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750.000 Posts!

Discussion in 'Sorcerous Sundries' started by Taluntain, Jun 12, 2011.

  1. 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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    [​IMG] Now that's a nice, round figure we've just reached. It's worth that much more when you know that we've disabled replying to your own posts until someone else does, which is not the norm on most message boards and can artificially inflate the post count quite significantly. My thanks to all of you who've helped us reach 3/4 of a million posts!

    Since the age of the boards and my intentional not upgrading to the latest versions over the last 2 years due to the poor handling of the boards software development by its new owners have had a detrimental effect on my ability to keep the BoM up to date with the latest developments, I've decided that we've waited long enough. We'll be progressing with new features for the boards either on the current, old version or with the transition to the latest version of vBulletin (which will be a major project due to the significant code changes).

    I hope that all of you will stick around for the ride because there's a lot of good stuff coming, much of which has either been requested or in my opinion needed for quite some time.

    I can't give an exact time frame for all of this, but you can expect to see the first changes over the next few days, with the rest following soon after a successful testing process.
     
    Taluntain, Jun 12, 2011
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  2. Topken

    Topken Elven-dragon wizard

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    Any idea by what time frame you want this to be finished?
     
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  3. 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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    As soon as I can make it happen. Realistically, a few weeks I expect. There a lot on my table right now when it comes to SP as well as our hosted sites. But in the past when I've done very little planning I seem to have managed to get a whole lot more done in far less time than lately when I've been overplanning things and have little to show for it. The good thing about working with web content is that it doesn't need to be perfect from the get go because improvements are always possible and even desired.
     
    Taluntain, Jun 12, 2011
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    Any idea who made post number 750 000, though?
     
    Rawgrim, Jun 12, 2011
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  5. 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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    There's no easy way to tell 100% accurately because the actual recorded post number is increased every time a new post is made but deleted or otherwise removed posts don't lower the number...

    So the actual recorded post number right now is 753.268, with the post counter on the front page reporting 750.010 posts.

    753.268 - 10 = 753.258, which is this post by Shoshino.

    On the other hand, if we wanted to be really accurate, that's not really the 3/4 millionth post but 753.258th. It is however the 750.000th post of the currently remaining ones. And it also happens to be Shoshino's 1500th post.

    Wow, does anyone's head hurt yet? :shake:

    In any event, congrats to Shoshino on the spectacular 750.000th post! ;)
     
    Taluntain, Jun 12, 2011
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  6. Barmy Army

    Barmy Army Simple mind, simple pleasures... Adored Veteran

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    Quality, not quantity on here. Even more true on my posts. There's the meaning of life or some such hidden in each of my posts. You just have to look hard.
     
    Barmy Army, Jun 13, 2011
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  7. Aldeth the Foppish Idiot

    Aldeth the Foppish Idiot Armed with My Mallet O' Thinking Veteran

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    Not to be too much of a killjoy, but if you take the top 6 active posters - Tal, chev, Harbs, myself, Rags and BTA, you get 76,907 total posts. The 6 of us, out of well over 12,000 total SP members, account for more than 10% of all posts. That's 0.05% of members accounting for 10%. We all need to get lives.
     
    Aldeth the Foppish Idiot, Jun 13, 2011
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  8. 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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    I think that's not really much of a surprise, there's a very small number of very active posters on pretty much every message board. Heck, I've seen some where admins made more posts in 1 YEAR than I in 10... now that's scary.
     
    Taluntain, Jun 13, 2011
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    I'm glad to be part of this growing community. I heard a rumor that the top 50 posters will get free trips to Disneyland, courtesy of Taluntain, on the day SP reaches 1,000,000 posts -- care to comment on that, Tal? :p
     
    LKD, Jun 14, 2011
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  10. 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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    I read that on the internet so it must be true.
     
    Harbourboy, Jun 14, 2011
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  11. 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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    Actually, there was a very small typo in that announcement... it should have read 10, not 1 million posts. Oops!
     
    Taluntain, Jun 14, 2011
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  12. 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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    Now that sounds like a challenge.

    Which I will post on every single thread on these boards (even the ancient ones), just so nobody misses out on the announcement.
     
    Harbourboy, Jun 15, 2011
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  13. Splunge

    Splunge Bhaal’s financial advisor Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    If you're going to do it after every 10 posts, you better hope to win a lottery!
     
    Splunge, Jun 15, 2011
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  14. Sir Belisarius

    Sir Belisarius Viconia's Boy Toy Distinguished Member ★ SPS Account Holder

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    All I have to say is: 4,237 posts since July, 6, 2000. Every one of them insightful, high quality posts.


    Well...maybe not this one. :D
     
    Sir Belisarius, Jun 18, 2011
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