A survey of posters

[kellibelli]

A) Where do you usually post from...home or work?

B) How many posts do you currently have?

C) How long since you registered?


I am attempting to determine the correlation of frequency to environment.
Thank you.

[kellibelli]

A) work

B) 1063

C) About 4 months

[DW3]

[list=a] Home
104
1 1/2 Months[/list=a]

[NicePete]

a. work
b. 314
c. 5/20/99

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Plunging like stones from a slingshot on Mars.

[Missy2U]

1) Work

2) 72 - make that 73 as of this one

3) tiny bit over 1/2 month

[Falcon]

a) read from both, but post more at work.

b) 370

c) 5 months

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"You have to laugh at yourself, because you'd cry your eyes out if you didn't."
-Emily Saliers

[CanadianSue]

1. work.. and now home

2. 30

3. a week or so

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We are, each of us angels with only one wing;
and we can only fly by
embracing one another

[SterlingNorth]

1. Home, usually
2. 183
3. 7 months

[Atrael]

1. Work
2. 122
3. 9-10-99

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I haven't lost my mind, I have a tape backup around somewhere.

[Yankee Blue]

From work. Signed up 9/22/99. 59 posts.

[Cabbage]

a. Home
b. 47
c. A month

[Sealemon88]

Mainly work...sometime from home (what ELSE is there to do on a Monday evening?).

I registered 9/3/99, and I got 286 posts as of this one.

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You say "cheesy" like that's a BAD thing.

[Mullinator]

a. Work
b. 89
c. 9/23/99

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Yes, the weather is the same up here. Yes, I play basketball. No, never heard a tall joke before. Aaaargh.

[UncleBeer]

A) I post exclusively from work.
2) 352.
III) Registered on 5/3/99.

But I didn't really post very much until about 2 months ago. I'm ridin' the crest of a wave right now. I have probably posted 50 or 60 times this week alone. It takes me a while to hit my stride.

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"The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind." - Humphrey Bogart

1. work
2. 113
3. 4 months

[TheDoll]

A) Work, always

B) 48

C) about three weeks

Feels like longer!

[Donj]

work/27/couple weeks

[Drain Bead]

1) Mostly work, although I post from home as well.

B) 798, after this one.

3) 3-18-99

D) Do you people have lives?

[zoony]

a) Work
b) 68 as of now
c) 2 months tomorrow, WooHoo!

Z

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"Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock."
- Will Rogers

[neuro-trash grrrl]

a) School computer lab
b) about 200
c) 1 1/2 months (lurked for a couple of weeks before that)

[Diane]

1 - Both

2 - 693

3 - 03-12-99

After looking at some of the large amount of posts in only a few months time, I have to agree with Drain Bead when she asks "Do you guys have lives outside of posting to the SDMB?"

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>^,,^<
KITTEN
If ignorance is bliss, you must be orgasmic.

1) Both, though mostly from home, occasionally from work.

2) This will be 528 -- not counting a dozen or so that were pulled.

3) 3-11-99 (Diane and I and Drain came straight over from the old board)

-Melin

[Kamino Neko]

Home

This'll make 129

Since 04-08-99



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'They couldn't hit an Elephant from this dist...!'

Last words of General John Sedgwick

[Ukulele Ike]

a) work
b) 575
c) 7/7/99

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Uke

[Chief Crunch]

Home

38

07-06-99

[ChiefScott]

a) Home & Work. kells, you know I live on the ship!
b) 724
c) January

[AuraSeer]

A) Yes.
C) 3/22/99
B) 956

[Satan]

1. Both
2. Almost 1,000 *sigh*
3. 05-04-99

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Yer pal,
Satan

[Doctor Jackson]

1. Work
2. 635
3. 7 months tomorrow

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The overwhelming majority of people have more than the average (mean) number of legs. -- E. Grebenik

[Diane]

c) January - Chief

Uhhhh, 04 means April.


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>^,,^<
KITTEN
If ignorance is bliss, you must be orgasmic.

[AHunter3]

a) both
b) only 244
c) 3/11/99



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Designated Optional Signature at Bottom of Post

[Gazelle]

Eins) Work 99.9% of the time
Zwei) 164 after this
Drei) April 5, 1999 - My mom's 52nd birthday.

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Most common question I ask: "What?"
Most common question I get: "Are you really hearing impaired?"

[ChrisCTP]

A) Home

B) 586 including this post

C) Registered 5/26/99

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"ChrisCTP-...the sweetheart of the SDMB..." --Diane
Chris' Homepage: Domestic Bliss (http://www2.crosswinds.net/~domesticbliss/)

[GeneralRipper]

a) I've posted from both home and work.

b) This will be number 26, I mostly lurk.

c) August 30, 1999



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Peace on Earth = Purity Of Essence

[Imthecowgodmoo]

1)home
2)about 287
3)4-15-99

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"I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information."-- Calvin and Hobbes
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[Ringo]

1) Almost exclusively from home, although I'm at the office right now.

[Ringo]

2) These are #'s 645 & 646
3) 4-2-99

[manhattan]

work/home 70/30
446 posts (today was heavy)
08-03-99

[SqrlCub]

I have been posting since May, I think. When I do searches using my screen name it only sayd 14. I know I have posted much more than that. Oh, I primarily post from work.

HUGS
Sqrl

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Move over Satan. ;) Now there's something meatier. http://smallwonder.simplenet.com/COC.html

[Persephone]

1)Home

2)this post makes 645

3)6 months (registered 4-14-99)

[tatertot]

A) Home

B) 47

C) Registered 09/26/99, so about 3 weeks

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"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." Albert Einstein

[wireless]

1. Work (Spend 10+ hours a day here - need something to break it up.)

2. 57, but just posted my first thread in GD, so hoping for more soon.

3. Registered 6-22-99. Admit I lurked before registering.

Spend an hour or so a day reading here. Try not to post unless I feel have something to add and not just "to hear myself talk", this post being an exception, of course. And certainly no slam intended against any others - I love "hearing" (most of) you guys.

[TVeblen]

1.) home
2.) 60
3.) 9/19/99
4.) ouch. I just discovered I don't have a life.

Veb

[White Wolf]

Home

36

9/22/99 Almost a month

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White Wolf

"Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense."

"Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them."

[sly]

Work and home. Although I once posted from the car with my laptop and cellular. Very cool.

404

4/18/99

[Troy McClure SF]

a) 50% school, 50% home.
b) Arrr, this be post 77.
c) A day short of four months.

Seems like longer.

[funneefarmer]

A) Home, but I could walk outside and I'd be at work.

B) 385

C)7/30/99

Is there a way for the moderators to take the total posts, and the total days on board for the posters to figure out the last two for you?

Post from home, always.

This will be my 408th post.

I have been here since 3-11-99.

I was a Reg from the old board on AOL for about 2 years or so.

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"Love given when it is inconvenient is the greatest love of all. Kindnesses that are shared at a high cost to oneself are the most dear."

Don't know who said it, but I like it.

[wireless]

Sly-

I hope you weren’t also DRIVING at the same time!
(Viz. my thread on cell phones & driving at http://www.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/000489.html)

If not, then yeah, way cool!

a) Home, I guess. Well, really, it's my school but I LIVE here so....
b)This makes 88
c) September 17, 1999

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1) Eye You-way Han
2) It's Chinese.
3) The symbols are tone marks.
4) No, I wasn't drunk when I registered.
5) Just call me John, OK?

[dougie_monty]

a)I post from a college library or a local vocational office. I can't afford my own computer so I have none at home.
b) 804 posts.
c) Registered July 13 of this year, thus 3 months.

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"If you drive an automobile, please drive carefully--because I walk in my sleep."--Victor Borge

[WallyM7]

(a):: Both

(b):: 512

(c):: 09/08/99


Note: (b) is an anomaly. I had a LOT of free time on my hands because business was very slow. In my line, it's feast or starve.

Reminds me. Any cookies left?

A home
b posted on 113 topics
c Summer 99

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Attention C#3!The inside of your musty head is a exercise wheel;
in which two gerbils, Vanity and Credulity by
name, tussle fruitlessly over the walnut that
represents your banal & pointless existance.

[OpalCat]

Home (but I run a home business)
484, but many thousands on the AOL board before this board started

03-11-99, but I posted to the AOL board for about 3 years before this one.

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[Doobieous]

First off Sqrl: TO find out your stats, click on the little face with the ? next to it by the date on your post. You really have 255 posts to your name, and yes, you have been posting since May (5-14-99).

As for me,

A)Home
B)526
C)05-02-99

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'The beginning calls for courage; the end demands care'

[Kat]

1) Home
2) 620, including this one
3) 3/13/99

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"The secret of life is, there ain't no secret, and you don't get your money back."

[Sycorax]

A. Home
B. Don't know; don't care
C. About 5 months.

I think the correlation is not to environment, but to how much time one has...and obviously some of us have too much time on our hands.

[Louie]

1. Home
2. Counting this one, 420. I'm not kidding.
3. April 6th

So my average would be 2 posts a day.

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[sunbear]

from home, and about 50 posts from work until the GODDAMN PROXY SERVER started blocking this site, 1200+ posts since april

[Kat]

Sycorax has 192 posts and registered on 5/27/99. (Ha, that'll teach Sy to try and thwart kelli's evil* plots.)
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*Please note: The author has no evidence that kelli has any plots, much less evil ones. This message will self-destruct in 5 seconds.

[psycat90]

i post equally from home and work

28

8-29-99- i don't know what took me so long to register and hop in the message boards, but i'm glad i did...

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so you found a girl who thinks really deep thoughts. what's so amazing about really deep thoughts? Tori Amos

[KCB615]

A) Home

B) 75

C) registered since 3-11-99


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Jeremy....

I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine - Kurt Vonnegut

[pluto]

1. work, very occasionaly from home
2. 449
3. 7/9/99

Did I get them in the right order?

a) home
b) this is #678
c) 6/30/99

[kknick34]

A. work

[kknick34]

a.work
b.51
c. 07/99

[BoBettie]

Home
5/23
664 posts

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Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.
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[divemaster]

a) work only
b) about 150 (I re-registered last week, which erased my previous info)
c) first registered early September

1.Library,soon home. 2.I dont know.Somebody please check for me. 3. I think July.

1) work--I am unplugged at home; no E-mail, no Internet, and that's the way I like it.

2) 626

3) July 16

[Polycarp]

Work...751(!)...end of August

[Dirty Devil]

A) Work
B) This will be number 210
C) 7/23/99

A) Home.
B) 8,002, if you count my responses to Adam. 7 if you don't. :D
C) I've been here since April, but didn't post that often until the ARG wars.


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Lemonade...10 cents
Snakes.......50 cents

[Babar714]

I am incredibly lazy, and posting this to see my stats. Then I'll go see if my porn is finished downloading.

[Babar714]

Home, always.
343. cool.
7\21\99

[Stoid]

From my home business. (What is with you people who spend so much time screwing around from work??? Don't you have supervisors? Don't you know that if they can't or don't now, they soon WILL be monitoring your every move?? )

597 including this.

6/2/99 - so that's about 150 posts per month. Is that possible??? Wow.

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This is a non-smoking area. If we see you smoking, we will assume you are on fire and act accordingly.

Okay,I just checked.As Vanillanice it was 164 posts,starting in March. And as Me,orangecakes,it was 173 starting in Sept.

[elelle]

A) Home, just hooked up the machine
B) 17
C) 10-12-99... had the good fortune to be in a decent place at the right time... and started out in the pit, no less... you intelligent bunch of thangs, you...

1) Here's a clue. My workplace just this week finally recognized the existence of Windows. At this rate, how long do you think it will be before I can go online from work? Hell, our system is so primitive we still have ten more years before we have to worry about Y2K.
2) This post is #654 in a series. Collect them and trade with your friends!
3) 3-13-99. Like most of the people from that early I came over from the now-defunct AOL forum (the SD equivalent of having an ancestor on the Mayflower). Since then my most meaningful contribution here was suggesting the creation of the Great Debates forum. My bid for SD immortality.

[Phaedrus]

Home

41 counting this one. (I lurk a lot)

9/25/99

Good luck with the survey.

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That which a man had rather were true he more readily believes.

[Shirley Ujest]

Since becoming Shirley Ujest in May ( I was Just Joan before that on the old board) I've had over 750 stream of conscienceness thoughts on here. It's cheaper than therapy. My dog is very greatful for SDMB for if it didn't exist, she would need therapy for all the ranting I do to her in place of this keyboard and screen.

Home
334
4/5/99

[krish]

A) Home

B) 234

C) Over 6 months

[Sycorax]

I can't stand the suspense any longer Kel- what conclusions do you draw from the survey, besides the fact there are way too many people screwing off at work.

[Coldfire]

A) 80% Work, 20% home. Just to get the correlation straight :)

B) 295, including this one.

C) 7-28-99, that's 82 days if my math is still OK.

Good luck on the survey Kelli. Oh yeah, I'm white, male, hetero, 26, I smoke, I am a house owner, I drive a Peugeot and I like beer. Any correlations in those data ?


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Coldfire
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"You know how complex women are"
- Neil Peart, Rush (1993)

[MLAW]

A) Work only
B) 2-3
C) A couple of weeks

Recently discovered the message board (been going to Straight Dope for about 6 months). Since I have two PCs I'm able to surf on one while the test scrips are running on the second.

[kellibelli]

Thank you to all.

My conclusions are as follows...

We spend entirely too much time goofing off at work. ;)

At home, unless we are already ON the net for something, we arent as likely to check the boards, whereas at work, the computer is right there...and so we check. Its the 1999 equivalent of passing notes or talking in class.

The idea that prolific posters dont have a life is not entirely accurate.
Posters who are at home, where their 'life' is...dont seem to spend as much time here as those at work. Work is not 'real life'.
I, for example, dont take smoke breaks, and as such, posting right at this moment is my brains equivalent to a smoke. (calms me down, perks me up at the same time).

The SDMB enhances my typing skills, exercises my brain, its non-fattening, wont give you cancer, or an STD. Its my hobby, and as such, it has a priority as something I enjoy very much, but something that is pushed aside when necessary. I think the 'work posters' are all pretty similar in that respect. When its busy, we post less, when its not, we are free to post more, read more, compose longer messages.

Thanks everyone for participating.
<fontface=Symbol>kellibelli</font>

[SqrlCub]

Thanks Doobeious.
Sqrl

[cmkeller]

A) Work
B) 582 (I guess this is # 583)
C) 7 months

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Chaim Mattis Keller
ckeller@schicktech.com

"Sherlock Holmes once said that once you have eliminated the
impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be
the answer. I, however, do not like to eliminate the impossible.
The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it that the merely improbable lacks."
-- Douglas Adams's Dirk Gently, Holistic Detective