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Top 50 Posters Extrapolated, January 2018
- Thread starter Doctor Q
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Why thank you
It has been a long time since last I saw you around.
Yes, I think this is what he may have had in mind - the most recent and up-to-date version of this data.
I remember lacero. Really odd that he/she disappeared.
As for Mad Jew, I never said this before, but 15 years ago (give or take...), back when we were regulars here and the Jewish one was making 40++ posts/day, and I was adding my 2 cents roughly 12 times/day, I chatted with him about doing an interview of him, sort of as a “Get to know you” series. We had the casual banter thing down pat anyway, so why not? Anyway, I’d start with him because everybody knew him, but then interview other regulars who agreed to be interviewed.
He agreed, then one of us had to cancel, and soon after, he stopped posting!!
He lived/lives in Adelaide and had some sort of relationship issue at the time, and that was that. Gone.
He's had some disagreements with management decisions here a while back. I'm sure he's trying to avoid any further problems.
I figured one of his fellow haxors would shed some light. Thanks.
Got to drop by and tip my hat to the Doctor and to the end of a venerable institution, Q. Nice also to read some brief reflections of the various iconic names that propped up the leaderboard for a number of years. The numbers never tell the entire story.
Astonishing to see so many familiar but inactive names still on that list. Shows the drive, effort, commitment and willingness to degrade yourself in front of thousands of forum members in order to become a frenzied size queen and post whore.
It's been a few years, Q, but thanks for your help at times. That offer of a cold beer or icecream when you're next in town — perhaps counting lemurs at London Zoo — still stands.
We all drifted away for various reasons. In my case, a new and seriously intense job took over, I wasn't hugely excited about the increasingly tangential front page content, the nascent content marketing strategy of the site or the iPhone wars... or if we're being truthful, even elements of the site's policies and leadership, as well as a dawning realisation that it could become a timesink with little reciprocation or practical reward. Looking back, I'd crossed lines, was tapped out with it and needed to reappraise. However, what I do occasionally miss is the honing of writing skills and occasionally constructive argumentation. When you post on a forum, you're engaging and writing for an audience.
For some, it was a cause and a destination, but there are many causes to engage with and other places to go. For many, it stopped being fun. I also found myself drawn into more niche industry discussions elsewhere as the general forums here can only take you so far.
Perhaps also the demi-thing collapsed in on itself. It was never a community to build content and drive commerce against, but for the large part, we weren't the best site ambassadors. However, we did get drunk at large group picnics and sent a plaster gnome around parts of the world. These things matter.
People hooked up, crossed oceans, got married, fell apart. Perhaps some of us were more attracted by online personas than the real deal. Some of us are infrequently on Twitter. Some of us are still waiting for a Mac Pro that they can call their own and perhaps write about it here. Some of us even use alternative technology products these days.
Thanks, BV. Counting lemurs sounds like a perfect chance to catch up.
"Timesink" is definitely the operative word when we spend days online that could be spent in the real world. Tabulating these top poster statistics has been only one example of that, but it was a way to combine my hobbies and look for interesting discoveries amidst the numbers.
My responsibilities at my "real" job continue to grow and this isn't the only online community at which I'm a regular. But I still enjoy hanging out with the Apple techies, and trying to help the site, so you'll continue to find me here.
I'm always glad to hear from members who were active in years past, and I'm sure others here are too!
"Timesink" is definitely the operative word when we spend days online that could be spent in the real world. Tabulating these top poster statistics has been only one example of that, but it was a way to combine my hobbies and look for interesting discoveries amidst the numbers.
My responsibilities at my "real" job continue to grow and this isn't the only online community at which I'm a regular. But I still enjoy hanging out with the Apple techies, and trying to help the site, so you'll continue to find me here.
I'm always glad to hear from members who were active in years past, and I'm sure others here are too!
I too come back from time to time to see how you are all doing, one of the big highlights for me was Doctor Q's Stats.
Thanks for the Stats
Thanks for the Stats