# Least amount of posts in Great Debates (with your registry date and post count counting) **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 12, 2016, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-amount-of-posts-in-great-debates-with-your-registry-date-and-post-count-counting/748796 "2016-03-12T22:21:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2016, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-amount-of-posts-in-great-debates-with-your-registry-date-and-post-count-counting/748796/1 "2016-03-12T22:21:10Z")
Okay, I’ll Paypal another ten dollars to whoever has the lowest “posts in GD” to “Time registered as a member”/“Number of posts” ratio. That means if you have never posted in GD, but only registered, say, last month, that doesn’t beat someone who has ten posts in GD but registered in 2000. Both post amount and date registered will be taken into account. Same with post count. If you have only 100 posts total and none of those are in GD, even though you registered in 2000, a person with more posts than that, but who registered later and who has only one or two posts in GD may beat you. Anyway, here’s how you can find out how many times you’ve posted in GD: Go to search, type in your name in the “User name” box, click on just “Great Debates” on the forum list, then make sure the “Show results as:” “POSTS” option is selected. If the search works, it should show you how many posts you’ve made, just look in the top, right hand corner, it will say “showing results 1-x of x” I figure I’ll end this mini-contest in one week’s time. Putting this topic in the Game Room since it’s pretty much a contest-like thing. I registered in 2003 and I have only 97 (out of over 10,000 total) posts in Great Debates. Does anyone have less than that? If not, I’ll keep my ten bucks, thanks. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2016, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-amount-of-posts-in-great-debates-with-your-registry-date-and-post-count-counting/748796/2 "2016-03-12T22:25:58Z")
Registered in May 2012, 0 posts. To be honest, I took a year-and-a-half off in late '12. Total posts: 14,500. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2016, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-amount-of-posts-in-great-debates-with-your-registry-date-and-post-count-counting/748796/3 "2016-03-12T22:28:48Z")
Yo, **Idle Thoughts** , your math don’t work. 0/anything is lower than 10/16. So if someone with 0 GD posts out of 10 total is not going to be considered as “lower” than someone with a tiny handful out of 10,000, you’d better develop an algorithm fo some sort. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2016, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-amount-of-posts-in-great-debates-with-your-registry-date-and-post-count-counting/748796/4 "2016-03-12T22:32:08Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > Yo, **Idle Thoughts** , your math don’t work. 0/anything is lower than 10/16. So if someone with 0 GD posts out of 10 total is not going to be considered as “lower” than someone with a tiny handful out of 10,000, you’d better develop an algorithm fo some sort. Well, math isn’t my strong point, I admit. I pretty much suck extremely at it. If someone who is better than math wants to help me calculate which answers are better, that’d be helpful…and I’d be grateful. Maybe even grateful enough to Paypal the person who (first) helps five bucks. 😛 …but logic seems to say to me that “Someone who just registered yesterday and has only one post (it not being in GD) shouldn’t be able to beat someone registered in 1999, has 20,000 posts, and only made two GD posts.” How that can be applied to “finding out who has the least posts mathematically” is beyond me other than just comparing stats. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2016, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-amount-of-posts-in-great-debates-with-your-registry-date-and-post-count-counting/748796/5 "2016-03-12T22:34:48Z")
I have 60 posts in Great Debates out of 7203 total (including this one) since 7/17/2003. That’s 0.833%, for those keeping score at home. ---
**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:** [March 12, 2016, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-amount-of-posts-in-great-debates-with-your-registry-date-and-post-count-counting/748796/6 "2016-03-12T22:35:33Z")
Well, I’m not in the running. Search gives you up to 500 results, and I have 500 posts in GD over the last 6 years, so probably a total of about 1,000 posts since I registered in 2004. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2016, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-amount-of-posts-in-great-debates-with-your-registry-date-and-post-count-counting/748796/7 "2016-03-12T22:40:17Z")
I’m going to bring this up now, because _someone_ is going to, eventually: 10,000 posts in **Thread Games** shouldn’t have the same “oomph” as 1,000 posts in **Who-the-hell-cares Forum**. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2016, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-amount-of-posts-in-great-debates-with-your-registry-date-and-post-count-counting/748796/8 "2016-03-12T22:56:30Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > I have 60 posts in Great Debates out of 7203 total (including this one) since 7/17/2003. That’s 0.833%, for those keeping score at home. I do believe you are in the lead. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2016, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-amount-of-posts-in-great-debates-with-your-registry-date-and-post-count-counting/748796/9 "2016-03-12T23:00:49Z")
Who needs your $10 anyway? I’ll open my _own_ casino. With Black Jack. And hookers. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2016, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-amount-of-posts-in-great-debates-with-your-registry-date-and-post-count-counting/748796/10 "2016-03-12T23:28:36Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > Well, I’m not in the running. Search gives you up to 500 results, and I have 500 posts in GD over the last 6 years, so probably a total of about 1,000 posts since I registered in 2004. Ah, I was wondering why I had exactly 500 posts… ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2016, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-amount-of-posts-in-great-debates-with-your-registry-date-and-post-count-counting/748796/11 "2016-03-12T23:36:27Z")
189/35000 (well, I guess this is 35,001) for 0.54% I’m sure someone will beat me, but that’s the new mark. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2016, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-amount-of-posts-in-great-debates-with-your-registry-date-and-post-count-counting/748796/12 "2016-03-12T23:53:56Z")
While this is a game of sorts, shouldn’t it be in the _other_ game forum? Since the playing, such as it is, is all going on in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2016, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-amount-of-posts-in-great-debates-with-your-registry-date-and-post-count-counting/748796/13 "2016-03-13T00:05:42Z")
28/5,822 since 04-03-2001. What do I win? ---
**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:** [March 13, 2016, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-amount-of-posts-in-great-debates-with-your-registry-date-and-post-count-counting/748796/14 "2016-03-13T01:12:02Z")
137/44,657 since 5/3292003. If my calculator is right, that’s .00306. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2016, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-amount-of-posts-in-great-debates-with-your-registry-date-and-post-count-counting/748796/15 "2016-03-13T01:21:00Z")
131/11,149 since 12/05. Looks like I’m not the winner but I think that’s still pretty low. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2016, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-amount-of-posts-in-great-debates-with-your-registry-date-and-post-count-counting/748796/16 "2016-03-13T01:38:36Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Who needs your $10 anyway? I’ll open my _own_ casino. With Black Jack. And hookers. You know what? Screw the Black Jack ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2016, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-amount-of-posts-in-great-debates-with-your-registry-date-and-post-count-counting/748796/17 "2016-03-13T01:42:48Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > Yo, **Idle Thoughts** , your math don’t work. 0/anything is lower than 10/16. So if someone with 0 GD posts out of 10 total is not going to be considered as “lower” than someone with a tiny handful out of 10,000, you’d better develop an algorithm fo some sort. Just add 1 to both the numerator and denominator to smooth the data, it shouldn’t affect the relative values. ---
**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:** [March 13, 2016, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-amount-of-posts-in-great-debates-with-your-registry-date-and-post-count-counting/748796/18 "2016-03-13T01:48:32Z")
While I won’t beat some others here in any case, about 95% of my posts in GD are in threads I moved there from GQ. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![PoppaSan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/poppasan/32/189_2.png) [@PoppaSan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoppaSan)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2016, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-amount-of-posts-in-great-debates-with-your-registry-date-and-post-count-counting/748796/19 "2016-03-13T02:01:12Z")
1/485 in the past 5 years (3-31-11). ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2016, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-amount-of-posts-in-great-debates-with-your-registry-date-and-post-count-counting/748796/20 "2016-03-13T02:06:08Z")
> [@Terminus\_Est](#): > > 28/5,822 since 04-03-2001. What do I win? I’d say this was in the lead. : p [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/least-amount-of-posts-in-great-debates-with-your-registry-date-and-post-count-counting/748796.md?page=2)