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Top 50 Posters Extrapolated, January 2010

For comparison, here is a similar graph for mkrishnan, who has shown remarkable consistency, and for iGary, who accelerated, briefly passed mkrishnan in 2006, took a break from posting, and then returned.
 

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Doctor Q said:
Here's a chart showing jessica.'s post count total over time.

The first segment is shown as a long straight line because I don't have data prior to mid-2008, when she had enough posts to show up in the posting stat data.

The last segment is the extrapolation, using the posting rate she's had for the last 6 months to predict her post count 6 months from now on.

This demonstrates how my computations work for most members in the Top Poster charts. Notice that I do a linear extension of the last known data rather than using quadratics based on the change in slope over time.
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What is worse is that I can explain the "why" behind it all. :eek:
 
Doctor Q said:
For comparison, here is a similar graph for mkrishnan, who has shown remarkable consistency, and for iGary, who accelerated, briefly passed mkrishnan in 2006, took a break from posting, and then returned.
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Looks like iGary was working to catch up then ran out of steam. :p
 
dukebound85 said:
nice

is there any way we can acess personal post data? id like to be able to make my own charts lol
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I gathered all of my data from the profile pages of high-posting members. It's all public information. You can see anyone's post count as of today by looking at their profile page.

Getting post counts for previous dates is a lot harder. Although you can search for your own posts (or the posts of anyone else) to count them, it's pretty awkward. The forum search system doesn't let you specify a date range, so when you have thousands of posts you can't retrieve them all with a single search.
 
Doctor Q said:
I gathered all of my data from the profile pages of high-posting members. It's all public information. You can see anyone's post count as of today by looking at their profile page.

Getting post counts for previous dates is a lot harder. Although you can search for your own posts (or the posts of anyone else) to count them, it's pretty awkward. The forum search system doesn't let you specify a date range, so when you have thousands of posts you can't retrieve them all with a single search.
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Any way to search past you past 1000 posts?
 
Doctor Q said:
The only member of the Top 50 whose member number is a square: MacNut, member number 3249, the square of 57.

There are only two other members with 2500 or more posts whose member number is a square. One is mnkeybsness, member number 1764, the square of 42. A prize of 65536 brownie points goes to the first person to identify the other "square" forum member with over 2500 posts!
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I'm doubling the prize to 131072 brownie points. Anyone up to the challenge?
 
Doctor Q said:
I'm doubling the prize to 131072 brownie points. Anyone up to the challenge?
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What can we redeem brownie points for? Get out of jail free card? S&H Green Stamps? Free fill-up with a purchase of 1700 gallons or more?
 
I have no idea what you can use brownie points for. Maybe you can trade them for bragging rights, or for buckets of warm spit.

Since we don't know, I suggest hoarding them in case they turn out to be valuable.
 
Doctor Q said:
Changed members

The following members joined the Top 50 list, none making the Top 25:


DoFoT9 (#46)​
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EricNau said:
It took me awhile, but I told you I could do it! :p
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yup took me a while too! i havent even been focusing on my post count of late, when i first signed up i was in complete awe by some of the posters! but now i can see where everybody gets their posts from, it just sort of happens!

glad i could make the top #50, its a pretty big honour. next year i will be in the top #25. ;)

edit: oh, thanks for doing this Q! greatly appreciated :)
 
dukebound85 said:
Any way to search past you past 1000 posts?
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There are two ways to do a little better. One is to change the "Sort Results by" setting at the bottom of the page to Ascending instead of Descending. That way you get the first 1000 instead of the last 1000 posts.

The other trick is to search for your posts within one forum at a time (MacRumors.com News Discussion, MacRumors' Page 2 News Discussion, etc.) You probably know which forums you tend to post in, so those are the ones to search. If you've made less than 1000 posts in any forum, you can see them all in a search result, and up to 2000 if you use the Ascending/Descending trick too.

If your case, I can tell you three data points: You had 6,366 posts on January 3, 2009, 8,814 posts on July 3, 2009, and 10,864 posts on January 3, 2010.
 
Doctor Q said:
Wow! How did you find him? Trying every number in sequence?

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Excel spreadsheet... copy calculated links to forum post, which I previewed, but didn't post... Command+click each link, opening each profile in a new tab... scroll through the tabs. Got milk to go with these? :D
 
GGJstudios said:
Excel spreadsheet... copy calculated links to forum post, which I previewed, but didn't post... Command+click each link, opening each profile in a new tab... scroll through the tabs. Got milk to go with these? :D
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You have too much time on your hands.
 
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