30,000 Members here?

[radhak]

I suddenly noticed that the number of members right now is 29,709. So we were pretty close to hitting the 30,000 mark. I am guessing around 50 new members join up daily, so we should be seeing that exact number turning over next week?

I remember a news piece ages ago about a guy going for a public Turkish Steam Bath (dunno where) was suddenly caught by a bunch of serious looking people and dragged into a special room, where he was pleasantly surprised with some gifts and all, because he was the 10 millionth visitor there or something.

Would be interesting to do something like that here ;)

[King Cobra]

30,000th visitor gets dragged to the back by the DGVPG, then is awarded a free iPod mini with color preference. (Go for pink!! LOL)

It's almost celebrating time!

(Note: The graph isn't completely accurate.)

[edesignuk]

30,000!?!? http://upload.edesignuk.net/uploaded_data/smilies/cheers.gif


http://upload.edesignuk.net/uploaded_data/smilies/smilie_dancingbanana.gif http://upload.edesignuk.net/uploaded_data/smilies/woowoo.gif http://upload.edesignuk.net/uploaded_data/smilies/cheering.gif http://upload.edesignuk.net/uploaded_data/smilies/dancing.gif

[Thomas Veil]

Figures. I just joined. I'm the kind of person who walks into the grocery store just ahead of their one-millionth customer.

[wdlove]

This very thought has been running through my mind. Having 30,000 members will be quit a milestone. Maybe arn is waiting for that milestone before he makes the change over to a new looking forum.

edesignuk, again congratulations on a creative emotion display. ;)

[CmdrLaForge]

Originally posted by edesignuk
30,000!?!? http://upload.edesignuk.net/uploaded_data/smilies/cheers.gif


http://upload.edesignuk.net/uploaded_data/smilies/smilie_dancingbanana.gif http://upload.edesignuk.net/uploaded_data/smilies/woowoo.gif http://upload.edesignuk.net/uploaded_data/smilies/cheering.gif http://upload.edesignuk.net/uploaded_data/smilies/dancing.gif

As always very nice ! BTW - I haven't noticed the report this post to a moderator before ! Is that new ???

[eyelikeart]

20,000 seemed like it was just yesterday...

oh how the time goes by...

*tear*

[edesignuk]

Originally posted by CmdrLaForge
As always very nice ! BTW - I haven't noticed the report this post to a moderator before ! Is that new ???
hehe, thanks (and to you wdlove ;)). No, the report button has always been there.

[CmdrLaForge]

Originally posted by edesignuk
hehe, thanks (and to you wdlove ;)). No, the report button has always been there.

Funny that I haven't noticed it. Thanks.

[job]

Not to take this thread a little off-topic, but isn't vB 3.0 out? Wouldn't it be kinda cool to have vB 3.0 when our forum population hits 30,000? Or maybe not...

[edesignuk]

Originally posted by job
Not to take this thread a little off-topic, but isn't vB 3.0 out? Wouldn't it be kinda cool to have vB 3.0 when our forum population hits 30,000? Or maybe not...
I think it's still in it's release candidate stage.

[Nermal]

Edit: Never mind, read the wrong number :(

[wdlove]

Originally posted by eyelikeart
20,000 seemed like it was just yesterday...

oh how the time goes by...

*tear*

Please don't be too sad eyelikeart, it's always great to reminisce. Your deserve some of the credit for the continued growth of MacRumors. arn is the overall leader, but you and Mr. Anderson do the day to day trouble shooting which is greatly appreciated. Thank you! ;)

[bousozoku]

Sure, but there are only about 5000 real members.

The others have been banned over and over and others haven't come back since that initial visit. :D

[Mr. Anderson]

Originally posted by wdlove
Please don't be too sad eyelikeart, it's always great to reminisce. Your deserve some of the credit for the continued growth of MacRumors. arn is the overall leader, but you and Mr. Anderson do the day to day trouble shooting which is greatly appreciated. Thank you! ;)

now come on wdlove, that's just a little too much. Frank isn't sad, or probably even cares....he was just joking. You need to work on that :D

And you forgot Rower, Mudbug, Ambitious Lemon and Blake Spot there...

D

[applemacdude]

Ah yet another accomplishement(speeled wrong )for arn:D

[jelloshotsrule]

Originally posted by Mr. Anderson
And you forgot Rower, Mudbug, Ambitious Lemon and Blake Spot there...


and mc68k

[MoparShaha]

While we're on the subject, I think the member list needs to be cleaned out. There are hundreds, if not thousands of people who have never posted....not once.

It's funny, I still almost feel like a newbie, even though I'm a 'tared Demi :). In the 10 months or so I've been here, I've definately noticed a huge increase in the amount of active members. It just feels so much bigger here. What I like is that the site has expanded to fit the members--MacBytes, DailyTunes, ect.

[MacAztec]

Cool. I remember the very first posters. Was like NetworkMan (jefhatfield), Eyelikeart, Mr. Anderson, MacUser (myself), Kishba, and a few others. That was cool.

[MrMacMan]

Aww ...

Wow so many members.


But true, if you delete the members who never posted it is slimmed down quite a bit.

Thanks everyone for the great memories!

:D

[Doctor Q]

When the 30,000th member joins, somebody please point out who it is so we can give him/her a special welcome. However that's done.

[CmdrLaForge]

Originally posted by edesignuk
I think it's still in it's release candidate stage.

!OFF TOPIC!

I tought that the forums style will change ! When will that be ?

[applemacdude]

It did

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=53143

[Rower_CPU]

Originally posted by applemacdude
It did

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=53143

The front page changed, not the forum style. That'll change with vb3.

[applemacdude]

And when will this be?

[CmdrLaForge]

Didn't Arn say on that thread about the sites style change that the forums will change as well anytime soon ? I really hope he keeps the Mac style.

[Mr. Anderson]

Originally posted by jelloshotsrule
and mc68k

well, mc68k has been helping a lot with the folding scripts and such, but he's not a mod. That's what I was implying. If I were to list all the members who contribute something extra to this site, I'd miss more than a few and someone would get upset....tried to avoid that by just listing the ones I know for sure.

But thanks to all the others, you know who you are, even if I might not :D

D

[Rower_CPU]

Originally posted by applemacdude
And when will this be?

When it's ready. ;)

[CmdrLaForge]

Originally posted by Rower_CPU
When it's ready. ;)

LOL :D

[Benjamin]

:o ah you imo dont really want that many ppl, i mean look how spymac died in quality imo.

[King Cobra]

(Benjamin) --> i mean look how spymac died in quality imo.

Spymac's quality "died" when several anti-SpyMac zealots pissed all over their site, emphasizing a few false rumors and a couple of immature threads from SpyMac.com.

Then we had the anti-Slashdot zealots posting about the little s*** going on over at Slashdot. At least the anti-Slashdot zealots were a little more refined than the former anti-SpyMac zealots.

I'm a part anti-MacOSRumors (with the OS) zealot. :D

[Benjamin]

Originally posted by King Cobra
(Benjamin) --> i mean look how spymac died in quality imo.

Spymac's quality "died" when several anti-SpyMac zealots pissed all over their site, emphasizing a few false rumors and a couple of immature threads from SpyMac.com.

Then we had the anti-Slashdot zealots posting about the little s*** going on over at Slashdot. At least the anti-Slashdot zealots were a little more refined than the former anti-SpyMac zealots.

I'm a part anti-MacOSRumors (with the OS) zealot. :D

well that too, and yes i know i post at spymac.. why help all the n00bs there? idk, i just seem to do...

Anyway yeah i know.

As to.. MacOSR, lol don't get me started.

[CmdrLaForge]

Originally posted by King Cobra

I'm a part anti-MacOSRumors (with the OS) zealot. :D

Why that ? I think that its quite funny what they are posting. You just have to take it with a grain of salt.

Cheers

[SiliconAddict]

I got a free LED mini torch laser etched with Pocket PC Thoughts for being the 10,000th post. Somewhat cool.

How many total posts have been made on this board?

[Doctor Q]

Originally posted by SiliconAddict
I got a free LED mini torch laser etched with Pocket PC Thoughts for being the 10,000th post. Somewhat cool.

How many total posts have been made on this board? 712,990. You can see the counts at the top of this page (http://forums.macrumors.com/index.php?s=). I'm not sure if that count excludes posts that have been archived or otherwise demoted or removed.

[Mr. Anderson]

Originally posted by Doctor Q
712,990. You can see the counts at the top of this page (http://forums.macrumors.com/index.php?s=). I'm not sure if that count excludes posts that have been archived or otherwise demoted or removed.

That's the acutal # of posts in the data base. The real number can be found when you view the latest post on the forum...in this case for my post its 719,835 and the current forum # is 713,095 for a difference of 6740 - those are all the deleted posts :D

D

[jelloshotsrule]

Originally posted by Mr. Anderson
well, mc68k has been helping a lot with the folding scripts and such, but he's not a mod.

not a mod, maybe.

but he should be

he's also a hero/role model of mine

[Opteron]

29946 members at the time of this post.

only 54 more members till the 30K

[Doctor Q]

Let's all say welcome to new MacRumors member Mightee (http://forums.macrumors.com/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=30000)!

[mvc]

Originally posted by Mr. Anderson
That's the acutal # of posts in the data base. The real number can be found when you view the latest post on the forum...in this case for my post its 719,835 and the current forum # is 713,095 for a difference of 6740 - those are all the deleted posts :D

D

And when you subtract all the:

Newbie F.A.Q about running OSX on Intel etc

Obscene personal abuse and snide remarks at 3 in the morning

Endless repetitions of points made 5 pages earlier

Spelling mistakes being corrected as a pathetic pointscoring argument of last resort

Pointless Mac VS PC flame wars by blind raving zealots

Obscure technical ramblings about level 3 cache by our esteemed Borg membership

Endless pleas for bl@#dy powerbook G5s

And posts that have LOL somewhere in them you are left with exactly?…



Hey, I luuuv this place :p

[radhak]

so today somebody gets the 30K award...?

nobody cheat please...

[Mr. Anderson]

Originally posted by radhak
so today somebody gets the 30K award...?

nobody cheat please...

look at the post above....its mightee that got the 30k slot. And its good to see that they're actually posting :D

D

[CmdrLaForge]

Originally posted by Mr. Anderson
look at the post above....its mightee that got the 30k slot. And its good to see that they're actually posting :D

D

What do you mean with mightee got the 30k slot ? We are still at 29958 !

BTW. How can I get these smaller fonts in my sig ?

[wdlove]

It certainly looks like we have a chance of passing the 30,000 member mark today. Currently at 29,962.

[Doctor Q]

Originally posted by mvc
Spelling mistakes being corrected as a pathetic pointscoring argument of last resortYour missing the peroid at the end of you're sentence, mvc.

Your welcome! ;)

[mvc]

Originally posted by Doctor Q
Your missing the peroid at the end of you're sentence, mvc.

Your welcome! ;)

Period, not peroid Doctor Q ;)

Hang on a minute…

You have reversed the usage of your and you're in all 3 locations, which is so subtle you surely must be having me on. :p

[Opteron]

29967 at time of posting.

[MrMacMan]

Originally posted by Opteron
29967 at time of posting.

You all understand that we aren't going to know who this person is right?

Since we have Already hit the 30k 'users' mark.

That is 30k users + the banned ones.

If you are talking about 30k users - banned uses then you have no way of knowing 'who' is the 30k users

:o

[radhak]

Originally posted by MrMacman
You all understand that we aren't going to know who this person is right?

Since we have Already hit the 30k 'users' mark.

That is 30k users + the banned ones.

If you are talking about 30k users - banned uses then you have no way of knowing 'who' is the 30k users

:o

for the sake of this exciting reality forum, we shall ignore the mundane hair-splitting details, and only go with the number displayed on page 1 of this forum... here (http://forums.macrumors.com/index.php?s=)

nothing on tv worth the attention, so at least this :D

29,983... the going is slower now, closer to the peak

[CmdrLaForge]

8 to go.

Today will be the day. :D

[Opteron]

7

[CmdrLaForge]

6

[wordmunger]

2!

[CmdrLaForge]

Now at 30008 !

I missed the 30000 mark because I was on the road.

Who is it ?

[Doctor Q]

Just now it said
Members: 30,011
Welcome to our newest member, scottrish

Since scottrish is member number 30,094, I assume that MacRumors reached 30,000 members when member number 30,083 joined.

That would be atari1356 (http://forums.macrumors.com/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=30083)! He/she has provided no profile information and has yet to post.

However, I still think Mightee (http://forums.macrumors.com/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=30000) deserves the honors. Do we need a poll about this?

[CmdrLaForge]

Well, I think both need to post a little bit of background information before we start that poll.

What I found quite interesting is that only about 80 members got banned so far. I think thats not a lot with about 15000 active poster.

[radhak]

Originally posted by Doctor Q
Just now it said
Members: 30,011
Welcome to our newest member, scottrish

dang it, got busy briefly and we already overshot!


Since scottrish is member number 30,094, I assume that MacRumors reached 30,000 members when member number 30,083 joined.

That would be atari1356 (http://forums.macrumors.com/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=30083)! He/she has provided no profile information and has yet to post.


Thanks Dr, but how do you see this? i presume you have access to pages we ordinary mortals don't...



However, I still think Mightee (http://forums.macrumors.com/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=30000) deserves the honors. Do we need a poll about this? [/B]

imo : if this 'real' number cannot seen by everybody, then we shd consider only the one which is.

of course, we can only see the number while they register, so its pretty moot anyway....

fwiw, one vote for atari1356!

[wdlove]

Originally posted by CmdrLaForge
Well, I think both need to post a little bit of background information before we start that poll.

What I found quite interesting is that only about 80 members got banned so far. I think thats not a lot with about 15000 active poster.

Let me see if I understand what you are saying. If a person is banned from MacRumors, then their name is completely deleted from the membership rolls? It would seem that it could cause some problems.

[Doctor Q]

I have no inside information. The numbers I've used are based on the profiles you can see for any member, using a URL of the form

http://forums.macrumors.com/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=nnnnn

Hover over the Profile button under any post and you should see the member number at the end of the URL in your web browser's status bar.

My assumptions have been that:

* The "Members: nnnnn" display shows the number of non-banned members, since otherwise I don't know why it would differ from the highest user number.

* Banned members retain their identity, member number, profile, and posts. They just can't login, post, change their profiles, or subscribe to threads anymore. Their member number would certainly not be reused.

* All of this is just for fun anyway and only matters because we were born with 10 fingers. If we had 9 fingers, we'd be watching for member 19,683 (which is 30,000 in base 9)!

[tomf87]

Well, 15 members ago we hit 30,000.... Any way to track back?

EDIT:

By looking at members by date joined, and counting back, it appears that Gee is our 30,000th registered member!

http://forums.macrumors.com/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=30079

[wordmunger]

Originally posted by tomf87
Well, 15 members ago we hit 30,000.... Any way to track back?

EDIT:

By looking at members by date joined, and counting back, it appears that Gee is our 30,000th registered member!

http://forums.macrumors.com/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=30079
Where are you getting that number? By my calculations (and Doctor Q's) it should be user 30083: Atari 1356

[tomf87]

Originally posted by wordmunger
Where are you getting that number? By my calculations (and Doctor Q's) it should be user 30083: Atari 1356

Front page, it says we have 30,020 registered members. So go to:

http://forums.macrumors.com/memberlist.php?s=&what=datejoined

Top person should be number 30,020 and count down the list from there.

How did you guys get your number?

EDIT: I think I see how you got it. Now, it says 30,020 registered members and the latest person is user id 30,103, so that would put it at Atari 1356, but I'm not sure which way is best suited. To be honest, you'd have to query the database and get the exact time they registered. I am not sure the member list sorted by date joined sorts by time.

EDIT AGAIN: I think the registered members number on the front page is people who have acutally posted something. You guys go member id 30,083 which is Atari 1356, and I got member id 30,079 (Gee), which is 4 id's lower. Coincidentally, there are 4 members with no posts agove Gee. So, it depends on what are we calling a member, someone who signed up or someone who signed up and posted.

[wordmunger]

Aw, heck, why don't we just give the honor to Mightee (http://forums.macrumors.com/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=30000)? After all, s/he's user number 30,000! That's a nice, round number.

I think the discrepancy in numbers is due to banned member accounts.

[wordmunger]

Originally posted by tomf87
EDIT AGAIN: I think the registered members number on the front page is people who have acutally posted something. You guys go member id 30,083 which is Atari 1356, and I got member id 30,079 (Gee), which is 4 id's lower. Coincidentally, there are 4 members with no posts agove Gee. So, it depends on what are we calling a member, someone who signed up or someone who signed up and posted.

Oh! I see how you came up with that! But some of those people have never posted. Is it possible that the others correspond to invalid e-mail accounts? Or the Spamhaus problem? In any case, your method makes a lot of sense. It seems likely that Gee is actually the 30,000th member.

[CmdrLaForge]

Originally posted by wdlove
Let me see if I understand what you are saying. If a person is banned from MacRumors, then their name is completely deleted from the membership rolls? It would seem that it could cause some problems.

No. Thats not what I said. I have no idea what really happens if someone gets banned.

[CmdrLaForge]

Originally posted by Doctor Q
Just now it said
Members: 30,011
Welcome to our newest member, scottrish

Since scottrish is member number 30,094, I assume that MacRumors reached 30,000 members when member number 30,083 joined.

That would be atari1356 (http://forums.macrumors.com/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=30083)! He/she has provided no profile information and has yet to post.

However, I still think Mightee (http://forums.macrumors.com/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=30000) deserves the honors. Do we need a poll about this?

The only thing I wanted to say is that we now have 2 members who could claim to be number 30000. One is mightee with the member number 30000 and the other one is atari1356 who registered by the time the member counter number showed 30000. At least thats what we believe.

My suggestion was. Let both introduce themselves and then we start a poll.

:cool:

[Doctor Q]

I PM'ed both Mightee and atari1356 and invited them both to post here.

Do any stores actually count customers and have a big celebration when the 1,000,000th customer walks in the door? Or is that just a cliché?

[CmdrLaForge]

Originally posted by Doctor Q
I PM'ed both Mightee and atari1356 and invited them both to post here.

Do any stores actually count customers and have a big celebration when the 1,000,000th customer walks in the door? Or is that just a cliché?

Hey thats great. We will see if they post in here. Maybe we just call the first one number 30000 ?

I think that some stores really do that.

[applemacdude]

When it's ready. ;)


And now it is

[Doctor Q]

I hope Mightee and atari1356 didn't try to post this weekend, find the forums closed for remodeling, and get discouraged.

[MrMacMan]

I hope Mightee and atari1356 didn't try to post this weekend, find the forums closed for remodeling, and get discouraged.

I hope not too.

Both 30k members are worth it!

[Mr. Anderson]

Both 30k members are worth it!

are you all going to start the count down to 40k members and then argue about who it actually is again :rolleyes:

D

[atari1356]

Just now it said
Members: 30,011
Welcome to our newest member, scottrish

Since scottrish is member number 30,094, I assume that MacRumors reached 30,000 members when member number 30,083 joined.

That would be atari1356 (http://forums.macrumors.com/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=30083)! He/she has provided no profile information and has yet to post.

However, I still think Mightee (http://forums.macrumors.com/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=30000) deserves the honors. Do we need a poll about this?

Wow, I just noticed I had a private message from Doctor Q about this from about 3 weeks ago. I didn't even know I could get private messages and didn't check until I saw it today. So... sorry I'm a bit late in posting here.

Regardless of whether the 30,000th member is Mightee or me... that's quite an accomplishment on the part of this web site and community. Nice work. :)

Since I've discovered MacRumors, it's become my favorite Mac site to visit. I've posted a few messages, and will get around to putting something in my profile eventually.

Hmm, 30,000th member... that sounds prestigious. Do I win a free Dual 2GHz Powermac? ;)

[Doctor Q]

I hereby declare, without authority to do so, that atari1356, by posting here, is the official 30,000th MacRumors member and is due all rights, privileges, and responsibilities that go with the title.
Hmm, 30,000th member... that sounds prestigious. Do I win a free Dual 2GHz Powermac? ;)Sure! Just go to any Apple store and tell them you came to pick up a free Power Mac! ;)

[CmdrLaForge]

Doctor Q,

I hereby agree to your judgment. Therefore atari1356 is member 30000 !

Cheers :D

[Mightee]

So I was number 30,000 but I didn't check the message until two years later. Well, at least I'm now officially an idiot and not running around not knowing for sure.

[WildCowboy]

Somebody just did a search for their own username... ;)

[Flowbee]

Somebody just did a search for their own username... ;)

Or checked their PMs for the first time.

[mad jew]

...Or has a very slow internet connection.

[Benjamin]

rotfl you just have to laugh at this one. :p

[Doctor Q]

So I was number 30,000 but I didn't check the message until two years later. Well, at least I'm now officially an idiot and not running around not knowing for sure.That's pretty funny, Mightee. And so is our making a big deal out of the 30,000th forum member in the first place, especially since we are now nearing member number 80,000. At the moment, we are up to 79,811 (named menace3054).

I sure hope the moderators don't find out that you called one of our most celebrated members an idiot. They might pull out the brass knuckles because you insulted our Mightee hero so rudely!