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
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?
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.
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?
(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?)
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.
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.
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