The page was built by a short script (source code here) from all the LW Rationality Quotes threads so far. (We had such a thread each month since April 2009.) The script collects all comments with karma score 10 or more, and sorts them by score. Replies are not collected, only top-level comments.
A year ago commenters asked for various statistics and top-lists based on the data. This year I re-ran the scripts I wrote to answer those requests. (Source code for these is also at the above link, see the README.) I added the results as comments to this post:
Top quote contributors by total karma score collected:
1122 RichardKennaway
735 Rain
652 MichaelGR
560 anonym
545 gwern
540 Eliezer_Yudkowsky
380 RobinZ
347 CronoDAS
320 Yvain
317 Tesseract
258 billswift
247 DSimon
216 Thomas
215 Kutta
190 Jayson_Virissimo
188 Nominull
179 lukeprog
169 NancyLebovitz
169 James_Miller
166 GabrielDuquette
155 Konkvistador
150 Nic_Smith
143 djcb
140 Kaj_Sotala
136 ata
133 scav
133 Alejandro1
131 MinibearRex
127 MichaelHoward
125 Unnamed
124 Patrick
120 Cyan
118 sketerpot
118 Morendil
116 Maniakes
115 Rune
115 ABranco
113 roland
109 wedrifid
108 Alicorn
By the way, looking at the data it is obvious that more recent comments have a very large advantage in the karma collection game. Similarly, a quote has an enormous disadvantage if it is added in the middle of the month when thread activity has died down already. It would be more fair to normalize by, say, median karma score of the given month, and again by median karma score of the day of the month, but I think nobody cares that much.
I created a 2011 update to last year's Best of Rationality Quotes collection. (Here is the original.)
Best of Rationality Quotes 2011 (360kB page, 352 quotes)
The page was built by a short script (source code here) from all the LW Rationality Quotes threads so far. (We had such a thread each month since April 2009.) The script collects all comments with karma score 10 or more, and sorts them by score. Replies are not collected, only top-level comments.
A year ago commenters asked for various statistics and top-lists based on the data. This year I re-ran the scripts I wrote to answer those requests. (Source code for these is also at the above link, see the README.) I added the results as comments to this post: