# One is the loneliest number **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 3, 2013, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-is-the-loneliest-number/654731 "2013-04-03T14:15:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-is-the-loneliest-number/654731/1 "2013-04-03T14:15:01Z")
Is there any way to tell how many posters have only posted once? If so, is there a way to filter out all those that were banned(spammers, socks and trolls)? ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-is-the-loneliest-number/654731/2 "2013-04-03T15:29:11Z")
I’m looking for people that have posted exactly 29,640 times. Please don’t screw this up for me Czarcasm. ---
**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:** [April 3, 2013, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-is-the-loneliest-number/654731/3 "2013-04-03T15:36:10Z")
Do you want an exact count, or just a good estimate? If the latter, then you can just take a sampling of, say, 1 out of every 1000 user IDs, and count them up. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-is-the-loneliest-number/654731/4 "2013-04-03T15:40:47Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > I’m looking for people that have posted exactly 29,640 times. > > Please don’t screw this up for me Czarcasm. Your post just total DROPPED by one, dammit! (now at 29,639) ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-is-the-loneliest-number/654731/5 "2013-04-03T15:46:14Z")
If you have Excel you can use [http://sdmbexample.nfshost.com/profiles2.csv](http://sdmbexample.nfshost.com/profiles2.csv) for a snapshot of the membership back in 2011 with all sorts of details that might help answer your question. See [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=14514319&postcount=88](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=14514319&postcount=88) for a little background on that. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2013, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-is-the-loneliest-number/654731/6 "2013-04-03T21:57:01Z")
Most message boards I’ve been on enable you to get a list of members. Further, you can sort on any number of fields, including post count. Then you just have to wade through the zeros to get to the members with one post. I haven’t found that member list on THIS board, of course, but one of the board sachems must surely be able to do it. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/one-is-the-loneliest-number/654731/7 "2013-04-06T18:32:09Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > Most message boards I’ve been on enable you to get a list of members. Further, you can sort on any number of fields, including post count. Then you just have to wade through the zeros to get to the members with one post. > > I haven’t found that member list on THIS board, of course, but one of the board **sachems** must surely be able to do it. Bold added. Great word. Had to [look it up.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sachem) I always thought of them as poobahs. ETA: just figured out why the word sounded right to me, even though I had never heard it: the word for being wise, in Yiddish, is “seichel,” as in “Use some seichel for a change!” from my wife.