# 10 millionth post approaches **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 13, 2008, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-millionth-post-approaches/456328 "2008-07-13T14:35:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2008, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-millionth-post-approaches/456328/1 "2008-07-13T14:35:51Z")
Even though it’s far from an accurate representation of actual post numbering, what with deletions and merging and winters of missed content etc, you may be interested to know that the post numbers are approaching 10,000,000. This post, for example, is number 9997490. I’m guessing at ~1000 posts a day, it may arrive by Tuesday. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2008, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-millionth-post-approaches/456328/2 "2008-07-13T17:41:36Z")
Pah, that’s nothing. Just today I’ve been the **ONE MILLIONTH VISITOR** of at least three different websites, and qualified for a free gift! What are the odds of that? 🙂 Seriously, though - 10 million posts, and a good proportion of those no doubt written by people who were at work. How many lost man-hours is _that_? ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2008, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-millionth-post-approaches/456328/3 "2008-07-13T17:53:28Z")
Meh, it’ll probably suck. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-millionth-post-approaches/456328/4 "2008-07-14T12:23:50Z")
It happened sooner than I thought, and it belongs to me! ---
**Author:** ![Borborygmi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/borborygmi/32/217_2.png) [@Borborygmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Borborygmi)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-millionth-post-approaches/456328/5 "2008-07-14T12:40:15Z")
Man, **Cervaise** , which horse do you like in the Virginia Derby this Saturday? 😉 Since you wanted it, I’m glad you were able to nab it, **GuanoLad**. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-millionth-post-approaches/456328/6 "2008-07-14T12:48:24Z")
[QUOTE=Colophon] Pah, that’s nothing. Just today I’ve been the **ONE MILLIONTH VISITOR** of at least three different websites, and qualified for a free gift! What are the odds of that? 🙂 Seriously, though - 10 million posts, and a good proportion of those no doubt written by people who were at work. How many lost man-hours is _that_? [/QUOTE] Reminds me of an Onion story about a three-hour Internet failure causing “work startages” all over the East Coast. This Internet thing is just a fad. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2008, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-millionth-post-approaches/456328/7 "2008-07-16T11:07:56Z")
[QUOTE=GuanoLad] It happened sooner than I thought, and it belongs to me! [/QUOTE] How did you do that? ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2008, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-millionth-post-approaches/456328/8 "2008-07-16T11:23:26Z")
[QUOTE=Dead Cat] How did you do that? [/QUOTE] You’ve got to wonder, don’t you? I mean, at any given time, there are plenty of people posting here… :eek: ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2008, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-millionth-post-approaches/456328/9 "2008-07-16T23:26:46Z")
I saw that it was rapidly approaching, so I prepared my post, waited until someone posted [number #9999999](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=9999999) (refresh, refresh, refresh, _bing_!) and then clicked “Post Reply”. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2008, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-millionth-post-approaches/456328/10 "2008-07-16T23:35:38Z")
I wonder why there’s such a discrepancy with the information shown under the Statistics section on the front page? It’s currently showing total posts of 8,557,267. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-millionth-post-approaches/456328/11 "2008-07-17T01:20:55Z")
[QUOTE=GuanoLad] I saw that it was rapidly approaching, so I prepared my post, waited until someone posted [number #9999999](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=9999999) (refresh, refresh, refresh, _bing_!) and then clicked “Post Reply”. [/QUOTE] Glad to help you. 😃 I am glad I click on this thread, that was kind of funny to see my post when I clicked the link. [QUOTE=Cunctator] I wonder why there’s such a discrepancy with the information shown under the Statistics section on the front page? It’s currently showing total posts of 8,557,267. [/QUOTE] Many posts have been deleted to make room in the database and it might have a chunk missing from the “winter of missed content” (Is that what it is called?) The total of 8,557,267 is probably showing the records in the main database currently whereas the post number is a simple incrementing counter. Jim ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-millionth-post-approaches/456328/12 "2008-07-17T01:40:03Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] Glad to help you. [/QUOTE] Luckily it wasn’t such a scintillating post that it distracted me from my mission! [QUOTE=What Exit?] …whereas the post number is a simple incrementing counter. [/QUOTE] Which means it can never be taken away from me! Unless the database crashes, or it gets deleted, or something equally nefarious. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-millionth-post-approaches/456328/13 "2008-07-17T03:39:43Z")
Did balloons fall from the ceiling when you hit submit? If not I’d be pissed if I were you. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-millionth-post-approaches/456328/14 "2008-07-17T11:50:23Z")
[QUOTE=GuanoLad] I saw that it was rapidly approaching, so I prepared my post, waited until someone posted [number #9999999](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=9999999) (refresh, refresh, refresh, _bing_!) and then clicked “Post Reply”. [/QUOTE] That’s pretty much what I suspected, but I was prepared to give you the benefit of the doubt - it could have been a great coincidence :). Alternatively, I thought you may have written a program that monitored the post count, and then automatically posted that response when it hit 9999999. Because that would have been less “sad” :). ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-millionth-post-approaches/456328/15 "2008-07-17T12:52:44Z")
[QUOTE=GuanoLad] Luckily it wasn’t such a scintillating post that it distracted me from my mission! Which means it can never be taken away from me! Unless the database crashes, or it gets deleted, or something equally nefarious. [/QUOTE] It is yours forever, but couldn’t you have written something more elegant than > [@](#): > > It happened sooner than I thought, and it belongs to me! As you tell it, you had the post written already. When we get to the 20,000,000 I expect you to be better prepared. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-millionth-post-approaches/456328/16 "2008-07-17T13:44:13Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] It is yours forever, but couldn’t you have written something more elegant [/QUOTE] When I said it happened sooner than I thought, I mean literally. I had about 30 seconds available between noticing the rapid approach and the opportunity to nab it. No joke, during that time there was a new post every fifteen seconds! Almost 3000 posts were made in that one 24 hour period! ---
**Author:** ![alterego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6bbea6/32.png) [@alterego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alterego)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2008, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-millionth-post-approaches/456328/17 "2008-07-17T15:03:20Z")
[QUOTE=What Exit?] Glad to help you. 😃 I am glad I click on this thread, that was kind of funny to see my post when I clicked the link. Many posts have been deleted to make room in the database and it might have a chunk missing from the “winter of missed content” (Is that what it is called?) The total of 8,557,267 is probably showing the records in the main database currently whereas the post number is a simple incrementing counter. Jim [/QUOTE] I say they make you an honorary 99’er. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2008, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-millionth-post-approaches/456328/18 "2008-07-24T16:12:22Z")
[QUOTE=GuanoLad] It happened sooner than I thought, and it belongs to me! [/QUOTE] Oooooooooooooo! :: basks in the glow of **GuanoLad** ’s Dopish magnificence ::