Two things for the OP:
You mention in the first post that this is a wiki post, but there is no edit button.
The post level for Westmere isn't unknown; it's 37,000 posts.
Thanks for the edits!
I made it a Wiki for him.
Also, you are correct, Westmere is, in fact, 37,000 posts.
Thank you! Thought I had checked the wiki box, apparently had a derp halfway through.
Thank you! Also, I was searching for an older thread where user titles were being discussed and several people were posting guesses about post levels and titles. I can't find it now, but one poster had compiled a list and Doctor Q said they were close, but off on a couple. I can't find that thread now, but thought it would be helpful to link it here.
I'll find it with time, I've been stalking Doctor Q's threads for a while in the past day to set this up
I'll also give confirmation that these are correctly listed above as well. Credit to whomever figured it out of course!
- Penryn => 24,000 posts
- Nehalem => 30,000 posts
Yay! I did some educated guesses based on stalking members on Doctor Q's top users list. I thought I spotted an underlying trend of +1000, +2000, +3000 per step, but Pentium and P6 threw me off the trail. So unless you guys have other sneaky steps in there, I suppose Sandy Bridge will be 45,000!
I'm curious to see data on the number of members holding the various ranks -- say from 6502 to Westmere.
What's the shape of that curve?
I think it would look logarithmic, actually... It wasn't graphed by Doctor Q,
but in his ranking of the top users from Jan 2013 one gets a bit of perspective:
GGJstudios (macrumors Nehalem)
jessica. (macrumors Nehalem)
Eidorian (macrumors Penryn)
rdowns (macrumors Penryn)
Abstract (macrumors Penryn)
bartelby (macrumors Core)
Dagless (macrumors Core)
miles01110 (macrumors Core)
PlaceofDis (macrumors Core)
iBlue (macrumors Core)
~Shard~ (macrumors P6)
alphaod (macrumors P6)
simsaladimbamba (macrumors P6)
DoFoT9 (macrumors P6)
MacNut (macrumors P6)
wdlove (macrumors P6)
dukebound85 (macrumors P6)
iJohnHenry (macrumors P6)
-aggie- (macrumors P6)
Peace (macrumors G5)
Sun Baked (macrumors G5)
KnightWRX (macrumors G5)
twoodcc (macrumors G5)
IJ Reilly (macrumors G5)
The distribution at the time was 2,3,5,9 for just the top four tiers, and I would imagine it becomes linear in the mid-levels of use, and then probably a lot of people stuck as newbies, members, and regulars.
If only I were an admin, I've been quite curious as well! Perhaps I can convince Doctor Q to consider it for his Jan 2015 statistics if I approach him nicely! Or, if he can't be bothered, perhaps he might share some of his data and let me to the crunching. I'll reach out to him later today