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Top 50 Posters Extrapolated, July 2011
- Thread starter Doctor Q
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It turns out that my spreadsheets were correct (whew!) so the information in post #3 was all correct about the biggest rises in rank, biggest drops in rank, and who stayed at the same rank. Only the average change in rank of those remaining in the Top 50 needed adjusting, along with the deltas in the first chart for slots #33 thru #50, to make them match my spreadsheet.
As I guessed, I had converted the spreadsheet to post format before I removed a banned user who would would have been #33 instead of dukebound85. Sorry for the dumb mistake; right steps, wrong order.
For the curious, my spreadsheet for tracking Top 50 stats now has 16677 cells, about half of them data and the other half formulas. My favorite column in the spreadsheet is DQ.
As I guessed, I had converted the spreadsheet to post format before I removed a banned user who would would have been #33 instead of dukebound85. Sorry for the dumb mistake; right steps, wrong order.
For the curious, my spreadsheet for tracking Top 50 stats now has 16677 cells, about half of them data and the other half formulas. My favorite column in the spreadsheet is DQ.
For the curious, my spreadsheet for tracking Top 50 stats now has 16677 cells, about half of them data and the other half formulas. My favorite column in the spreadsheet is DQ.
Would a mere mortal like myself have a place in this gigantic spreadsheet of yours?
Just one speadsheet? No cross-links?
I've build a few in my day, but I couldn't give you a total cell count.
My favorite column in the spreadsheet is DQ.
Me too, especially the Brazier stuff.
It turns out that my spreadsheets were correct (whew!) so the information in post #3 was all correct about the biggest rises in rank, biggest drops in rank, and who stayed at the same rank. Only the average change in rank of those remaining in the Top 50 needed adjusting, along with the deltas in the first chart for slots #33 thru #50, to make them match my spreadsheet.
As I guessed, I had converted the spreadsheet to post format before I removed a banned user who would would have been #33 instead of dukebound85. Sorry for the dumb mistake; right steps, wrong order.
For the curious, my spreadsheet for tracking Top 50 stats now has 16677 cells, about half of them data and the other half formulas. My favorite column in the spreadsheet is DQ.
Nobody cares about them. Its the top 20, they get all the women.
Okay, im drunk so just ignore me
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Uhhh, I think that ship has already sailed, eh?
Sir, are you referring to my dingy??
I'm afraid not. You'll need nearly double your current post count before you'll be in my tracking range. But maybe you're better off without all my stat-sniffing hounds following you around town. Not to mention the satellite cameras I aim at top posters.
Had some good times from this place, and I still stop in to see these statistics and make a post every now and then. As out of the loop as I've been for a while, I'm surprised to recognize so many names still on that list. I had expected all the "iPhonies" to have just demolished the old regime, but I'm glad to be proven wrong. Perhaps I'll start popping in more often and become a part of the community again once I can get my own internet connection, instead of leeching off McDonalds' fre wi-fi. Congrats to all on, and who made, the list. May there be many more happy, quality posts in your future.
Perhaps I'll start popping in more often and become a part of the community again once I can get my own internet connection, instead of leeching off McDonalds' fre wi-fi. Congrats to all on, and who made, the list. May there be many more happy, quality posts in your future. 
Didn't we have a blast?
Those years were the best of times, the golden age of MacRumors according to many.
You said it sister!
It's funny how you can become so immersed in a place like this and then suddenly lose all interest. I do really miss it at times though. It's nice to see some familiar faces are still around as well.
You said it sister!
It's funny how you can become so immersed in a place like this and then suddenly lose all interest. I do really miss it at times though. It's nice to see some familiar faces are still around as well.
Hi G, long time no see.
Been back recently mostly just to keep tabs on Lion stuff as I've wrestled with upgrading my setup, with some occasional offline lurking in Spy, noting how little there is here to interest me. This isn't any bitterness, just a cold eye on what used to be an interesting, compelling and creative place. And I've mostly moved on, with different approaches to my life and those who I consider my friends.
What used to be a Mac community where computers were solely a means to an end for many, where there used to be a far larger diversity of topics and views, where there once seemed an adult and liberal almost anything goes approach to things, where the demographics were decidedly different... this place had a magnetic pull for many creatives, content creators and others in tune with the 'think different' ethos of being a Mac user.
Tension and arguments between forum members weren't ironed out, the politics forum was vibrant, though-provoking and contentious (as politics should be), creative professional forums weren't shunted into sub-forums and left to decline, the mods generally speaking weren't petty rules lawyers, the private forums were busy, community discussion had more to it. I look at Spy these days and it's almost all Apple business all the time; the site has become a middle-market nerd magnet which is fine if that's what you like, but it's not that sticky for many. No longer a broad umbrella, this is what I've meant in the past by MR becoming a mile wide and an inch thick.
Recently, although I only posted once to get a question answered, I had to join another forum a fraction the size of this for a job I was working on, yet the forums were far more diverse and creative than here, the private forums were super-busy and incredibly rambunctious... this probably was due to the fact that they were clearly marked as 18+, you didn't have to pay to access them, language filters were lifted in there, forum members opting in as signing into a vBulletin user-group. Contributors instead could choose their own different benefits like custom user titles and so forth.
On a final note, although Q likes his number-crunching, as time goes on, I see it becoming a largely academic exercise, the relevance of this semi-annual stat-fest becoming tenuous. As time goes on and it takes more and more commitment and effort to broach the top 50 mark, those who make the grade in many cases, will be figures who in many cases are no longer regulars. By the time Mad Jew will be at number 50, which forum regulars outside of the top 50 will have much of a chance in being on the list?
Anyway, better things to do than hang out here every day anymore. The sun is shining, people to see and places to be. Hope you're happy in love and life, see you in the soup, G.
Noted in passing: something I never expected to see happen. Perhaps I talk too much, but a lot of my posting has to do with helping run the forums, so perhaps I deserve some slack for that. I'm not a rapid poster but I've been here almost every day for many years, and it adds up.
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