THE 10,000 Post Thread

[Chptrk 86]

9219.

Here goes nothing, let's see where this post goes...

[Hamish 1,369]

9220.

So, we are posting in the right place again? Stupid extra hour...

[astronelson 339]

9221.

It looks like time is no longer out of joint. Well, I guess that's what we keep SpecOps 12 around for. What would we do without the ChronoGuard?

[Larks2242 251]

9222.

Spec Ops? The game?

[Vahr 341]

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Cleans up post numbers, whoo DST.

[un1 41]

9224 - If we downgraded to IPBoard a lot of things would be fixed...essentially the STEX, CJ and Omnibus sections would need to be recoded but there wouldnt be PFB and slow loading threads with a lot of posts (not sure about the DST issue).

[astronelson 339]

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Originally posted by: Larks2242

Spec Ops? The game?quote>

Nope. SpecOps from the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde. The fictional British governmental force is unrelated to the game.

[Larks2242 251]

9226.

Oh

[Duke87 1,070]

(9227)

NYC Marathon is today.

Not that anyone cares, just figured I'd point it out.

[astronelson 339]

9228.

I've finished Ventus' and Aqua's stories in Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep, and have just started Terra's.

[Larks2242 251]

9229.

Ok...I'm not sure what that means.

[Trainmaster423 0]

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Me niether.

[astronelson 339]

9231.

Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep is a game on PSP. There are three protagonists, Terra, Ventus, and Aqua, whose stories are told separately. I have played through Ventus' and Aqua's stories. I have just started playing Terra's. Does it make sense now?

[Duke87 1,070]

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Speaking of which, my sisters seem to have forgotten about that game. Hmm...

[Vahr 341]

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Ahh, multicharacterline playing.

[astronelson 339]

9234.

I swear you made up that word, but multicharacterline works.

And it appears I have to change my time setting manually.

[Hamish 1,369]

9235.

Going back to the "What do we do after 10,000 posts" discussion.

I had this idea before, close this thread when we reach 10,000, and then, instead of having a target, why don't we have a deadline? Like lets say, start a new thread on the 1^st of January 2011, and then see how many posts we can get into a thread over a whole year?

[Vahr 341]

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Astro: Yeah, I made it up on the spot. I tend to do that

Hamish: Well, one thing for certain that's going to happen is that this thread is closing (and pinned) on post 10,000. I like the idea of a deadline, but instead of a year, we can go on a month by month basis? And maybe have a running tally as well... though seeing as its hard enough keeping 1 number in line, I'm not so sure about having 2.

[Duke87 1,070]

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Originally posted by: astronelson

And it appears I have to change my time setting manually.quote>

On what? Your PSP?

As for the debate on this thread... let's keep it to a simple reboot. If we want to launch an alternate idea like a deadline game, that's a separate thread and there's no reason the two can't exist simultaneously.

[astronelson 339]

9238.

With the right timing of posts, it could last over a year - if it is started by someone in New Zealand and ended by someone in Alaska, for example. Having a similar goal as this one should be fun.

Also, I retract my previous statement.

2. This sounds like it might just become spam really quickly.quote>

It has not done so and I do not expect it to.

Duke: On ST. I also have to change it on my PSP when the time changes here or I go back to Queensland.

[Hamish 1,369]

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Blue: How do you mean month by month? Like start a new thread every month? Not a bad idea, although you could do that in a year thread too, just a quick tally of how many posts has occurred in that month and then move onto the next month. That could have also been done in this thread too.

Astro: It could go for slightly over a year, but Im sure if a moderator started it, for examples sake lets say me, I would open it in the early hours of the 1^st of january 2011 and close it when it reached midnight on the 31^st of December 2011.

Any other ideas? I think we have less than a month left to decide what to do.

[Muck308 55]

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Whew, just made it. What a shame it would have been for me to miss page 308

I forgot what a (albeit temporary) mess DST can create for the forums. I unfortunately wasted the extra hour by staying up until 9:00 this morning and then only getting maybe 3 hours of sleep.

As far as the next step goes, I am undecided. I guess another 10,000 thread makes the most sense to me.

Oh yeah... PFB WARNING!

[Duke87 1,070]

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I'm still holding out for a simple traditional take two.

[Vahr 341]

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Muck, message please?

Hamish: Rather, a single thread, but the main counter resets every month.

[astronelson 339]

9243.

Muck now has a message, although I really do prefer it when people post the message when they make the post in the first place.

[Duke87 1,070]

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Originally posted by: Blue Lightning

Rather, a single thread, but the main counter resets every month.quote>

Any idea like this will inevitably cause problems because people here are in some very different time zones.

And again: why are we talking about how to mess with the formula? The concept is great as it currently stands. Let's not ruin it.

[Muck308 55]

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Origianlly posted by: astronelson Muck now has a message, although I really do prefer it when people post the message when they make the post in the first place.quote>

I normally wouldn't do such a thing but I didn't want to miss that page. From the look of it, I was right to assume I might miss it if I made the post in its entirety at first.

Geez, guys, I can edit my own numbers if I have to. I always do when it comes to my attention. But thanks though.

[Hamish 1,369]

9246.

So, we are thinking of a simple take two? Change the target to something larger though?

Blue: Not a bad suggestion. When would we decide when the month starts and ends? Multiple timezones means multiple start and end points. We could just go off one moderators time, or GMT?

[Duke87 1,070]

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I am thinking of "The 10,000 post thread v2", nothing more.

Probably best to start the numbers over at 1, though counting from 10,001 to 20,000 is also an option.

[Vahr 341]

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I should be writing my lab report conclusion... but whatever.

Meh, lets just leave it at a reincarnate of 10,000 posts.