So then a Guest who averages a couple of posts a day over that period isn’t active?
To continue the hijack of my own thread while we wait for TubaDiva to answer the OP, I would define active as having made at least one post in the previous 30 days. I wouldn’t include lurkers who never post as active, which isn’t to say that I don’t consider them more than welcome to lurk all they want.
BTW, we just enabled the active user feature on the Giraffe Boards which also uses VB albeit a more recent revision than the SDMB. The default defines an active user as someone who has logged on in the previous 30 days. They just have to view the board and don’t have to make a post to be considered active. The number of days to be considered active can be set to any number by an Administrator. Looking up the information is trivial and would literally take less than a minute.
Because it’s not the number of the post, but the number of the poster. The 3,000 means that robby has posted 3,000 times, not that either of those is his 3,000th post.