Plonk numbers changed dramatically. Accounts that 'joined' but never appeared on the STATS page are showing listed. Weird.
The answer to the change was there all along. Before last weekend's "cleanup" of stats page:
"The following users appear most often in killfiles."
web.archive.org
After last weekend's "cleanup" of stats page:
The following users appear most often in the killfiles of active users.
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