Nth Post Angst?

[Lalwendë]

Do you get this?

I've noticed to my surprise that my 4,000th Post is heading this way with all the speed of Gordon Brown chasing an Icelandic banker. Some how I feel I ought to do something special with it, as I've tried to do on my Nth Posts in the past, but that risks a.) ending up starting a really rubbish thread that you thought was impressive and everyone else thinks "yawwwwwn" and b.) you look dead uncool.

In fact a.) and b.) there might even apply to this thread....

Do you store up cunning thread ideas for your Nth Posts, like a squirrel stashing nuts for the winter? Or do you waste it on a WW post accusing Mithalwen of being a cobbler and upsetting her?

And do you actually care?

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

I do care, but I do not store anything up.

It is more a case of me suddenly realising a special number is comming up and then either make some panic post or I decide that I will hang onto the post until I figure out what I want to do with it. The problem with the latter is that I always end up forgetting and use the special post on some random thing like "Palantir of Fortune"

[skip spence]

And do you actually care?

I do. I've already started the countdown and feel like a kid before Christmas. Lal's 4000th post! Don't know what it's going to be about but I expect something absolutely marvellous!

[Lalwendë]

Originally Posted by skip spence

I do. I've already started the countdown and feel like a kid before Christmas. Lal's 4000th post! Don't know what it's going to be about but I expect something absolutely marvellous!

I wouldn't hold your breath, I'm such a flibbertigibbet these days I might do just what Rune says and waste it being facetious

What' funnier is with every pointless post I make time is counting down and using it to go "Hey! That was funny!" in response to an Assigned To Mordor post (and is the process even possibly getting chat-skwerled just to add to the sense of misery) is increasingly likely

[Morthoron]

Well, since any milestone I would reach probably won't happen for another year or more, I hadn't really even considered an nth post; however, I will gladly offer spam, spam, spam, spam, spam and eggs (minus the eggs) to assist you in reaching your lofty goal.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

When it comes to me, I usually realise my n-th post had just happened right after I make it (except for my last jubilee, i.e. 3000th post, when I realised it only several posts later and not immediately. Maybe I am getting blind). From the "EDIT: Wow! #th post!" words which I have seen many times, I assume that this is no rare phenomenon. I think many people, like me, don't realise something special is happening until the number they were used to changes suspiciously. Number, let's say, 3987 by itself does not warn you in any striking way on first sight.

[Aganzir]

I don't think I have ever marked any post with "yay my nth post!", whatever the number. What's really so special in your 100th, 500th, 1,000th &c post?

Even now I don't remember how many rep points I have, and about my posts I only remember there's 1,100-something of them. Occasionally glancing at the number actually makes me rather surprised: how come I have this many posts already! The worst thing is that I have no idea where I have posted that much.
I think I noticed I had passed one thousand only when I had something like 1,010 posts.

So no, no storing up for me.

[Lalwendë]

Originally Posted by Aganzir

I don't think I have ever marked any post with "yay my nth post!", whatever the number. What's really so special in your 100th, 500th, 1,000th &c post?

You're just too cool I'm one of these people who gets all excited when the milometer on a car goes past a landmark sum - in fact I'm so sad I got upset that I recently missed my car passing 50k because my dad was driving it. Grrr...

Originally Posted by Legate

Number, let's say, 3987 by itself does not warn you in any striking way on first sight.

Well uncannily I am just a couple below that and I'm watching that counter grow each time I post and look, you've just made it go down more...

Originally Posted by Morthoron

Well, since any milestone I would reach probably won't happen for another year or more, I hadn't really even considered an nth post; however, I will gladly offer spam, spam, spam, spam, spam and eggs (minus the eggs) to assist you in reaching your lofty goal.

Any more of those amusing letters to the editor sir and you will soon be going "Oh God, my 1,000th post! What do I do to mark it!"

I think I might use it for a Crazy Caption actually. Why the jiggins not? I have a load of thread ideas stewing on topics I've been wanting to discuss but the irony is here I am rambling on and....

[Formendacil]

The only post I ever bothered to track the arrival of was the 500th--for the obvious reason of then becoming eligible for a title, though that still wasn't something that came my way for a good while thereafter, and was not necessarily a consequence of attaining that lofty figure.

Actually... I don't even know how many posts I have right now.

[Morthoron]

Perhaps the criteria for posting milestones should be changed to reflect a more Barrow-Downerish model. For instance, one's eleventieth post (Bilbo's Birthday), or one's 1420th post (a proper mark, to be sure), or 3824 (seemingly, the amount of werewolf threads in the Mirth Section).

It's just a thought. Geeze, lycanthropes can be so touchy.

[Mithalwen]

Originally Posted by Lalwendë

You're just too cool I'm one of these people who gets all excited when the milometer on a car goes past a landmark sum - in fact I'm so sad I got upset that I recently missed my car passing 50k because my dad was driving it. Grrr...

I missed 50K too - one of those times when I realised I was a couple of miles off one evening but forgot all about it the next morning. But it hit 51K tidily as I pulled into my parking space yesterday. Most exciting of all was when my old car had the speedo reading 54321.0 as I climebed a hill in Kent.

I did think my 5555 should be special then I forgot.

[Eönwë]

I forgot about my 1000.

[Aganzir]

Before the Downs I used to frequent a forum with no reputation system where an user's reputation kind of depended on the number of posts - the more the better. It was a serious forum with relatively strict moderators, though, so no spam posts were allowed (except in the mirth section where users could eg just post jokes and others comment on them like "Haha! "). There I was much keener on how many posts I had.

I really like the Downs' rep system. It encourages to write proper posts instead of just trying to add up to the post count.

[Lalwendë]

Originally Posted by Mithalwen

I missed 50K too - one of those times when I realised I was a couple of miles off one evening but forgot all about it the next morning. But it hit 51K tidily as I pulled into my parking space yesterday. Most exciting of all was when my old car had the speedo reading 54321.0 as I climebed a hill in Kent.

I did think my 5555 should be special then I forgot.

I'm glad I'm not alone in this odd little pleasure

It's only in three posts' time (two now, actually - unless I get skwerled and have posts wiped for making up rambling threads like this of course!).

It always strikes me that Downers are a celebratory bunch, any excuse for a bit of a party, Tolkien's birthday, Bilbo's birthday, the Barrow Downs' birthday, the opening of an envelope.... so you surprise me, though you could all be much cooler than I am being all old now and having to find cheap thrills in things like numbers

[Naz]

I'm oblivious as to my number of posts. All i know is that i'm horrible when it comes to posting here. .___.

Oh, look. Two seventy.

[Shastanis Althreduin]

Lal is only 2 posts away! *cheer!*

[Rikae]

I remember trying to think of clever things to say in my 666th and 1000th posts, but I think when they actually arrived, I forgot & made some inconsequential WW post. Or - no, wait, if I recall correctly 666 was something appropriately evil - can't remember what or find it again, though.

[Thinlómien]

I don't really think I should be doing something special with 100th, 1000th or 3000th post or so on, but I do keep an eye on my post count and wait for the great numbers. Currently, 5000 is not very far away...

[Rikae]

And the above appears to have been my 1499th post... so here's to 1500, and nothing clever to say!

[Thinlómien]

(Cross-posted...)

Originally Posted by Rikae

I remember trying to think of clever things to say in my 666th and 1000th posts, but I think when they actually arrived, I forgot & made some inconsequential WW post. Or - no, wait, if I recall correctly 666 was something appropriately evil - can't remember what or find it again, though.

Aieeeeeeee, Rikae, watch out! Your 1500th is just one post away!

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by Lalwendë

It's only in three posts' time (two now, actually - unless I get skwerled and have posts wiped for making up rambling threads like this of course!).

Now, here's a good idea - what about this: you start to make off-topic posts now, and they are deleted all the time, and this way you may celebrate your jubilee post over and over again

[Mithalwen]

Originally Posted by Lalwendë

I'm glad I'm not alone in this odd little pleasure

You are not - the odd thing is it is a habit I inherited from my mother who was otherwise the least number orientated person imaginable. Her very good school gave up trying to teach her maths and she had to give up a hotel job she loved because she had to make good any errors out of her pay and she couldn't afford to stay!

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

4000, eh? I can... yes, I can just about see it myself.

I don't know how it happened though, Lal: you're a newbie, really.

This thread should be closed because it's only going to encourage people to get their post-count up. Unless a moderator deletes this post, I will have essentially stolen one.

Yes, I also obsess.

[Lalwendë]

This is my 3999th post!

The very next one is IT!

OK, now if you lot were all real meanies you'd post something guaranteed to make me HAVE to bang out a post instantly and hit 'send' before I even had time to think about it

God, Eomer, I remember joining here and you were this old-timer! And you are not so far off I note...

Who has the most posts? Is it still H-I or Mr Saucepan?

I'm off to bind my fingers down...

[skip spence]

Originally Posted by Lalwendë

This is my 3999th post!

The very next one is IT!

OK, now if you lot were all real meanies you'd post something guaranteed to make me HAVE to bang out a post instantly and hit 'send' before I even had time to think about it

God, Eomer, I remember joining here and you were this old-timer! And you are not so far off I note...

Who has the most posts? Is it still H-I or Mr Saucepan?

I'm off to bind my fingers down...

Ooo, only one left! Really, you can't fail Lalwende. When Alan Shearer scored his 200th premiership goal it would not have mattered at all if that goal were a poorly struck penalty that somehow found the net (it wasn't), his fans would have celebrated it with great gusto nonetheless. So just go ahead, get it over with!

Oh I also attach significance to numbers. I can drive many extra miles just to see that milometer reach a certain landmark or keep staring a digital watch for minutes until it reaches 22:22:22. Although I'm far from any particularly auspicious postcount on this board I will probably feel a tinge of sentimentality and importance when or if I reach lets say an even thousand.

[Lalwendë]

I have a thing about always looking at the clock when it says 22:22 as well! It spooks me out actually...

Anyway, I've done it!!! Next big step is 4444, because that is like a square number or something like that.

[Eönwë]

Originally Posted by Lalwendë

I have a thing about always looking at the clock when it says 22:22 as well! It spooks me out actually...

Anyway, I've done it!!! Next big step is 4444, because that is like a square number or something like that.

I do that too!
4444 is a special number. Last time I had a post-count off a similiar nature was at 333- I'm sure that was ages ago for you.

Originally Posted by skip spence

Although I'm far from any particularly auspicious postcount on this board

Not really- how about in 12 posts (321) or in 24 posts (333)?

[Lalwendë]

Originally Posted by Eönwë

I do that too!
4444 is a special number. Last time I had a post-count off a similiar nature was at 333- I'm sure that was ages ago for you.

I wish I could look back and see what I was posting back then, but correct me if I am wrong, mod persons, I think you can only look back to at max your last 1,000 posts in a 'numbered list'?

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

I thought it was only 500... oh well. I've only got like 900 posts or something, when I get to 1,000 I should have a party, with Lauri, of course! Maybe a tea party.

But as to not just take up posts, when I got to a Ghost Prince or something, I was excited, because I could get a personal title... Well that happened quickly... Anyway, I was excited when I got to be a Wight, I got an congratulation pm for becoming a Shade. I was like Yay, somebody notices me!

I remember Lauri came to school one day to announce that she was A Wight, because she had reached to lofty number of 101 posts!

[Diamond18]

I used post #3500 to start a Werewolf thread. And I just noticed that now.

[Eönwë]

My clock now says 22:22. It reminded me of this thread.

[Naz]

What is the significance of 22:22 and 11:11? :\

[Rikae]

I don't know what the significance is for Eönwë, but if I look at the clock at 11:11, I tell myself I get a wish.

It's even better if it's 11:11 pm with the alarm set on my digital clock, because then it's :11:11.

[Brinniel]

Originally Posted by Lal

I'm one of these people who gets all excited when the milometer on a car goes past a landmark sum

I do that too...except in miles. Though it's been months since I've driven my car...

Anyways, I've noticed I now have less than 50 posts until I reach 2,000. That should be an exciting mark for me, especially since I don't tend to post as much as others. I also like to keep track of my posting average. I got excited when I hit 0.8 posts per day, though it'll be worth celebrating when I actually manage to reach 1.0.

[Oddwen]

Originally Posted by Lal

I wish I could look back and see what I was posting back then, but correct me if I am wrong, mod persons, I think you can only look back to at max your last 1,000 posts in a 'numbered list'?

Actually, I believe you can search for a members' posts within a certain timeframe, so if you know approximately when this post number would have occurred you might be able to find it.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

I'm sitting nicely on 1.98 posts per day! Although not as much as some, still more than others I guess!

Although, most of my 1.98 posts per day are used on rubbish posts...

[Oddwen]

Originally Posted by Me

Actually, I believe you can search for a members' posts within a certain timeframe, so if you know approximately when this post number would have occurred you might be able to find it.

Well scratch that - you can search in certain forums for posts up to a year old, or for posts older than a year, but it's not going to give you the number of the post.

[Estelyn Telcontar]

Dear me, my very next post is number 6,666 - should I make it evil (menacing chat skwerlz), humorous (another bumper sticker, crazy caption, or so), memorable (writing why I love the Downs), or intelligent (perhaps a great new Books topic)? Knowing me, I will forget all about it by tomorrow morning and waste it on something completely trivial.

[Lalwendë]

Quick! All provoke Esty so she wastes her post! :P

[Brinniel]

This is my 2,000th post. Go me.