The only way to see post counts that I know of is to look at each user’s profile. By updating the subscriber data I had collected for this thread, these are the estimated rankings as of earlier this morning:
Username Post Count Post Rate
1. Guinastasia 19537 13.18
2. Liberal 17501 10.14
3. Mangetout 15767 13.27
4. Coldfire 15272 8.31
5. Eve 14597 8.60
6. tracer 13751 7.21
7. tomndebb 13054 6.61
8. iampunha 12995 8.53
9. SPOOFE 12197 7.71
10. Johnny L.A. 12056 7.18
Sorted by Post Rate, the ranking is:
Username Post Rate Post Count
1. Q.E.D. 17.52 10157
2. NoClueBoy 15.44 10386
3. Diogenes the Cynic 13.98 9432
4. Mangetout 13.27 15767
5. Guinastasia 13.18 19537
6. Doomtrain 12.62 6497
7. John Mace 11.97 7262
8. Kalhoun 10.78 6553
9. Liberal 10.14 17501
10. CandidGamera 9.94 1616
Please note that some of the subscriber data I used date back to April, and I only updated the numbers for the top-ranked users found there. While it is unlikely for Post Count positions to have shifted much, I’ve noticed that Post Rates for some users have changed significantly since then, especially among the newer members (in one case, dropping from 10.25/day to 1.29/day). Therefore, without re-examining the profiles of all 4,000 or so subscribers, these rankings can only be considered as estimates.
From these updates, it appears that individual Post Rates tend to decline over time. My guess is that this is a general trend (i.e., a user would post a lot more as a newbie than as a veteran) and not an effect of subscription. It would be interesting, though impossible to accomplish without automated tools, to track these numbers and see if we can discern some generalized patterns.
One notable exception to this trend is Liberal, who has made an average of 23.3 posts per day since April 24 (my first data collection date), thus bringing his Post Rate ranking upward. In contrast, Guinastasia has followed the declining trend, and averaged only 9.2 posts per day since then. If each person mainatins these new Post Rates, Lib should overtake Guin’s Post Count at 20,860 posts, in 144 days.
