# No more post count parties! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 1, 2001, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-post-count-parties/79329 "2001-09-01T19:57:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2001, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-post-count-parties/79329/1 "2001-09-01T19:57:32Z")
I mean really. Who cares if you’ve been a registered user for _well over a year_ and you are just now managing to hit a nice round number with two 0s? Are we supposed to be proud of you? Congratulate you? Write haikus based around your user name? I think the whole phenomenon is just another example of how self-centered kids are these days. Hmph, I say! Hmph, indeed! ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2001, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-post-count-parties/79329/2 "2001-09-01T19:59:13Z")
Congrats on number 300, MsWhatsit! Woohoo!! ---
**Author:** ![Mercutio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Mercutio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mercutio)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2001, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-post-count-parties/79329/3 "2001-09-01T20:01:27Z")
_Oh you, MsWhatsit Remove that stick from your ass Some of us have friends_ ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2001, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-post-count-parties/79329/4 "2001-09-01T20:05:54Z")
Y’know what’s worse than post party threads? Threads that _claim_ to be against post parties, but are really just veiled post parties themselves. It’s been done. A lot. And it’s annoying. Of course, that’s just my opinion. Than again, I’m a bitch. ---
**Author:** ![steeljaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aca169/32.png) [@steeljaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steeljaw)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2001, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-post-count-parties/79329/5 "2001-09-01T20:43:12Z")
I will now be hijacking this pseudo-post party for myself as this will put me at a number with repeating first numbers that add up to the final number. It’s a mathematical anomaly!!! ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2001, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-post-count-parties/79329/6 "2001-09-01T21:06:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Silver Fire \* > Of course, that’s just my opinion. Than again, I’m a bitch. In that case, I completely discount your opinion. Post number 400, here I come! (In a year or so. If I’m lucky.) And thanks, **Mercutio** , for that thrilling haiku. I’m not sure what I liked better: the slow suspenseful build-up, or the unexpected-yet-delightful denouement. You guys are the best. ---
**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2001, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-post-count-parties/79329/7 "2001-09-01T21:30:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Silver Fire \* > \*\*Y’know what’s worse than post party threads? Threads that _claim_ to be against post parties, but are really just veiled post parties themselves. It’s been done. A lot. And it’s annoying. > > Of course, that’s just my opinion. Than again, I’m a bitch. \*\* Actually what’s REALLY annoying is self-deprecating comments like “I’m a bitch” that are really just thinly veiled efforts to elicit opinions to the contrary about how “un-bitch-like” the poster really is… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2001, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-post-count-parties/79329/8 "2001-09-01T21:38:10Z")
I don’t think **Silver Fire** is a bitch. Absolutely no way! ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2001, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-post-count-parties/79329/9 "2001-09-01T22:07:42Z")
Heh. If I really wanted that, beagledave, I’d start a thread in IMHO: Am I a Bitch? What’s _really_ annoying is posters who use “than” when they should have used “then”. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![pesch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pesch/32/4925_2.png) [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2001, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-post-count-parties/79329/10 "2001-09-01T23:12:25Z")
I really hate posters who write about nothing at all just to pad their numbers and hope that one of their posts might be considered clever enough so that SOMEBODY might know who the yelp they are when they reach their next round-number milestone. Sheesh. Some people. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2001, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-post-count-parties/79329/11 "2001-09-02T11:41:24Z")
Happy 500, **pesch**!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_griffin-kentzel/32/14787_2.png) [@Larry\_Griffin-Kentzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Griffin-Kentzel)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2001, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-post-count-parties/79329/12 "2001-09-02T12:30:36Z")
Just who do you think you are, **MsWhatsit**. . . **Eutychus55**? \ ---
**Author:** ![Fonz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Fonz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fonz)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2001, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-post-count-parties/79329/13 "2001-09-07T02:15:16Z")
Hmm… It says 319 now. What can I say? I’m a belated poster this week. Happy 319! ---
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2001, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-post-count-parties/79329/14 "2001-09-07T03:14:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pesch \* > **I really hate posters who write about nothing at all just to pad their numbers and hope that one of their posts might be considered clever enough so that SOMEBODY might know who the yelp they are when they reach their next round-number milestone.** Yup, I hate that to. ---
**Author:** ![Atreyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2001, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-post-count-parties/79329/15 "2001-09-07T03:17:31Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Silver Fire:_ > **What’s really annoying is posters who use “than” when they should have used “then”.** Than maybe the next thread you start should be about this topic, and how makes it you madder then JDT in a room ful of mohels. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2001, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-post-count-parties/79329/16 "2001-09-07T03:19:26Z")
Ah, good, another opportunity to pad my post count. Lord knows it needs it. ---
**Author:** ![Whammo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8dc957/32.png) [@Whammo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whammo)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2001, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-post-count-parties/79329/17 "2001-09-07T03:38:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Silver Fire \* > \*\*Of course, that’s just my opinion. Than again, I’m a bitch. \*\* _And HOW!!_ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Tygr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df788c/32.png) [@Tygr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tygr)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2001, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-post-count-parties/79329/18 "2001-09-07T13:07:25Z")
\ I want to complain about people who complain about complaining about people who complain…\ [sub]:: speeds away from another drive-by post, "Tee-hee! Lookit the numbers under my name ticking ever-upward! ::[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2001, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-post-count-parties/79329/19 "2001-09-07T15:32:29Z")
Maybe if ya learned to type faster you’d have higher post counts? ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2001, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-post-count-parties/79329/20 "2001-09-07T18:32:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by handy \* > \*\*Maybe if ya learned to type faster you’d have higher post counts? \*\* Yeah, maybe. :rolleyes: [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-post-count-parties/79329.md?page=2)