How many queries does this add?

Is there any way someone can mod this hack into the vb2 style of showing a forums top posters? I want this hack but it doesn't really fit the way it is, I would prefer that it would make the forums 'replies' on the forumhome a link, so when you click it a vb3 style dropdown box opens with the top however many posters.

I could possibly mod this hack myself to do what I want, but I'm fairly new to this and I'm not sure if A: It'll work o.o, or B: the loading times that it will add to the forumhome.

I think you could make this code more efficient by grabbing a template once, instead of grabbing it for each user in the list...

But I'm not sure if that would reduce the amount of queries though, just seems logical.

Nice hack, I'll play with it! :D

Gary, you are wonderful !! :)

would it be possible to see the top posters per forum all on one page?

good hack, i just install

Gary, would you port this to 3.5 please?

Thanks.