The Fastest Users
Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2016 1:02 pm
For those of you who bother to look at the STATISTICS page you are probably familiar with the "Fastest Users" entry.
Its a statistic that is largely overlooked. Top Posters seems to be the most popular and Avatar has pretty much run away with the stat with Null and Cail a distant second and third place.
Other popular categories include Number of New Posts per Month and Number of New Users per Month.
Its the Fastest Users, however, that interests me the most. What constitutes a "Fast User"? Well it comes down to the number of messages per day by a single user coupled with the length of time they have been a member and said user is rewarded with high placement on the list provided they make lots of posts consistently. Avatar has this category locked up however this is the one stat that just about any of us can claim. I've seen new users ascend to the top of the list just by posting a lot when they first join. I myself have climbed to the top many times over the billion years I've been a member.
Since my return to daily posting I have monitored my progress in this category and have watched it steadily rise. It appears that by the end of the year I will have pulled back into 6th place (3.76 per day) after a lot of hard work and dedication. dAN occupies the number 5 position (4.57 per day) and is doing a great job lately of staying ahead of me. Good for him.
But the brass ring, position 1, is currently held by Avatar with 11.34 posts per day.
That's the goal, everyone.
I challenge all of you to become the fastest user. It will only cost you your soul because posting 20 times or more a day will probably require spending time in Mallory's which I must admit makes me feel tainted as a human being. However I've found that taking an extra shower every day will help cleanse yourself of the feeling that you've compromised your integrity for the sake of a near meaningless stat.
Now get out there and post. Post like its 1999!
Its a statistic that is largely overlooked. Top Posters seems to be the most popular and Avatar has pretty much run away with the stat with Null and Cail a distant second and third place.
Other popular categories include Number of New Posts per Month and Number of New Users per Month.
Its the Fastest Users, however, that interests me the most. What constitutes a "Fast User"? Well it comes down to the number of messages per day by a single user coupled with the length of time they have been a member and said user is rewarded with high placement on the list provided they make lots of posts consistently. Avatar has this category locked up however this is the one stat that just about any of us can claim. I've seen new users ascend to the top of the list just by posting a lot when they first join. I myself have climbed to the top many times over the billion years I've been a member.
Since my return to daily posting I have monitored my progress in this category and have watched it steadily rise. It appears that by the end of the year I will have pulled back into 6th place (3.76 per day) after a lot of hard work and dedication. dAN occupies the number 5 position (4.57 per day) and is doing a great job lately of staying ahead of me. Good for him.
But the brass ring, position 1, is currently held by Avatar with 11.34 posts per day.
That's the goal, everyone.
I challenge all of you to become the fastest user. It will only cost you your soul because posting 20 times or more a day will probably require spending time in Mallory's which I must admit makes me feel tainted as a human being. However I've found that taking an extra shower every day will help cleanse yourself of the feeling that you've compromised your integrity for the sake of a near meaningless stat.
Now get out there and post. Post like its 1999!
). I love a good, well thought out post - particularly if it's one of mine! 
