Who started the most Pit threads this year?

2002 is winding to a close. Being a curious sort, I wonder which doper fired the flames the most this year. Yet, I have no idea as to how one goes about determining this.

So, I turn to the mods. Who was the biggest grouch in 2002?

The SDMB search function does not have an option to search for threads in which a particular user made the initial post.
We do not do queries on the database that can’t be done through the vBulletin interface.
Conclusion: Don’t know.

Change your “Show Threads” display for the BBQ Pit to “last year.”

Then start counting.

There are 4002 threads.

Have fun.

Actually, we’ll never know the exact number due to the wonder that was the Winter of our Missed Content. However, I have sampled five pages at fifty per page from roughly the middle of the following months – April, June, August, October and December – for a total of 250 threads and come up with the following:

Four Pit threads started in sample:
Tuckerfan
Guinastasia
scott evil

Three Pit threads started in sample:
ralph124c
Jeff Olsen
Mangetout
WSLer

All others started two or fewer Pit threads in the above sample.

Well, that was mighty inconclusive :smiley:

At the bottom of every forum are three drop-down boxes:

  • Sorted by
  • Ascending/Descending
  • from (date)

In addition to Colibri’s suggestion to set the Date field to “last year,” you should also set the Sort field to “thread starter.”

Then start counting. There are 81 pages in the Pit as I write, so it’s probably best to wait until a low-traffic period to do it, too.

Indeed; aptly demonstrates the problem with small samples; I don’t think I’ve started more than a handful of pit threads since I got here.

I have an idea. Say we get a committee of Dopers with spair time who’ll search through oh, 10 pages each, to lessen the load on Earthling. Then we can tally each the totals ending at a certain pre-determined time (I say we use Cecil Standard Time).

I hesitate to post this, since it will undoubtedly set off a competition between these two miscreants to out-do one another before the end of the year.

The leader (if you can call it that) at this point is Fenris, with 41.

The runner-up is Scylla, with 40.

I believe the next one is december, but he hardly counts because I think a lot of those threads weren’t started in the Pit but were moved there from GD. :wink:

He’s beating me?

Shit!

I better go hack together some recycled shit and post it.

Sooo…how would this differ from your normal posting style?
GD&R.

Fenris

Colibri, did you just go count 4002 threads? :eek:

Where the hell is kabbes when you need him?

Watching interestedly with everyone else.

Hey - I don’t have any cleverer ways of counting 4002 threads than you do!

:smiley:

Saying that, it appears that Colibri has actually done it. Phew-ee!

Now we just want to know who is the most pitted-about individual. I’m guessing a toss-up between Clinton, Bush and december :slight_smile:

pan

I think you’d have to adjust for length of thread, too.

Well, it wasn’t necessary to actually count them. Few people started more than 20 threads. It was pretty easy to pick out the major contenders just by glancing at each page. It probably took 10 minutes tops. Note that this was done not by using a Search but simply changing the page view options.

Just a note to say “Thanks” to everyone who did the work of figuring out how to answer my question.

And a special “Tip O’ The Lid” to Colibri. I am in awe.

In retrospect, my idea was over-elaborate and needlessly complicated.

Don’t I feel foolish now.

I believe they are tied now.

Oh, the suspense!

10 minutes? You must have a much faster online connection than I do! It would probably take me an hour just to load all the pages even at show 100 per page, if they even loaded that quickly. (Not that I’m going to try it, the computer would crash.)

So, who’s number three, by the way?

[Claude Raines] I am shocked! Shocked to find gambling going on here. [/Claude Raines]