarcelona101 How you guys find so much time for this is beyond me. Sure, I've spent my fair and more, of hours on BP, bit I cannot fathom spending 6x or more updating stuff. :/ Good work everyone! I can only imagine how far behind I will fall during the school year... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartinP Posted August 25, 2013 Share Posted August 25, 2013 How you guys find so much time for this is beyond me. Sure, I've spent my fair and more, of hours on BP, bit I cannot fathom spending 6x or more updating stuff. :/ Good work everyone! I can only imagine how far behind I will fall during the school year... Tell me about it. I will be sooooo far behind when school starts. I still have two weeks till school. I should start updating more now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoNotInsertIntoMouth Posted August 25, 2013 Share Posted August 25, 2013 How you guys find so much time for this is beyond me. Sure, I've spent my fair and more, of hours on BP, bit I cannot fathom spending 6x or more updating stuff. :/ Good work everyone! I can only imagine how far behind I will fall during the school year... Honestly, I can't talk for Golim or Orc, but I would assume they are like me and have a job dealing with computers. I spend 9 hours or more a day at work on a computer and then spend a decent amount of my home life on one as well doing stuff. So data entry is a breeze. Honestly after you get in a groove, it gets relaxing almost. Grolim can tell you more though - he is faster than I can even imagine. I basically grind it out while he was just racing. lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
comicblast Posted August 25, 2013 Share Posted August 25, 2013 Tell me about it. I will be sooooo far behind when school starts. I still have two weeks till school. I should start updating more now. Lol. School starts tomorrow...Honestly, I can't talk for Golim or Orc, but I would assume they are like me and have a job dealing with computers. I spend 9 hours or more a day at work on a computer and then spend a decent amount of my home life on one as well doing stuff. So data entry is a breeze. Honestly after you get in a groove, it gets relaxing almost. Grolim can tell you more though - he is faster than I can even imagine. I basically grind it out while he was just racing. lol I see... I need to get a job like that! It does get relaxing once you make up a pattern, but once your eyes start to burn from the screen, it ain't so fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoNotInsertIntoMouth Posted August 25, 2013 Share Posted August 25, 2013 Lol. School starts tomorrow... I see... I need to get a job like that! It does get relaxing once you make up a pattern, but once your eyes start to burn from the screen, it ain't so fun. Man it feels weird - I have been out of school for two years now. Just weird to think I would normally be getting ready for it. It's funny, because time seems different. You usually measure things by summer break christmas break, etc. Not anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seapotato Posted August 25, 2013 Share Posted August 25, 2013 I wish we still had summer and winter breaks though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheOrcKing Posted August 25, 2013 Share Posted August 25, 2013 Well you did a 20,000+ BP jump in a day I need to create a new association, BPA (BrickPoints Anonymous). Great work, but please get some sleep totalUpdates Name 3864 Grolim 3790 DoNotInsertIntoMouth 3511 TheOrcKing 992 mikeur86 884 MartinP 622 comicblast 443 seapotato 364 ctoddlight 310 idunno101 298 Huskers1236 229 Fcbarcelona101 YES!!!! I'M IN THE TOP THREE BABY, WHOOHOO!!!! ....Ahem. Anywho, a few more and I'll be caught up with my favorite Kiwi. Ha. Yes, Jeff, I did get some sleep finally. Now to do it again! How you guys find so much time for this is beyond me. Sure, I've spent my fair and more, of hours on BP, bit I cannot fathom spending 6x or more updating stuff. :/Along the lines of what DoNotInsertIntoMouth stated, entering the data is fine although tedious; it's the research part that takes the most time. Also it's awkward sometimes trying to remember all the browser windows you have open when you need to go back and forth for data. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoNotInsertIntoMouth Posted August 25, 2013 Share Posted August 25, 2013 YES!!!! I'M IN THE TOP THREE BABY, WHOOHOO!!!! ....Ahem. Anywho, a few more and I'll be caught up with my favorite Kiwi. Ha. Yes, Jeff, I did get some sleep finally. Now to do it again! Along the lines of what DoNotInsertIntoMouth stated, entering the data is fine although tedious; it's the research part that takes the most time. Also it's awkward sometimes trying to remember all the browser windows you have open when you need to go back and forth for data. Ha definitely. I kept accidentally clicking the x on my tabs. SOOOO irritating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CNH1974 Posted August 25, 2013 Share Posted August 25, 2013 Well I have submitted one. Wonder how far up the list that puts me. :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grolim Posted August 25, 2013 Share Posted August 25, 2013 Grolim can tell you more though - he is faster than I can even imagine. I basically grind it out while he was just racing. lol I started by entering a lot of data I already had. I collected a lot of weights and measures when researching for blogs/reviews. It was very quick to put it in a nice format that let me step through and enter the data. It really was very fast. I probably spent about 10-15 hours on it at different speeds in total. I've kind of stopped for the last few days. Felt a little guilty at all the BPs I was getting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoNotInsertIntoMouth Posted August 25, 2013 Share Posted August 25, 2013 I started by entering a lot of data I already had. I collected a lot of weights and measures when researching for blogs/reviews. It was very quick to put it in a nice format that let me step through and enter the data. It really was very fast. I probably spent about 10-15 hours on it at different speeds in total. I've kind of stopped for the last few days. Felt a little guilty at all the BPs I was getting Lol - yeah its good to let others do some stuff too. You must have a killer ctrl+c and ctrl+v. Fastest draw in the west. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartinP Posted August 26, 2013 Share Posted August 26, 2013 Lol - yeah its good to let others do some stuff too. You must have a killer ctrl+c and ctrl+v. Fastest draw in the west. There aren't that many members that are doing the updates. But it is getting harder to since so many sets were updated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheOrcKing Posted August 26, 2013 Share Posted August 26, 2013 Kind of related, how about an option to delete all notifications. I just had to shift through 40 pages of set updates. Guess that's the price I have to pay. Ha. There is a checkbox allowing me to select all notifications on the displayed page but not the complete sum of pages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDarkness Posted August 26, 2013 Share Posted August 26, 2013 There aren't that many members that are doing the updates. But it is getting harder to since so many sets were updated. There are still updates required, they just need more research put into finding the incomplete data Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M4x18 Posted August 26, 2013 Share Posted August 26, 2013 Jeff, I don't know if this could work as I don't know how BP's database is set up, but since I recently did something that could look a little bit like what you are trying to accomplish here I thought it could help. Have you heard about web scrapping? It could come useful if you take a site's data near 100% reliable. You could find some of the missing information from one of these reliable sites and collect it - with authorization - for BP's database. Hell, you could even double check current information and see if there are significant differences for sets and flag those items for further review. If it works I could give you a hand and blow everyone away in improving the database Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Mack Posted August 26, 2013 Author Share Posted August 26, 2013 Jeff, I don't know if this could work as I don't know how BP's database is set up, but since I recently did something that could look a little bit like what you are trying to accomplish here I thought it could help. Have you heard about web scrapping? It could come useful if you take a site's data near 100% reliable. You could find some of the missing information from one of these reliable sites and collect it - with authorization - for BP's database. Hell, you could even double check current information and see if there are significant differences for sets and flag those items for further review. If it works I could give you a hand and blow everyone away in improving the database Thank you, I very much appreciate that offer. I could have scraped websites a long time ago, but I don't really want to do that. Also, if I just ask, chances are, most of the site owners would give the info. Huw from Brickset has been generous as well as Nathan from Rebrickable. I have downloaded the Bricklink database that they offer and have filled in a lot of the blanks for the set dimensions and weights. The newer sets were never the issue, I am hoping over time, that the older information will get filled. A lot of what this exercise was though without really mentioning it at first is starting to help people get Brickpoints to either 1) pick a set from the store or 2) Build points to use in the Brick Classifieds. I was hoping the hundreds of people would help and share the wealth. That overall is not happening, but hopefully over time, more people that are vintage collectors and may have some older sets will help fill in those hard to find spots. Sometime this week, I will release a set index page to show the sets that need certain things that will hopefully narrow down what needs to be found. But it will start to get much harder now since the information that will be gathered really will not be on any of the sites. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M4x18 Posted August 26, 2013 Share Posted August 26, 2013 Sometime this week, I will release a set index page to show the sets that need certain things that will hopefully narrow down what needs to be found. But it will start to get much harder now since the information that will be gathered really will not be on any of the sites. Well, even better that you have contacts that have allowed you to share that information in a more direct way. That was also another thing that I wanted to ask, if you had the chance to display what information was needed for them sets. Great minds think alike. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartinP Posted August 26, 2013 Share Posted August 26, 2013 Did TheOrcKing get another 20,000 Brickpoints last night? I just noticed he is at the top with over 65,000 Brickpoints. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoNotInsertIntoMouth Posted August 26, 2013 Share Posted August 26, 2013 I don't know what he is updating. I can't find anything else that needs it. lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth_Raichu Posted August 26, 2013 Share Posted August 26, 2013 Did TheOrcKing get another 20,000 Brickpoints last night? I just noticed he is at the top with over 65,000 Brickpoints. Lol I wished I had that much free time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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