I tried to guess who my top 3 would be and only came up with @ZipperJJ and @Spice_Weasel as contenders because they’re my two favorite posters but that was a mostly random guess – I’ve been on the boards for 14 years and am mostly a lurker. So. I looked it up.
@FairyChatMom is #1 with 32. I couldn’t figure that one out until I remembered I used to participate in the MMP at length before it suffered from network decay.
Three-way tie for #2:
@Spice_Weasel is #2 with 19, which is not a surprise – we discussed fiction writing at length in past threads. I guessed right on that one. One of two Dopers I would love to actually meet in person.
@Johnny_L.A is #2 with 19 also, which surprises me. I don’t recall any lengthy discussions with him.
@Chefguy is #2 again with 19. Also surprises me for the same reason.
Tie for #3:
@feppytweed is #3 with 16. No surprise there as I’ve been doing the shot glass exchange for the better part of a decade and he used to emcee it.
@aceplace57 is #3 also with 16. Total mystery, that one. I don’t recall engaging him even once on this board and can’t recall what we discussed.
Johnny, Chef, and Ace usually have interesting things to say so I guess after 14 years I’ve managed to be wowed by their brilliance enough to offer up a number of replies.
Very oddly twickster was by far my most replied. We often talked in Cafe. She left several years ago. I’m surprised that the old imported thread count is so high.
I appear in several people’s lists. I think the above numbers explain that; I post a lot. And because I post so much, there are more posts for other people to respond to.
For all but Beck, it’s undoubtedly being driven by various thread games. Elendil_s_Heir and I also have a bunch of interactions on nerdy stuff, and ELO. For Beck, well, it’s all of those bad, bad, bad threads of hers.
Since I’ve only been here with an account (previously lurked from links on the OG website) since 2020 and I normally respond to the thread rather than a specific poster, my tops are -
SlackerInc: 15 - not surprised by this, we talked a lot in the weekly poker game thread.
LSLGuy: 12 - wouldn’t have guessed this one, so apparently the threads we bumped heads in were quite diverse. I liked him as a poster though, wish he could come back one day.
Dewey_Finn: 11 - pretty much the same scenario as LSLGuy
asahi: 9 - not surprised by him being on the list, considering we both have pretty doom-and-gloom outlooks on the state of the world, only surprised that he’s not #1.
Chronos: 9 - I recall some discussions on cryptocurrency, but not much else.
Little_Nemo: 7 - This one is a mystery. I honestly can’t remember a single interaction between the two of us.
Curiously, 2 of the 6 posters on the list are now banned. Guess you guys better hope I don’t start replying to you a lot