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Re: 250k posts

Post by Matt Mackenzie » Fri Mar 19, 2021 1:09 pm

I can see after I posted this that its "real" number is #262520.

So not massively so.
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Re: 250k posts

Post by Matt Mackenzie » Sun Aug 06, 2023 9:07 pm

And now General Chat is the first section to rack up 100k posts.
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Re: 250k posts

Post by Matt Mackenzie » Sat Oct 14, 2023 6:04 pm

And now 5k posts for me personally :)
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Re: 250k posts

Post by Simon Rogers » Sat Oct 14, 2023 7:27 pm

Matt Mackenzie wrote:
Sat Oct 14, 2023 6:04 pm
And now 5k posts for me personally :)
A great milestone Matt. What's your position on the leaderboard for the most posts? I've not looked for a while.
Are you playing in the Scarborough Congress in two weeks time?

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Re: 250k posts

Post by Christopher Kreuzer » Sat Oct 14, 2023 7:36 pm

Simon Rogers wrote:
Sat Oct 14, 2023 7:27 pm
Matt Mackenzie wrote:
Sat Oct 14, 2023 6:04 pm
And now 5k posts for me personally :)
A great milestone Matt. What's your position on the leaderboard for the most posts? I've not looked for a while.
Are you playing in the Scarborough Congress in two weeks time?
12th (I really should not have looked that up! :D )

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Re: 250k posts

Post by Joey Stewart » Sun Oct 15, 2023 12:03 am

Simon Rogers wrote:
Sat Oct 14, 2023 7:27 pm
Matt Mackenzie wrote:
Sat Oct 14, 2023 6:04 pm
And now 5k posts for me personally :)
A great milestone Matt. What's your position on the leaderboard for the most posts? I've not looked for a while.
Are you playing in the Scarborough Congress in two weeks time?
It would probably not be quite as high as some of the really old and active members - there's people here who have been posting regularly for 15+ years. Id say in terms of posts per year you would probably be up there, you have posted 1.5 times as much as me even though I have a 13 year headstart...
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Re: 250k posts

Post by Simon Rogers » Sun Oct 15, 2023 7:19 pm

Joey Stewart wrote:
Sun Oct 15, 2023 12:03 am
Simon Rogers wrote:
Sat Oct 14, 2023 7:27 pm
Matt Mackenzie wrote:
Sat Oct 14, 2023 6:04 pm
And now 5k posts for me personally :)
A great milestone Matt. What's your position on the leaderboard for the most posts? I've not looked for a while.
Are you playing in the Scarborough Congress in two weeks time?
It would probably not be quite as high as some of the really old and active members - there's people here who have been posting regularly for 15+ years. Id say in terms of posts per year you would probably be up there, you have posted 1.5 times as much as me even though I have a 13 year headstart...
Although, I've not posted much recently due to work commitments.
Most of my posts are in the Deaths & Obituaries Category and the Congress Diary Category.
I'll try and post a bit more over the next few days.
I have some exciting, some good, some bad and some sad news to report to the forum.
I do enjoy reading your posts Joey.
I have noticed that me and you are not in the Premier league (Top Twenty) posters.
We are both Championship, I'm 29th (hope to be promoted within the next few years) and you are 40th.

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Re: 250k posts

Post by Mark Howitt » Sun Oct 15, 2023 8:28 pm

I would quickly like to note here that although I only joined this forum in 2008 Chess Historians POSSIBLY may look at my postings on chessninja if they can recover them.

It is one of the things I should improve on as a writer. I don't save enough of my writing.

I posted on chessninja from 2003 and I think I had over 1000 posts there...

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Re: 250k posts

Post by Roger Lancaster » Mon Oct 16, 2023 10:59 am

I don't wish to hit a sour note but this forum isn't actually intended as a competition to see who can rack up most posts. Without naming names, there are enough unnecessary (to put it politely) posts without a competitive incentive to add more. In saying this, I intend no offence.

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Re: 250k posts

Post by Simon Rogers » Mon Oct 16, 2023 12:11 pm

Roger Lancaster wrote:
Mon Oct 16, 2023 10:59 am
I don't wish to hit a sour note but this forum isn't actually intended as a competition to see who can rack up most posts. Without naming names, there are enough unnecessary (to put it politely) posts without a competitive incentive to add more. In saying this, I intend no offence.
It's okay Roger.
I was only joking.
I tend to keep my posts to quality rather quantity these days.

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Re: 250k posts

Post by John Upham » Mon Oct 16, 2023 3:01 pm

Mark Howitt wrote:
Sun Oct 15, 2023 8:28 pm
Chess Historians POSSIBLY may look at my postings on chessninja if they can recover them.
Both Edward Winter and Olimpu G. Urcan both mentioned to me privately that the above postings were a valuable source of information and I should study them without delay. Sadly Ken Whyld was not around to read them and as for HJR Murray....
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Re: 250k posts

Post by Mark Howitt » Tue Oct 17, 2023 1:44 pm

Yeah I'm a genius writer so I write what I want...

get back to being a doc

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Re: 250k posts

Post by Peter Ackley » Tue Oct 17, 2023 2:02 pm

Truly inspirational postings. Plato would be proud.

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Re: 250k posts

Post by John Upham » Tue Oct 17, 2023 2:52 pm

Mark Howitt wrote:
Tue Oct 17, 2023 1:44 pm
Yeah I'm a genius writer so I write what I want...

get back to being a doc
I am neither a doc nor a document but I am tempted to quote BA Baracus.
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Re: 250k posts

Post by Peter Ackley » Tue Oct 17, 2023 3:05 pm

Mark Twain is also good:
“Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.”

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