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Top 50 Posters Extrapolated, January 2015

Apple fanboy said:
Do you happen to know if current post rate (mines 6.22 per day) is based on your posting habits since joining or over a set period of time?
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In your user profile, the Posts Per Day is the average over your entire membership. Your average of 6.2 is over the 34 months you've been here.

In my chart #1, the current post rate is based only on the last 6 months. The exception would be a member for whom I didn't have a previous snapshot, but that's rare since the member would have to get near the top without having hit my radar threshold 6 months earlier.

Ask me in 6 months and I'll know your overall rate, 6-month rate, and the balance between the two that I called the computed qualifying rate (for Chart #3).

The same applies to Scepticalscribe: 2.9 post per day average over the 77 months since joining; better data next time.
 
Doctor Q said:
In your user profile, the Posts Per Day is the average over your entire membership. Your average of 6.2 is over the 34 months you've been here.

In my chart #1, the current post rate is based only on the last 6 months. The exception would be a member for whom I didn't have a previous snapshot, but that's rare since the member would have to get near the top without having hit my radar threshold 6 months earlier.

Ask me in 6 months and I'll know your overall rate, 6-month rate, and the balance between the two that I called the computed qualifying rate (for Chart #3).

The same applies to Scepticalscribe: 2.9 post per day average over the 77 months since joining; better data next time.
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Thanks again Dr Q. You really are the MR master statition. Always find these stats interesting reading.
 
maflynn said:
I know I said this, but man, I must be running out of words to say :p

Seriously, though, work, and personal life is increasing this year and I just don't think I'll have the bandwidth to be here all the time.
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Happens to the best of us. I remember posting so often on a daily basis. Now its the occasional check in and a comment here or there. Once I started working and wasn't in grad school is when my life got busy lol

What I do not understand is how some users go cold turkey after being heavily invested in the site (mad jew and lacero come to mind)
 
dukebound85 said:
Happens to the best of us. I remember posting so often on a daily basis. Now its the occasional check in and a comment here or there. Once I started working and wasn't in grad school is when my life got busy lol

What I do not understand is how some users go cold turkey after being heavily invested in the site (mad jew and lacero come to mind)
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I agree. With me MacRumors has become part of my internet habit. I check in multiple times a day to see what has been going on. To just cut off posting would be hard.
 
stridemat said:
I agree. With me MacRumors has become part of my internet habit. I check in multiple times a day to see what has been going on. To just cut off posting would be hard.
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Agree. Normally first thing in the morning, lunchtime at work then in the evening depending on what I'm doing. I can't recall a day I didn't post something in the last year.
 
dukebound85 said:
Happens to the best of us. I remember posting so often on a daily basis. Now its the occasional check in and a comment here or there. Once I started working and wasn't in grad school is when my life got busy lol

What I do not understand is how some users go cold turkey after being heavily invested in the site (mad jew and lacero come to mind)
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I'm still active in the morning, but as a for instance, I'm busy at work updating an enterprise application. That takes my focus, before I could pop in and see how things are, now I cannot.

I'm also working towards my black belt, that's also taking my time away from the computer. I have to say on that task - I'm happy to be away from the computer (unless I'm doing burpees then I wished I was in front of the computer :p)
 
dukebound85 said:
Happens to the best of us. I remember posting so often on a daily basis. Now its the occasional check in and a comment here or there. Once I started working and wasn't in grad school is when my life got busy lol

What I do not understand is how some users go cold turkey after being heavily invested in the site (mad jew and lacero come to mind)
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Well, things happen. I mentioned that when I joined, I was still teaching. Actually, I had just bought a MBP - having 'switched' from Windows machines - and had questions I wished to ask about it. Research online led me to the site, and I lurked, hoping to find answers to questions I had.

Browsing the site prompted me to join, mainly to ask questions about Apple computers - and this was the first time I joined anything of the sort. Prior to that, I had no online presence whatsoever - and it several more years before I joined LinkedIn for professional reasons.

Initially, I was reluctant to post but that changed and, for a short while, I became relatively prolific as a poster. Unexpectedly, my life did, too, as within a few months I was asked to travel abroad at short notice, and that put paid to my posting.

Re posters who 'go cold', I think things happen in their lives, new jobs, places or relationships, or some combination of all of these factors. Taken together, that means that you have less time, and, probably more importantly, less room for the sort of emotional engagement and investment that the site may have supplied as the other factors in your life may now supply these things instead.


Doctor Q said:
In your user profile, the Posts Per Day is the average over your entire membership. Your average of 6.2 is over the 34 months you've been here.

In my chart #1, the current post rate is based only on the last 6 months. The exception would be a member for whom I didn't have a previous snapshot, but that's rare since the member would have to get near the top without having hit my radar threshold 6 months earlier.

Ask me in 6 months and I'll know your overall rate, 6-month rate, and the balance between the two that I called the computed qualifying rate (for Chart #3).

The same applies to Scepticalscribe: 2.9 post per day average over the 77 months since joining; better data next time.
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Thank you for your work; this is something that I do find extraordinarily interesting.
 
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Apple fanboy said:
Thanks for once again putting these together. I always find them fascinating. As a regular poster myself, I do wonder if some of these guys work/eat/sleep! 2000 posts in 6 months is pretty impressive.
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I don't think his numbers include PRSI posts. I know some posters there who post in the 1,000 posts per month range regularly. I honestly don't know how someone can post that much and have any sort of life outside the forum.
 
1) How am I still in the top 20?

2) Do the people who topped MadJew actually have lives, or do they just post on here all day?
 
bartelby said:
2) Do the people who topped MadJew actually have lives, or do they just post on here all day?
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I haven't topped him, but I do have lives, I have a full time job, two kids, a wife. I'm active in karate, to the point where I'm at the dojo 4 to 5 days a week. I run 5 to 6 days a week, and I'm fairly active in my church. I'd say I have a life outside of MR ;)
 
maflynn said:
I haven't topped him, but I do have lives, I have a full time job, two kids, a wife. I'm active in karate, to the point where I'm at the dojo 4 to 5 days a week. I run 5 to 6 days a week, and I'm fairly active in my church. I'd say I have a life outside of MR ;)
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Plus a lot of coffee to help provide you endless amounts of energy! :D
 
SandboxGeneral said:
That's a great idea, I'm warming up my kettle now to brew my latest Guatemalan coffee.
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Enjoy.

How do you find the Guatemalan coffee - or, is that the coffee with the extravagant adjectives on the label that you wrote about earlier?

mobilehaathi said:
Hmmmmmm, time to roast a few batches I think.:cool:
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I think it entirely possible that you could be classed as a coffee perfectionist and coffee workaholic - at the very least, you put some of the rest of us to shame…...
 
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rhett7660 said:
Lots and lots of coffee!!!! Can you really ever have to much coffee? I am sure there are those who say you can..... :D
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Yes, in theory (and, occasionally, in practice) you can indeed have too much coffee…..but for me, at least, that is something that will only occur very late in the day indeed, and my capacity for coffee is quite considerable…….
 
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maflynn said:
I haven't topped him, but I do have lives, I have a full time job, two kids, a wife. I'm active in karate, to the point where I'm at the dojo 4 to 5 days a week. I run 5 to 6 days a week, and I'm fairly active in my church. I'd say I have a life outside of MR ;)
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As you say, you haven't topped him.
 
bartelby said:
As you say, you haven't topped him.
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Actually I did surpass madjew, I must have had a brain fart. In any case, my point remains. People here who post a lot certainly can have lives outside of MR. I'm almost never online at certain times of the day and I'm all but absent on the weekends.

You yourself have almost 20,000 posts (210 shy of the 20k mark), so I think you probably have a good feel of what it takes to post here.
 
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