This could be true, but it's also possible that they're just a lurker who only posts once every few years. I guess they could still be a community newbie in a way, as in people don't really know them.
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Exactly. It’s the posting that makes you familiar, not the join date.
But a newbie with five posts who joined in 2002 probably had a question he or she wished to have answered, and didn't see the act of joining the site as a prelude to actually contributing to the site on a more permanent basis.
Maybe the "newbie" title should change to "introvert" after a year if a user still has insufficient posts to become a "member."
Or instead of MacRumors Westmere it could just say “has no social life”!
I've been coming here every day (often multiple times a day) for over 12 years, and I have less than 500 posts. People like me do exist!
Likewise! Been coming here everyday for years (along with MacSurfer RIP) .....didn't think to join until a few ago. Still, has been more than worth it....great site! I've pointed many others this way over the years.
Reading the titles I wonder what the first Apple CPU might be called and who will be the first A14m... or will iOS device CPUs sneak in?
Some forums use various forms of lurker for this. For example less than 10 posts after 10 years gets you a super special lurker status
Your font moves but we can’t hear what you say.
Ivy Bridge definitely does exist but I cannot confirm the exact post amount.
I’ll let you know in another 15,000 posts.
Yes, I can confirm - definitively and conclusively - that it does appear to exist.
I believe that I actually saw that very change take place quite unexpectedly before my rather bemused bespectacled eyes a matter of mere days ago.
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You are the member I used to check when the count changed. Lol
Congratulations on a new milestone!
It took me by surprise, as well, as I hadn't exected it, and had never seen any refernce to Ivy Bridge as a possible 'rank', secret or otherwise.
However, I can confirm that it clocks - or registers - a change of rank at 54,000.
Thank you.
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Well there aren’t too many Ivy Bridge users.
Mind you there aren’t too many Westmere’s either!
No, not many.
In fact, I suspect that I may be entirely on my own (unless @maflynn also holds it), just as I am domestically (at the moment) in these challenging Covid times.
I think he has a mod one, but yes that would be his rank I believe. I’m sure we shall have some statistics along shortly as it’s nearly that time of year.
I suspect that I may be, (unless @maflynn is one, too).
For what it is worth, I think that the nine times table proffers some clues as to when these changes occur: (36, 34, 54, etc).