Grand Prix Rejects

I've recently hit the magic 1000. Next target is the top 25. That is all

How do I know I'm not posting nearly as much as I was a few months ago?

Because the thread where I've posted the most is still trivia question

tommykl wrote:How do I know I'm not posting nearly as much as I was a few months ago?

Because the thread where I've posted the most is still trivia question

That doesn't mean much. The thread were I posted more was the one-word thread II, which is long gone. I tend to spread my love for many threads, so that stat is barely relevant in my case.

DanielPT wrote:

tommykl wrote:How do I know I'm not posting nearly as much as I was a few months ago?

Because the thread where I've posted the most is still trivia question

That doesn't mean much. The thread were I posted more was the one-word thread II, which is long gone. I tend to spread my love for many threads, so that stat is barely relevant in my case.

Whereas mine is the original Word Association Game. Coz I'm retro, innit.

kostas22 wrote:

DanielPT wrote:

tommykl wrote:How do I know I'm not posting nearly as much as I was a few months ago?

Because the thread where I've posted the most is still trivia question

That doesn't mean much. The thread were I posted more was the one-word thread II, which is long gone. I tend to spread my love for many threads, so that stat is barely relevant in my case.

Whereas mine is the original Word Association Game. Coz I'm retro, innit.

Sorry, but that is not being retro any more. That is being more like ancient. You will never say that someone who dresses like a peasant (or a noble for that matter) in medieval times is retro!

The thread where I've posted the most is Caption This, and it only has a measly 6.71% of all my posts. So I've posted quite evenly throughout the forum.

I currently don't know which thread it is that I have posted in the most - it won't tell me.

somehow it seems i've posted the most in 'we recreate reality: 1950' with 52 posts, Guess it's pretty close between lot of different topics, really.
Then again, i have to live up to my ENB-avatar

dr-baker wrote:I currently don't know which thread it is that I have posted in the most - it won't tell me.

That's weird... Any option you chose?

DanielPT wrote:

dr-baker wrote:I currently don't know which thread it is that I have posted in the most - it won't tell me.

That's weird... Any option you chose?

Not knowingly - are you able to click on my name on the right and see the info?

dr-baker wrote:

DanielPT wrote:

dr-baker wrote:I currently don't know which thread it is that I have posted in the most - it won't tell me.

That's weird... Any option you chose?

Not knowingly - are you able to click on my name on the right and see the info?

No, we can't

dr-baker wrote:I currently don't know which thread it is that I have posted in the most - it won't tell me.

You're looking in the wrong place. Click on User Control Panel in the top left and all will be revealed

kostas22 wrote:

dr-baker wrote:I currently don't know which thread it is that I have posted in the most - it won't tell me.

You're looking in the wrong place. Click on User Control Panel in the top left and all will be revealed

It's indeed weird that with Dr. Baker, the info that others have is lacking...
for example i've just checked your profile, and on yours i can see more information. So either Dr. Baker has a lot things to hide from us, or either it's a conspiracy against him.

This wrote:

kostas22 wrote:

dr-baker wrote:I currently don't know which thread it is that I have posted in the most - it won't tell me.

You're looking in the wrong place. Click on User Control Panel in the top left and all will be revealed

It's indeed weird that with Dr. Baker, the info that others have is lacking...
for example i've just checked your profile, and on yours i can see more information. So either Dr. Baker has a lot things to hide from us, or either it's a conspiracy against him.

You're right - I've just checked myself and, just as you described it, all I can see is the total number of posts that dr baker has written. He isn't the only poster for whom that is the case - I clicked on Wizzie's profile link as a comparison, and he too only has the total number of posts he was written without the extra details on which thread he has been most active in.

mario wrote:You're right - I've just checked myself and, just as you described it, all I can see is the total number of posts that dr baker has written. He isn't the only poster for whom that is the case - I clicked on Wizzie's profile link as a comparison, and he too only has the total number of posts he was written without the extra details on which thread he has been most active in.

The same goes for Phoenix too. Therefore, I would like to put forward a hypothesis that members who break the 5000 post count no longer have acccess to custom posting statistics, simply because they've posted so much and the forum software doesn't waste bandwidth parsing everything they've ever posted to gather the data

kostas22 wrote:

dr-baker wrote:I currently don't know which thread it is that I have posted in the most - it won't tell me.

You're looking in the wrong place. Click on User Control Panel in the top left and all will be revealed

The info's not there either...

kostas22 wrote:

mario wrote:You're right - I've just checked myself and, just as you described it, all I can see is the total number of posts that dr baker has written. He isn't the only poster for whom that is the case - I clicked on Wizzie's profile link as a comparison, and he too only has the total number of posts he was written without the extra details on which thread he has been most active in.

The same goes for Phoenix too. Therefore, I would like to put forward a hypothesis that members who break the 5000 post count no longer have acccess to custom posting statistics, simply because they've posted so much and the forum software doesn't waste bandwidth parsing everything they've ever posted to gather the data

Maybe. I broke through the 5000-post barrier only recently (only realised at the 5100+ point... ) and I was able to check the stats over the Christmas break when I was sub-5000...

dr-baker wrote:

kostas22 wrote:The same goes for Phoenix too. Therefore, I would like to put forward a hypothesis that members who break the 5000 post count no longer have acccess to custom posting statistics, simply because they've posted so much and the forum software doesn't waste bandwidth parsing everything they've ever posted to gather the data

Maybe. I broke through the 5000-post barrier only recently (only realised at the 5100+ point... ) and I was able to check the stats over the Christmas break when I was sub-5000...

So, the most important question is: What do we gain when arrive at more than 9000?

DanielPT wrote:

dr-baker wrote:

kostas22 wrote:The same goes for Phoenix too. Therefore, I would like to put forward a hypothesis that members who break the 5000 post count no longer have acccess to custom posting statistics, simply because they've posted so much and the forum software doesn't waste bandwidth parsing everything they've ever posted to gather the data

Maybe. I broke through the 5000-post barrier only recently (only realised at the 5100+ point... ) and I was able to check the stats over the Christmas break when I was sub-5000...

So, the most important question is: What do we gain when arrive at more than 9000?

We start firin' our lazahs!!!! SHOOP DA WOOP!!

Prediction: i will be the first one to break the magical 100000 post-barrier

This wrote:Prediction: i will be the first one to break the magical 100000 post-barrier

You plan on living more 171 years, at least, then... How?

This wrote:Prediction: i will be the first one to break the magical 100000 post-barrier

Correction: There will, in the future, be a poster called That who will be the first to break through the 100,000-post barrier!

dr-baker wrote:

This wrote:Prediction: i will be the first one to break the magical 100000 post-barrier

Correction: There will, in the future, be a poster called That who will be the first to break through the 100,000-post barrier!

If That reaches an average of 10 posts per day, then it will "only" take him 27 years to reach that barrier... Can you imagine 27 seasons documented on this forum?

DanielPT wrote:

dr-baker wrote:

This wrote:Prediction: i will be the first one to break the magical 100000 post-barrier

Correction: There will, in the future, be a poster called That who will be the first to break through the 100,000-post barrier!

If That reaches an average of 10 posts per day, then it will "only" take him 27 years to reach that barrier... Can you imagine 27 seasons documented on this forum?

The internet, as I know it, isn't that old yet... But I would love to see this forum continue until I am at least as old as eagleash!

dr-baker wrote:

DanielPT wrote:

dr-baker wrote:Correction: There will, in the future, be a poster called That who will be the first to break through the 100,000-post barrier!

If That reaches an average of 10 posts per day, then it will "only" take him 27 years to reach that barrier... Can you imagine 27 seasons documented on this forum?

The internet, as I know it, isn't that old yet... But I would love to see this forum continue until I am at least as old as eagleash!

TCP/IP, which forms the basis of the internet, was created in 1973. So, it is far older than that

I think I should now be in the top 25 in posts.

kostas22 wrote:

dr-baker wrote:

DanielPT wrote:If That reaches an average of 10 posts per day, then it will "only" take him 27 years to reach that barrier... Can you imagine 27 seasons documented on this forum?

The internet, as I know it, isn't that old yet... But I would love to see this forum continue until I am at least as old as eagleash!

TCP/IP, which forms the basis of the internet, was created in 1973. So, it is far older than that

Not if you count ARPANET, which essentially paved the way to today's Internet. ARPANET was founded in 1969.

DanielPT wrote:

kostas22 wrote:

dr-baker wrote:The internet, as I know it, isn't that old yet... But I would love to see this forum continue until I am at least as old as eagleash!

TCP/IP, which forms the basis of the internet, was created in 1973. So, it is far older than that

Not if you count ARPANET, which essentially paved the way to today's Internet. ARPANET was founded in 1969.

Yet ARPANET is dead and TCP/IP is still an industry standard used the world over...just saying

kostas22 wrote:

DanielPT wrote:

kostas22 wrote:TCP/IP, which forms the basis of the internet, was created in 1973. So, it is far older than that

Not if you count ARPANET, which essentially paved the way to today's Internet. ARPANET was founded in 1969.

Yet ARPANET is dead and TCP/IP is still an industry standard used the world over...just saying

You are talking about two very different things there. ARPANET was the first communication network to exist and despite not using TCP/IP (A communication protocol) in the first decade it eventually embraced that protocol joining other small networks that came after and were already using it (1983). This originated the NFSNET project and backbone which became important in the development of these connected networks. When access commercialization occurred it implied the migration of these networks to better networking technology effectively ending the NFSNET backbone. This commercialization, which originated the widespread of the Internet, rendered both the NFSNET project (which its goal was to develop research and education networking) and the backbone useless. By this time ARPANET, as a NFSNET sub-network was already decommissioned. While the part of the NFSNET is often a bit forsaken in school manuals, it is widely agreed that the origin is ARPANET. The birth of the Internet as you know today was when the commercialization of access to the NFSNET begun in 1995.

History lesson is now over.

DanielPT wrote:[Blah, blah, blah... The birth of the Internet as you know today was when the commercialization of access to the NFSNET begun in 1995.

History lesson is now over.

So the internet as I know it began in 1995? Making it 17 years old this year? Yep, this is the point I was making earlier!

But thanks for the history lesson, Daniel. There was a lot there that I did not know before.

dr-baker wrote:

DanielPT wrote:[Blah, blah, blah... The birth of the Internet as you know today was when the commercialization of access to the NFSNET begun in 1995.

History lesson is now over.

So the internet as I know it began in 1995? Making it 17 years old this year? Yep, this is the point I was making earlier!

But thanks for the history lesson, Daniel. There was a lot there that I did not know before.

You are welcome.

I believe that the invention of the Internet is probably going to be considered in the longer future as another of the human landmarks joining cars, press, paper, wheel, fire, amongst others. Many of you guys don't know the world without Internet and how things worked. It was a great revolution. At least that is what I believe... But enough of this!

DanielPT wrote:

dr-baker wrote:

DanielPT wrote:[Blah, blah, blah... The birth of the Internet as you know today was when the commercialization of access to the NFSNET begun in 1995.

History lesson is now over.

So the internet as I know it began in 1995? Making it 17 years old this year? Yep, this is the point I was making earlier!

But thanks for the history lesson, Daniel. There was a lot there that I did not know before.

You are welcome.

I believe that the invention of the Internet is probably going to be considered in the longer future as another of the human landmarks joining cars, press, paper, wheel, fire, amongst others. Many of you guys don't know the world without Internet and how things worked. It was a great revolution. At least that is what I believe... But enough of this!

The internet was a foreign concept to me pre-A-levels, and the only websites I remember visiting pre-university (1st time round) were Autosport and... F1 Rejects! Uni life 2001-2005 marked the time when I went from internet philistine to internet addict. And I was 19 when I started uni in 2001...

I've been more or less knowledgeable about the Internet since 1995 when my dad bought himself a new computer and a modem. Oh, I still remember the sounds it made when connecting!

But I haven't properly been on the Internet myself before 2006, when I finally got a computer of my own that also had Internet access.

I've had the Internet for nearly 7 years. Interestingly enough, F1 Rejects was among the first websites I used to visit frequently. It's probably the only one from that time that I still visit, all the others probably being various game sites.

I got the Internet with my first computer when I was about 11, so around 1998. I remember the dial-up being really good back then, but these days would be so ancient you wouldn't bother

It's just occurred to me that ever since I overtook Phoenix, I've basically been bolting from the rest of the field as I'm now miles ahead of everyone else. I'll probably need the gap though to fight off any possible challenge from Eurobrun

Wizzie wrote:It's just occurred to me that ever since I overtook Phoenix, I've basically been bolting from the rest of the field as I'm now miles ahead of everyone else. I'll probably need the gap though to fight off any possible challenge from Eurobrun

There isn't a one word association thread right now, so you're safe for the time being.

Wizzie wrote:It's just occurred to me that ever since I overtook Phoenix, I've basically been bolting from the rest of the field as I'm now miles ahead of everyone else. I'll probably need the gap though to fight off any possible challenge from Eurobrun

I'm actually surprised by that I still post so much when I really should be focusing on trying to get ok grades at school. Anyway, next summer you're doomed.

Looks like I'm gonna have to post a lot more if I want to keep AdrianSutil behind me. The gap is now less than 90 posts.

I am only 2 posts (well, counting this post it would be 3) ahead of Kuwashima. I better start posting a lot!

BTW, I have 10 posts behind Peter.