THE 10,000 Post Thread

[Muck308 55]

869 871. Another soul belongs to the 10,000 post thread.

How do I keep missing these?

[Duke87 1,070]

872

Hamish! You jumped backwards!

[Larks2242 251]

873. @ ironicepitome i don't understand what you were doing

[Chptrk 86]

874. Singular letter!

Ok, I'll say more...Trixies!

[Hamish 1,369]

875. Whoops, I did jump backwards. Darn this thread and it's popularity.

By the end of this page we will reach 900 posts.

[Larks2242 251]

876. That's if you don't jump back again Hamish

[Keegan V50 15]

877

[astronelson 339]

878. Are these one-letter, one-word, or one-emoticon posts really necessary? We can get along fine with proper, informative posts.

[Larks2242 251]

879. @ Astro Really only the numbers matter i am thankful that other members what to help.

[GlobexCo 33]

880 Poor clippy... he only wanted to help.

[Hamish 1,369]

881: Actually I just want to make a point.

                           vvv

Can we not make one word, or no word, or even just 1 emoticon posts. It can be seen as spam and isn't the most welcomed thing around here. Thank you

-Hamish

[un1 41]

882 - Good thing for reminding us Hamish, I was afraid this was going to be locked soon because of its one word posts soon.

[Larks2242 251]

883. I hope not i want to see 10,000 posts

[Vahr 341]

884.

Pretty good point there, Hamish. And to 10,000 we shall meet!

[Chptrk 86]

885. I could just say, good point Hamish, but the past few posts have done that. So instead, I'll say this...

I made this!

[Hamish 1,369]

886. Don't worry, I don't want to lock this, because I really do want to see it get to 10,000.

But I will get angry if it happens again, and you won't like me when Im angry.

Looking good chptrk

[citiesxlfan42 27]

887.

Get rid of the zots, chptrk, and it'll look even MORE fantastic!

I'd be cool if you developed around it and made a GLR in road.

Trixies, hmm...

For a new catagory, I choose best mod. And the winner is...

Pegasus for his wonderous landscaping and SimGoober for the wonderful retail stores to put ON that landscaping.

[Aspire 3]

Ummm. DooDooDoo do do Haha lol I know this counts... im not even at 100 and look at the time i signed up into this website, AT LEAST I SHOULD HAVE 400,000

[Duke87 1,070]

(889)

Has anybody in the history of any forum made it to a six digit post count?

[Chptrk 86]

890. Duke, if you don't no one does.

Thanks Hamish, and citiesxlfan42, don't worry about the zots, it's just a begining test thing right now. I've already developed a lot around it, and I don't have GLR.

And I think I deserve best mod. Hmm...by the looks of things, I think I've said I deserve best everything by now.

Vote for me or fear the kitty!

[astronelson 339]

491. *Astronelson does some math*

Well, the oldest domain on the Internet was started on the 15th of March, 1985. I'll just take the 1985 bit for this.

So, if it is a forum, it's been around for 24 years.

100,000 posts in 24 years is 4,166.6666... posts a year.

Ignoring leap years, that's 11.4155 posts a day.

So, I can safely assume no-one has ever reached a six-digit post count on any forum in the history of the internet.

[Hamish 1,369]

492. Well, if we are using your equations, then I wouldn't be so sure about no one reaching 100,000 posts in a topic.

We are currently chugging along at just under 14 posts per day, or 13.937 ppd.

If we keep that up we will reach our goal of 10,000 in about november 2011. So the end point is getting nearer.

If we wanted to go to 100,000 then we would get there at about the 10^th of July 2029. Any one got any plans for the next 20 years?

[Muck308 55]

493 893. Let's stick with the first goal and change the thread name if we want to continue.

I did it again.

[Larks2242 251]

Originally posted by: Hamish

If we wanted to go to 100,000 then we would get there at about the 10^th of July 2029. Any one got any plans for the next 20 years?

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894. Well i don't think i will still be posting on this thread in 20 years

[Hamish 1,369]

895. Well, you never know, we could start to increase the amount of posts per day to something more respectable, so don't count your chickens yet...

[astronelson 339]

896. I think the post rate is reasonably respectable now.

[GlobexCo 33]

897 What's better? Firefox or IE8? I tried Firefox... it seems to be faster than IE8, but when posting new messages it deletes the "upload to Imageshack" button....

[Korot 6]

898. Firefox, for sure.

[Duke87 1,070]

(899)

Originally posted by: Chptrk

Duke, if you don't no one does.quote>

Oh please. It's taken over six years for me to get to this point. I'm not getting to 100,000 here anyime before 2040.

On the other hand, I have seen people churn out over 10,000 posts in one year. A couple people have done it here. Sloppet did it in 2006. Jackie did it in both 2006 and 2007. The problem is that while achieving such a posting rate is perfectly doable, sustaining it for long enough to get to 100,000 isn't, really. For one thing, one person keeping that up for 10 years (or something a bit less for a bit longer) is hard to fathom. For another, very few fora manage to hang around for ten years. Usually within that time the webmaster gives it up, or a server crash or software switch or something will cause all the board data to be lost, meaning everyone has to have to reregister and start over with a zero post count when the site is relaunched.

This did actually happen with Simtropolis, once - for the first few months of its existence, as "Simcity 4 discussion zone", it did not have its own domain and was using a completely different software. When it became "Simtropolis" on January 11th, 2003, every user from the old board was automatically given an account, but no posts were moved and everyone's count was reset to zero. Fortunately, the move from idealbb to FuseTalk in April 2006 did not involve a similar reset - all the data was transfered over.

Also hampering any attempts is the fact that many forum software programs will have your post count go down if one of your posts is deleted - something which never has been the case on Simtropolis.

[GlobexCo 33]

900 900 900 900 900 !!!!

That Simcity 4 discussion zone... What was there? Is there any archive site that hosts it?