Not even close, Cid. Red is trying to claim that post timestamps are a reliable indicator of actual time spent here. They are not. For example, if someone makes a post at 8:00 AM, then goes out for two hours, comes home and makes another post at 10:00 AM, the assumption that they were on the boards for that two hours is clearly not valid. In actuality, the poster only spent a few minutes here.
That’s a great argument. One problem, when some chick puts out 21 posts over a three-hour period, I tend to question the quality of the goo dripping from her fingers. Are you suggesting such a person might be multi-tasking as well? Wow.
All I gots to say is “thank Jesus they invented the scroll wheel.”
Not to mention that post counts aren’t a good indicator of the amount of time spent on the SDMB. I spend a lot of time here (and Livejournal). Far too much time. I often wish I could stop spending so much time, and I have, on occasion, gotten my boyfriend to password-protect the boards for especially busy periods (up to a month).
And yet, my count is paltry. I just rarely reply to the threads I read. Post count tells you very little.
Well Cid made the point that most others missed.
Assuming facts not in evidence.
Oh come off it ECV: you post about half as much as Guin does anyway.
Sure, she posts about 13 times per day and you post 1.5 times. But your posts (based on a small sample) contain about 4 times as many words.
(( I took the top 3 posts from page 3 of Guin and ECV’s post list. ECV averaged 106 words per post, which isn’t too lengthy. But Guin averaged at 25 words. As I said about 3 pages ago, Guin’s post count is somewhat misleading.))
Back away from the computer ECV. Back slowly away.
Waverly, I distinguish between the adolescents who were put in my charge in the classroom and for whom I was legally responsible and the people who pay membership dues to post at SDMB – especially when they are adults not seeking my advice.
By my own logic, it is probably a flaw in me that prompts me to suggest that furt is too controlling and that you may be being disrespectful in thinking that Guin should be listening to you instead of following her own instincts. :smack:
You think that I am enabling Guin because I am not supporting your viewpoint. My idea of enabling would be if I paid her dues or bought her a computer. Another method of “enabling” might be to write a congratulatory thread when she hit 12,000 posts before I knew that post count threads were not sanctioned by the gods. That is one that I can admit to.
But “enabling” is used only to describe assisting negative behavior. That has not been established here. That is a matter of opinion. It doesn’t seem to be Guin’s opinion. So far, her opinion rules.
If I were in a jam, Waverly, or going through bad times, I would want you on my side. I have no doubt at all that you are a caring person.
Well, why not? It IS possible to post 10 or 20 times a day and still do other things. Whether or not the quality of the posts will suffer is certainly arguable; I’m not here to debate the quality, or lack thereof, of anyone’s posts. Or whether spending significant amounts of time online is healthy, or not.
So, you’re going to pretend that this:
…is NOT about timestamps indicating how much time a poster spends here, and is, instead, as Cid so eloquently puts it:
:dubious: Nice try. First time I’ve ever seen someone build a strawman of their own position.
That doesn’t actually mean anything, though. I have The Dope open at work all day sometimes, because I often have 10 minutes to kill before a meeting and don’t want to start somehting I can’t finish. So you might think I’m posting for eight hours straight when I’m asctually checking in twice in the afternoon and twice in the morning.
sheesh, all this talk of high post counts is making little ol me feel insignificant. My less than 200 posts in over 5 years of membership does not reflect the many hours I spend reading this board and LMAO at threads like these…man, almighty do some folks take some things waaayyyyy too seriously! Guin, I salute you for the classy way you’re handling this discussion.
The way things are going, this thread will have as many views as Guin has posts by the time it dies. 
Well, hey, stochastic! You should speak up more!
(Hides behind tree…)
Naw. See, while Guin is gunning for the highest post/day record, I’m shooting for the low end: least posts per day by an active member (does the post rate thingy even go below 0.1?) After all, as it’s been famously said: (Sometimes) it’s best to remain silent and assumed a fool, than open your mouth (or web browser) and remove all doubt. (not that I’m calling anyone with a jillion posts here a fool, it’s just that I know that if I personally made that many posts, the vast majority of them would be jibbering garbage…ummmm…like this post is :smack: )
Again, not what I am talking about.
Actually I was talking about another part of Cid’s post (Not quite what I mean with the latter portion, but the main point is there.): “One problem, when some chick puts out 21 posts over a three-hour period, I tend to question the quality of the goo dripping from her fingers.”
Perhaps you should go look over your own posts then.
So are we going to assume then that if someone posts every 10 minutes for 5 hours they were only “on” the boards for 30 minutes?
OK Zoe,
We aren’t necessarily going to agree, but I see where you are coming from. As I said, I don’t feel responsible for Guin, and as we’ve seen, she probably doesn’t feel predisposed to taking my input anyway.
Well, maybe we can agree one thing: this pitting wasn’t a terribly good idea. I’ll not hijack the hijacks of the hijacking any longer.
W~
Go You Big Red Fire Engine: Sure the only day I don’t spend much time on the SDMB and look what happens. 
I do spend a lot of time logged onto the SDMB. (I have not learned from Hal’s mistake). I am however working throughout the day and switch over to the SDMB while programs are compiling or I need a Mental Break. There are definitely days where I get caught up at night in a good conversational thread/debate and I am definitely posting/reading more than 3 hours in the day. You are correct. There are also days where I post less. 3 hours or 180 minutes if you prefer is my average of actual posting/reading time. In between posts at home, I have kids to attend to at least until 9pm. My heavy posting nights usually start after 9pm in fact as long as you are analyzing my postings.
There are things like making lunches, supervising homework, doing the dishes etc. where I get a job done, return to my computer and hit the User CP link to see if there are any interesting updates.
You definitely don’t need to like me, my posting style or approve of how much I post, but I generally am not a liar believe it or not. When I post something ignorant I own up to it. I stand by the 3-hour average.
Jim
No, why should we? We shouldn’t assume that any more than we should assume there on the board for five hours. Maybe they posted every ten minutes, taking just one minute for each post then went and did some work around the house before coming back to post again nine minutes later. Maybe they sat on their ass the entire five hours reading the boards and posting every ten minutes. We don’t know, and we don’t have enough information to call it.
They’re on the board! :smack:
Me am know grammar good!
This comment can [n]b]not** be stated enough.
And after all this time I should know how to code. Damnit.
FWIW, Guin, I think of you as a valuable member of the SDMB and I couldn’t care less if you were eating flaming balls of poo and washing them down with rubbing alcohol because it ain’t my business. I hope you like your life, and it sounds like you do. For me, the only thing worse than being 40 and regretting not going out at 20, is being 40 and regretting having done what other people wanted instead of what you wanted at 20. But IANA40YO so take that with a grain of salt, or a spoonful of rubbing alcohol.