# 15,000!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-000/166076
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [April 2, 2003, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-000/166076 "2003-04-02T23:21:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2003, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-000/166076/21 "2003-04-03T17:06:45Z")
Where does Guinastasia post? Hmmmm.
I remember when my post count was way under David B’s. But as I approached him we kept asking each other where they posted because we rarely saw each other’s posts.
I usually only look at my post count when someone mentions it 🙂
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### Author:  [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2003, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-000/166076/22 "2003-04-03T17:13:10Z")
> [@](#):
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> _Originally posted by **beagledave** _
>
> Damn…I was thinking that you were reporting your recruitment tally…that’s one hell of a lot of toasters… 😃
Oh, no, it’s like stuffed animals playing skee-ball - you can trade up when you get a few of the same thing. I’ve got the toaster, the toaster oven, a pasta maker, two crock pots, and a couple of things from Ronco. I’m shooting for the microwave next. Wanna help? 😉
Esprix
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### Author:  [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2003, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-000/166076/23 "2003-04-03T17:50:25Z")
**handy** broke 15k sometime when we weren’t watching. As for contenders for the title? **Guinastasia** (13292 at time of posting) is the closest threat. She(with 13.4 posts per day) is on pace to pass **handy** (10 posts per day) this year. I’m really amazed by **Q.E.D.** though. He’s racked up 2486 posts in three months! That’s 10k posts in a single year at that pace(28.5 posts per day). I’m not sure he can hold that pace, but it’s pretty damn impressive.
Enjoy,
Steven
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### Author:  [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2003, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-000/166076/24 "2003-04-03T19:22:57Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Esprix \*
> \*\* Wanna help? 😉
>
> Esprix \*\*
With the wife…kid…and utter ignorance about Judy Garland and show tunes…I’ll have to respectually decline your membership offer.
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### Author:  [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2003, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-000/166076/25 "2003-04-03T19:34:22Z")
Pansy!
😉
Esprix
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### Author:  [@Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violet)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2003, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-000/166076/26 "2003-04-03T19:41:32Z")
The **handy** posts always seemed, uh, handy, to me! 🙂
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### Author:  [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2003, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-000/166076/27 "2003-04-03T21:26:09Z")
Doesn’t the board software have a limit (somewhere around 64k) to the number of posts you can have? If so, we could have a race on our hands here … will someone reach the limit before they upgrade the software?
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### Author:  [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2003, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-000/166076/28 "2003-04-03T21:28:16Z")
(That last post, of course, was an exercise in idle speculation to pad my pathetic post count. And this one is much the same. I’m so transparent, aren’t I?)
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### Author:  [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2003, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-000/166076/29 "2003-04-04T00:31:38Z")
The board is written in PHP, which is an offset of the Perl language, and as such, is not strongly typed. If post counts are implemented as Perl scalars are then they should scale to 32 bit integers. 2^32 would be the maximum, but it could easily change if the PHP engine changes. One of the nice things about an interpreted language, types can be re-defined by the interpreter instead of assuming hard limits in the programming.
Enjoy,
Steven
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### Author:  [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2003, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-000/166076/30 "2003-04-04T00:56:36Z")
Whatever the limit, **Handy** will be hitting it sometime soon 😃
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### Author:  [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2003, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-000/166076/31 "2003-04-04T15:30:51Z")
2^32 = 4,294,967,296 Subtract out his current total of 15011 for 4,294,952,285 and divide by his rate of change, 10 posts per day, and 429,495,228.5 days later (1,176,699 years), **handy’s** post count crashes the board. 😃
Now **Q.E.D.** on the other hand…
Enjoy,
Steven
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### Author:  [@Feynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feynn)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2003, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-000/166076/32 "2003-04-04T15:43:57Z")
“He’s racked up 2486 posts in three months!”
Hell…I haven’t managed that in three years.
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### Author:  [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2003, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-000/166076/33 "2003-04-04T16:19:36Z")
I got about 8,000 posts in four months moderating another board, where if you were a mod, you didn’t have a time limit between posts.
Having alot of posts is nice, but I can’t say there has ever been an advantage to having the most posts.
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### Author:  [@lel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lel)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2003, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-000/166076/34 "2003-04-04T16:22:43Z")
An amusing factoid I figured out the other day: 136 posts of mine ago, I posted in **Q.E.D.**'s 1000 post party thread.
**handy** , if you want to be sure that everyone knows who you are, that’s an advantage to having the most posts of anyone. 😃
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### Author:  [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2003, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-000/166076/35 "2003-04-04T18:15:28Z")
If I die can I pass my account on to someone else? Eventually it’d overtake everyone!
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### Author:  [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2003, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-000/166076/36 "2003-04-04T19:27:23Z")
I definitely agree with the sentiments posted about **Q.E.D.** He’s an amazing guy, that one… 🙂
F\_X
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### Author:  [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2003, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-000/166076/37 "2003-04-04T20:58:21Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Shade \*
> \*\*If I die can I pass my account on to someone else? Eventually it’d overtake everyone! \*\*
If we kill Handy do we get his post count, highlander style?
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### Author:  [@Alan\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Q)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2003, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-000/166076/38 "2003-04-04T22:48:59Z")
Holy goat pellets!
I know I’ve been away for awhile (and missed The Great Crash), but looking at my registered date and # of posts, I’d like to think I’ve done better than that!
–Alan Q
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### Author:  [@JillGat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JillGat)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2003, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-000/166076/39 "2003-04-05T00:13:39Z")
[[Perhaps around 23,000, he’ll fall over and realize he’s typed everything he’s ever likely to want to type.]]
Or better yet, he’ll get laid.
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### Author:  [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2003, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/15-000/166076/40 "2003-04-05T00:24:35Z")
And I got all proud of myself when I got my average up to an even 1 post per day.
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