Honestly, I still have no clue what it is, or how it works. Could someone explain!

well, I thought of removing it cause it's kinda silly and just for fun. It ranks you on how much of a geek it thinks you are. It's based on many things ... a few are :

- how does your level compare to others, higher the geekier
- how often do you post in the forums.... geeks post more
- do you have a profile picture set?
- do you have anything in your "about me" in your profile
- etc

Stuff like that... if anyone wants the exact things I can dig them up

I wouldn't mind seeing the exact list (when you have time, no rush.) That means I need to get my meter up!

*as an aside, I think silly side things like that are awesome in general*

Dont remove that stuff.
Kinda funny thing.
By now i ignored it ... but i always try owning the longest biggest fattest ... geekmeter or whatever.

Please exclude my poor english skills from the geekmeter factors.

Ok, here is exactly what is used to calculate your geek meter.

1.) It first looks at your BTGTD rating. It looks at how many players have a higher rating than you and then does some math. Below is the formula... I turned it into psudocode... hopefully it makes sense.

if(numOfPlayerBetterThanYou < 100) Then
meterPercent = ((100-numOfPlayerBetterThanYou) / 100)*.5
else if(numOfPlayerBetterThanYou < 200) Then
meterPercent = ((200-numOfPlayerBetterThanYou) / 100)*.35
else if(numOfPlayerBetterThanYou < 300) Then
meterPercent = ((300-numOfPlayerBetterThanYou) / 100)*.2
else if(numOfPlayerBetterThanYou < 500) Then
meterPercent = ((500-numOfPlayerBetterThanYou) / 100)*.1
else if(numOfPlayerBetterThanYou < 1000) Then
meterPercent = ((1000-numOfPlayerBetterThanYou) / 100)*.05

I know it's a tad confusing, but here is an example. If you are anonemouse, there is no players with a higher rating, so :
meterPercent = ((100-0) / 100)*.5
meterpercent = ((100/100)*.5
meterPercent = 1*.5
meterPercent = .5

Note that your BTGTD rating makes up 50% of the geek meter bar... so anonemouse earned the maximum.

someone in 151st place would be :

meterPercent = ((200-150) / 100)*.35
meterpercent = ((50/100)*.35
meterPercent = .5*.35
meterPercent = .175

so someone in 151st place on the site will have received 17.5% out of the maximum 50% for this category.


Next we look at how active they are in the forums. A perfect score is someone with 300+ posts. This category makes up 5% of the geek meter. The formula is :

if(numberOfForumPosts < 300) Then
meterPercent = (numberOfForumPosts /300)*.05
Else
meterPercent = .05

So, anonemouse has 76 forum posts currently. That means :
meterPercent = (76/300)*.05
meterPcernt = 0.013

So anonemouse received 1.2% of the maximum 5% for this category


Next we look at how active they are with making friends on the site. A perfect score is someone with 100 friends. This category makes up 20% of the geek meter. The formula we use is :

if(numFriends < 100) Then
numFriends = (numFriends/100)*.2
Else
numFriends = .2

Using anonemouse as an example (hope you don't mind :) we can see from his profile page he has befriended 18 people. So :

meterPercent = (18/100)*.2
meterPercent = 0.036

So anonemouse received 3.6% of the maximum 20% for this category.


Next we look at the players "about me" information. This category makes up 5% of the geek meter. If they have anything entered in this field, they get the full 5%... if they have nothing entered, they get 0%


Next we look at the players "user location" information. This category makes up 5% of the geek meter. If they have chosen any location (accurate or not), they get the full 5%... if they have nothing entered, they get 0%


Next we look at the players profile picture. This category makes up 5% of the geek meter. If they have uploaded a picture, they get the full 5%... if they have no picture uploaded, they get 0%


last but not least, we look at how many geek points they have saved up. This category is worth 10%. A perfect score is anything over a whopping 10,000 geek points. Here is the formula used :

if(geekpoints < 10000) Then
geekpoints = (geekpoints/10000)*.1
Else
geekpoints = .1

So, have over 10000 then you get the full 10%


And that's it. Add all those up and you'll have a total of 100%. It's kind of used to determine how active you are on all aspects of the site.

Hope that answered everything for you :)

Very informative... now I need to post a picture and more comments!

lol, love the picture anonemouse!

I like the geek meter too, don't remove it. Even though I don't pay much attention to it - since this thread started I think I'll look at it to see if it's changed much since I first started. :-)

I'd like to get a 100% by the time I hit lvl 100 but I'm still so far away...

only 171 forumposts left for you, hurry up ;)

Ok, I'll make a thread once I can think of a topic where I'm not just obviously posting for posts sake.