# Dopers with 20K+ post counts: how do they do it? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 17, 2008, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-with-20k-post-counts-how-do-they-do-it/463934 "2008-09-17T01:58:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![WormTheRed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbe5ce/32.png) [@WormTheRed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WormTheRed)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-with-20k-post-counts-how-do-they-do-it/463934/21 "2008-09-17T13:10:21Z")
> [@Toxylon](#): > > Are there really loads of jobs that enable a person to spend her working hours at discussion forums? I’m baffled and a bit envious. This would be me. My job is really up and down with loads of downtime in between. And since it’s an office-job, with internet access - I can do pretty much whatever I want in those downs. That’s kinda neat, most of the time. And I recon many people would have jobs like that, so I don’t find it that surprising. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-with-20k-post-counts-how-do-they-do-it/463934/22 "2008-09-17T13:29:11Z")
Damned if I know. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-with-20k-post-counts-how-do-they-do-it/463934/23 "2008-09-17T13:31:49Z")
> [@Wallenstein](#): > > Also pointless “I agree” posts. I disagree. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-with-20k-post-counts-how-do-they-do-it/463934/24 "2008-09-17T13:42:55Z")
> [@BiblioCat](#): > > I always figured it was partly due to some people having jobs in which they have free reign to surf while they work. I don’t have internet access at either of my jobs, and three days a week I work 13 hours a day, so that’s a big chunk of time I can’t read or post at all. > If I sat at a desk for 8 or more hours a day, and had internet access, my post count would be a lot higher, I suspect. I’m allowed to surf while I work, yet I also still have a job to do. Which is probably why you have ~3000 more posts than I do despite having just 2 years on me, even though I sit at a desk for 8 or more hours a day and have internet access. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-with-20k-post-counts-how-do-they-do-it/463934/25 "2008-09-17T13:47:40Z")
> [@UncleRojelio](#): > > I disagree. Me too – sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-with-20k-post-counts-how-do-they-do-it/463934/26 "2008-09-17T13:58:18Z")
Well, I’m getting up close to 20,000, and I rarely post short messages. A lot of my posts are essay-length. How do I do it? By not having a life, and not getting much sleep. (-: Actually, it’s not all that hard. I’m interested in a lot of things, so I find lots of threads to respond to, and I can think fairly quickly and type fast. I can post four or five longish posts in an hour. However, sometimes I’ll spend an entire evening doing background research for a single post. You learn a lot that way… ---
**Author:** ![Hellestal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3ab097/32.png) [@Hellestal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hellestal)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-with-20k-post-counts-how-do-they-do-it/463934/27 "2008-09-17T14:03:57Z")
I mean, really, if you post more than 400 times in 6 years, then you’re just, like, a post-padder, man. ETA: This was my 401st post. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-with-20k-post-counts-how-do-they-do-it/463934/28 "2008-09-17T16:17:55Z")
> [@Borborygmi](#): > > **elmwood** , remember Amnesia Weekend? Some people post like that ALL THE TIME. 😃 If I normally posted like I did during Amnesia Weekend, I’d probably have 30,000 or more posts to my name. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-with-20k-post-counts-how-do-they-do-it/463934/29 "2008-09-17T16:22:40Z")
I didn’t really post during amnesia weekend. The board was …different, and not in a good way. Anyway, I wonder what my postcount is… (I spend a lot of time on other boards, and let my subscription here lapse twice.) ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-with-20k-post-counts-how-do-they-do-it/463934/30 "2008-09-17T16:32:44Z")
> [@Toxylon](#): > > Are there really loads of jobs that enable a person to spend her working hours at discussion forums? I’m baffled and a bit envious. I am at work right now. I am a self employed veterinarian. This morning, I was doing surgery, which has plenty of down time. My technicians get a cat, induce anesthesia, prep the animal for surgery, place it on the surgery table, prepare instruments, adjust light. They then lemme know I’m up. I do a cat spay in 9 minutes (average). When I am done, the technicians go back to work cleaning the surgical site. They do some paperwork, monitor the animals recovery, and get the next patient anesthetized. This afternoon I am seeing appointments. A technician triages each case, then I go in and do my part. After my exam, I write up the chart and pass it off to a technician who gets meds ready, etc. And I’m still worn out at the end of the day!😉 ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-with-20k-post-counts-how-do-they-do-it/463934/31 "2008-09-17T16:35:00Z")
> [@TroubleAgain](#): > > Anyway, I wonder what my postcount is… (I spend a lot of time on other boards, and let my subscription here lapse twice.) Are you unable to see your own postcount? It’s at 6,083 right now. If you can’t see it in this thread, you should be able to check by going into your own profile through this thread and hitting Statistics. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-with-20k-post-counts-how-do-they-do-it/463934/32 "2008-09-17T17:12:55Z")
I’m just over halfway there. Most of my posts are about chess, roleplaying, computer games and English stuff. I’m semi-retired now, so should get to 20,000 eventually… ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-with-20k-post-counts-how-do-they-do-it/463934/33 "2008-09-17T17:25:43Z")
My post count is pretty low compared to the 20k’ers. I post unevenly - there will be times when nothing on the boards is really tempting me to join in and post, and other times there will be threads I contribute to and keep coming back to. I read a lot more than I post. I can only post from home, since everything’s blocked at work. If I had access at work I don’t know if it would change things, since the same threads will be there later. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-with-20k-post-counts-how-do-they-do-it/463934/34 "2008-09-17T17:27:02Z")
Apple. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-with-20k-post-counts-how-do-they-do-it/463934/35 "2008-09-17T17:55:28Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > Apple. Pie? ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-with-20k-post-counts-how-do-they-do-it/463934/36 "2008-09-17T17:58:02Z")
> [@Autolycus](#): > > Pie? As a Brit, I prefer my pies with meat in them. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-with-20k-post-counts-how-do-they-do-it/463934/37 "2008-09-17T22:51:28Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Are you unable to see your own postcount? It’s at 6,083 right now. If you can’t see it in this thread, you should be able to check by going into your own profile through this thread and hitting Statistics. No, I can, I just hadn’t recently. Thanks. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-with-20k-post-counts-how-do-they-do-it/463934/38 "2008-09-17T23:01:39Z")
It’s really not that difficult. 12 posts or so per day, in my case. Sometimes more, sometimes fewer. Surely you can think of 12 things to say in a day? ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-with-20k-post-counts-how-do-they-do-it/463934/39 "2008-09-17T23:12:53Z")
::runs nekkid through–:: Oops. But like that. And once upon a time, if memory serves, you could post just as quickly as your fingers could type and the board could accept the new posts – which, back in June or so 2000 at around noon on a workday, was not very quickly. It’s very, very easy to hit 50 or even 100 posts a day if things are flying and there are people to talk to. I’m pretty sure I’ve done 100 in 24 hours, and I know I’ve done 50. All those 50 days, plus the days of 5 or 10, multiplied by a few hundred, add up. Time was, having 10K posts (which I cleared probably more than a year before I left) was a pretty big thing among people impressed by post count. Now I’m just some middle-of-the-road 14K poster. ::sniff:: ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2008, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-with-20k-post-counts-how-do-they-do-it/463934/40 "2008-09-17T23:46:17Z")
I’ll hit the 20k mark before long… It’s just part of everyday habit. Check emails, log on to Facebook, check new posts on SDMB…the computer’s always available, and the ‘new posts’ link is the one I have bookmarked, which helps. By the time I’ve ploughed through a GMT-nighttime’s worth of new stuff, and replied to various things, there’s often responses to at least one or two of them appearing, and so around it goes. Oh, and games of Mornington Crescent certainly pad the post count significantly 🆒 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-with-20k-post-counts-how-do-they-do-it/463934.md?page=1)