Ahh thanks, but its the great members here, not me.
If it weren't for everyone else, I'd not have much ability to discuss, so its more that we have so many great members, that it makes it easy to have some varied and lively discussions
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If it weren't for everyone else, I'd not have much ability to discuss, so its more that we have so many great members, that it makes it easy to have some varied and lively discussions
It certainly helps me get through tough times.Ahh thanks, but its the great members here, not me.
If it weren't for everyone else, I'd not have much ability to discuss, so its more that we have so many great members, that it makes it easy to have some varied and lively discussions
Actually that seems to be how I do most of my posts also. Early in the morning and then as the day wears on, not so much. Most of my night reading deals with catching up with the days news and or reading through my RSS feeds.
So true! Some "chapters" in life permit more attention to MR, and some "chapters" bring great distractions that are (believe it or not) much more fun than posting in a forum! Glad to see good folks like you, maflynn and others still contributing so much! And thanks, as always, Doctor Q, for all your work on these stats!
Thanks for your kind words, @GGJstudios.
As it happens, these days, my commitments are different (but no less demanding), which allows me to be online more often.
Inevitably, that will change at some stage, especially if (and when) I am sent abroad again.
Anyway, after a burst of activity in the first few months after I joined, I was sent abroad, and my activity dropped off precipitately for most of my time away.
Indeed, it was only several months after my return home, that I got seriously involved in MR again, and that was - paradoxically - as a result of having been invited to join one of the hilariously enjoyable WW games.
Since then, I have been a fairly regular participant on the forums, - and have made some very good online friends also here, something else I would have never thought possible, although I never expected to feature in - or make - any of those august lists of 'most prolific posters'.
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Well we're glad your here. You'll be able to carry on posting even if your posted abroad if you get that iPhone.
Thanks very much, @Apple fanboy, for your kind words.
No, I like a proper keyboard for writing something that requires grammar, syntax, spelling. Screens of iPads (I had not just one, but two, and gave them both way, one to each sibling), and of iPod Touches (which I have) infuriate me, as I find them exceedingly frustrating to write on.
When travelling, my 11" MBA is my constant companion, and that is where I get much work done. That is what will inevitably accompany me.
An iPhone would be for - phone calls, yes - apps, checking things such as (perhaps) Twitter, - perhaps the briefest one syllable response to an email……and so on. I'd see it more for consuming, rather than creating, fresh content. But that is a different debate.
Loong before iPhone talk. It was a nice quite place then. The biggest complaint was the iMac.Pft, dude you joined on Jan 4, 2002.
Ah, the complaints that echo from antiquity…..
I find the expenditure of excessive emotion on such stuff frankly, very funny.
Over the years, too, a number of individuals who were pretty prolific when I joined left the forum, or other things happened in their lives, which took their attention and time, or, in some cases (a few of them much to my regret) managed to get themselves banned.
I didn't even know I was on the last EOT list.
That's such a huge contrast to what (for example) the 2010 EOT list looks like.
That's such a huge contrast to what (for example) the 2010 EOT list looks like.
I didn't even know I was on the last EOT list.
That's such a huge contrast to what (for example) the 2010 EOT list looks like.
It does, but then, some of the posters on that list - individuals whom I remember participating regularly and posting prolifically (and, occasionally, controversially) are no longer members of the forum.
I think it also goes to show just what a 'notional' concept the 'end of time' really is, as it is subject to such startling changes (of membership) even within the short space of a few years.
Actually, he only made 1,723 posts if you don't count the ones where his solution to your problem was "repair permissions".
Actually, he only made 1,723 posts if you don't count the ones where his solution to your problem was "repair permissions".
Doh!
Well I can say he/she was long gone before I got here..........and yet he/she has been the top one since I did get here!
Doh!
Well I can say he/she was long gone before I got here..........and yet he/she has been the top one since I did get here!
Yes, that is true.
In fact, I had seen the name of the legendary mad jew (what a fantastic username) always at the top of these lists, but have never seen a post from him.
Some of the names in the 2010 list - which @Jessica Lares referred to, I did recognise, but many from the earlier eras are names shrouded in myth and legend and mystery.
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I never let that slow me down.
Well, among other hats I have worn professionally, for a year of my life, between spells in academia, I sat an exam for the public service, (out of boredom) and thus, as a result, I worked as an editor in the parliamentary debates office.
Working as an editor has left me anal about grammar, syntax and spelling. Now, to be perfectly honest, I was already quite anal about such matters long before then, it is just that that particular job gave me an outlet to express those tendencies.
Anyway, for what it is worth, I never could get used to the touch pad on the iPad, or the iPod Touch - it drove me wild with frustration.
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A couple of graphs to amuse you. They look at the number of members in two ways.
Percentage of registered forum members who have never posted, are "newbies" (1 to 29 posts), are "members" (30 to 99 posts), and all other user titles combined ("regular" and above). As you can see, only 5% of registered members make more than a few dozen posts.The 95% who post little or nothing are fairly evenly split between never having posted and having made at least 1 post.
Number of registered forum members across the user title spectrum. It's weighted so heavily toward the low-post-count categories that it can't be shown clearly as a standard pie chart or column chart, so I used a logarithmic scale for the number of members.
Percentage of registered forum members who have never posted, are "newbies" (1 to 29 posts), are "members" (30 to 99 posts), and all other user titles combined ("regular" and above). As you can see, only 5% of registered members make more than a few dozen posts.The 95% who post little or nothing are fairly evenly split between never having posted and having made at least 1 post.
Number of registered forum members across the user title spectrum. It's weighted so heavily toward the low-post-count categories that it can't be shown clearly as a standard pie chart or column chart, so I used a logarithmic scale for the number of members.
Hello to the other 34 G4's out there.
Good to know we are all in the top percentile!
Good to know we are all in the top percentile!
That is fantastic, @Doctor Q - and is an amazing read.
While I can understand people lurking - I was a long time (well, three months) lurker myself, having 'switched' as the parlance puts it to Apple, as I had bought myself a MBP as a belated birthday present to myself in 2008 and was seeking answers to questions I had about navigating the strange new waters of the Mac universe - I'm astounded at people joining and never actually posting. While I lurked hoping to find answers, I finally joined the forum because there were questions I needed to ask about Apple's ecosystem.
That is the most astonishing statistic.
Re those who post once, - I suspect quite a number of those were spam, or are the spam entries (which are often caught and reported by members) included in this statistical analysis?
Anyway, fantastic work, and an extraordinarily interesting read. Thank you, @Doctor Q.
Well done. Where does G4 end and G5 begin - I am not entirely sure of the borders of such designations once you hit the stratosphere. Congrats on being one of the 35 G4s.
Hi
The only 1% I will ever be in.
Fascinating stuff.
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Does the second graph include individuals who have titles such as 'contributor' and so on? Were they excluded or grouped with the appropriate title based on total posts?
I'd imagine the latter.
Though, as I have been a 'contributor' for the past 16 months, I am at a loss to know what my 'appropriate title' would be at the moment, as things get a bit hazy in the stratosphere where time and space and numbers all bend and seem to become strangely elastic.