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Bring on 300,000 (another pointless statistic thread)

Discussion in 'Sorcerous Sundries' started by Harbourboy, Feb 19, 2004.

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  1. Harbourboy

    Harbourboy Take thy form from off my door! Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    You can tell I must be bored, because I have just calculated that there have been 286,784 posts on the Boards O' Magick from 23,216 threads. That's an average of 12.35 posts per thread.

    It also means the Boards are only 13,216 posts away from the 300,000th one. I guess that might be 2 - 3 months away, depending on volumes.

    The Pools of Radiance board is unlikely to contribute much to this as it continues to be the least popular board with only 1077 posts (0.38% of the total).
     
    Harbourboy, Feb 19, 2004
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    Interesting, you have too much time on your hands ;)

    For more pointless statistics:
    AoDA has the most post per a thread with 26.70
    Nwn Toolset has the least with 5.17

    I'm suprised that AoDA beat whatnots when it has all the babbling threads.

    Is boredom contagious?
     
    Blue Loon, Feb 20, 2004
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  3. Harbourboy

    Harbourboy Take thy form from off my door! Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    Hey, that is surprising. Must be all those heated debates that go round and round in circles.

    There are also an mean average of 44.2 posts per user. But the median average post is only 2 posts per person!

    So more than half of the 6512 users has made 2 posts or less. These Boards are patrolled by an enormous army of lurkers . . . . . . if they all come out once . . . who knows what would happen.
     
    Harbourboy, Feb 20, 2004
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  4. Baronius

    Baronius Mental harmony dispels the darkness ★ SPS Account Holder Veteran

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    There was an AORTA forum as well, but it was closed mainly because of the low interest, AFAIK. I wonder what would its stats have been... 4 posts per thread? :p
     
    Baronius, Feb 20, 2004
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  5. Harbourboy

    Harbourboy Take thy form from off my door! Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    There have been approximately 291 posts in the last 24 hours. At that rate, it will take about 44 days to reach the magic 300,000 post mark.

    Although it will probably take less than that, given all the speculative spam that will arise towards the end, from all those sad people who will be clamouring to be the 300,000th poster (if the rush to be first to Babbling #19 was anything to go by).
     
    Harbourboy, Feb 20, 2004
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  6. Rotku

    Rotku I believe I can fly Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!)

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    It's still alive, just under a different name :rolleyes:
    Take a look in the Online Adventure forum, about 6 months back, and you'll see a Name Change thread.
     
    Rotku, Feb 20, 2004
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  7. Mesmero

    Mesmero How'd an old elf get the blues?

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    No, it is actually closed. :rolleyes:
    The Online Adventures forum used to be the Phlan Crier. The AORTA forum was a different one, for AORTA members.
     
    Mesmero, Feb 20, 2004
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  8. Harbourboy

    Harbourboy Take thy form from off my door! Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    43 days to go . . . . . . .
     
    Harbourboy, Feb 21, 2004
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  9. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    AORTA is still there, just closed down and invisible. I kept it around for sentimental reasons, I think. There's really no rational reason not to delete it, as it serves no purpose any more.
     
    Taluntain, Feb 21, 2004
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    What is the AORTA forum? Or was rather. . .
     
    fade, Feb 21, 2004
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    Blackthorne TA Master in his Own Mind Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    The Ancient Order of Reasonably Trustworthy Adventurers was to be a guild of SP members playing on ALFA. The forum was going to be the place where we met outside of the game.

    Then the leader of the guild decided to become a DM. Various others took on the leadership role briefly, but then dropped out due to lack of time, and AORTA just kind of faded away.
     
    Blackthorne TA, Feb 21, 2004
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    That means my contributions constitutes a little more than 1% (perhaps 1.5%?) of total posts :(

    At least I have three times more posts than the PoR forum :p
     
    chevalier, Feb 21, 2004
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  13. Harbourboy

    Harbourboy Take thy form from off my door! Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    Chev, despite your 40 hours away from your PC recently, you still have the 8th highest number of spams (er, I mean 'quality posts'). You and the 7 people above you total 33,758 posts which is about 11% of the total!

    Added 23/2/04: Based on the average number of posts per day over the last 4 days, we can expect to hit 300,000 sometime on 15 April 2004.

    [ February 23, 2004, 13:52: Message edited by: Harbourboy ]
     
    Harbourboy, Feb 22, 2004
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    Tax day? :rolleyes:
     
    Aces, Mar 4, 2004
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  15. Harbourboy

    Harbourboy Take thy form from off my door! Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    A slight increase in spam has brought the estimated day forward slightly to 14/4/04 now.
     
    Harbourboy, Mar 4, 2004
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    If spamming like this continues, than it could be the 1.April. ;)

    We are all fools here anyway.
     
    Quicho, Mar 4, 2004
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    Are you implying my post was spam!? :almostmad:


    J/K .... :wave:
     
    Aces, Mar 5, 2004
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  18. Harbourboy

    Harbourboy Take thy form from off my door! Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    Actually, we will now probably hit 300,000 over the Easter weekend......
     
    Harbourboy, Apr 8, 2004
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    Which means tomorrow.
     
    Rastor, Apr 9, 2004
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    Almost there....less than 1000 posts to go, break out the sparklers and fireworks... :hippy:
     
    Faerus Stoneslammer, Apr 9, 2004
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