If this functionality is desired enough for enough people to use this, why not publish a list of users, updated say, hourly so these scripts can cache the reputations? But then again, don't really see the point in using this.
Also, if reputation's that important, you can just cache the 'leaders' list.
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If this functionality is desired enough for enough people to use this, why not publish a list of users, updated say, hourly so these scripts can cache the reputations? But then again, don't really see the point in using this.
Also, if reputation's that important, you can just cache the 'leaders' list.
A) Reputation isn't a very good measure of anything as far as I'm concerned.
B) It's trivial to click on someone's name and see what their reputation is if it's important to the person reading / replying.
if reputation's that important, you can just cache the 'leaders' list
Exactly.
http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
No need to spam up the site to get information that is found on a link already.