Top 50 Posters Extrapolated, January 2023

[Abstract]

Am I reading this correctly?

Do my impaired and bespectacled eyes decipher Arabic numbers with any accuracy?

Did @TheYayAreaLiving 🎗 actually post close to 10,000 posts in six months?

Gosh.

I seem to recall that it took me years and years to arrive at a figure approaching around 10,000 posts.

Anyway, this is all extraordinarily interesting.

It’s a measly 55 posts per day. You just haven’t tried hard enough. 😜

Maybe she finds you all interesting enough to reply to? I don’t, hence no replies.

Even at my “peak”, I posted ~10 posts/day, but was mostly at 7-8 per day.

@TheYayAreaLiving 🎗 is most impressive for 51000 likes in 6 months. Astonishing, if I understand this correctly. 280 likes/day!

That’s 1 like per post!!

Actually, more like 5. It must be higher quality stuff than the stuff I write.

Thank you! Amazing how quickly those years have gone by.... At one point for a while I took a brief hiatus from photography and from posting in general, otherwise my post count probably would be much higher, come to think of it.

I took ~15 years off. 😂 Still coming in at #23.

But you know, if you include that time off (I did post sporadically), I’ve actually been posting here 50% of my life!! Joined at 21, and am now 42.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

It’s a measly 55 posts per day. You just haven’t tried hard enough. 😜

Evidently.

Maybe she finds you all interesting enough to reply to? I don’t, hence no replies.

Just as @Clix Pix has been (erroneously) identified as male, when she is not, I have a feeling that @TheYayAreaLiving 🎗 may be male, rather than female.

But, one never knows, and it is for people to choose how they wish to present, and represent, themselves.

Even at my “peak”, I posted ~10 posts/day, but was mostly at 7-8 per day.

At my own peak, during my mother's final months, and the period immediately after that, I think I may have approached around 20 posts a day; but, in truth, - as I had to be around and available - there wasn't all that much else taking place in my life at that time.

That’s 1 like per post!!

Actually, more like 5. It must be higher quality stuff than the stuff I write.

I think "likes" are a subjective matter, and, in truth, I would be perfectly happy not to see this feature at all.

If someone "likes" a post, why not write a post in reply simply stating that?

I took ~15 years off. 😂 Still coming in at #23.

But you know, if you include that time off (I did post sporadically), I’ve actually been posting here 50% of my life!! Joined at 21, and am now 42.

Well, I've been here since 2008, that is, a grand total of 15 years now.

 

[Quake1028]

I like your post AND liked your post @Scepticalscribe

 

[Clix Pix]

I for one have never kept track of how many posts I make per day or on any given day on MR or any other forum. After catching up with personal emails I tend to hop into MR first thing in the morning, read and respond to PMs, posts and threads, usually try to remember to post an image in the POTD and then I move on, as MR is one of several web-based online forums in which I participate. I do a quick skimming of the world and national news in The Washington Post, and I also take a few minutes on the NYT site to play Wordle (fun game!), and finally after that get on with whatever else I need to do during the day: housekeeping, errands-running, shooting a few photos and maybe processing them, etc.

Having done whatever was needed I eventually return to my online activities, checking in again on MR and other forums, during which time I may write a few more posts, make a few more comments. The "likes" thing is something to which I pay very little attention and really it doesn't interest me. I suspect that for some people it causes more angst than it does satisfaction or pleasure, which is rather sad.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

I like your post AND liked your post @Scepticalscribe

See?

Words work.

Remember how the importance of language was stressed in - for example - the movie Dead Poets Society?

But, thank you, in any case.

 

[Apple fanboy]

I’m another one who doesn’t track my posts just post in threads that interest me if I have something to say.

I’ve never even looked at how many likes I get. It doesn’t really matter to me. I’d have no problem if they just switched it off.

I’ve never been one to win a popularity contest.

Knobbly knees competition on the other hand, I’m a shoe in for first place!

 

[Scepticalscribe]

I’m another one who doesn’t track my posts just post in threads that interest me if I have something to say.

I’ve never even looked at how many likes I get. It doesn’t really matter to me. I’d have no problem if they just switched it off.

I’ve never been one to win a popularity contest.

Knobbly knees competition on the other hand, I’m a shoe in for first place!

For that matter, I would argue that my sinuses are positively world-beating.

 

[CooperBox]

See?

Words work.

Remember how the importance of language was stressed in - for example - the movie Dead Poets Society?

But, thank you, in any case.

@Scepticalscribe, I too liked your post . Indeed all your posts!
Fwiw I could well be in the bottom 50 posters, "mais passons".......
Just for general interest (or not), the appreciation 'likes' in the English language relating to social media posts has been adopted into the French language, and I shudder whenever I read it. Many of you probably know that the traditional French verb is 'aimer', and "I like it" would be "J'aime ca." What we are unfortunataely now seeing is liké meaning "liked (your post)" instead of "J'ai aimé votre post" or simply "j'aime". Every time I see a "liké" on French social media I cringe, and imagine Voltaire turning in his grave.

 

[Apple fanboy]

@Scepticalscribe, I too liked your post . Indeed all your posts!
Fwiw I could well be in the bottom 50 posters, "mais passons".......
Just for general interest (or not), the appreciation 'likes' in the English language relating to social media posts has been adopted into the French language, and I shudder whenever I read it. Many of you probably know that the traditional French verb is 'aimer', and "I like it" would be "J'aime ca." What we are unfortunataely now seeing is liké meaning "liked (your post)" instead of "J'ai aimé votre post" or simply "j'aime". Every time I see a "liké" on French social media I cringe, and imagine Voltaire turning in his grave.

You’d never make the bottom 50. Can’t remember where I read it, but Macrumors has an astonishing number of people who join but NEVER post. Weird.

 

[Quake1028]

Or people like me who have been here for 12 years almost and don't have even 200 posts yet .

 

[Clix Pix]

Sometimes people join a site, ask a question or two, get the answers they needed and then disappear.... Others prefer to quietly, silently and invisibly lurk and never post, just read what others are discussing without offering their own thoughts. Everybody's different....

 

[Abstract]

I for one have never kept track of how many posts I make per day or on any given day on MR or any other forum.

Neither do I, but Q used to do it for us, and then told us about it every 6 months. 😂 I only remember the numbers because I’m very good at remembering numbers.

Anyway, I found this thread fascinating. Clearly, frequent posters are posting more than ever. Mad Jew used to post roughly 30 posts per day, and I thought that was insane in 2005, but 55 clears that and it feels more normal in 2023. 🤷🏻‍♂️

 

[ericwn]

Excellent- statistics to prove the madness! 👻

 

[Scepticalscribe]

@Scepticalscribe, I too liked your post . Indeed all your posts!
Fwiw I could well be in the bottom 50 posters, "mais passons".......
Just for general interest (or not), the appreciation 'likes' in the English language relating to social media posts has been adopted into the French language, and I shudder whenever I read it. Many of you probably know that the traditional French verb is 'aimer', and "I like it" would be "J'aime ca." What we are unfortunataely now seeing is liké meaning "liked (your post)" instead of "J'ai aimé votre post" or simply "j'aime". Every time I see a "liké" on French social media I cringe, and imagine Voltaire turning in his grave.

Oh, dear: I feel your pain.

I love French, the French language, and have studied it, and this......desecration ("le weekend" is nothing in comparison) doesn't just give rise to goosebumbs of pure horror, but whispers to me that homicide may be an inadequate response to express my outrage at such an offence to civlisation and culture.

However, and however, and however:

Just as the French language (via Norman French, and its socio-economic and political connotations) added vocabulary to English (the verb 'demander' in French simply means "to ask", but in English, comes with the added menace of coercion and compulsion, something which I don't doubt derived from the precise context of how Norman French overlords and newly ennobled individuals asked questions of those whom they had conquered), allowing for nuance and additional subtle layers of meaning that the original language had lacked.

Perhaps the abomination of this verb "liké" may become confined to a particular and specific use, that of the online world, and that, thus, this verb may be used to describe (precisely) that peculiarly ephemeral approval that engagement with the online world may bring in its wake.

Sometimes people join a site, ask a question or two, get the answers they needed and then disappear.... Others prefer to quietly, silently and invisibly lurk and never post, just read what others are discussing without offering their own thoughts. Everybody's different....

This is true.

That vast majority of MR's members seem to create an account because they wish to have a question they have relating to an Apple product they have purchased, (or acquired, or inherited) answered.

 

[Clix Pix]

Actually, though, as anyone who was around prior to the arrival of the iPhone can attest, the entire feeling and activity of MR changed after the iPhone became a serious "thing." The site has never been the same since!

 

[Quake1028]

The world really hasn't been the same since. Slight exaggeration, but still.

 

[Apple fanboy]

The world really hasn't been the same since. Slight exaggeration, but still.

Actually I don’t think it is.

 

[GGJstudios]

Thank you, @chown33, for all your continued work on maintaining the top 50! Always an interesting read! And thank you to all who continue to post and support MR! Have a great 2023!

 

[Apple fanboy]

Thank you, @chown33, for all your continued work on maintaining the top 50! Always an interesting read! And thank you to all who continue to post and support MR! Have a great 2023!

You’ve been keeping a low profile. Nice to see you. I trust you are well.

 

[eyoungren]

I for one have never kept track of how many posts I make per day or on any given day on MR or any other forum. After catching up with personal emails I tend to hop into MR first thing in the morning, read and respond to PMs, posts and threads, usually try to remember to post an image in the POTD and then I move on, as MR is one of several web-based online forums in which I participate. I do a quick skimming of the world and national news in The Washington Post, and I also take a few minutes on the NYT site to play Wordle (fun game!), and finally after that get on with whatever else I need to do during the day: housekeeping, errands-running, shooting a few photos and maybe processing them, etc.

Having done whatever was needed I eventually return to my online activities, checking in again on MR and other forums, during which time I may write a few more posts, make a few more comments. The "likes" thing is something to which I pay very little attention and really it doesn't interest me. I suspect that for some people it causes more angst than it does satisfaction or pleasure, which is rather sad.

At the latest, I get up at 4:20am to put coffee together so my wife has her coffee by 4:45am. While I am waiting for the coffee to brew, MacRumors is the first site visited.

From that time until around 8:30pm I am in front of several computer screens, either on my own Mac or my employer's MacBook Pro. Between visits to MacRumors over the course of the day, I manage to work and get other things done. Aside from stuff that pulls me away from the computers then, I am sitting here on a computer for about 16+ hours. This does not include the hour or so of time I spend on my iPad after going to bed.

Before the pandemic and working from home I had computers at work, so the only difference was my physical location.

Which is why I said earlier, "I live here".

And yet…my post count is nowhere near some of those who spend far less time occupying this space.

As for 'likes'. I would just remind the users that back in 2011 and for a time there was an upvote button and a downvote button. Thread wars occurred regularly here over how many up or down votes users could get. This forum has seen two or three software migrations since I came in (2011) and those downvote buttons (and now a dislike button) were turned off each time.

Maybe the 'like' button is not liked, but I'd argue that a large percentage of problems no longer occur here because there is no 'dislike' button.

 

[wilberforce]

Now what would be really interesting is top 50 most ignored members.
For obvious reasons this would not be published, but I bet the owners/mods know.
Who knows, maybe I am in the running...

 

[GGJstudios]

You’ve been keeping a low profile. Nice to see you. I trust you are well.

Life's been leaving little time for posting here, but I'm doing very well, thanks! I hope you are, as well! I still check in frequently.

 

[eyoungren]

Now what would be really interesting is top 50 most ignored members.
For obvious reasons this would not be published, but I bet the owners/mods know.
Who knows, maybe I am in the running...

Might be interesting.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Thank you, @chown33, for all your continued work on maintaining the top 50! Always an interesting read! And thank you to all who continue to post and support MR! Have a great 2023!

I'll echo what @Apple fanboy has written; very nice to see you and I trust that you are keeping well and happy.

You’ve been keeping a low profile. Nice to see you. I trust you are well.

Agreed.

At the latest, I get up at 4:20am to put coffee together so my wife has her coffee by 4:45am. While I am waiting for the coffee to brew, MacRumors is the first site visited.

Ah; coffee brought to you while you ponder on how best to greet the world: Wonderful; your wife is one lucky lady.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Life's been leaving little time for posting here, but I'm doing very well, thanks! I hope you are, as well! I still check in frequently.

Good to see you and take good care of yourself.