Well-Actually War Trall Rowen Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 At a post rate of 3.073 posts per day I have reached the high and might state that everyone else on this forum has already achieved. High quality spam. I remember that spam would lead to the coveted title CANNED. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Dikiyoba Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 Woo, go Rowen. Dikiyoba would give you the CANNED title if Dikiyoba could. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Trenton. Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 What???What does canned meat have anything to do with this? Well anywho, congratulations on the 1000th post. I have a long ways to go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Goldengirl Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 Your spam has been so flavorful and healthful that I almost thought it wasn't spam for a while. And that is the best kind of spam, assuredly. May the feast of your spam continue! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice ex post slarto Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 I think your math is off. Either it's one post every 3.073 days, or 0.3073 posts per day, not sure which as they're fairly close. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 Fun fact: you can order Spam at McDonalds in Hawaii. Also: meaningless approbation to Rowen. And there was much rejoicing. Yay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Sarachim Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 It's been 3,151 days since October 21, 2002, giving a posting rate of one every 3.151 days. This is equivalent to 0.317 posts per day. If we round Rowen's time here off to nine years, remembering that two leap years have passed during it, that gives us .304 posts/day, which is the closest I've been able to get to either of the numbers Slarty suggested. Further bulletins as events warrant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 Originally Posted By: Nikki Look at me, I can't even be bothered to write my own message! I am truly the more optimal spammer! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Tyranicus Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall The Ratt Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 Congrats Rowen! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan Mistb0rn Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 Congratulations! :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Student of Trinity Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 Congratulations on a kilo of spam. I propose we define a unit of spamming rate, equal to one post per week, because that leaves even insanely frequent posters at well under a thousand units, and consistent but moderate contributers in the 1 to 10 range. I propose further that we name this unit in honor of someone. Suggestions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 Originally Posted By: Dantius Originally Posted By: Nikki Look at me, I can't even be bothered to write my own message! I am truly the more optimal spammer! (Also, dude, 9 years?!) (Addit: Also, also, I thought this was going to be a Patti Smith thread for a moment.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice ex post slarto Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 The alo? The salm? The aran? Or maybe the tar? Or the pol in honor of Polaris? The ed? The argh? ...or the tully? "He's posting at 53 tullies, captain!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Congratulations Rowen and have some more meaningless approbation. other possible units of spam: the TM the rand can't use Kelandon since that already has a meaning in the Urban Dictionary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Alorael at Large Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 I think we're calibrating wrong. One post per week should be a millicanned. —Alorael, who supposes that's unreasonable. It's probably much closer to being a centicanned. Then again, canning is more likely to be analogous to impulse, not force, in more ways than one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 this thread is doing pretty well in the vultures per minute per minute department Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Originally Posted By: Copy to Meatspace I think we're calibrating wrong. One post per week should be a millicanned. Well if Arancaytar was here we could get some rigorous data of post counts per week averaged over the year for the active posters. Then we could compare the average and median values for a benchmark. Or we could dig through the archives for the old data from the last time he kept it. If we can ever pry it loose from the fluffy turtles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk Ceiling Durkheim Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 We'll just carry on, then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Goldengirl Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Originally Posted By: CRISIS on INFINITE SLARTIES The ed? If we're going in terms of spam alone, this seems to be the best fit, I believe. All of the others have too much other characteristics in the way that dilute the quality of spam, but posting an ed a week is definitely unadulterated spam. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt Arch-Mage Solberg Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Originally Posted By: Rowen At a post rate of 3.073 posts per day I have reached the high and might state that everyone else on this forum has already achieved. High quality spam. I remember that spam would lead to the coveted title CANNED. Good Job 0n your 1,000th post! As a fellow spammer (but with much less posts) I feel good when I post. Post #554 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrulous Glaahk Skomer Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Originally Posted By: Student of Trinity Congratulations on a kilo of spam. I do like the idea that 1 post = 1 gram of spam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt Erebus the Black Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Originally Posted By: Rowen Congrats. Did anyone else notice the bank note says "MILLION PESSOS"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Originally Posted By: CRISIS on INFINITE SLARTIES The alo? The salm? The aran? Or maybe the tar? Or the pol in honor of Polaris? The ed? The argh? ...or the tully? "He's posting at 53 tullies, captain!" It's only logical that the gold standard for measuring posting rates should be 1 post/ 45 seconds that's the forum limit for non-mods, and that from there, your "rating" would simply be the inverse of how many times your current postcount would have to be to be in order to have your limit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Tyranicus Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Originally Posted By: Erasmus Originally Posted By: Rowen Congrats. Did anyone else notice the bank note says "MILLION PESSOS"? It doesn't say "million." It says "mil," which is Spanish for thousand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Trenton. Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Like a millennium is a thousand years. Mil- usually means a thousand when used in a sentence. The meaning of "Millipede" Means thousand legged. Though a millepede usually only has 200-300 legs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Alorael at Large Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Actually, mil- is usually followed by li- and means a thousandth as a prefix. Mil- as a thousand is relatively uncommon. And to make matters more confusing, sometimes it's the beginning of the number milliard, which is a thousand millions on the scale in which million, billion, trillion, and so on each increase by a factor of a million. —Alorael, who actually thinks the long scale makes more sense. In short scale numbers, the scale starts at a thousand, then million, then billion, then trillion; why are the prefixes for two and three at three and four? Having million be the base unit of large numbers makes the naming conventions more appropriate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 I am of the firm conviction that any numbering scale or base is wholly arbitrary and unrelated to the universe except for base 1 and base 2, and base 1 is useless as a counting system, so the only actual "logical" numbering system is base-2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Student of Trinity Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 The short way, there are more billionaires. Milliardaire sounds like a fridge. I suggest the Calorael. I think we should use an irrational base. Base pi, for instance, sounds eminently ideal. Furthermore, in practice it will be rare to do things like buy two boxes of cereal, then toss an extra 1.14 ... boxes into the cart because they're on sale. So that extra 0.14 ... will just be wasted a lot of the time. It can default to the government, allowing us to abolish taxes and fund everything from arithmetic instead. Further in the vein of social engineering by alternative math, I suggest saving the middle class (which everyone agrees has to be saved) by modifying the legal tender laws to apply modulo a million dollars or so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Trenton. Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 But a million is a thousand thousands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Originally Posted By: Student of Trinity I suggest saving the middle class (which everyone agrees has to be saved) I agree to nothing... you marrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt Erebus the Black Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Originally Posted By: Student of Trinity The short way, there are more billionaires. Milliardaire sounds like a fridge. I suggest the Calorael. I think we should use an irrational base. Base pi, for instance, sounds eminently ideal. Furthermore, in practice it will be rare to do things like buy two boxes of cereal, then toss an extra 1.14 ... boxes into the cart because they're on sale. So that extra 0.14 ... will just be wasted a lot of the time. It can default to the government, allowing us to abolish taxes and fund everything from arithmetic instead. Pi is already taken by the radian system (though I'm sure that you won't let it stop you) perhaps we can use 'e' instead, just like nature Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Student of Trinity Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Originally Posted By: Impudent Strumpet! you marrow. Now that cuts right to the bone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Student of Trinity Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Originally Posted By: Erasmus Originally Posted By: Student of Trinity I think we should use an irrational base. Base pi, for instance, sounds eminently ideal. Furthermore, in practice it will be rare to do things like buy two boxes of cereal, then toss an extra 1.14 ... boxes into the cart because they're on sale. So that extra 0.14 ... will just be wasted a lot of the time. It can default to the government, allowing us to abolish taxes and fund everything from arithmetic instead. Pi is already taken by the radian system (though I'm sure that you won't let it stop you) perhaps we can use 'e' instead, just like nature Naw, I'd rather keep government small. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 I think a log scale would be more useful since some people's post counts go up exponentially. Congratulations Alorael on making it 19000 posts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt Erebus the Black Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Originally Posted By: Randomizer I think a log scale would be more useful since some people's post counts go up exponentially. Congratulations Alorael on making it 19000 posts. you mean log base 2 log base 10 or ln ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody Locmaar Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 no matter what others might say: congratulations, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 Originally Posted By: Erasmus Originally Posted By: Randomizer I think a log scale would be more useful since some people's post counts go up exponentially. Congratulations Alorael on making it 19000 posts. you mean log base 2 log base 10 or ln ? Protip: Instead of writing log base 2 of x, or formatting like log2(x), just use lb(x) or ld(x) instead. Smart people will know what you mean, and stupid people will think you're smart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 Originally Posted By: Dantius Originally Posted By: Erasmus Originally Posted By: Randomizer I think a log scale would be more useful since some people's post counts go up exponentially. Congratulations Alorael on making it 19000 posts. you mean log base 2 log base 10 or ln ? Protip: Instead of writing log base 2 of x, or formatting like log2(x), just use lb(x) or ld(x) instead. Smart people will know what you mean, and stupid people will think you're smart. I consider myself reasonably smart, and I don't understand. If that, by virtue of not knowing, makes me stupid, I still don't think you're smart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Callie Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 Ah yes, congratulations. I remember you having somewhere around 300 posts at one time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 Originally Posted By: Impudent Strumpet! I consider myself reasonably smart, and I don't understand. If that, by virtue of not knowing, makes me stupid, I still don't think you're smart. Aren't you a liberal arts major? If so, QED. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 Originally Posted By: Dantius Originally Posted By: Impudent Strumpet! I consider myself reasonably smart, and I don't understand. If that, by virtue of not knowing, makes me stupid, I still don't think you're smart. Aren't you a liberal arts major? If so, QED. You're just jealous because we got more action than you sciencey/mathy people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice ex post slarto Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dintiradan Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 log() with base e is almost always referred to as ln(). I usually see log() with base 2 referred to as lg(), but maybe that's just a CompSci thing. I never use log() with base 10, so I don't know if there's any unambiguous shorthand for it. Like Dantius said, it's a really awkward base to work in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 Originally Posted By: Dintiradan log() with base e is almost always referred to as ln(). I usually see log() with base 2 referred to as lg(), but maybe that's just a CompSci thing. I never use log() with base 10, so I don't know if there's any unambiguous shorthand for it. Like Dantius said, it's a really awkward base to work in. log to base 10 is useful for constructing logarithmic graphs, for calculating values that are conventionally stated in decibels, and for not very much else Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall A less presumptuous name. Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 Originally Posted By: CRISIS on INFINITE SLARTIES That is 3:14 long. Therefor, the video is cosmically correct. Anyone who uses long billions or whatever is wrong. Each thousand is a new prefix. Also, whoever pointed out that the second thousand prefix (mil) is one, the third (bil) is two, and so on, thank you. I had noticed this before, and it always frustrates me. Why are numbers so mean to me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt Erebus the Black Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 Originally Posted By: Master1 Originally Posted By: CRISIS on INFINITE SLARTIES That is 3:14 long. Therefor, the video is cosmically correct. Anyone who uses long billions or whatever is wrong. Each thousand is a new prefix. Also, whoever pointed out that the second thousand prefix (mil) is one, the third (bil) is two, and so on, thank you. I had noticed this before, and it always frustrates me. Why are numbers so mean to me? It's because they are french Click to reveal.. Long scale is the English translation of the French term échelle longue. It refers to a system of large-number names in which every new term greater than million is 1,000,000 times the previous term: billion means a million millions (10^12), trillion means a million billions (10^18), and so on. Short scale is the English translation of the French term échelle courte. It refers to a system of large-number names in which every new term greater than million is 1,000 times the previous term: billion means a thousand millions (10^9), trillion means a thousand billions (10^12), and so on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan Karoka Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 Originally Posted By: Erasmus It's because they are french Don't be angry because they out-number you! (pun intended) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Dikiyoba Posted June 10, 2011 Share Posted June 10, 2011 Quote: Dikiyoba would give you the CANNED title if Dikiyoba could. Dikiyoba can, and so Dikiyoba did. Mostly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Goldengirl Posted June 10, 2011 Share Posted June 10, 2011 Originally Posted By: Dikiyoba Quote: Dikiyoba would give you the CANNED title if Dikiyoba could. Dikiyoba can, and so Dikiyoba did. Mostly. Can can, can Dikiyoba do the canning? Evidently yes. If anyone deserved it, it was certainly Rowen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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