Funniest users in Stack Overflow and records held by them
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Published: 2020-03-11 16:29:32

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title: Funniest users in Stack Overflow and records held by them
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description: In this article, I will name some of the funniest users in Stack Overflow and records held by them.
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<section name="bd31" class="section section--body section--first section--last"><div class="section-divider"><hr class="section-divider"></div><div class="section-content"><div class="section-inner sectionLayout--insetColumn"><p name="ac0d" id="ac0d" class="graf graf--p graf-after--h3">Not many developers can do without <a href="https://stackoverflow.com" data-href="https://stackoverflow.com" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="noopener" target="_blank">stackoverflow.com</a>. It is undoubtedly the largest online community for developers on the planet.</p><p name="8ecc" id="8ecc" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p">One of the most loved feature of stackoverflow is its reputation system. You can get reputation mostly by posting well-received questions and answers. As your reputation increases, you’ll get more powerful privileges of the site. Since stackoverflow is free, reputation maybe the best impetus for gurus to answer questions voluntarily.</p><p name="6291" id="6291" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p">I’ve gained about 600 reputation for 2 months and wanted to know how I was successful compared to others. Then I found <a href="https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/queries" data-href="https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/queries" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="noopener" target="_blank">data.stackexchange.com</a> and got surprised that I can run SQL queries to stackoverflow database directly. There were so many interesting queries and I got to know everything that I always wanted to know.</p><h4 name="32bb" id="32bb" class="graf graf--h4 graf-after--p"><a href="https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1433/users-with-highest-accept-rate-of-their-answers" data-href="https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1433/users-with-highest-accept-rate-of-their-answers" class="markup--anchor markup--h4-anchor" rel="noopener" target="_blank">User with the highest accept rate of answers</a></h4><p name="f77c" id="f77c" class="graf graf--p graf-after--h4"><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/342740/prix" data-href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/342740/prix" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Prix</a> has posted <strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong">396 answers</strong> in total and got<strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong"> all of them accepted</strong>.</p><figure name="9350" id="9350" class="graf graf--figure graf-after--p"><div class="aspectRatioPlaceholder is-locked" style="max-width: 700px; max-height: 432px;"><div class="aspectRatioPlaceholder-fill" style="padding-bottom: 61.7%;"></div><img class="graf-image" data-image-id="1*Rz7DBNqGIps-PXg__9Zz0Q.png" data-width="1056" data-height="652" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*Rz7DBNqGIps-PXg__9Zz0Q.png"></div></figure><figure name="6c09" id="6c09" class="graf graf--figure graf-after--figure"><div class="aspectRatioPlaceholder is-locked" style="max-width: 700px; max-height: 452px;"><div class="aspectRatioPlaceholder-fill" style="padding-bottom: 64.60000000000001%;"></div><img class="graf-image" data-image-id="1*nNMRl4m0xoxNObHj4bYRgA.png" data-width="1068" data-height="690" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*nNMRl4m0xoxNObHj4bYRgA.png"></div></figure><p name="ff4d" id="ff4d" class="graf graf--p graf-after--figure">Well done, Prix! There are some legends who got thousands of accepted answers but you are the only one who has got <strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong">all</strong> of them accepted.</p><p name="ee17" id="ee17" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p">The next one is a natural question:</p><h4 name="89ad" id="89ad" class="graf graf--h4 graf-after--p"><a href="https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/216247/users-with-lowest-accept-rate-of-their-answers" data-href="https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/216247/users-with-lowest-accept-rate-of-their-answers" class="markup--anchor markup--h4-anchor" rel="noopener" target="_blank">User with the lowest accept rate of answers</a></h4><p name="778e" id="778e" class="graf graf--p graf-after--h4"><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/6714430/rashedcs" data-href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/6714430/rashedcs" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="noopener" target="_blank">rashedcs</a> has answered <strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong">180+</strong> questions but he has <strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong">zero</strong> <strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong">accepted answer</strong> by International Women’s Day, 2020!</p><figure name="e262" id="e262" class="graf graf--figure graf-after--p"><div class="aspectRatioPlaceholder is-locked" style="max-width: 700px; max-height: 437px;"><div class="aspectRatioPlaceholder-fill" style="padding-bottom: 62.4%;"></div><img class="graf-image" data-image-id="1*r6IP_vMD6Fan5Ifva22w3w.png" data-width="1062" data-height="663" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*r6IP_vMD6Fan5Ifva22w3w.png"></div></figure><figure name="21e3" id="21e3" class="graf graf--figure graf-after--figure"><div class="aspectRatioPlaceholder is-locked" style="max-width: 700px; max-height: 480px;"><div class="aspectRatioPlaceholder-fill" style="padding-bottom: 68.60000000000001%;"></div><img class="graf-image" data-image-id="1*R9Zgb_aXCKVNRbDgiOIfng.png" data-width="1086" data-height="745" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*R9Zgb_aXCKVNRbDgiOIfng.png"></div></figure><p name="0448" id="0448" class="graf graf--p graf-after--figure">Gosh, that was even harder, don’t you think? Well done goes to you too, rashdecs!</p><p name="15ef" id="15ef" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p">I have more than 80 posts but my reputation is only 938. But some guys can get tens of thousands of reputation scores (gold badge included) just for only one post in their whole lifetime in stackoverflow.</p><h4 name="4bf5" id="4bf5" class="graf graf--h4 graf-after--p"><a href="https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1207241/users-with-one-answer" data-href="https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1207241/users-with-one-answer" class="markup--anchor markup--h4-anchor" rel="noopener" target="_blank">User with only one answer in stackoverflow</a></h4><p name="6afe" id="6afe" class="graf graf--p graf-after--h4"><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/581625/baisong" data-href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/581625/baisong" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="noopener" target="_blank">baisong</a> has <strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong">one answer</strong> and <strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong">zero question</strong> in stackoverflow. His reputation is nearly <strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong">40k</strong>, which is mostly coming from <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4181861/message-src-refspec-master-does-not-match-any-when-pushing-commits-in-git/7572252#7572252" data-href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4181861/message-src-refspec-master-does-not-match-any-when-pushing-commits-in-git/7572252#7572252" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="noopener" target="_blank">his one and the only answer(related to git commands)</a> in stackoverflow.</p><figure name="3d2b" id="3d2b" class="graf graf--figure graf-after--p"><div class="aspectRatioPlaceholder is-locked" style="max-width: 700px; max-height: 447px;"><div class="aspectRatioPlaceholder-fill" style="padding-bottom: 63.800000000000004%;"></div><img class="graf-image" data-image-id="1*--2ole_Gw18PxkVi5lqwzw.png" data-width="1078" data-height="688" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*--2ole_Gw18PxkVi5lqwzw.png"></div></figure><p name="c1bd" id="c1bd" class="graf graf--p graf-after--figure">40k reputation for one answer looks great, but it would be much better if you could do something similar with only one question.</p><h4 name="ac84" id="ac84" class="graf graf--h4 graf-after--p"><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/13161/mattshane" data-href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/13161/mattshane" class="markup--anchor markup--h4-anchor" rel="noopener" target="_blank">User with only one question in stackoverflow</a></h4><p name="53b1" id="53b1" class="graf graf--p graf-after--h4">Username: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/13161/mattshane" data-href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/13161/mattshane" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="noopener" target="_blank">mattshane</a><br>Answer: 0<br>Question: 1<br>0 posts edited<br>0 helpful flags<br>0 votes cast<br>Reputation: 79,909 (top 0.21% overall)</p><figure name="ada4" id="ada4" class="graf graf--figure graf-after--p"><div class="aspectRatioPlaceholder is-locked" style="max-width: 700px; max-height: 474px;"><div class="aspectRatioPlaceholder-fill" style="padding-bottom: 67.7%;"></div><img class="graf-image" data-image-id="1*7DTGBIbhM6gOCJ2-MxOpag.png" data-width="1084" data-height="734" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*7DTGBIbhM6gOCJ2-MxOpag.png"></div></figure><p name="a818" id="a818" class="graf graf--p graf-after--figure">His question <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79923/what-and-where-are-the-stack-and-heap" data-href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79923/what-and-where-are-the-stack-and-heap" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="noopener" target="_blank">What and where are the stack and heap?</a> not only helped countless developers and students (and experts refreshing their memories) but also gave him nearly <strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong">80k</strong> reputation. And it hasn’t lost its value until now:</p><figure name="cb20" id="cb20" class="graf graf--figure graf-after--p"><div class="aspectRatioPlaceholder is-locked" style="max-width: 700px; max-height: 302px;"><div class="aspectRatioPlaceholder-fill" style="padding-bottom: 43.1%;"></div><img class="graf-image" data-image-id="1*gXN_SasnivxpSR0b9aArOg.png" data-width="1084" data-height="467" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*gXN_SasnivxpSR0b9aArOg.png"></div></figure><h4 name="2c99" id="2c99" class="graf graf--h4 graf-after--figure"><a href="https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1207349/highest-reputation-with-zero-question" data-href="https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1207349/highest-reputation-with-zero-question" class="markup--anchor markup--h4-anchor" rel="noopener" target="_blank">User who never asks</a></h4><p name="df72" id="df72" class="graf graf--p graf-after--h4"><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/1144035/gordon-linoff" data-href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/1144035/gordon-linoff" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Gordon Linoff</a>, one of the legendary users in stackoverflow, hasn’t asked any single question and answered <strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong">65,482</strong> times. He is in the third position in all-time league(Mine is 214,703). But he almost always wins every league other than that.</p><figure name="8f3e" id="8f3e" class="graf graf--figure graf-after--p"><div class="aspectRatioPlaceholder is-locked" style="max-width: 700px; max-height: 503px;"><div class="aspectRatioPlaceholder-fill" style="padding-bottom: 71.8%;"></div><img class="graf-image" data-image-id="1*GQBG8rxMM8NJia5Pr_ClkA.png" data-width="1083" data-height="778" alt="Gordon Linoff profile" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*GQBG8rxMM8NJia5Pr_ClkA.png"></div></figure><figure name="4750" id="4750" class="graf graf--figure graf-after--figure"><div class="aspectRatioPlaceholder is-locked" style="max-width: 700px; max-height: 279px;"><div class="aspectRatioPlaceholder-fill" style="padding-bottom: 39.900000000000006%;"></div><img class="graf-image" data-image-id="1*LAWkV7R8QwgE2K-BT4ry7g.png" data-width="1060" data-height="423" data-is-featured="true" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*LAWkV7R8QwgE2K-BT4ry7g.png"></div></figure><h4 name="37d0" id="37d0" class="graf graf--h4 graf-after--figure"><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/156458/tim" data-href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/156458/tim" class="markup--anchor markup--h4-anchor" rel="noopener" target="_blank">User who never posts answers</a></h4><p name="c5ee" id="c5ee" class="graf graf--p graf-after--h4"><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/156458/tim" data-href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/156458/tim" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Tim</a>, just a cuorious self learner as stated by himself, has asked <strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong">1,186</strong> questions but hasn’t answered any question.</p><figure name="ea78" id="ea78" class="graf graf--figure graf-after--p"><div class="aspectRatioPlaceholder is-locked" style="max-width: 700px; max-height: 442px;"><div class="aspectRatioPlaceholder-fill" style="padding-bottom: 63.1%;"></div><img class="graf-image" data-image-id="1*G1974BNz-x-jogAFUPnFmQ.png" data-width="1070" data-height="675" alt="Tim with zero answer in stackoverflow" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*G1974BNz-x-jogAFUPnFmQ.png"></div></figure><figure name="2a18" id="2a18" class="graf graf--figure graf-after--figure"><div class="aspectRatioPlaceholder is-locked" style="max-width: 700px; max-height: 141px;"><div class="aspectRatioPlaceholder-fill" style="padding-bottom: 20.1%;"></div><img class="graf-image" data-image-id="1*ANPxLXx9JwqAq1UpKs2xIQ.png" data-width="1074" data-height="216" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*ANPxLXx9JwqAq1UpKs2xIQ.png"></div></figure><p name="ff16" id="ff16" class="graf graf--p graf-after--figure">Looks like Gordon Linoff and Tim are in different terms of use.</p><h4 name="86da" id="86da" class="graf graf--h4 graf-after--p"><a href="https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1207224/upvote-downvote-ratio" data-href="https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1207224/upvote-downvote-ratio" class="markup--anchor markup--h4-anchor" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Best upvoter who never downvotes others</a></h4><p name="413c" id="413c" class="graf graf--p graf-after--h4"><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/998692/user998692" data-href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/998692/user998692" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="noopener" target="_blank">user998692</a>, his name may look unfriendly but he has been the most friendly and generous among all 10M users in stackoverflow. He upvoted for <strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong">107,469 </strong>times. In other words, he contributed <strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong">over a million reputation to others</strong>.</p><figure name="6770" id="6770" class="graf graf--figure graf-after--p"><div class="aspectRatioPlaceholder is-locked" style="max-width: 700px; max-height: 468px;"><div class="aspectRatioPlaceholder-fill" style="padding-bottom: 66.8%;"></div><img class="graf-image" data-image-id="1*xbl8WQ-QGEwsHwq4AUU4Og.png" data-width="1085" data-height="725" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*xbl8WQ-QGEwsHwq4AUU4Og.png"></div></figure><p name="bc0d" id="bc0d" class="graf graf--p graf-after--figure">His is the biggest upvote count in stackoverflow. Besides, he never downvoted others.</p><figure name="311e" id="311e" class="graf graf--figure graf-after--p"><div class="aspectRatioPlaceholder is-locked" style="max-width: 700px; max-height: 404px;"><div class="aspectRatioPlaceholder-fill" style="padding-bottom: 57.699999999999996%;"></div><img class="graf-image" data-image-id="1*8Lec4a4ZWUAT6AxGepiR3Q.png" data-width="994" data-height="574" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*8Lec4a4ZWUAT6AxGepiR3Q.png"></div></figure><p name="9aff" id="9aff" class="graf graf--p graf-after--figure">Remember his username and favorite tags, and try to answer his questions as soon as possible for more reputation(OMG, VonC is listed here too). Since he regularly upvotes <strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong">35 times a day</strong>, there will be much chance for you to get his upvote.</p><h4 name="c3d2" id="c3d2" class="graf graf--h4 graf-after--p"><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/5217712/enzokie" data-href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/5217712/enzokie" class="markup--anchor markup--h4-anchor" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Top downvoter with the most downvote percentage</a></h4><p name="8d22" id="8d22" class="graf graf--p graf-after--h4">If a user can spam upvotes for 100K times without a problem, why not downvote?</p><p name="2669" id="2669" class="graf graf--p graf-after--p"><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/5217712/enzokie?tab=profile" data-href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/5217712/enzokie?tab=profile" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Enzokie</a> has some voting philosophy and acquiring his upvote is nearly impossible. He upvoted for 2 times and downvoted for <strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong">20,402</strong> times.</p><figure name="886a" id="886a" class="graf graf--figure graf-after--p"><div class="aspectRatioPlaceholder is-locked" style="max-width: 700px; max-height: 444px;"><div class="aspectRatioPlaceholder-fill" style="padding-bottom: 63.4%;"></div><img class="graf-image" data-image-id="1*shB5pWeQa5aogkwsNNTK6A.png" data-width="1052" data-height="667" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*shB5pWeQa5aogkwsNNTK6A.png"></div></figure><figure name="ba1c" id="ba1c" class="graf graf--figure graf-after--figure"><div class="aspectRatioPlaceholder is-locked" style="max-width: 700px; max-height: 127px;"><div class="aspectRatioPlaceholder-fill" style="padding-bottom: 18.099999999999998%;"></div><img class="graf-image" data-image-id="1*Rrr2PTDVFMcyqPtpP3jIdQ.png" data-width="1066" data-height="193" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*Rrr2PTDVFMcyqPtpP3jIdQ.png"></div></figure><p name="e245" id="e245" class="graf graf--p graf-after--figure">Seems like most android questions look silly to him. <a href="https://data.stackexchange.com/users/4210/athari" data-href="https://data.stackexchange.com/users/4210/athari" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Some guy</a> was trying to <a href="https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/300464/most-evil-users" data-href="https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/300464/most-evil-users" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="noopener" target="_blank">calculate evil ratio</a> of users by dividing upvote count by downvotes. Enzokie’s evil ratio was whopping 1,020,100.00 %. If he hadn’t upvoted for 2 times (by mistake?), his query wouldn’t work. I think he is trying to prevent stackoverflow from dumb-or-just-google-away-question-overflow by downvoting 12 ~ 13 times a day.</p><h4 name="a548" id="a548" class="graf graf--h4 graf-after--p">Conclusion</h4><p name="e096" id="e096" class="graf graf--p graf-after--h4">The facts about these users sound funny but they are some of the best contributors to stackoverflow. They are <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet" data-href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet" class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Jon Skeet</a>s in their own way. Stack Overflow is definitely most helpful and fun to get around for developers.
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