# Who started the most Pit threads this year? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 19, 2002, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-started-the-most-pit-threads-this-year/143720 "2002-12-19T02:10:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2002, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-started-the-most-pit-threads-this-year/143720/21 "2002-12-21T20:01:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lel \* > \*\*10 minutes? You must have a much faster online connection than I do! \*\* šŸ˜› šŸ˜› šŸ˜› > [@](#): > > \*\*So, whoā€™s number three, by the way? \*\* As I said, **december** , who at the moment has 36 threads in the Pit, plus (surprisingly) 4 that were started in the Pit and moved elsewhere. I have not checked the other threads to see if any were moved into the Pit from elsewhere, but Iā€™d say that in this case thatā€™s a good bet. ---
**Author:** ![Earthling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/90db22/32.png) [@Earthling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthling)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2002, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-started-the-most-pit-threads-this-year/143720/22 "2002-12-22T05:51:00Z")
I hope this doesnā€™t turn into a contest, but here are some stats for the, uh, ā€œTop Tenā€ presences in the Pit for 2002: 1. **Fenris** Threads: 41 (one of which is a double-post, and at least one was started way before this year) Replies: 1445 Views: 61432 Avg Rep per Thd: 35.24 Avg View per Thd: 1498.34 Avg View per Reply: 42.51 2. **Scylla** Threads: 40 (one of which is a double-post) Replies: 2350 Views: 76726 Avg Rep per Thd: 58.75 Avg View per Thd: 1918.15 Avg View per Reply: 32.65 3. **december** Threads: 36 (plus 4 that were moved out of the Pit) Replies: 1658 Views: 38710 Avg Rep per Thd: 46.06 Avg View per Thd: 1075.28 Avg View per Reply: 23.35 4. **scott evil** Threads: 36 (19 of which include some form of ā€œfuckā€ in the title, easily beating out the runner-up, who only had 9 such instances) Replies: 1047 Views: 33339 Avg Rep per Thd: 29.08 Avg View per Thd: 926.08 Avg View per Reply: 31.84 5. **WSLer** Threads: 36 Replies: 1276 Views: 43402 Avg Rep per Thd: 35.44 Avg View per Thd: 1205.61 Avg View per Reply: 34.01 6. **Tuckerfan** Threads: 34 Replies: 686 Views: 30621 Avg Rep per Thd: 20.18 Avg View per Thd: 900.62 Avg View per Reply: 44.64 7. **jarbabyj** Threads: 31 Replies: 1717 Views: 52022 Avg Rep per Thd: 55.39 Avg View per Thd: 1678.13 Avg View per Reply: 30.30 8. **Guinastasia** Threads: 30 Replies: 1523 Views: 46097 Avg Rep per Thd: 50.77 Avg View per Thd: 1536.57 Avg View per Reply: 30.27 9. **Libertarian** Threads: 30 Replies: 1392 Views: 38437 Avg Rep per Thd: 46.40 Avg View per Thd: 1281.23 Avg View per Reply: 27.61 10. **lobley** Threads: 29 (3 of which are multi-posts) Replies: 738 Views: 22948 Avg Rep per Thd: 25.45 Avg View per Thd: 791.31 Avg View per Reply: 31.09 * * * Please note that the boardā€™s internal code dates threads by the latest post/reply, so not all of the threads displayed were necessarily started within the last year. In the one specific instance that I pointed out with regard to **Fenris** , that thread was started almost two years ago, and its resurrection caused it to be closed (which was what caught my eye). Also, as **Colibri** pointed out, there is no good way to find out which threads were started elsewhere and then moved to the Pit later on. Finally, since this data was gathered in the abbreviated fashion (i.e., ā€œhmmā€¦sure looks like this person started a lot of postsā€ instead of actually counting how many threads out of the 4000+ that each userid started), the bottom 3 or 4 names in this list may be incorrect, and may really belong to other Dopers. ---
**Author:** ![Earthling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/90db22/32.png) [@Earthling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthling)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2002, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-started-the-most-pit-threads-this-year/143720/23 "2002-12-22T19:58:36Z")
> [@](#): > > _Very late last night, I said_ > **since this data was gathered in the abbreviated fashionā€¦the bottom 3 or 4 names in this list may be incorrect, and may really belong to other Dopers.** Well, that was bothering me, and after a refreshing night of sleep I remembered that since I had all the data copied into Excel already, counting and sorting should be trivial, so I did ā€“ and am happy to confirm that the rankings posted above are indeed correct. The earliest post, in case anyone is curious, is dated March 11, 2002, which means that a good chunk was lost during the Winter of Our Missed Content, which should, of course, be no surprise. More sorting in Excel (actually, this could be done on the board, but Iā€™ll spare the hamsters) shows that religion is the single most active topic, both in terms of replies and view count ā€“ which should be another non-surprise. I hesitate to point out the specific threads (letā€™s just say that some of our more devout members are involved), but if yā€™all are _really_ curious and the mods approve, I can do so. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2002, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-started-the-most-pit-threads-this-year/143720/24 "2002-12-22T21:03:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by I am Sparticus \* > \*\*[Claude Raines] I am shocked! Shocked to find gambling going on here. [/Claude Raines] \*\* Your winnings, sir. * * * Is therer any easy way to tell who has been the most _involved_ in Pit threads, whether they started it, was about them, or not? ---
**Author:** ![kabbes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e99b99/32.png) [@kabbes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kabbes)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-started-the-most-pit-threads-this-year/143720/25 "2002-12-24T10:40:48Z")
**Earthling** , you have made a not-so-old statto very happy. ::wiping away a tear:: pan [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-started-the-most-pit-threads-this-year/143720.md?page=1)