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Has anyone noticed that we are approaching a posting milestone? Sometime in the next few days someone will post here the 50,000th post since AWADtalk was born.

I predict a posting frenzy (in which I will probably NOT take part and perhaps I shouldn't have mentioned it, but it does seem like it will be an interesting time in AWADtalk's history.)



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Speaking of milestones, I was wondering the other day about AWAD stats...Longest Thread; i.e. Most Thread Replies, Most Thread Pages (now limited to 10 pages and 99 posts, of course!)...all of which I seem to remember being covered at least by consensus (or infamy) in conversation. And I was curious if anyone might know what the record for Most Thread Views is?...I think I've seen some around 1,200 or so ("Nautical Terms?")....I'll search it.

[edit: No..."Nautical Terms", Misc., 4/29/01, topped off at 877 views]

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two observations:

1) 50,000 total posts? I wouldn't have noticed that since it seems to require lots of mental summing!

2) as to all the stats WO'N mentions, they would seem to be almost meaningless to keep track of what with all the artificial constraints, redirections, restarts, crossthreads and carping about thread length. :)


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lots of mental summing

Or a little bit of conceptual detection. Each post has a number associated with it. It is the number at which you should stop when posting a link to that post and it is also the cardinal number of that post. Yours (http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=announcements&Number=49442) to which I am replying is 49442. To find how many posts have been posted so far, find the most recent post and go to it. The number is right up there in the url.


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Not that I know this as an accurate answer for you WO'N, but I had watched this thread very closely and was not surprised to see it have so many views given the amount of people "involved"...

http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=announcements&Number=34459

... I think it says a lot about values, not information.


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>The number is right up there in the url.

you're right, of course -- I just never noticed it because that much of the url doesn't show up in the AoL (ha!) "Go" window.


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I'd like to know how many active members we have.

Why? Well, why not?

PS Whatever happened to Marty? He was an early mentor of mine here and I miss him. Seems to have vanished after I did the first time.

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PS Whatever happened to Marty? He was an early mentor of mine here and I miss him. Seems to have vanished after I did the first time.

His work got kind of crazy on him. I'm not entirely sure it's settled down enough yet for him to come back, but I'll see if I can't give him a nudge...Thanks. I miss him, too.
He has a wicked sense of humor when he wants to.




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May I propose that we use the 50,000th post to express our thanks to anu for creating this wonderful forum for us?

To implement that: I have created a new screen name, "Fifty Thousand", for which the password is "50,000". Any one of us can sign on under that name. Post #50,000 can be made under that name, and every one of us can then edit it to had his/her own personal thank you to anu. It will be akin to a thank-you card signed by each of us.

(This, pre-edit, is post #49734. We can watch as 50,000 approaches; whoever posts #49,999 can then immediately re-sign on under the new name to lock in post #50,000.)

(has been edited to give new password)


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Oh! Then...Keiva, each of us who wants to say anything can just LOG IN and edit that post, so it will be one gigantic one instead of a couple-thirty-dozen separate ones? KEWL! (hi, Max!) It'll be "The Big 50,000th", then, won't it?


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