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BS: Highest rate of posting

13 Dec 04 - 08:42 AM (#1355514)
Subject: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: s&r

Apart from guest I wonder:

1 Who has the highest weekly average postings to Mudcat?

2 Who has the most postings since Mudcat started?

Stu


13 Dec 04 - 10:09 AM (#1355569)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: Little Hawk

We looked into this one time, a couple of years ago, but I can't remember who took the prize. Spaw was really up there at the time, but he's been posting less often since the tragic accident with the eggplant up his butt.


13 Dec 04 - 10:14 AM (#1355572)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: Stilly River Sage

Stu,

You can look to see how many posts individuals have by clicking on their name on any of their posts. Let us know how your research goes. Are you going to average the posts per year, or look only at the total cumulative number?

SRS


13 Dec 04 - 10:15 AM (#1355574)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: Wolfgang

Who posts the most? (old thread)

Wolfgang


13 Dec 04 - 10:16 AM (#1355576)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: Peace

Noooooo. So THAT'S where the eggplant went. I suppose he got the pineapple, too. Some folks have all the luck.


13 Dec 04 - 10:29 AM (#1355589)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: Wesley S

The quanity of someones posts should be pretty easy to measure. The quality of ones posts would be more difficult - and in the eye of the beholder. My guess is that as the quanity goes up - the quality goes down. Thats just my opinion.


13 Dec 04 - 12:00 PM (#1355680)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: PoppaGator

Besides quantity and quality of posts, the *size* (number of words) per post would have to mean something, too, no?

Are ten 10-word posts "worth" ten times as much as one 100-word post? Depending upon the thread, a quick pithy little quip might be an excellent contribution. Depending upon the individual and his/her expertise on a given topic, a long essay could be either greatly enlightening or a lot of white noise.

Measuring the sheer number of posts will tell us who:
~ has the most to share with us, or
~ has no (other) life, or
~ is *seriously* malingering at work.


13 Dec 04 - 12:53 PM (#1355747)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: Wolfgang

BTW, the correct responses to both of stu's question is: GUEST. But somehow, I have the impression that that was not meant.

Wolfgang


13 Dec 04 - 01:24 PM (#1355767)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: George Papavgeris

Good impression. Matches stu's "apart from guest" statement.


13 Dec 04 - 01:55 PM (#1355790)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: catspaw49

Hey, I tell ya' the eggplant was good and the pineapple was even better, but if you want to fire something out of your ass with real velocity, a smooth trajectory, and lots of stopping power, go with rutabagas. An even bigger advantage to assfired rutabagas is that whereas the eggplant just bounces and the pineapple splatters, that fockin' rutabaga will go right through the windshield of your neighbor's Mercedes!

Spaw


13 Dec 04 - 02:02 PM (#1355803)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: freda underhill

when are you guys gonna get it - if you say the right things, size doesn't matter.


13 Dec 04 - 02:19 PM (#1355809)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: M.Ted

Spaw probably beats everyone else hands down, both in the number and size of posts--How he managed to spew out so much, so often, will be a matter of marvel and amazement among internet proctologists and gastro-enterologists for generations to come--


13 Dec 04 - 02:23 PM (#1355815)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: MMario

I believe the highest rate of posting is for 'Overnight Air' - but they still don't garuantee it.


13 Dec 04 - 03:58 PM (#1355883)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: Little Hawk

You are so right, freda! That is exactly why Shane keeps striking out with the damsels of North Ontario.


13 Dec 04 - 05:03 PM (#1355948)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: s&r

Current high rate seems to be Chris Nightbird.
Sir jOhn is a prolific poster, but didn't he post under a different title before his ennoblement? I don't know if he gets anywhere near spaw.

Stu


13 Dec 04 - 05:05 PM (#1355949)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: s&r

Spaw is 19861.

Wow


13 Dec 04 - 05:13 PM (#1355958)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: Little Hawk

I'm at 13,201 posts. Not bad.


13 Dec 04 - 05:57 PM (#1356009)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: JohnInKansas

Gee, guys, my paltry 2,769 doesn't hardly count. And fortunately I'm never verbose...

John


13 Dec 04 - 06:15 PM (#1356024)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: s&r

John - you should be proud as the man who wrote the manual.

Stu


13 Dec 04 - 06:18 PM (#1356025)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: s&r

20491 is McGrath of Harlow..

Stu


13 Dec 04 - 06:20 PM (#1356029)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: catspaw49

And the above is the shortest thing John has ever posted here! He once wrote 17 paragraphs on how to type the letter "q."

Actually kat (katlaughing) has me beat by a mile. We were running at about the same for years, but I went through a really off spell here after Rick died and I'm just now posting more like I used to do.....but still a much lower average than before.   Kat too has slowed down but she was the first to crack 20,000 and currently has 22,475.

Spaw


13 Dec 04 - 06:32 PM (#1356041)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: katlaughing

I didn't think I'd ever pass you, darlin'...:-) It a sure thing, niether of us have kept up with it, though...just ain't the same...


13 Dec 04 - 06:52 PM (#1356047)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: Bee-dubya-ell

Hell, Little Hawk, if there was some way you could count all the times you've posted as Chongo, Blind Drunk..., Shatner and various other alter-egos you'd probably be the winner.


13 Dec 04 - 06:59 PM (#1356050)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: Bee-dubya-ell

And what's this horsehit about rutabagas? Fart-powered vegetable purists are in total agreement that the cucumber, particularly in its pickled form, can't be beat for aerodynamic efficiency.

I've never seen a pickle fly.
Sometimes I sit and wonder why.
Is it simply for lack of wings?
No. There are lots of other things
that hurtle through the air with ease,
like rockets, baseballs and bee-bees,
that have no wings to them affixed.
How do they do it? What's their trick?

Simple. They're through the air propelled
by forces that come from elsewhere.
A gun, a bat, a rocket engine
supply the energies that send 'em
on their journeys through the air.
Well, dang, that gives me an idear!

Just take a pickle from a jar,
remove your pants and underwar.
Then shove that pickle up your ass
and leave it while sufficient gas
pressure builds up to send it flyin'
across the room! There's no denyin'
that fart-powered pickles can fly!
Just drop yer drawers... Give it a try!


13 Dec 04 - 07:01 PM (#1356053)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: beetle cat

I always wonder about the ratio of threads started by one person to their total postings.


13 Dec 04 - 07:18 PM (#1356064)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: Bee-dubya-ell

Sir jOhn from Hull probably wins that one hands down, beetle cat. Of course, 90% of the threads jOhn starts are the cyber equivalent of dialing-while-drunk....


13 Dec 04 - 07:18 PM (#1356065)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: catspaw49

"I always wonder about the ratio of threads started by one person to their total postings."

I wouldn't. It's not really all that much related. What I WOULD worry about are people who write and post stuff like the post above you. Bee-Dub got issues!!!

Geeziz Bee-Dub......That's beautiful. It brought tears to my eyes.........no...wait a minute....that was a fart.............It's still really good though!!!

Spaw


13 Dec 04 - 07:30 PM (#1356077)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: Jeri

Spaw, certain people believed you were having another medical adventure. I said, "No, he's just being aloof." "You mean he's in the shower a lot?" "No, I said again, that's a 'LOOFA'." I'm not sure they believed me. (About you being aloof, not what it meant.) Seriously, I've only remembered I have a sense of humor for maybe a couple of months now.

Bee-dubya, it's been my experience that once somebody gets a pickle up their wazoo, it isn't going to come out again without a case of WD-40 and a crowbar.


13 Dec 04 - 07:33 PM (#1356079)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: wysiwyg

Stats in this instance are meaningless. I was getting flamed for awhile for doing a lot of posting, but a HUGE number of the posts were "welcome to Mudcat" and "refresh." Sorcha has a high rate too but so many of them are music requests she answered. Whatever! Who cares?

~S~


13 Dec 04 - 08:15 PM (#1356102)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: Amos

My stat is 22506, but it is not meaningless. In fact that's what's the matter with it. There's enough meaning in there to fill 100,000 normal posts. I have been over-packing my posts with meaning and this has rendered me kinda seized up, if you know what I mean. I am sure Spaw will understand.

Anyway, I am posting much less now. So perhaps the meaning-to-posts ratio will calm down a bit. It seems to confuse people if you allow it to get too high.

A


13 Dec 04 - 08:21 PM (#1356105)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: Bee-dubya-ell

I think what Amos is trying to say is that his cyber-diarrhea is chunkier than average.


13 Dec 04 - 09:04 PM (#1356137)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: Peace

It don't matter if ya write a tome or a note. It counts as a post.


13 Dec 04 - 09:58 PM (#1356171)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: Burke

Of course, to know the rate, you need to know the number of posts & how long a person has been posting. Amos & kat may be close in number of posts, but kat's been at it a year longer, making Amos' rate quite a bit higher.

There have also been members who posted at a very high rate for a time but then tapered off & in some cases left. Four years ago very high rates went to people who had only been active for a month or 2.


13 Dec 04 - 10:16 PM (#1356181)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: Rapparee

According to the stats, this will be my 5,606th post since Nov. 2, 2002, or just about dead on 25 months. That's about 224 I've shot my mouth (fingers?) off per month.

Know what?

I don't care -- others have said things better than I, have made more cogent comments, and know a helluva lot more about music (yeah, sometimes I post above the salt). Why, I don't know a D7 from a gazookie, mostly because I don't play strings.


13 Dec 04 - 10:43 PM (#1356196)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: GUEST,.gargoyle

It only takes a minutia of cat/kat spray to stench up an entire thread. Praise the Ever Loving Lord for P.M.'s and the unclogging of the system.



Sincerely,
Gargoyle


13 Dec 04 - 10:46 PM (#1356197)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: Bill D

just over 12,000 in 8 years ....and of course, ALL relevant, pithy and thoughtful. Careful thinking does it...and typing 17 words a minute helps. It's a durn good thing I can't type as fast as I think.


14 Dec 04 - 12:12 AM (#1356231)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: Little Hawk

Bee-dub...Yikes! You are right. I have posted so many times as my various alter-egos, as you say, that I am most likely actually in the lead at this point. Hmmm. I will have to think this over and decide what to do about it.


14 Dec 04 - 02:42 AM (#1356278)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: Cluin

I thought rate of posting might be different than the total of posting. Those who've been around here long would have more posts even though they hadn't posted as frequently as some newer members who are submitting messages more often, i.e. at a higher rate of interest, say, 7.75%, compounded daily, but certainly not keeping pace with service charges unless a higher minimum balance is maintained to avoid the basic corn-holing of the customer who can least afford the institution's dipping into their funds every month for their board-sanctioned extortion and...

Sorry, I went tripping along the light fantangent. What were we talking about again?


14 Dec 04 - 04:38 AM (#1356360)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: s&r

I didn't realise (should have) that this has been covered before. Perhaps for me one of the charms of Mudcat tis that the threads are the current thinking of members. You can join in someone's whimsy, learn from another's erudition, offer or gain support, be touched or irritated...

Great.

Stu


14 Dec 04 - 05:22 AM (#1356377)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: GUEST,Mingulay

42


14 Dec 04 - 07:03 AM (#1356408)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: Wolfgang

El Greko,

grin. Serves me well for not reading well enough.

Wolfgang


14 Dec 04 - 09:10 AM (#1356528)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: GUEST,Mingulay

El Greko could not go by post even if dissected. He'll have to be sent sea freight. Just enough room in a 40ft container for him and Les Sullivan **BG**.


14 Dec 04 - 09:28 AM (#1356538)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: Joe Offer

I used to be neck-and-neck with some of the high-number posters, but I guess I slacked off. Maybe getting married has something to do with it. I'm at 14,330, and I started in January, 1997 (shortly after Bill D).
-Joe Offer-


14 Dec 04 - 10:20 AM (#1356597)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: Bill D

but Joe...that doesn't count little red comments within posts...*grin*
    Hey, they're

    BROWN.

    -Joe Offer-


14 Dec 04 - 10:21 AM (#1356599)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: MMario

yeah joe - you seem to spend more and more time on "maintainence" stuff. even most of the midi notices and things you do internally to other people's posts these days it seems.


14 Dec 04 - 10:39 AM (#1356621)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: catspaw49

Yeah Joe.....And you do WAY TOO MUCH OF THAT!!!!!! Who the hell do you think you are?

Shambles......Shambles.......Here Roger........Got a thread for you boy........C'Mon Shambles.....Come and get it boy!!!

Spaw

HEY!!! OFFER ain't the only one!!!!!


14 Dec 04 - 10:44 AM (#1356625)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull

Shhh, don't set him off again, he's been quiet for a while!


14 Dec 04 - 11:14 AM (#1356658)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: Cool Beans

Rapaire, you need six fingers for a gazookie. You need only three to play a D7, at least on the guitar.


14 Dec 04 - 11:50 AM (#1356706)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: Pied Piper

A measly 1004, but I've only been annoying little hawk and Amos for just under 3 years.

PP


14 Dec 04 - 12:13 PM (#1356729)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: Wolfgang

As for rate (weekly average), Brucie is surely in the finals with 6212 postings only in 2004 so far.

As for daily records, the highest I have seen was from Amos with 63 posts on the 29th of February, 2000.

The shooting star may be Sorcha with 23 postings on her very first Mudcat day (which a bit later initiated the rumour she actually was katlaughing using a second handle).

Wolfgang


14 Dec 04 - 12:15 PM (#1356734)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: Wolfgang

The best commentary relevant to the theme of this thread in my eyes still comes from Rick Fielding:

overposting with no discernible content

Wolfgang


14 Dec 04 - 12:16 PM (#1356736)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: s&r

I feel inadequate...

Stu


14 Dec 04 - 12:18 PM (#1356737)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: s&r

this makes a paltry 635

Stu


14 Dec 04 - 02:11 PM (#1356831)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: PoppaGator

I'm at 1450 lifetime, starting in April '03. Well, this one makes 1451.

This is # 1105 for 2004, despite being out sick for almost five full months. I made *NO* posts between 06Feb04 and 28Jun04. I figure my rate is roughly 155-160 per month for sven "active" months.

In 2003, starting in April, I posted a much more modest 346 times.

I gotta cut down!


14 Dec 04 - 04:22 PM (#1356934)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: Cluin

I've only got 3828 (not including this one) posts since I joined in Nov `02. I used to come here regularly for several years before that to access the DT though.


14 Dec 04 - 05:54 PM (#1357007)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: Amos

I am embarassed to own such a record, Wolfgang. it is clear I have entirely too much attention on this fine community and too little by far on my own life, something I will seek to remedy forthwith!!

A


15 Dec 04 - 04:29 AM (#1357329)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: Wolfgang

Amos,

it was on a twentyninth of February that doesn't count. Nothing one does on one of these rare days counts.

Wolfgang


15 Dec 04 - 04:44 AM (#1357332)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: chris nightbird childs

I've got 620 since I joined on October 11, 2004!!


15 Dec 04 - 05:54 AM (#1357372)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: Gervase

Blimey, a mere 1354 since 1999. Pathetic! Maybe there's a thread to be started along the lines of "Are infrequent posters shite?"
On second thoughts...


15 Dec 04 - 09:56 AM (#1357570)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: Roger the Skiffler

Staring threads? What about ending them? I find one of my pearls of wisdom or "joke" is usually the kiss of death to a thread!
I haven't checked my totals recently, I've tried to post less this year.

RtS


15 Dec 04 - 10:09 AM (#1357582)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: John MacKenzie

Thanks Roger, I feel better knowing that it's not just me it happens to. The worst thing I find is to start a thread and then watch it slide down the page and disappear off the bottom with nobody posting to it.
Giok


15 Dec 04 - 10:26 AM (#1357589)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: Stilly River Sage

I thought I was holding my own pretty well, but I see a mere 5636 prior to this post. And if I subtract the number of posts to MOAB, that goes way down (though I have posted some quite remarkable thoughts to the MOAB!).

I noticed on a shall-be-nameless gardening site that once the thread got remotely off-track (guy started talking about killing squirrels in his attic on a thread to do with keeping squirrels from eating your bird seed) the moderator came in and closed it. This was after I suggested his last rant was just because he wanted the last word, that his point had been conceded, and that his last post was disengenuous. I put all of this in the mildest of terms--but they stopped it anyway (probably because they knew my mild terms might inflame the SOB). For all that we complain about guests and member behavior, I am glad the latitude on what can be posted here is much greater.

SRS


15 Dec 04 - 01:05 PM (#1357737)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: John MacKenzie

3755 since July 02, the more statistically minded can work that out if you like.
Giok


15 Dec 04 - 11:35 PM (#1358275)
Subject: RE: BS: Highest rate of posting
From: Little Hawk

Geez, Pied Piper, I really think Amos and I could have gotten along fine without those 1007 postings of yours. :-) Quite easily, in fact.