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10000th post

Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 6:51 am
by whistlersix
I just wanted it noted somewhere that sometime yesterday i noticed the forum had it's 10,000th post. With this post we're at 10,016 but when I noticed yesterday, we were at 10,008. Pretty cool.

Re: 10000th post

Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 7:47 am
by Atone
If you count all the spam posts that Tom has deleted it would be 20,000 posts (or more).

Thank you to the moderators (I think just Tom at this point) for keeping this place under control.

-A

Re: 10000th post

Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 11:28 am
by Tom Allen
Atone wrote:If you count all the spam posts that Tom has deleted it would be 20,000 posts (or more).

Thank you to the moderators (I think just Tom at this point) for keeping this place under control.

-A
Probably more like 100,000.

However, it's not the moderator, it's the system that we have in place that makes a new member "prove" that they aren't a spammer by having 3 posts approved. Once in a while I accidentally delete a real person or will let a spammer slide - and that's simply because of the volume of posts that I see, I'm bound to screw up once in a while.

The good news is that you, Gentle Reader, don't see the spam, so you can focus on the business at hand. Unfortunately, the number of spammers have made it difficult to get a count on the actual, real-live-person members that we do have, but I do know that I've been approving a lot of posts lately, which tells me that the group is growing.

Of course, I pimp it every chance I get on other venues, too :-)

Re: 10000th post

Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 6:20 am
by McAndrew
I'm guessing this is post 22,062.
If you hover over the post subject it and look at it's address it will include the post number. This will inculde deleted posts.

Re: 10000th post

Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 6:25 am
by Tom Allen
McAndrew wrote:I'm guessing this is post 22,062.
If you hover over the post subject it and look at it's address it will include the post number. This will inculde deleted posts.
Huh - I never knew that. TIL.

I'm going to check it later on the next batch of spam. It just seems odd because I delete a lot more every day than I see posted.

Re: 10000th post

Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 11:09 am
by Tom Allen
Tom Allen wrote:I'm going to check it later on the next batch of spam. It just seems odd because I delete a lot more every day than I see posted.
Okay, even the spam posts are numbered. I m surprised that the number isn't higher, but then, we had a good six or eight months before the spambots discovered this forum. So, in the last six months, the spammers have made as many posts as the regular members in a year. Bastards! :evil: