Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24808864-20150414141737

I do not support having Sal as part of the Energy Point Leaderboard. Here is a list of some of my (personal) objections.
 * 1) He is not a normal user of KA. The energy point leaderboard should be for people that use KA. He doesn't use it like the rest of us do.
 * 2) He has infinitely many points according to his profile and 120 million or so points according to the HTML (which not everyone knows or cares enough to look into). At best this is confusing, and at worst it is inconsistent. More evidence that his account is obvious exceptional.
 * 3) He is too exceptional to be included on a page that is devoted to people that are earning their points by traditional methods. We do not know what he did to earn those points, but perhaps some points were associated with "Being Sal." He is different from the rest of us. And no one can actually get infinitely many points. Since infinite is infinite, he will have a permanent place at the top of any such board which means it is pointless to have his name there, it becomes a category and not a person. It is more appropriate for this to be noted somewhere else.
 * 4) As founder, he has a unique page on this wiki already at Salman Khan. It is sufficient to include his point total there.
 * 5) If we only keep a top "n" list, then putting Salman Khan on it will bump the real KA user in the number "n" spot off the list. This means one less normal user will be on the list, effectively making the list "Top 'n-1' plus Sal" for the rest of eternity (or until we decide to change the format).

In conclusion, I believe he is a special case (as founder of KA) so he deserves recognition, which we are happy to provide on his personal page located at Salman Khan. I don't think it is appropriate to have him on a "leaderboard" when he is not actively trying to "gain the lead" in any real sense of the word.

My opinion, for what it's worth. 