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This duplicates a post made in the I&A/milestone thread.

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 #49735. 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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There seems to be a problem with the above procedure, as a software matter.

If one person is logged in on the "Fifty Thousand" name, and another logs in under it, the latter may "bump off" the former.

If he doesn't, there's a further problem when #1 and #2 each go in to edit, and simultaneously have their edit-screens open, each under the same screen name. #1 finishes his edit and clicks it in -- but #2's edit-screen, being previously opened, does not show what #1 has written. Thus, when #2 clicks in his own edit, it will be without the text #1 added moments earlier, in effect removing #1's addition.

Solution: To avoid this problem from multiple people simultaneously using the name 'Fifty Thousand', I have changed the password for that name. Feel free to PM to me the note-to-anu you would want added to the 50,000th post, in your name, and I will be pleased to add it for you.

Thank you.


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And the 50,000th post has a SI of 0!!!



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