How find 10 largest Sl groups?

[RainmakerLTU Kaufmann]

How find 10 largest Sl groups?

[Peewee Musytari]

Get LL to bring back the old search where it used to tell you how many members were in the groups

[Incoherendt Randt]

That's easy! The next time some stranger asks if they can borrow L$100 and they'll pay it back tomorrow, copy down the groups in their profile.

[RainmakerLTU Kaufmann]

I could use some official statistics, not meaningless answers.

[Incoherendt Randt]

OK! So! Realistically, the only way without finding a Linden that wants to share the list (you probably won't find one of those on the forums), is to run a dictionary attack on the SL group search, build the list of all the public groups, save the member counts from each group found, and sort by the counts. This list could still be scerwy if any of the largest groups are hidden from search, but a scan like it on user profiles can turn up lots of the hidden groups.

[Peewee Musytari]

That actually wasn`t a meaningless answer...It DID used to show in search and now its doesn`t.

Why LL took it out, I have no idea but its possible that it was to stop spammers from looking for the biggest groups and joining them to spam.

[RainmakerLTU Kaufmann]

Seems i was thinking right. Played a bit with keywords. Now need find the Linden. Thanks for answers.

[Incoherendt Randt]

The member counts are still there in the group profile pages, and they still show up in the old style search they're taking away, but the old search makes lag on the sims. With new search and a bot to get a login token you can still get all the searchable group keys with that dictionary spew, then hammer AWS to scrape the counts. But totally, yeah, the old sort by count makes groups WAYYYYYY too exploitable for spam.

[Jessika Rang]

RainmakerLTU Kaufmann wrote:

 

Seems i was thinking right. Played a bit with keywords. Now need find the Linden. Thanks for answers.

See the list here:

http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/

[RainmakerLTU Kaufmann]

Thanks for answer. Actually, thats the RIGHT answer i needed. Sorry, but i can mark it only as "Helpful", as Correct answer tag already granted to other post.

 

Thanks, great job.

[Jessika Rang]

no problem... as soon as I saw that article I remembered your thread, had to do a bit of searching to find it, glad that was helpful!