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 I’d say that in this case that’s a good bet.
I hope this doesn’t turn into a contest, but here are some stats for the, uh, “Top Ten” presences in the Pit for 2002:
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
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
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
scott evil
Threads: 36 (19 of which include some form of “fuck” 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
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
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
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
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
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
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 board’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., “hmm…sure looks like this person started a lot of posts” 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.
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 – 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 I’ll spare the hamsters) shows that religion is the single most active topic, both in terms of replies and view count – which should be another non-surprise. I hesitate to point out the specific threads (let’s just say that some of our more devout members are involved), but if y’all are really curious and the mods approve, I can do so.
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?
Earthling, you have made a not-so-old statto very happy.
::wiping away a tear::
pan