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Top 20 Poster Observations (Feb. 20th) Morrus gets booted off!
This is the second time I've been so incredibly bored, that I felt it necessary to once again point out the strange and unusual facts about our top 20 posters, and thier freakish posting rates. To begin this session, I'll introduce you to the top 20 posters with some basic information. I've labled positions that are going to increase within the list in red. The five names listed below the first 20 are the first three individuals who will knock our good lord Morrus right off the bottom of the list.
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User Name Join Date Posts
Crothian 01-18-2002 17761 (44.58 posts per day)
Horacio 01-15-2002 7609 (18.94 posts per day)
kreynolds 02-12-2002 7449 (19.97 posts per day)
hong 01-18-2002 6222 (15.63 posts per day)
Darkness 01-09-2002 6010 (14.75 posts per day)
Wicht 01-18-2002 5468 (13.72 posts per day)
Mr Fidgit 08-26-2002 5372 (30.10 posts per day)
Nightfall 01-18-2002 4723 (11.86 posts per day)
arwink 01-30-2002 4575 (11.85 posts per day)
Sir Osis of Liver 02-02-2002 4450 (11.59 posts per day)
Mark 01-08-2002 4000 (9.80 posts per day)
Piratecat 01-08-2002 3949 (9.66 posts per day)
Dragongirl 07-22-2002 3680 (17.26 posts per day)
Kalanyr 01-18-2002 3434 (8.61 posts per day)
Ashwyn 06-21-2002 3412 (13.93 posts per day)
alsih2o 05-31-2002 3391 (12.78 posts per day)
CRGreathouse 01-18-2002 3289 (8.26 posts per day)
Tallarn 01-24-2002 3277 (8.35 posts per day)
creamsteak 01-18-2002 3248 (8.16 posts per day)
Morrus 01-08-2002 3242 (7.93 posts per day)
Sniktch (20.26 posts per day)
garyh (10.48 posts per day)
randomling (18.54 posts per day)
Now in similar respect, I'd like to point out that the top is finally balancing out, but there are a number of additional sharp shooters coming up from the middle. There is more movement in the top 20 now than 2 months ago, by a strong amount. It's also important to point out that although the top 20 are composed of many short and long term members, nobody has ever neared the incredible Crothian's insane post count.
I've been considering taking the 'top 20' posts off of each of the 'top 20 posters' and comparing their reflective word count per post to judge, "who types the most content per post?" and I'll be handling that shortly, for your brief tickling of your statistical side of the brain.
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Last edited by Creamsteak; 21st February 2003 at 03:34 AM..
And I think that you must consider that we all go through times when we post a lot more than others. Just after Xmas, I had nothing to do but sit in an internet cafe and post here, and on reflection I can see how unhappy I was at the time.
Now I'm much happier, and not posting nearly so often as I was at that time...this of course means my post rate will go down...
I fully expect to drop out of the top 20 again at some point, depending on how good the Hivemind is on each day. The more interesting the chat, the more I post, obviously.
Plus, out of the above, myself, Mr Fidgit, arwink, Crothian, Sniktch and randomling all post on randomlings boards, and I've got other online boards to post to in addition to that...so we've all tended to slow down a little on these boards.
Originally posted by Tallarn Plus, out of the above, myself, Mr Fidgit, arwink, Crothian, Sniktch and randomling all post on randomlings boards, and I've got other online boards to post to in addition to that...so we've all tended to slow down a little on these boards.
Right, myself, I've been posting a bit more in Nutkinland lately.
Some people can be a bit problematic at times (especially in political debates - which is hardly unusual), of course, but most are very cool to have around most of the time.
Originally posted by Tallarn creamsteak - you are bizarrely interesting.
And I think that you must consider that we all go through times when we post a lot more than others. Just after Xmas, I had nothing to do but sit in an internet cafe and post here, and on reflection I can see how unhappy I was at the time.
Now I'm much happier, and not posting nearly so often as I was at that time...this of course means my post rate will go down...
I fully expect to drop out of the top 20 again at some point, depending on how good the Hivemind is on each day. The more interesting the chat, the more I post, obviously.
Plus, out of the above, myself, Mr Fidgit, arwink, Crothian, Sniktch and randomling all post on randomlings boards, and I've got other online boards to post to in addition to that...so we've all tended to slow down a little on these boards.
But it's interesting.
Ah, and I would love to take all the statistics and put them together, but I just don't have the time for that kind of non-sense. It sure would be nice, and I know it's all out there, but imagine the difficulty? This is rather, a fun thing for me to observe, but not something I must know everything about.
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Originally posted by creamsteak Crothian - 246 words in 20 posts
Horacio - 243 words in 20 posts
kreynolds - 642 words in 20 posts
jeez - i usually post 246 in one post. :rolleyes:
I guess the keys to high post counts are
a) not typing very in-depth
b) believing that everyone should hear your superficial thoughts.
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Originally posted by reapersaurus jeez - i usually post 246 in one post. :rolleyes:
I guess the keys to high post counts are
a) not typing very in-depth
b) believing that everyone should hear your superficial thoughts.
Yup, and I guess the key to be a smartass is posting things like your last post...
Ok, I edited out my posts of 20 post, since I feel some people may have been insulted by it. Also, it was kinda vain, as when I did the original list I was over 3000 words in 20 posts, which simply isn't always the case. It's also the reason why I stopped at 3 and didn't come back, I was afraid people may not want statistics to be used as a windowframe to narrow perspective on a person.
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