# Good Gawd John, 80,000 posts? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 29, 2017, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-gawd-john-80-000-posts/803080 "2017-11-29T18:53:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2017, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-gawd-john-80-000-posts/803080/41 "2017-12-01T18:24:06Z")
> [@Wilson](#): > > No, **handy** was passed years ago. I think he was tops when he was banned, but that was at a guess over a decade ago. If memory serves, he was near 20K. > The much missed **Marley23** has 78,234, the banned **BrainGlutton** has 78,508, **LittleNemo** is closing in on 75K, **Chronos** around 72K. I couldn’t find anyone else over 60K, but I didn’t check extensively. Hiya! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2017, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-gawd-john-80-000-posts/803080/42 "2017-12-01T18:38:30Z")
And I thought I spent too much time here! ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2017, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-gawd-john-80-000-posts/803080/43 "2017-12-01T19:13:02Z")
> [@Uzi](#): > > Yes, small Scottish coins are hilarious. > > I had to look twice (Plack? Plack? …Plaque?) It’s a reference to fun times in the Omnibus Trolls thread mocking a now-banned poster. ---
**Author:** ![Wilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@Wilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wilson)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2017, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-gawd-john-80-000-posts/803080/44 "2017-12-01T22:21:18Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Hiya! How’d I miss you? Considering a good 50,000 of those posts are probably in Fantasy Football threads… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Wilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@Wilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wilson)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2017, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-gawd-john-80-000-posts/803080/45 "2017-12-01T22:30:05Z")
Work’s quieted down today… poked around in Thread Games, found another super high post count. **Elendil’s Heir** has over 71K posts. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2017, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-gawd-john-80-000-posts/803080/46 "2017-12-01T23:55:28Z")
> [@Wilson](#): > > No, **handy** was passed years ago. I think he was tops when he was banned, but that was at a guess over a decade ago. If memory serves, he was near 20K. **handy** amassed 17,493 in about four and a half years before he was banned in 2003. > [@](#): > > The much missed **Marley23** has 78,234, the banned **BrainGlutton** has 78,508, **LittleNemo** is closing in on 75K, **Chronos** around 72K. I couldn’t find anyone else over 60K, but I didn’t check extensively. **Diogenes the Cynic** was tops at 58,797 when he was banned in 2014. ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2017, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-gawd-john-80-000-posts/803080/47 "2017-12-02T01:31:03Z")
I used to play chess over the internet and that site had a statistic “% of life logged in” … I tried to keep it below 5% but some folks there were over 25% … that’s 6 hours a day average playing chess … y’all are rookies in comparison … ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2017, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-gawd-john-80-000-posts/803080/48 "2017-12-02T03:19:07Z")
No experience point bonus in Thread Games. BBQ Pit is a quadruple bonus in melee xp, GQ awards bonus intelligence, and Great Debates increases dexterity xp if you have the Diplomacy advance. ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2017, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-gawd-john-80-000-posts/803080/49 "2017-12-02T23:53:07Z")
nm ---
**Author:** ![The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_King_of_Soup)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-gawd-john-80-000-posts/803080/50 "2017-12-03T22:44:43Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > God. Thank you. Or southern Ohio, or West Virginia. There’s actually a name for the linguistic group that shuns most forms of “to be,” but I forget what it is. For what it’s worth, some extremely smart people have had me grating my teeth over this habit. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-gawd-john-80-000-posts/803080/51 "2017-12-03T23:18:43Z")
> [@Sattua](#): > > I’ve been here so long that I remember when Guinastasia led the board with 12,000 posts. Are you sure, I thought \*\*Liberal \*\*was ahead of her? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2017, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-gawd-john-80-000-posts/803080/52 "2017-12-03T23:41:38Z")
Here is a 2011 [Post Count list](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=13933467&postcount=8)courtesy of **Zeldar**. \*\*Guin \*\*was roughly 5th back then. OK, I found a note \*\*Guin \*\*was in the lead in 2006 and nearing 30000. As of [12-22-2006](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=8088064#post8088064): > [@What Exit?](#): > > \*\*Guinastasia \*\*has the most posts and is about to go over 30,000. … > Recently returned \*\*Liberal \*\*is running second at over 26,237 but at a lower rate. > \*\*Mangetout \*\*appears to be third at nearly 26000 posts. > > **John Mace** has the second highest posting rate at 15.21, in general I believe the quality of his posts are superior to mine and he has kept up the rate for an impressive amount of time. > **Diogenes the Cynic** has the third highest posting rate. > \*\*BrainGlutton \*\*I believe has the fourth highest posting rate and the highest thread starting rate of anybody on the dope with over a years time as a member. I think a mod, but I’m sure an admin could do a _ **member list sort by posts descending** _ if they felt like it. ---
**Author:** ![Claude\_Remains](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@Claude\_Remains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claude_Remains)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2017, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-gawd-john-80-000-posts/803080/53 "2017-12-04T03:47:01Z")
Ultimately… Who gives a fuck? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2017, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-gawd-john-80-000-posts/803080/54 "2017-12-04T11:35:38Z")
So, John has over 80,000 posts; but, if you do the math you’ll see that I have a far higher percentage of _quality_ posts. (42% For John, 68% for me) ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2017, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-gawd-john-80-000-posts/803080/55 "2017-12-04T14:01:43Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > So, John has over 80,000 posts; but, if you do the math you’ll see that I have a far higher percentage of _quality_ posts. (42% For John, 68% for me) Did this one increase or decrease your percentage? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2017, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-gawd-john-80-000-posts/803080/56 "2017-12-04T14:38:52Z")
> [@ioioio](#): > > Did this one increase or decrease your percentage? Increase, as does this one. Of course we are talking about a fraction of one percent. ---
**Author:** ![Wilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@Wilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wilson)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2017, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-gawd-john-80-000-posts/803080/57 "2017-12-04T15:08:11Z")
> [@Claude\_Remains](#): > > Ultimately… Who gives a fuck? Us numbers geeks, that’s who! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2017, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-gawd-john-80-000-posts/803080/58 "2017-12-04T15:12:13Z")
> [@Claude\_Remains](#): > > Ultimately… Who gives a fuck? Asks the poster with _ **3%** _ quality posts.:dubious: ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2017, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-gawd-john-80-000-posts/803080/59 "2017-12-04T19:44:49Z")
At one point during the ST:ENT and Firefly live posting by Trek Dopers, my post count rose rapidly enough to cause [a thread of its own](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=151793). Times have changed. Look at all the former members in that thread! ---
**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:** [December 4, 2017, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-gawd-john-80-000-posts/803080/60 "2017-12-04T22:29:59Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > I hear 100K posts gets John a plack. Well, at the very least it gets him a lifetime subscription to [Dictionary](http://www.dictionary.com/), where he will quickly learn how to spell “plaque”. 😉 ( Fighting Ignorance since 1973 usually is accompanied by literacy. ) Actually, it’d be pretty cool if we got an SDMB mug once we hit 100,000. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-gawd-john-80-000-posts/803080.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/good-gawd-john-80-000-posts/803080.md?page=4)