50,000

Petrie. · **on:** May 28, 2007, 08:44:58 PM

Less than 800 replies, new topics, new polls away from 50k posts on the GOF.

Party for whoever posts #50,000...you'd have to take a screenshot to prove it.

action9000 · **Reply #1 on:** May 29, 2007, 02:20:35 AM

There's definitely a bit of the honour system for this little party, since you can't screenshot the current post count AND the member who made the last post on the same screen. Even with my crazy resolution, it's not gonna happen unless I make 2 screenshots and splice them together.

Oh well, sounds like fun!

TheNumberOneShmuck · **Reply #2 on:** May 29, 2007, 03:34:48 AM

By screenshotting them together, do you mean the "Last Post Info" note to the right of each board?

action9000 · **Reply #3 on:** May 29, 2007, 03:54:04 AM

What you'd have to do to *PROVE* it is to take a series of screenshots of all of the "Last Post Info" names and times, and the total post count of the entire forum...Problem is, this takes up more than one full screen height so you would have to put multiple printscreens together to make it work. By the time you take, copy and save a printscreen, some other member could post something, altering the results in a forum you haven't screenshotted yet and...ugh it's just not pretty.

Anyone know an easy way to prove who gets the 50,000th post?

Petrie. · **Reply #4 on:** May 29, 2007, 07:42:26 AM

Just be on the board and when it says at the bottom of the main page, 50,000 posts, snap it. If there's others on the board, that's fine. You don't have to be entirely on the money but you do have to be there.

Tails_155 · **Reply #5 on:** May 29, 2007, 11:47:04 AM

the Enigma Puzzle has 4 times the members of this forum and has one fifth the posts almost XD I have to say this forum is more active

Malte279 · **Reply #6 on:** May 29, 2007, 02:30:41 PM

I don't mean to take a stab at any happy bubble, but basically 50 000 is a number no more and no less. The air won't taste any better or worse when we reach it. But competition to reach a given number of posts or to be the one who posts the message with a particular number doesn't seem like the best idea. I have seen boards where piles of useless stuff (good old "word association game"

:) were posted just for the sake of a number. I hope I'm not too much of a killjoy, but I will value a 49999th or 50001th message with some content, and some point much higher than a:

"YEAHH 50000 I REACHED IT! I DID IT!!! THIS IS SO COOL!!!" kind of message -_-

Nick22 · **Reply #7 on:** May 29, 2007, 04:45:52 PM

Milestones on myP acker board are usually quite eloborate and full of details. since we have dozens and sometimes hundreds of posters online, we get a lot of posts, over 2.5 million total since the board was started back in 2001. I'm a numbers guy..

Malte is right though... 50000 is a big number , but it is a number.

Petrie. · **Reply #8 on:** May 29, 2007, 05:52:25 PM

Malte you're no fun.

:

: It may be a number, but its a number I never thought would be reached...that's why I see it as important. Its not like we've spammed our way to 50,000.

TheNumberOneShmuck · **Reply #9 on:** May 29, 2007, 11:07:41 PM

Quote from: action9000,May 29 2007 on 12:54 AM

What you'd have to do to *PROVE* it is to take a series of screenshots of all of the "Last Post Info" names and times, and the total post count of the entire forum...Problem is, this takes up more than one full screen height so you would have to put multiple printscreens together to make it work.

Actually, I can get all "Last Post Info"s and the post count in one screen capture. Screen resolution: 2048x1536

action9000 · **Reply #10 on:** May 30, 2007, 03:02:45 PM

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2048x1536

I guess that would work! I can't pull that one though; my LCD monitor doesn't go to that resolution.

It caps out at 1680 x 1050.