timlash's Journal: Where's my achievements and/or flying car?

I've been fairly active (by my usual lurker standards) on /. in the past few weeks, but am still confused about these achievements. I've read the FAQ, used the /. search box (why is the /. search so horrendous? Embed Google search or remove the useless internal search option already!) and Googled /. and the web for additional achievement information to no avail.

First, shouldn't there be a scoreboard? What's the point of any achievement system if you can't flaunt results in front of family and friends? Even if /. declines to produce a scoreboard, why hasn't the /. nation crawled the site's member pages and compiled a third party scoreboard? This would be a tremendous help as I consider whether making a conscious effort to attain 2^6 Days Read in a Row is a worthy endeavor.

Second, there seems to be some achievements that are no longer being awarded. I've been meta-moderating my ass off and have yet to receive any Days Metamoderated in a Row recognition. Same goes for The Contradictor. What gives? My current theory is that CmdrTaco is yanking my chain on these incentives.

Third, I sure as hell better get my Posted a Journal Entry achievement for this!

Finally, haven't we all given up hope on the whole flying car thing? I know I have.

Cheers,

Tim

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Pic a user, click on the their /. home page http://slashdot.org/~ [slashdot.org] , select achievements, you are compared to them

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[timlash]

Loser schmoozer, I want to see rankings! The method you mention is highlighted in the FAQ, but a one-to-one comparison is not much of a scoreboard. I was hoping for a comprehensive listing of all /. achievers for each achievement with full cross references. Something that's trivial to build for anyone with select rights to the /. database. It should be doable, but non-trivial, for an external script to gather the data as long as said script does not thrash the /. servers too badly.