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Top 50 Posters Extrapolated, July 2018
- Thread starter chown33
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Weaselboy is nowI am the only active user in the Top 50 that has 0/nada/zippo/no followers
I am the only active user in the Top 50 that has 0/nada/zippo/no followers
However, it is possible I am on everyone's ignore list... no stats presented for that
That is so sad! I just decided to follow you.
The strange thing about followers (and indeed, those followed) is that sometimes, they disappear. (Gone fishing, etc)
Therefore, while a given number of individuals may be said to follow you, sometimes, there is a bit of a discrepancy between those who really follow you, and those whom the system says follow you but are - for a variety of reasons, most to do with vacations, gone fishing and other euphemisms - in actual fact doing nothing of the sort, ad they are no longer active on the forum.
This can also be the case for those whom you follow; the numbers the system offers when you check, and the numbers that you may actually follow, can differ, sometimes by more than you think.
Therefore, while a given number of individuals may be said to follow you, sometimes, there is a bit of a discrepancy between those who really follow you, and those whom the system says follow you but are - for a variety of reasons, most to do with vacations, gone fishing and other euphemisms - in actual fact doing nothing of the sort, ad they are no longer active on the forum.
This can also be the case for those whom you follow; the numbers the system offers when you check, and the numbers that you may actually follow, can differ, sometimes by more than you think.
I see following and followers as the equivalent of other forums friend list. Some of them you may not know very well and so it's a matter of getting to know them - others you might have had long relationships with onlne.
Many of the people I follow or who follow me I've developed outside friendships with. I have email's and phone numbers and there are other places I communicate with some of them.
Many of the people I follow or who follow me I've developed outside friendships with. I have email's and phone numbers and there are other places I communicate with some of them.
Agreed, I was sad when Dr Q announced that he was stepping down, and I’m glad Chown33 is stepping up.
I've met 5 MR members in the real world. All very nice people.
There's an MR friend I know in Kentucky who had another MR friend passing through. They got together at a restaurant and took pics which they posted here.
The MR friend passing through sent me an iPhone 4 for my son later on and I have my PowerMac G5 Quad courtesy of the MR friend that lives in Kentucky. So it was nice to see the both of them, even though I've never been in Kentucky in my life.
I'm friends with a MR member I met that used to live in Tempe, AZ. Was able to give him a 3GS when he needed a phone.
Can mad jew be stopped?
This is a historical benchmark achievement, measured against the once-prolific @mad jew. The projection isn't made in every round of post statistics. It was done in July 2017, but not in January 2018.
2018-07-14 EDIT NOTES:
Date When Top 50 Members Will Surpass 32,194 Posts
Projected using prior 6-month's post-rate.
In this round, only Scepticalscribe is even close to a "passing zone". Everyone else is at least a year away, or 2 additional rounds of these statistics.
Member @samcraig made only 5 countable posts in 6 months, so at that rate, he'd have to pass along his account to60th 61st-generation descendants, assuming 25 years as a generation. Also, from the 1969 Zager and Evans pop song:
In the year 3535
Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lie
Everything you think, do and say
Is in the pill you took today
After correcting the earlier errors, the only date reminiscent of that song is 2929, when @DoFoT9 is projected to surpass @mad jew.
In the year 2929
We'll all raise a glass for DoFoT9,
And celebrate that notable day
Unless moisture sensors get in the way
For anyone who's wondering, I won't be giving up statistics for song-writing any time soon.
This is a historical benchmark achievement, measured against the once-prolific @mad jew. The projection isn't made in every round of post statistics. It was done in July 2017, but not in January 2018.
2018-07-14 EDIT NOTES:
- Corrected an error in calculating days between dates. This barely altered the "crossover date" of members at the top of the list. The effect was larger on members farther down the list.
- Corrected another error where some members with low post rates were marked as inactive. Correcting this means that the bottom of the list is well past "in the year 4545".
- Revised the Remarks section to match the corrections.
Date When Top 50 Members Will Surpass 32,194 Posts
Projected using prior 6-month's post-rate.
Code:
2018-Aug-05 for Scepticalscribe
2019-Aug-12 for Relentless Power
2019-Nov-07 for Apple fanboy
2021-Mar-04 for Weaselboy
2022-Jul-29 for Newtons Apple
2023-Dec-27 for jav6454
2024-Dec-03 for eyoungren
2026-Aug-05 for MacDawg
2028-Jan-30 for Rogifan
2035-May-13 for AidenShaw
2041-Apr-03 for IJ Reilly
2045-Jun-04 for kdarling
2046-Jan-21 for SandboxGeneral
2047-Sep-07 for MacNut
2058-Sep-08 for alphaod
2059-Jan-27 for Nermal
2075-Aug-04 for ucfgrad93
2089-Sep-25 for Intell
2099-Jan-28 for dukebound85
2128-Feb-21 for Peace
2190-May-23 for rdowns
2190-Aug-17 for Eidorian
2199-Apr-10 for balamw
2278-Jul-17 for Abstract
2929-Feb-05 for DoFoT9
3569-Apr-24 for samcraig
4066-Dec-27 for bartelby
4632-May-05 for Blue VelvetIn this round, only Scepticalscribe is even close to a "passing zone". Everyone else is at least a year away, or 2 additional rounds of these statistics.
Member @samcraig made only 5 countable posts in 6 months, so at that rate, he'd have to pass along his account to
In the year 3535
Ain't gonna need to tell the truth, tell no lie
Everything you think, do and say
Is in the pill you took today
After correcting the earlier errors, the only date reminiscent of that song is 2929, when @DoFoT9 is projected to surpass @mad jew.
In the year 2929
We'll all raise a glass for DoFoT9,
And celebrate that notable day
Unless moisture sensors get in the way
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As always, fascinating stuff, @chown33, and many thanks for taking the time and trouble to put it together.
At the end of this month, I'll have been a member of this forum for a decade, (an eternity in online terms and something I could never have envisaged when I first joined), yet my path never crossed that of @mad jew.
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2074? I better start taking better care of myself.
I've been a member of the Quark forums since 2001. (Note, it says 2004, but there was a one year gap where they closed the forums down).
http://web.archive.org/web/20010331092432/http://www.quark.com/cgi-bin/WebX
A lot of the people I know in the UK, Sweden, Germany, Belgium and Canada are from that forum. Many of them lifelong friends.
@mad jew made 163 posts since I joined, and yet, I don't recall ever posting in any of the same threads. Of course, I wasn't as active at first, having only posted maybe 30-50 times up until September 5, 2008, the date of his last post. It's hard to believe it's been 10 years!
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If you click on the @mad jew link, you'll see the last time he was active was 9 years and 43 weeks ago, which is only a few weeks different than when you joined.
I was visiting and reading the site for some time, before I joined and made my first post. I saw his posts occasionally, but I mostly hung out in the programming forums.
Those were the days my friend,
We thought they'd never end,
We'd sing and laugh forever and a day,
We'd live the life we choose,
We'd fight and never lose,
For we were young and sure to have our way.
We thought they'd never end,
We'd sing and laugh forever and a day,
We'd live the life we choose,
We'd fight and never lose,
For we were young and sure to have our way.
Fascinating; I never thought when I joined the forum (to ask questions about an Apple MBP computer I had just bought - my first) that I would still be here, a decade later.
And, while I did see references to @mad jew, the idea that I would have anything to do with any of the venerable posters who seemed to have been here forever would have seemed ludicrous.
Well, that decade flew by.
Many of you won't recognize some forum members in Table 1 (first post in thread) because they are no longer active. This table, Table 4, is limited to members who posted in the last 6 months, so you're more likely to recognize the names. However, even a single post will cause a member to be considered active, so some may still be unfamiliar unless you've been around for a while.
Table 4: Currently Active Top 50 Posters
Measurements taken 03 July 2018 by chown33.
Here's an extract of the above data. It lists members with more than 1000 posts in the prior 6 months, sorted by the 6-Mo Posts column. The Rank column still refers to overall post-count, NOT the 6-Mo Posts value.
Table Columns:
Remarks
Table 4: Currently Active Top 50 Posters
Measurements taken 03 July 2018 by chown33.
Code:
Cur 6-Mo
Rank Active Top 50 Posts Posts
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1 maflynn 58447 2107
2 GGJstudios 44029 86
3 C DM 43686 2256
4 GoCubsGo 35736 5
5 Doctor Q 34856 392
6 Scepticalscribe 31570 3455
7 Eidorian 29068 9
8 rdowns 27338 14
9 Weaselboy 26743 1012
10 Abstract 24323 15
11 Apple fanboy 23429 3222
12 SandboxGeneral 23409 158
13 Relentless Power 21935 4589
14 Blue Velvet 21645 2
15 alphaod 21490 132
16 MacNut 20476 199
17 bartelby 19793 3
18 MacDawg 19200 796
19 eyoungren 19163 1006
20 Peace 19141 59
21 balamw 19062 36
22 Intell 18826 93
23 Nermal 18440 168
24 Rogifan 18416 713
25 Newtons Apple 18331 1687
26 dukebound85 17886 88
27 IJ Reilly 17869 312
28 DoFoT9 17494 8
29 kdarling 17254 275
30 AidenShaw 17121 443
31 jav6454 16691 1401
32 ucfgrad93 16642 135
33 samcraig 16547 5
34 WildCowboy 16407 45
35 OllyW 16010 376
36 gnasher729 15976 259
37 The Game 161 15408 1419
38 yg17 14876 34
39 Chupa Chupa 14830 575
40 Huntn 14802 865
41 I7guy 14592 1157
42 cube 14181 594
43 KPOM 13806 95
44 arn 13734 11
45 Mitthrawnuruodo 13399 3
46 Consultant 13273 1
47 Night Spring 13051 2
48 Lord Blackadder 13027 283
49 Fishrrman 12938 1929
50 mattopotamus 12666 189Here's an extract of the above data. It lists members with more than 1000 posts in the prior 6 months, sorted by the 6-Mo Posts column. The Rank column still refers to overall post-count, NOT the 6-Mo Posts value.
Code:
Cur 6-Mo
Rank Active Top 50 Posts Posts
---- ---------------- ------ ------
13 Relentless_Power 21935 4589
6 Scepticalscribe 31570 3455
11 Apple_fanboy 23429 3222
3 C_DM 43686 2256
1 maflynn 58447 2107
49 Fishrrman 12938 1929
25 Newtons_Apple 18331 1687
37 The_Game_161 15408 1419
31 jav6454 16691 1401
41 I7guy 14592 1157
9 Weaselboy 26743 1012
19 eyoungren 19163 1006Table Columns:
- Rank = Position in order by post count, 1 (highest) to 50.
- Active Top 50 = members with the 50 currently highest post counts among those who have posted in the last 6 months.
- Cur Posts = count of posts by that member (has the same criteria as Table 1 for which posts are counted).
- Last 6 Months = count of posts from January 2018 to July 2018.
Remarks
- It takes 12666 posts to make this list, an increase of 163 from a year ago.
- Twelve members made more than 1000 posts in 6 months, and nine made fewer than 10 posts. @arn just missed the latter set with 11 posts.
- Some members who appear in this list, such as @Fishrrman and @I7guy, may soon appear in the Top 50 list if they keep posting at their current rates.
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Fascinating stuff. So 3rd highest post count in the last 6 months? If I'm understanding you correctly?
Thanks for putting this together.
And please allow me to convey my thanks and deepest appreciation for all of the extraordinary work you have done compiling this and other lists.
As always, they make for fascinating reading.
As always, they make for fascinating reading.
That is correct.
And speaking of "correct", I revised most of the earlier posts (Tables 1 & 2, etc.) due to some errors in data and calculations. They're all linked from the 1st post in thread, so I won't repeat them here.
No rankings changed due to the corrections, but a new member is projected to enter Top 50 in 6 months. I won't spoil the suspense by giving the name here.
Also, a few members who were previously marked as inactive actually have a non-zero post count. So some of the other stats changed a bit, such as "Can mad jew be Stopped?".
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A tradition in these statistics threads is to pick a member of the Top 50 and graph their post count history. I chose a member who's made consistent advances each time the statistics are done: @Scepticalscribe. She's also approaching her 10-year anniversary on MacRumors (joined 29 July 2008), so Happy Anniversary, Scepticalscribe.
The data collection for Top 50 Posters only begins when a member reaches 5000 posts in the counted areas. Before then, I have no records of post-counts or post-rates. The post counts also exclude posts in uncounted areas, like PRSI or Marketplace, so the reported counts might be markedly below a member's actual post counts.
I graphed two values: total Posts, and 6-Mo Posts. I chose the latter value because it seems like very few members can maintain a high post-rate over multiple years. That is, there seems to be a "peak and settle" kind of behavior. So instead of "goin' with the feelz" I decided to graph the actual measured post-rate.
The slope of the Posts line is pretty consistent, suggesting a fairly constant post rate. The 6-Mo Posts line shows an initial post-rate of 2954 posts in 6 months, peaking to 4247 at the Jan 2017 sample, then declining to 2943, which is very nearly where it started. There's a certain amount of "peak and settle" to the post-rate, but the "settle" rate is still well above zero.
The data collection for Top 50 Posters only begins when a member reaches 5000 posts in the counted areas. Before then, I have no records of post-counts or post-rates. The post counts also exclude posts in uncounted areas, like PRSI or Marketplace, so the reported counts might be markedly below a member's actual post counts.
I graphed two values: total Posts, and 6-Mo Posts. I chose the latter value because it seems like very few members can maintain a high post-rate over multiple years. That is, there seems to be a "peak and settle" kind of behavior. So instead of "goin' with the feelz" I decided to graph the actual measured post-rate.
The slope of the Posts line is pretty consistent, suggesting a fairly constant post rate. The 6-Mo Posts line shows an initial post-rate of 2954 posts in 6 months, peaking to 4247 at the Jan 2017 sample, then declining to 2943, which is very nearly where it started. There's a certain amount of "peak and settle" to the post-rate, but the "settle" rate is still well above zero.
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So we can call @Scepticalscribe Ms consistency then?
Very interesting. Thanks for the continued analysis.
Thank you very much for taking the time and trouble to compile such a statistical analysis, and it is both bizarre and intriguing yet strangely flattering to find myself the subject matter of such a study.
If anything, the 'peak and settle' pattern co-relates almost exactly to periods when I am abroad on assignments, counterposed by periods when I am at home after, or between, assignments abroad.
Thus, the 'settling' is almost always when I am away for months at a time; then, of course, I still post, but not quite at the rate or frequency that I manage to do while based at home, which tends to coincide with the "peaks".
As it happens, I have just returned from a year abroad, and, as most of the past month has been spent on accumulated leave, a period I have spent at home, resting, chilling, and recovering, my post rate has increased quite considerably, as it always does when I spend any extended period of time at home.
No, Scepticalscribe will do fine.
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