# "Rationing" My Posts: Quasi Goes Anal-Compulsive **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 12, 2003, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rationing-my-posts-quasi-goes-anal-compulsive/212782 "2003-11-12T08:17:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rationing-my-posts-quasi-goes-anal-compulsive/212782/1 "2003-11-12T08:17:39Z")
(some of my friends would argue for _anal-explosive_:D!) Since I am getting close to 3K posts, and since December 23rd will be my three-year anniversary on SDMB, I have decided I want my 3000th post to be _exactly_ on 12.23.2003. (I wish I knew the exact time of my first post, but I think that’s a little much, even for me. Anyway, that was lost during the "Winter of Our Missed Content.) For this reason, I’m gonna slow down a bit in posting and lurk more, so I invite those of you with whom I have an “onboard” relationship to e-mail me if you wish. (SDMB Weight Loss and Christmas Dopefest for instance). I always enjoy reading the posts and if you wanna e-mail me, I’ll always answer. Thanks Q ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21825_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rationing-my-posts-quasi-goes-anal-compulsive/212782/2 "2003-11-12T11:32:57Z")
Ya know, you could go to the other extreme and post like crazy so you hit _4K_ on your anniversary! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rationing-my-posts-quasi-goes-anal-compulsive/212782/3 "2003-11-12T12:08:59Z")
I agree with FCM. Just start posting like crazy to every thread you open. Even if it’s nothing you’re interested in. Even if you have nothing to say. You could post something like “Quasi was here, padding his post count, due to the fact that Quasi has ‘issues’”😃 ---
**Author:** ![Loneraven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c0e974/32.png) [@Loneraven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loneraven)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rationing-my-posts-quasi-goes-anal-compulsive/212782/4 "2003-11-12T13:21:02Z")
_laughs_ Oh, dear. Poor **Quasi**. Here’s me getting excited that I may, possibly, with my current rate of posting, get into four digits some time in 2007. ---
**Author:** ![CrazyMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee59a6/32.png) [@CrazyMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyMonkey)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rationing-my-posts-quasi-goes-anal-compulsive/212782/5 "2003-11-12T15:36:12Z")
Well, great. I for one am now expecting a huge Internet crash at 11:59 PM on December 22, karmicly induced by Quasimodem. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![earthpuppy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8c91f0/32.png) [@earthpuppy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/earthpuppy)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rationing-my-posts-quasi-goes-anal-compulsive/212782/6 "2003-11-12T15:51:10Z")
Is “karmicly” a word? ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rationing-my-posts-quasi-goes-anal-compulsive/212782/7 "2003-11-12T15:51:50Z")
I feel like we’re a metaphorical crowd standing in the street shouting up to Quasi, on the ledge of a building at, say, the fourth floor, shouting, “Post! Post! Post! Post!” ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rationing-my-posts-quasi-goes-anal-compulsive/212782/8 "2003-11-12T15:53:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by earthpuppy \* > \*\*Is “karmicly” a word? \*\* It’s obviously a cromulent word! Doesn’t it just ring of normalcy? ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rationing-my-posts-quasi-goes-anal-compulsive/212782/9 "2003-11-12T15:57:40Z")
If your first post was lost, then so were others. Would you guess they add up to more than 14? If so, then you’re already over 3K. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rationing-my-posts-quasi-goes-anal-compulsive/212782/10 "2003-11-12T16:03:53Z")
Post! Post! Post! Post! I’m sure **earthpuppy** is inuspeptic, frasmotic, even compunctious to have caused us such pericumbobulations. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rationing-my-posts-quasi-goes-anal-compulsive/212782/11 "2003-11-12T21:25:39Z")
Note: 2401 base 10 is 10000 base 7. Now that’s a nice round number to shoot for. Of course, you’ll have to “lose” three of your fingers, but isn’t the SDMB worth it? ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rationing-my-posts-quasi-goes-anal-compulsive/212782/12 "2003-11-12T21:29:08Z")
Oops, thought you were bumping against 2000. Let’s see, 3000. Hmm. 3125 base 10 is 100000 base 5. So we’re talking about losing a whole hand here. Right or left? ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2003, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rationing-my-posts-quasi-goes-anal-compulsive/212782/13 "2003-11-12T22:58:11Z")
Post counts are a meaningless construct. Ask not if you have an opportunity to add to your count. Ask if you really have anything to add to the flow of the thread. If so, then post. ---
**Author:** ![Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krisfer_the_Cat)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rationing-my-posts-quasi-goes-anal-compulsive/212782/14 "2003-11-13T00:44:30Z")
_joins the crowd shouting POST! POST! POST!_ do a fancy swan dive of a post… or is that swan song? ---
**Author:** ![JimSox5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5a626/32.png) [@JimSox5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimSox5)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rationing-my-posts-quasi-goes-anal-compulsive/212782/15 "2003-11-13T02:28:46Z")
I would tell you to post, but really, I don’t think I’m the guy to say anything. ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rationing-my-posts-quasi-goes-anal-compulsive/212782/16 "2003-11-13T02:45:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Krisfer the Cat \* > \*\*_joins the crowd shouting POST! POST! POST!_ > > do a fancy swan dive of a post… or is that swan song? \*\* No, that’s Swan Lake. And you guys don’t want to see Quasi doing ballet… ---
**Author:** ![Blonde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Blonde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blonde)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rationing-my-posts-quasi-goes-anal-compulsive/212782/17 "2003-11-13T02:59:21Z")
Riiiggghtt! Let’s just do the math here (I’m a CPA, I am qualified to do this, really!) You have 14 posts left, and…eh, 23-12 + 31 times the square root of 3,000 = well, let’s just go with five weeks. Less than three posts per week - I do not think so. There’s a very cool “Predict the Next Poster’s Death” thread going on, **Quasi** - please come on in! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rationing-my-posts-quasi-goes-anal-compulsive/212782/18 "2003-11-13T07:23:01Z")
C’mon, **Quas** , post! You know you want to. Everybody’s doing it. Give in to peer pressure and fulfill your heart’s desire. Poooost. POOOOOOOOOOOOOOST. See? There’s a nice juicy thread over there just begging to graced with a big fat post from you. Go on, do it. \ ---
**Author:** ![Doomtrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/0ea827/32.png) [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rationing-my-posts-quasi-goes-anal-compulsive/212782/19 "2003-11-13T07:39:20Z")
All the cool kids are doing it, **Quasi**. C’mon, it’s only one post. You can’t get addicted from only one post… (Channel more Afterschool Specials!) ---
**Author:** ![Innanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ecd19e/32.png) [@Innanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Innanna)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2003, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rationing-my-posts-quasi-goes-anal-compulsive/212782/20 "2003-11-13T09:21:31Z")
I think you all are going about this the wrong way. Don’t plead for more posts–so something that will force posting–like when the folks here insult Cecil and he (sometimes) shows up. So what is **Quasi** particularly sensitive about? What would he(?) be unable to resist? If we said, for instance that **Quasi** is the most wumpular poster to have ever graced the boards with his magnificence, then he might have to respond. Likewise if we said that **Quasi** was the most fershinkly poster to have ever set foot in this one quagalumph town and should be shot until fully leested, then he would be forced to stand up against those harsh taunts. Hey, it’s a thought. 🙂 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rationing-my-posts-quasi-goes-anal-compulsive/212782.md?page=2)