Another look at "active users" at SDMB

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Join date Oct. 22, 1999, and date of last post:

banyan 2000
okibeav 2000
feathersea 2001
Timothy Campbell 2004
pcalkins 2001
areynaldos Jan 6, 2010
Neil 2005
jmullaney 2004
descutie 2000
poogas304 2000
randomlyblanks 2006
ZenBeam Today
elllebow 2000
beerman 2001
FrankMann 2000

areynaldos is the only other poster to post within the past year.

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How the Fresh Hell did this pop up?

I just searched for “Today’s Threads”!

MODS–do we have a Search Engine issue?

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This post may provide your answer.

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Here are the results of a manual update of that “Top 20 Posters” listing:



Top 20 Posters (as of 12-01-2011, 11:34 PM) with updated Post Counts :

                                        Then      Today   Latest
UserID    Name                          #Posts    #Posts  Activity

25781	 "Diogenes the Cynic"	        58797     58,797  (BANNED)
21437	 "Marley23"	                54218     78,234  10-20-2014, 12:21 PM 
32062	 "BrainGlutton"	                50390     76,783  Today 12:23 PM 
14424	 "Mangetout"	                43518     53,857  Today 01:48 PM 
27822	 "John Mace"	                42608     68,744  Today 01:29 PM 

8080	 "Guinastasia"                  41860     48,599  Today 01:24 AM 
3925	 "Johnny L.A."	                41805     53,268  Today 02:01 PM 
4176	 "Chronos"	                41227     61,809  Today 01:14 PM 
3284	 "Liberal"	                39401     39,401  07-30-2010 03:57 PM 
35413	 "Really Not All That Bright"	38830     64,633  Today 02:09 PM 

3516	 "Little Nemo"	                37074     66,347  Today 01:59 PM 
10463	 "Cat Whisperer"                36542     48,656  02-11-2016 12:17 PM 
10914	 "Bryan Ekers"	                36122     51,023  Today 01:03 PM 
4762	 "elucidator"	                34374     49,943  Today 02:16 PM 
24510	 "twickster"	                33248     38,694  Today 08:50 AM 

82	 "tomndebb"	                32025     38,932  Yesterday, 06:48 PM 
35658	 "silenus"	                31578     44,707  Today 02:20 PM      
3665	 "Bricker"	                30646     49,004  Today 02:29 PM 
4504	 "tdn"	                        30345     35,871  01-22-2016 09:36 AM 
46809	 "Elendil's Heir"	        30038     59,205  Today 03:26 PM

It appears that the high count belongs to

21437 “Marley23” 54218 78,234 10-20-2014, 12:21 PM

so if you encounter somebody with a higher post count please let us know.

Until somebody can write the code to build a brand new set of numbers this is the best I can do at this point.

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Hmm. I’m ahead of three people on this list and will beat Lib soon, and suspect others are ahead of me.

Doing analyses like this is what I get paid for. When I retire in a few weeks I can do it in Perl so there are no file size limitations if I can get the latest data.
Besides the top 20 list, I can redo the pareto, do a calculation of the percentage of users with 0, under 10 and under 50 posts, and maybe look at a distribution of posts by banned users. Depending on what the input data looks like, a pareto of posts of posts per week might be fun.

Anything else people would like to see?

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Beautiful!! Good luck on the project. I assume you looked at the previous monster’s (spreadsheet, not the statistician!) columns. What was there was great for all sorts of analysis.

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Dammit! I actually went through and found everybody with my join date (March 4, 2005) without realizing this was a zombie thread. Anyway, FTR, 33 others joined the same day I did. Three were banned and one was wished to the cornfield, I guess. Most of the rest didn’t stick around at all, although four posted until 2014 or 2015 (which would have made them active posters at the time this thread was created).

Here’s everybody with their last activity date:

  1. Onepoint618 (banned)
  2. Tulkas (2006)
  3. Larry.austin (2005)
  4. BigVince (3-24-2014)
  5. Jennmonkye (2-29-2015)
  6. Skellington (2005)
  7. The Weird One (4-14-2014)
  8. Jonfitt (2005)
  9. Hasturyigtoad (2005)
  10. Neomax (2005)
  11. Dubious Sacrifice (2005)
  12. Celeste Speak (2005)
  13. Olestra (2008)
  14. Silme (2005)
  15. Ultradomus (2005)
  16. Simplebanality (2005)
  17. Caramel_center (2005)
  18. JScobi007 (2005)
  19. Westexas (2005)
  20. MassiveJustice (banned)
  21. Wasfriend (2005)
  22. Bfmuller (2006)
  23. Campion (1-7-2014)
  24. SweetLou (2005)
  25. Devil123 (2005)
  26. HannahRuth (2005)
  27. Megmoo12 (2005)
  28. Tavistmorph2 (2005)
  29. Kaiwik (yesterday)
  30. Kittenface (2005)
  31. (invalid user specified)
  32. HG Pennypacker (banned)
  33. Studiodogblack @ yahoo.com (2005)

Only one of the 33, Kaiwik, is what I would consider to be still active. I don’t recognize the user name though - we must frequent different parts of the board or else s/he is just a lurker who stays signed in.

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Wow, I had no idea I was so high on the list. The last time I saw a post-rate analysis, linear extrapolation had me maxing out as the 14th-most-prolific poster. Now, it looks like I’m somewhere around the 6th? I guess that the other folks who were ahead of me stopped posting for some reason or another. It would be interesting to know what those reasons were: One would think that once someone was here for enough years and enough thousands of posts, it would be an indication that they were here for life.

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I know it’s old, but I was curious. 24 of us joined on that fateful day, and only a couple of others besides me stuck around beyond the first month or so. None of the others are currently active.

  1. tommythecat, 4 posts, 4/18/2005
  2. pandablood, 0 posts, 3/29/2005
  3. cqmancq, 0 posts, 4/1/2005
  4. Imasquare, 1,470 posts, 1/7/2015
  5. saucer66, 1 post, 3/29/2005
  6. Dr. Benway, 1 post, 3/29/2005
  7. sarahx, 0 posts, 3/29/2005
  8. Blue Moon, 1 post, 3/29/2005
  9. vabqe, 4 posts, 3/29/2005 – banned
  10. mythos99, 4 posts, 4/1/2005
  11. xqqx, 0 posts, 3/29/2005
  12. KateSmack, 21 posts, 3/30/2005
  13. mrcheese, 12 posts, 9/7/2012
  14. ares_ank, 0 posts, 5/5/2005
  15. wfoulk2313, 0 posts, 3/29/2005
  16. tezza42, 1 post, 3/29/2005 – banned
  17. jsrunnels, 0 posts, 3/31/2005
  18. Rodak From Zortron, 3 posts, 4/25/2005
  19. Jennifer_2004, 0 posts, 4/2/2005
  20. Harns, 0 posts, 3/29/2005
  21. JohnH, 0 posts, 3/29/2005
  22. toocool, 1 post, 3/29/2005 – banned
    23. Asimovian, 9,405 posts, 3/18/2016
  23. Jim Colyer, 0 posts, 3/29/2005
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Of the people in the top 20 in 2011, one was banned and at least two decided to stop or cut back on posting because they needed to get a life.:wink:

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My user number is 6642, join date is 05/04/2000 12219 posts

Joining on that date are
Hoya98 0 posts
psiekier 952 posts
thekev 3 posts
Null_Racer 2 posts
smallest 0 posts
Hayley 11 posts
Modian 160 posts
Bluesguy 1 post
mikeyz63 0 posts
arthur_einstein 11 posts
shredder 1 post
Starhl 1 post
The Gnome 0 posts
slipe 5 posts
lordbean 2 posts
KC Kid 0 posts
Lampare 29 posts
chrise 0 posts
K43 17 posts
EpoxyMoron 0 posts
Formerly Bandersnatch 138 posts
ShiBoWen 0 posts
Shawn1767 909 posts
stormincow 1 post
erniecooper 1 post
Billythekid 16 posts
AmbushBug 692 posts
Mamapotomus 351 posts
Spice 3 posts
H_Wylde 3 posts
davebaby 0 posts
onepotato2 0 posts
StoneyBaby 1 post
BANNED 0 posts (yes, that was his actual username)
Alpha 71 posts
psiquest 3 posts
MSF 2 posts
Catarina 0 posts
little*bit 893 posts (the bride of thefirst SDMB virtual wedding! )
Some call me Tim 0 posts
shimmery 409 posts
Some Call Me… Tim 739 posts
(Tim) 150 posts ( I think I’m starting to see a trend here…)

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These are the people, posts, and last activity date of those who joined on the same day as I.


snoquiklux		0	04-28-2000
Una Persson		15,321	Today
Guildenstern		1	04-28-2000
slapslaptickle3		1	04-28-2000
Batman			0	04-28-2000
Larry Griffin-Kentzel	2,451	07-28-2015 a/k/a CajunMan
God the Divine		0	04-28-2000
Brett			1	04-28-2000
Jimmy Quasar		95	11-20-2005
StevenTKX		1	04-28-2000
Gbuck			1	04-28-2000
Belkin			0	04-28-2000
FinalRaven		0	04-28-2000
Wood Thrush		339	07-20-2011
Harvey Wilson		5	10-21-2001
Haplo			4	04-28-2000
StoneColdSteveAustin	0	04-28-2000
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Ahh, but how many are still around from that fateful March, 1999 when Tuba transitioned people from the AOL board?
I think the smallest number (not a member of Chicago Reader) went to the Harley loving Gus, but he hasn’t been here in ages.

Tomndeb posted yesterday? Okay, he’s one.

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If “Harley Loving Gus” is really GusNSpot he’s still around most days. User number 33.

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Hey, thanks. I guess we just don’t visit the same subjects.

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He has the lowest user number for a regular member (non-staff).

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For my join date 09/03/2003:



Username			UID	Posts	Last Active	
Mystical			39121	4	11/10/2004	
BlakeSintek		39122	2	11/24/2003	
kate22			39123	3	11/13/2003	
losticon			39124	1	09/03/2003	banned
Dan Average		39125	0	12/19/2003	
lowgear			39126	8	09/30/2003	
JaneyRuth		39127	2	05/22/2005	
whiteybt			39128	1	09/03/2003	
amphalon			39129	1	09/03/2003	
till			39130	0	09/03/2003	
tenderfeet		39131	4	09/03/2003	
Jpdworkin		39132	4	12/18/2008	
AgathaMCM		39133	0	03/18/2004	
FinalLogic		39134	1	09/04/2003	
Maple Joe		39135	1	09/03/2003	banned
Snifit			39136	83	03/18/2016 (today)	
1st stonecaster		39137	1	09/03/2003	banned
BigBadBassBone		39138	12	05/03/2004	
regularpumpkin		39139	0	09/03/2003	
enquiringmind		39140	1	01/05/2007	
You could look it up.	39141	0	09/04/2003	banned
They call me The Wonderer39142	5	09/15/2003	
duality72		39143	1,220	03/18/2016	
trueskeptic		39144	69	09/30/2003	
rad58			39145	1	01/07/2014	
LSLGuy			39146	12,978	03/18/2016 (today)	
blessmanja		39147	0	09/03/2003	
fee weasel		39148	0	03/22/2004	
nicholasf		39149	1	09/04/2003

I think it’s pretty obvious who’s the weirdo in this rogues’ gallery.

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An original in more ways than one. :slight_smile:

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I’m too lazy to put the list together right now, but at a rough count, 34 people joined on 10-17-2010. Of those, I think I saw one other poster with at least triple digits in post counts.

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Am I really No. 52? Or am I not reading it correctly?