The Milestone Thread

[mkaustin 1]

ooooooohhhhhh! Gotcha. I meant that my uploaded files had been downloaded by other STers 3000 times! No, I can't imagine that I have downloaded more than 500 files myself. Very impressive that you have downloaded so much!

EDIT - I don't know why I ended nearly every sentence with a "!".  Guess I got excited

[sithlrd98 66]

Just noticed mkaustins' count...thought I was the only one that took 2 + years to reach 200!

[Mulefisk 15]

Ahh 600 posts after being a member for 4 years. Quality over quantity I guess.

[Geronimo 4]

Passed 200 a couple days ago. What a milestone....

[your_adress_here 11]

I recently passed 4500.

[Cleaner475 150]

3000 posts now, post counters slowed down now because at most I only now post twice a day, badnwith restrictions at the minute ,

Richard

[wir3d 2]

This is my 300th post. 

[LarksTonguesInAspic 28]

This is my 1000th post. Funny, it only felt like a few hundred.

[Duke87 1,070]

Originally posted by: manticorefan This is my 1000th post. Funny, it only felt like a few hundred.quote>

Yeah, after a while that kind of thing starts to happen. It certainly doesn't feel to me like I've hit "reply" anywhere near 13000 times...

[wir3d 2]

400TH

[Craig-Abcvs 1,595]

Dang. I completely missed my 3000th... I noticed at 3016.... oh well maybe I will notice at 4K...

This is my 1000th post. Funny, it only felt like a few hundred. quote>

About 10 hundred?

[Hamish 1,369]

Image speaks for itself:

[Duke87 1,070]

My post count now reads "ieezo"

Or, at least it does in |337.

[your_adress_here 11]

4600

[LarksTonguesInAspic 28]

Loyalist one day, 1200 posts the next. I'm just quivering over the thought of it all.

[wir3d 2]

Half a millenium!!

[beesbees 1]

Joined October 2003, nearly 4.5 years ago!

Wow! That went scarily quickly

Still lurking the old CJs

[your_adress_here 11]

Well I'll be darned.

[Streetwise 3]

 I just passed 100 posts! 

[owenluby 1]

My thread's turned out to be a success! Time to check what I have... (wait for edit...)

[sepsis 17]

This is my 1st post in this thread!!

[Duke87 1,070]

Originally posted by: beesbees Joined October 2003, nearly 4.5 years ago!

Wow! That went scarily quickly quote>

I think all of us '03ers can share that sentiment.

[jacqulina 162]

i share that sentiment too duke.

[Duke87 1,070]

What I find interesting is the variety in activity, though.

Sepsis: 892 posts (0.50/day)

beesbees: 1449 posts (0.91/day)

Duke87: 13488 posts (7.96/day)

jacquilina: 30317 posts (19.20/day)

jackie and Sepsis differ by a factor of 33.99 (post count) or 38.4 (posts per day). Correlation between length of membership and post count? Weak at best.

[wir3d 2]

600!!!!!!!!!

[LarksTonguesInAspic 28]

This is my 1301st post, in a total elapsed time of 10 months and 21 days. My profile says 3.99 posts per day.

edit: 'Patriot' has been achieved.

[wir3d 2]

Oh yeah im at 700!! I can't wait till i start hangin with duke and all those other major posters.

[Duke87 1,070]

Originally posted by: wir3d Oh yeah im at 700!! I can't wait till i start hangin with duke and all those other major posters.quote>

Just to point something out: at 5.12 ppd, you've already got a decent pace going... and that's really what's more a factor in defining an "active" member. Sure I have a lot more posts than you, but I've been here a lot longer than you have, so that's expected. It's not so much the post count as the post rate.

Let's say your post count is a function of time, P(t). We're not so much interested in the current value of P(t) as we are in the current value of P'(t), the derivative.

...unfortunately, ST doesn't do calculus for you and the "post per day" reported in your profile is simply total posts divided by total length of membership- and does not necessarily reflect how many posts you've making each day right about now, especially with older members. Someone who made a lot of posts but then stopped posting would be making zero posts per day at this point in time, but their profile would not report that. It would act as though their rate of posting was constant over their time as a member- which, obviously, it's not.

A practical graph to illustrate this idea:

(link in case you can't see the image)

Notice how over time the slopes of those curves vary, sometimes by a lot.

[Craig-Abcvs 1,595]

Duke... you have an amazing brain.

[Hamish 1,369]

How do you get all this information?