How do you folks do it... I mean post so much!

[Pyske]

Winterthorn: I understand completely where you're coming from.

Meeting Eric Noah at GenCon (paraphrased):
Him: "So, I don't recognize your screen name. Are you a lurker?"
Me : "Well, not really, I've got like 70 posts."
Him: *knowing grin, slightly amused*
Me : "OK, yeah, I guess I'm a lurker."

. . . . . . . -- Eric

 

[Tsyr]

I'm here alot is part of it... When I'm at college I'm normaly online at the same time (I love my college ), and as a result normaly have a window to this site open in the background... when I'm at home, same deal.

I get involved in some pretty heated arguements sometimes... that tends to rack posts up quickly.

But really, I dunno how it happens, it just does. I recently saw I was at something like... 1250, or something, I forget, and I couldn't believe it... I thought I was at like 700 or something.

 

[Darraketh]

I helps if you have a pet project you are championing. Right now, for me, it's my tread about hex maps. See my sig for the link.

 

[Ravellion]

Post almost meaningless and very short replies, that don't add to the topic at all

Rav

 

[Horacio]

Being a story hour addict helps a lot...

 

[Wicht]

It helps to have a niche.

Fight club provides me at least 5 posts every morning... My life has got busier in the last few months, it used to be about 20 posts a day at least in fight club.

But then there are normally a few threads I want to chime in to during the day as I work. Keeping the boards on while I do other things at the computer allows me to 'monitor' what is being said and see if there are any replies to my replies.

If you are not careful, it can easily suck up your day, but if one has the force of will (and reads fast) one can 'hover' over the boards, always watching, with a part of the mind, while the other part is off doing something more productive.

 

[trix]

...

I develop software research & software analysis tools and some of our analysis processing runs take 7-22 hours (depending on input size and analysis criteria).

Sometimes when looking for a bug/testing a feature, we've got a few hours to spare.

---

As far as keeping on top of stuff goes, it really depends on what you're after. I like some of the crunchy stuff (as far as posting goes)...

skim read... and set the number of posts to something like 100 per page... that way its easy to read all the goodstuff quickly with your scrollbar.

-Tim

 

[GILGAMESH]

NOT YET

I'm not up into the high digits yet, but I'm going to get there!

 

[Wicht]

Re: NOT YET

I'm not up into the high digits yet, but I'm going to get there!

One trick is to reply to things like this even when you have little to say

 

[Crothian]

The best way is to try to offer something with every post. A lot of people "bump" threads, but whenever I want to have a thread rise to the top I try to at least post a thought or two. But the most important thing to remember is postcount means nothing.

"This technique is sometimes known in the east as wu-wei (no mind). Thus, we might say that Crothian is the paragon of the mindless poster."

Thanks, Hong, I appriciate that.

"Crothian is sooooooooo going to kill your ass for that..."

Well, considering the sheer amount of ass kicking I do......