I was thinking of the nature of my membership on the SDMB due to this thread, and I realized, I’ve been a member for going on 7 years, and I have ~250 or so posts. This lead me to think of several questions:
Does anyone else on hear (besides the perfect master and the SDSAB, of course) have anywhere near such a disparity between length of membership and number of posts?
How about the opposite, is there someone who joined very recently but has an inordinately high number of posts?
Is there a way for the average user to search and find who has the most (or least) posts overall?
This post is being written somewhat on the fly, and since the answers involve questions about this board, searching data, and record-keeping, I really wasn’t sure where to put this in. If it’s the wrong forum, I apologize, and would appreciate it being moved.
PS. Yes, I just caught that I said “hear” when I meant “here.” I’m sure there are other mistakes too. This is the kind of stuff that keeps my posts low; I always have the intention of taking my time and carefully writing posts, but then I procrastinate and forget about it. When I do post, I’m often embarassed by my post when reviewing it later, which discourages me. My kingdom for an edit button, and all that jazz.
Unfortunately, there are many (thousands ?) of “members” that signed up before there were fees and posted once or never. I presume that if and when they try to post again they will be asked to donate. So, were they one-day cruisers or multi-year lurkers? Or are they fully paid up but painfully shy? Or automated spambots? It is a puzzlement.
I vaguely remember someone posting in the pit sometime within the last year and others commenting about them being the Ultimate Lurker. If I recall correctly, they’d joined in '99 and had less than 5 posts. When asked why they didn’t contribute more (seeing as their post was very articulate and interesting), s/he said they just waited for something they felt it absolutely necessary to respond to. Needless to say, that was incredibly impressive, disheartening and admirable of restraint in a way one usually doesn’t encounter.
Already answered, and yes there are many mostly lurkers that just enjoy reading and pay for the ability to post and search.
I would be the best example of the opposite, but there are others, **LOUNE ** and **Oakminster ** are relatively recent joins and post everywhere and often.
**Guinastasia ** has the most posts and is about to go over 30,000. She cannot start a post party, but can we hold one for her? She will be the first over this mark.
Recently returned **Liberal ** is running second at over 26,237 but at a lower rate.
**Mangetout ** appears to be third at nearly 26000 posts.
**John Mace ** has the second highest posting rate at 15.21, in general I believe the quality of his posts are superior to mine and he has kept up the rate for an impressive amount of time. Diogenes the Cynic has the third highest posting rate.
**BrainGlutton ** I believe has the fourth highest posting rate and the highest thread starting rate of anybody on the dope with over a years time as a member.
There is no way to search or check except by hit or miss and knowing which posters post a lot. This method is faulty, as I do not know many of the posters that have left or were banned. There have been posters in the past that maintained a higher posting rate then myself for over a year. **Handy ** was apparently one of them.
I accumulated my stats two nights ago, I am not sure why. There is guaranteed to be some errors. I am sure I have a few usernames wrong as my notes are on paper and not in excel.
Thanks, What Exit?. That was interesting and informative. Since I tend to stay in Cafe Society, and I’m terrible about remebering people (or indeed, social matters in general), I tend not to be up on who’s who and why in the circles I follow.
