# Extreme SDMB Trivia **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 11, 2013, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extreme-sdmb-trivia/650011 "2013-02-11T19:41:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2013, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extreme-sdmb-trivia/650011/1 "2013-02-11T19:41:03Z")
Lately I have been making a point of logging out whenever my message count in “New Posts” goes over 100, since that’s how I have my “messages per page” set. I have observed that the 100 posts per page point is happening several times a day, varying with day of week and time of day at least. I had the notion to try to estimate the number of posts per minute the SDMB has averaged. If there are older posts than … > [@](#): > > 03-10-1999, 11:25 PM > Hi, folks, and welcome to the “Comment on Cecil’s Columns” folder. Though the Boss is still far from comfortable with this computer thing, we’ve persuaded him to check in periodically to read your comments about his columns, and respond if the spirit moves him. He has this idea that your comments will mostly consist of remarks such as “Nice job, O awesome one.” We are sure no one will disillusion him. Happy posting. …then these numbers will need adjusting to a smaller “posts per minute” but if that’s close to the first one when the post counts started, then we’ll be close. The Julian Day for 3/10/99 is 2451248 Today’s Julian Day is 2456335 Their difference, or the number of days since the first post, is 5087. That’s 122088 hours And 7325280 minutes (which is as close as I tried to take it) According to the Main Page the number of Total Posts (when I took note of it a little while ago) is 15,870,548. That’s an average of 2.166654 post per minute over that period. I bet it’s more these days. Anybody have a method to see how we’re doing lately in this measure? ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extreme-sdmb-trivia/650011/2 "2013-02-12T03:48:35Z")
Now that there’s something recent to compare to, we can get a better fix on recent posts-per-minute. That OP was posted Today 01:41 PM at which time there were approximately 15,870,548 Total Posts on the main page. Here at almost exactly 8 hours (480 minutes) later, the count is near 15,872,291 or a difference of something like 1743 posts. Divided by 480 that makes 3.63125 posts per minute in the past 8 or so hours. I’d say we have sped up somewhere along the way and not just today. Does anybody have the data to identify the day, week or month when the posts per minute were at their highest? I wager not. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extreme-sdmb-trivia/650011/3 "2013-02-12T16:14:14Z")
Here’s an old thread asking about still older threads, while we’re (I’m) mentioning extreme trivia. [Oldest available thread?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=110376) ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extreme-sdmb-trivia/650011/4 "2013-02-12T16:42:23Z")
[The Unintended Zombie](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=110376) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extreme-sdmb-trivia/650011/5 "2013-02-12T16:54:40Z")
> [@Cartooniverse](#): > > [The Unintended Zombie](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=110376) > > 🙂 You da man! I have been trying to locate a thread where I (assisted by others as I recall) listed the key moments when thread-count or post-count (and maybe even member-id) passed some milestone. By way of those dates and assocated counts we could locate that “heaviest posting season.” Does anybody else remember such a project? ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extreme-sdmb-trivia/650011/6 "2013-02-12T17:29:04Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > I have been trying to locate a thread where I (assisted by others as I recall) listed the key moments when thread-count or post-count (and maybe even member-id) passed some milestone. > > By way of those dates and assocated counts we could locate that “heaviest posting season.” There may be others but this one is like the one I’m remembering [Old threads worth another look?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=573827) which ran from 08-07-2010, 01:32 PM until 08-29-2010, 10:53 AM ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extreme-sdmb-trivia/650011/7 "2013-02-13T02:26:06Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > You da man! > > I have been trying to locate a thread where I (assisted by others as I recall) listed the key moments when thread-count or post-count (and maybe even member-id) passed some milestone. > > By way of those dates and assocated counts we could locate that “heaviest posting season.” > > Does anybody else remember such a project? Was it [An SDBM Timeline](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=651905)? ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/extreme-sdmb-trivia/650011/8 "2013-02-13T04:36:51Z")
> [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](#): > > Was it [An SDBM Timeline](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=651905)? Yes. That’s it. How could I have forgotten that? Thanks.