Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 Aha! Tricked by the lure of crossword-style puzzles and arbitrarily assigned scores, you've inadvertently entered my celebratory 3,000.00 post thread! However, instead of being trite and boring and posting pictures involving the number 3000 somehow, I thought I'd throw you all a party! And not just any party, the kind I went to in college! With cheap vodka passed through a Brita filter to drink and spreadsheets for entertainment! Wohoo!!! Just kidding. I can't send vodka through wifi (yet!), and some of you are probably underage, so it's BYOB. I can still provide the data and spreadsheets, though! Code: TOTAL POSTS: 3,000TOTAL POSTS IN DATABASE: 2,956AVG. POSTS/DAY: 4.1AVG. POSTS/DAY, 2009: 5.3AVG. POSTS/DAY, 2010: 4.2AVG. POSTS/DAY, YTD: 3.3 Ooh, and let's compare this to some other top posters! Here's a table: Click to reveal.. (Top Posters) ...that also comes in handy graph form! Click to reveal.. (Chart!) Now, that's just the overall average from the sign-up date. It doesn't count the variations that inevitably occur. I would have broken it down month-by-month or at least year-by-year for everyone on the TP list + me, but I don't have a) the time to do it by hand, since it took me an hour to do it for my 3K posts, or the computer expertise to write a script to do it for me. So here's just mine, complete with a 6 month moving average! Click to reveal.. (Chart AND Graph!) And, of course, I then went to all the trouble of recording what date I made every 20th post (not at the time I made the posts, not even I'm that insane) and painstakingly assembled a cumulative graph detailing the inexorable rise of my now-massive postcount! I would have plotted the posts per day on the same graph, but because of the way Excel formats the dates, the result was a mess, so I just tossed in a linear regression instead. Enjoy! Click to reveal.. (Graph!) WOOOOOHOOOOO PARRRRRTY! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Aoslare Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 Variations are one thing and can be written off. Total absences are something else, and are worth accounting for. In particular, TM, Drakey, Aran, and I have all been 100% absent for approximately half the time our accounts have existed. Also, I would really have enjoyed it if you had included your older posts and broken them down by, uh, category. EDIT: Also, three cheers for not just posting pictures. EDIT 2: Hmm, I just noticed that Drakey and I have almost identical stats, and that I showed up right around the time he disappeared. That would explain a few things, wouldn't it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan Karoka Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 WHOO! GO SPREADSHEET PARTY!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Balladeer Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 *brings balloons and devils food cake* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Student of Trinity Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 Bah, all this posting is clearly just a speculative bubble. You watch, it'll all crash. We'll be scrounging around here desperately, reading and re-reading the two or three fresh posts per week that come in. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. It'll be a well-deserved doom when it comes: chickens roosting, karma recycling, what went around coming back around in its turn. Our gilded age cannot endure. The unequal distribution of posts cries out for redress. Why should a few fat cats enjoy ninety percent of all Spiderweb posts, while everyone else has to share a bare few hundred between them? And don't anyone give me any of this Ayn Rand nonsense about how those few members with high post counts actually created all those posts themselves. Give me a break. They only did that because an unjust society enabled them to do so. Comrades, it is time for the new age to dawn. Henceforth, everyone with more than, let's see, yes, 5250 posts shall be recognized as the inhuman class enemies that they are. Their bloated post counts shall be seized by the proletariat! And they shall have to labor honestly to repay their debts to society, by writing posts for the heretofore downtrodden and oppressed. From each according to his ability, to each according to his self-esteem. Lurkers of the world, unite! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Aoslare Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 Four posts good, two posts better! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Micawber Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 This thread made me giggle; I can't think of a more appropriate way to celebrate Dantius's 3000th post than launching a marxist manifesto. One thing, the second graph has a curious straight line trend. Can anyone explain. What is the x axis anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 I'd better go invest in gold posts before the post market collapses and post rates inflate. Also, thank you for amusing us, Dantius. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted August 23, 2011 Author Share Posted August 23, 2011 Originally Posted By: Micawber This thread made me giggle; I can't think of a more appropriate way to celebrate Dantius's 3000th post than launching a marxist manifesto. One thing, the second graph has a curious straight line trend. Can anyone explain. What is the x axis anyway. I just assigned a numerical value to the names in sequential order- TM is 1, Eph is 2, Drakey is 3, Slarty is 4, and so on, to make it look nice. The rates are ordered from smallest to largest, so it looks linear, but there's really only one variable that matters, and it's the one plotted on the y axis. The x axis is just the names. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan Karoka Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 Originally Posted By: Triumph I'd better go invest in gold posts before the post market collapses and post rates inflate. Easy for you to say, you aren't living off less than 200 posts. You live in a nice, comfy Spiderweb home, while the poor fend for our lives in the little corners of the screen, collecting the little forgotten crumbs you leave for us to feed our whole families with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 You're right!!! We should alter the CoC to require a Living Postrate! We don't have a Minimum Postrate, amazingly, but the poor need one! But it should not be just a Minimum Postrate for subsistence living. We should mandate a Living Postrate, which will be a fair and just daily rate of posts for all board users, and which make sure that all make enough posts to fully enrich their lives and those of their families! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 Postrate looks too much like prostate for my liking. I find the most impressive thing in this thread is Dantius' avatar. Props. Also I am a slightly less optimal spammer, on account of posting an original message. Sue me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Aoslare Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 Heh. I didn't even notice that till just now. Very clever! Although I will point out that I did not actually do a simple invert on mine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dintiradan Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 All in favour of a Dantius seizure avatar? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Dikiyoba Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 Originally Posted By: Dintiradan All in favour of a Dantius seizure avatar? Only if we can kill him and fairly distribute his posts afterwards. Dikiyoba will happily help any poor posters inflate their post count. Just send Dikiyoba the password to your account and the fun will begin! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Aoslare Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 Originally Posted By: Dintiradan All in favour of a Dantius seizure avatar? Say iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Alorael at Large Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 Forget a living post rate. What we need is a redistribution of posts. From each according to his ability! To each according to his bandwidth! —Alorael, who feels slightly icky after being SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN to be the most spammacious. But only slightly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk ĐªгŦĦ Єяŋϊε Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 can't you access them as a mod? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Aoslare Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 Nope. Admins can do that, but it's logged when they do, so they don't, because they don't want to stop being admins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Tyranicus Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 Congratulations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Sarachim Posted August 23, 2011 Share Posted August 23, 2011 You guys talk about redistribution because you don't understand what it means to earn a post count. It took me ten years to save up these 1,200 posts, and I'll be damned if you can have any of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan Skwish-E Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 Originally Posted By: Jewels in Black *brings balloons and devils food cake* I was looking for Devil's Advocate Cake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 Congratulations Dantius. Now all you need is a graph of members years of posting versus a log scale of total posts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall A less presumptuous name. Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 Congrats, Dantius. If his is killed and his posts distributed, will the distribution be weighted or even? Will Alorael receive more or less posts? Will the postrate gap grow, shrink, or just be translated up a few posts across the board? Originally Posted By: Randomizer Now all you need is a graph of members years of posting versus a log scale of total posts. All this talk of scaling gave me a great idea for a gimmick. Post at specific rates so that, when total posts are graphed with respect to time, shapes are formed. Or at least standard mathematical models. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 can everybody please stop saying prostate. It's "post rate". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall A less presumptuous name. Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 Nikki, focus on something else, please. But thanks for this opportunity to increase my postrate (I almost misspelled it that time...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Dikiyoba Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 At this rate, this thread is going to make some people develop postrate cancer. Dikiyoba. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 Originally Posted By: Dikiyoba At this rate, this thread is going to make some people develop postrate cancer. Dikiyoba. It was funnier in IM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast The Mystic Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 Congrats, Dantius! I should probably be hitting 3000 posts myself in a few months... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall A less presumptuous name. Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 Originally Posted By: Dikiyoba At this rate, this thread is going to make some people develop postrate cancer. Dikiyoba. Uncontrolled postrate growth? Check. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 Gah!! Anyway, dragging the topic back to post ratings. Top ten? soon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Aoslare Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 no. it's like the palindrome of soon, with the second half truncated. candide reference; bye Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted August 24, 2011 Author Share Posted August 24, 2011 Nikki, you have a laughably small post rate of 1.8 posts per day. That puts you below ever single person I analyzed, including TM, who has been gone for the past 2 years. Given current rates, you'll hit the TP list in about a year and three months. Of course, that also isn't factoring in your competition, SOT or *i, both of which have very similar post counts. So if one of them decides to make a sprint for the TP list (aside: *i won't do this, since he's the admin and has to have dignity, though SOT also probably has enough dignity to not do it either. So congratulations, you have the dubious honor of having the least dignity of people almost on the top 10 list, unless Salmon decides *i isn't Hitler in disguise and comes back, and that would throw my number all to hell), then you'd probably have to shoot to knock them off or aim for TM's slot at 7K as opposed to 6.2K. That mean that, given your rate, it might take up to 2 years 2 months to get a slot, but by then I'd have nearly overtaken you, so you certainly wouldn't get to keep it for very long. tl;dr: Originally Posted By: HOUSE of S no. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 SoT has been posting more since he became a mod. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 And I'm much more active now then I was this time last year. Whatever, it's not like I signed up to argue about posting on a games company's website. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Dikiyoba Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 SoT also gave permission for a mob of lurkers to beat him up and steal all his posts once he makes 11 more posts, so Nikki doesn't have to worry about him. Really, Dikiyoba thinks the person Nikki needs to worry the most about is himself. He can't make it to the top ten if he decides to leave again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted August 25, 2011 Share Posted August 25, 2011 Dikiyoba could always go back to writing. Then Dikiyoba could easily post 10 times a day to comment on the comments. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Callie Posted August 25, 2011 Share Posted August 25, 2011 Oh wow, 3000 posts already! I feel special. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Aoslare Posted August 25, 2011 Share Posted August 25, 2011 Originally Posted By: Dantius TM, who has been gone for the past 2 years. He's been gone for the past 5 years, with two extremely brief exceptions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Tyranicus Posted August 25, 2011 Share Posted August 25, 2011 Has it really been that long? I'm old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Cairo Jim Posted August 25, 2011 Share Posted August 25, 2011 I'm jealous. I've been here roughly 5 times longer and you've posted rougly 5 times the amount. Now I put it that way, I just feel slack. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Dikiyoba Posted August 25, 2011 Share Posted August 25, 2011 Originally Posted By: Randomizer Dikiyoba could always go back to writing. Then Dikiyoba could easily post 10 times a day to comment on the comments. What? Also no, and now Dikiyoba has to reset the time until Dikiyoba announces the next Episode. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted August 25, 2011 Share Posted August 25, 2011 Dikiyoba's picture changed! Has that ever happened before??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted August 25, 2011 Share Posted August 25, 2011 Originally Posted By: Dikiyoba What? Also no, and now Dikiyoba has to reset the time until Dikiyoba announces the next Episode. So there is another Episode? At this rate, Discord will be out first... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan Skwish-E Posted August 25, 2011 Share Posted August 25, 2011 Originally Posted By: Triumph Dikiyoba's picture changed! Has that ever happened before??? What is the new picture? A pink snail on a leaf? It just looks like a blur to my old eyes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted August 25, 2011 Share Posted August 25, 2011 It's Dikiyoba's old avatar in new clothes: http://www.spiderwebforums.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=241675#Post241675 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Tyranicus Posted August 25, 2011 Share Posted August 25, 2011 Originally Posted By: Triumph Dikiyoba's picture changed! Has that ever happened before??? On the old UBB we didn't have avatars, so yes, it changed from nothing to the one she had before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Dikiyoba Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 Originally Posted By: Triumph Dikiyoba's picture changed! Has that ever happened before??? I change my avatar occasionally (though never for more than a few days at a time). I don't know why you're so surprised. Dikiyoba hopes it has never been this ugly before, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan Karoka Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 Must . . . not . . . INVERT! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan Skwish-E Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 Originally Posted By: Dikiyoba ... Dikiyoba hopes it has never been this ugly before, though. Oh! There it is, it's upaside-downey and all squinty-colored! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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