The "like" function was full of errors when it transferred over from the old website. At that time, the number of likes per post (then called reps) was headed up by a certain member who is much too modest to mention his name
and second place was
@Danger .
When the the new system came out, the rankings went haywire, and some top guys fell off and some rather obscure ones rose in the ranks.
That aside, likes must be computed as "total number of posts" / "likes" as some guys have thousands of posts under their belt where others might have several hundred. 100 Likes out of 5,000 posts is a far cry from 100 likes out of 1,000 posts.
One guy here has a lot of likes but he seems to me to be the Henny Youngman of posters. Most of his posts are one sentence or two, and guys hit that like button like nobody's business. Compare that to guys who expound upon their points beyond pithy sayings.
The bottom line, though, is that likes are really totally meaningless. It's the overall quality of a man's day-to-day input that sticks in people's minds. Tone and substance eclipses raw numbers.