# Let's take it to a million posts! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 12, 2000, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-take-it-to-a-million-posts/40851 "2000-11-12T02:49:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Zamboni)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2000, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-take-it-to-a-million-posts/40851/1 "2000-11-12T02:49:32Z")
At last count there are 802465 posts in the SDMB. We can’t properly be called the teeming millions! Starting at this thread let’s post enough to take it to a million. Post any nonsense thing you want on here just to get it to our goal. Any general chatter will do. ---
**Author:** ![dpr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dpr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dpr)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2000, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-take-it-to-a-million-posts/40851/2 "2000-11-12T02:53:00Z")
So basically what you’re suggesting is a post-padding party for the good of all rather than the individual? Sounds good to me. Never let it be said that I shirked my fellow doper… ---
**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Zamboni)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2000, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-take-it-to-a-million-posts/40851/3 "2000-11-12T02:55:50Z")
Exactly. I’m doing it for the good of all the SDMB members. ---
**Author:** ![AETBOND417](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@AETBOND417](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AETBOND417)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2000, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-take-it-to-a-million-posts/40851/4 "2000-11-12T02:56:56Z")
Isn’t this thread simply a **microcosm** (sorry, had to use that word) of the whole MPSIMS board? Oh well, just roughly 197,000 more posts to go. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@The\_Great\_Zamboni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Zamboni)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2000, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-take-it-to-a-million-posts/40851/5 "2000-11-12T02:59:21Z")
That’s why I’m using the MPSIMS board. ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2000, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-take-it-to-a-million-posts/40851/6 "2000-11-12T03:00:39Z")
Ok, I’m game. Just as long as we don’t have to be absolutely brilliant in every single post. That would be too hard, and well, [in the immortal words of Seuss] it’s fun to have fun. ---
**Author:** ![Birdie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71e660/32.png) [@Birdie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Birdie)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2000, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-take-it-to-a-million-posts/40851/7 "2000-11-12T03:44:55Z")
sounds like a worthy cause to me… 'sides, i’d like to boost my post count without having to say anything too intelligent and worthwhile 😃 ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2000, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-take-it-to-a-million-posts/40851/8 "2000-11-12T04:31:25Z")
Neeble neeble neeble neeble neeble. ---
**Author:** ![Wump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ed655f/32.png) [@Wump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wump)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2000, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-take-it-to-a-million-posts/40851/9 "2000-11-12T04:38:33Z")
Matt, that was simply childish. That said… Woosle Wasle BOING! ---
**Author:** ![ThisYearsGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@ThisYearsGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisYearsGirl)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2000, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-take-it-to-a-million-posts/40851/10 "2000-11-12T07:47:03Z")
lalalalalalala ---
**Author:** ![Ender\_s\_Gameboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Ender\_s\_Gameboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ender_s_Gameboy)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2000, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-take-it-to-a-million-posts/40851/11 "2000-11-12T12:36:33Z")
How many more to go? ---
**Author:** ![PuRpLe\_PrIdE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c77e96/32.png) [@PuRpLe\_PrIdE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PuRpLe_PrIdE)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2000, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-take-it-to-a-million-posts/40851/12 "2000-11-12T17:15:25Z")
Sounds good to me too…INDEED my friends. ---
**Author:** ![Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Goose)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2000, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-take-it-to-a-million-posts/40851/13 "2000-11-12T17:33:38Z")
Never hurts to help. Is this charity a tax write-off? ---
**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2000, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-take-it-to-a-million-posts/40851/14 "2000-11-12T17:53:48Z")
Otherwise I’d never post _anything_ that could be counted as padding my own personal post count…never. You all know that. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2000, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-take-it-to-a-million-posts/40851/15 "2000-11-12T18:07:55Z")
Well, I did a little figuring, and found that at our current average rate of about 40,000 posts per month, it will take us until April at least to make a million. I suspect, though, that the post-per-month rate has risen since the inception of the bard in its current format. (In other words, since it moved here from AOL). So, we should easily make a million before this board’s 2 year anniversary in early March… But I wonder if we can do it by years’ end? ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2000, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-take-it-to-a-million-posts/40851/16 "2000-11-12T19:12:00Z")
This is by far the stupidest idea I’ve heard today. Maybe even this week! I refuse to take part in it. ---
**Author:** ![Siddhartha\_Vicious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@Siddhartha\_Vicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siddhartha_Vicious)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2000, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-take-it-to-a-million-posts/40851/17 "2000-11-12T19:16:49Z")
Pad, pad, pad. Ain’t nothing but a post-padder, Padding all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2000, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-take-it-to-a-million-posts/40851/18 "2000-11-12T19:19:45Z")
Ahhh, we’ve hit a cool mil a half dozen times already. They just cut down the number when clearing out threads. BFD, I’ll still help. –Tim ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2000, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-take-it-to-a-million-posts/40851/19 "2000-11-12T19:22:30Z")
I am SHOCKED that anyone would try to pad their posts and the posts to MPSIMS like that. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2000, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-take-it-to-a-million-posts/40851/20 "2000-11-12T19:24:14Z")
Really, I’m shocked [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-take-it-to-a-million-posts/40851.md?page=2)