>Thanks Sergey
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>Oh THAT one! I was looking for it on the POTY page.
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>Well my suspicions were satisfied by this. The Top 50 posters is not a yardstick as several of those on the list have not actually posted that much of late, or have been intermittent. Is that list the top posters "of all time"?

The "top 50 posters", with no time specified, is obviously the top posters of all times. Then, there are reports for the last month, 6 months, and others. I would take 6 months as the closest to a "long-term average".

>To give an idea of the value of the list, as to the value of the posts, I come in the top 15 for most of the reports for the last week to the last 6 months. That would make me like 9th to 11th most useful on the forum :-) But whether most of my posts could be deemed useful to the community is a TOTALLY different matter! :-)

Sure. I think the idea to look up in this list (as asked originally) was not to automatically mark the top 3 from this list, but rather, to get a quick reminder of who is frequently participating. Using this as a starting-point, you could start making evaluations (necessarily subjective, to some degree) about the relative usefulness of the different members, in the different forums.