I recall seeing a list in the ATMB forum last year.
That was yours truly’s list. Unfortunalty, it was closed before ever finished.
This is my 4,196th post. Somehow, though, I have a (mostly good, I think) reputation around here, despite my lack of verboseness.
With all the time I spend here it’s still taken me damn near 4 years to get this many posts. I can’t even fathom how much time I would have to spend here to get 21,000+. I’d never be able to go to work.
Averaging 20 minutes a post (including time to read other posts, code, etc. and accounts for both those mammoth posts and the “me too” variety), you’re looking at slightly more than 9.7 months (assuming 30-day months) of nothing but posting. That means you’d effectively be giving birth to what would, after all that time, only be probably the fourth-largest post count, if that. In ten months Guin and Lib will probably each be over 25K and I’m confident someone else is close enough to, say, 18K already that ten months would see 5K posts.
So, in fact, you’d never be able to go anywhere unless you could bring your computer with you.
No you don’t!
I try, gosh durnit! 
Some of us release our little pearls of wisdom at a more dignified pace, exhibiting noteworthy restraint, presenting the impression that we have Lives and do not merely spend all of our waking hours reading the Straight Dope Message Board.
I didn’t say it was an accurate impression, I just said we manage to present it 
And some of us don’t release pearls at all! They’re more like “turds of jumbled text”…
I saw Handy mentioned and went through some of his posts trying to see why somebody with 17k+ posts got banned, and then it struck me… I’m never going to be safe on here. What if I manage to become an established member then say something horribly offensive and get a ban?? 
And on a sidenote, how long until I feel like I fit in? I still feel out of all the loops which I expected after only a few months, but when will people see a thread with me as the last poster and immeadiately have a read?
When people, when???
Not having a job for extended periods of time is exactly how I wound up with ~7,300 posts in just over two years. I’ll probably break 10,000 by March or April.
Not sure how I feel about that.
You need to get a job or a life, my friend. Preferably both.
PS How’s your leg doing?
I can walk on it now but it’s still so swollen that I it restricts my full range of movement and I won’t be able to return to work until June or July so it’s a mixed bag. Definitely better than worse though.
Actually, for some of us going to work is a requirement to reach that number.
Is it your intention to repeatedly post erroneous opinions on medical topics in GQ? Is it your intention to post unsupportable opinions all over the SDMB, and then argue that you are right in the face of documented evidence to the contrary? If you begin collecting multiple warnings, do you intended to continue bad posting habits about which you have been warned?
Barring these or similar practices, you should probably be safe from banning.
Only returning trolls and sockpuppets or spammers are banned without collecting a number of warnings. It’s pretty tough to be banned for a single post.
I tried to count the 10K club back in March 2004 (before the Pay To Post switchover). At that time, I counted 16. I’d be shocked if I missed more than one or two, if that (had WAY too much time on my hands).
Some others now at 10K: tracer, sailor, Johnny L.A., Miller, Ringo, Scylla, jjimm, OpalCat, Chronos, dantheman, NoClueBoy, astro, Otto.
50 sounds like a decent guess now… probably a little less.
I’m pretty sure that sailor is the highest “lost post count” - his count is 12,707. Yeah, I know the count isn’t lost, but it doesn’t display in old threads that he posted in. And that’s not counting the banned handy.
WHAT? And here I was, waiting for tenure…
Joining the SDMB as a wannabe regular poster is a bit like a lioness joining a new pride. (Well, you get the analogy - this isn’t GQ - okay the other lionesses would probably rip her titties off.)
The regulars will circle you and give you a good sniff, then they’ll test you (see how you respond to cuffs around the ear and nips on the legs). Finally, as long as you don’t appear too desperate to be in with the “in” crowd (in your chosen forum(s)) they’ll accept you if you’ve got something to say and fit in.
Number one rule: be yourself.
Number two rule: Always wipe front to back.
Seriously, be yourself. If you can’t be yourself, at least be somebody interesting as well.
Not that it hasn’t been tried.
Porthole penumbra? Expialidociousness! Is it because I’m a lesbian?