Approaching a postings number threshold

Do you speed up or slow down on posting?

[inbound]

I noticed something strange about my run up to 500 posts (this one). When I saw I was getting near I thought "O.K. I'll post a little more often just to get over it"(and see if my status changes - which I think may be 600-650 rather than 500).

However, as I got closer to 500 I found myself slowing down. It got to the point where I was kind of waiting for a good thread to post number 500 in.

It's strange the significance that we give to numbers, especially such trivial ones as the numbers of posts on a forum.

Maybe there should be a better stat that we use - such as hours needlessly whittled away.

[inbound]

Hmm...

My posts are stuck on 499! Aaaarghh... Maybe I shouldn't have concerned myself with it.

[ogletree]

There is a limit to how many posts you can make in a certain time period. That is to stop people from making a bunch of posts so they can get their number up. I'm not sure what that time period is. Also I don't think posts in Foo count toward that number.

[le_gber]

Also I don't think posts in Foo count toward that number.

they don't ;)

[HarleyGuy]

"It's strange the significance that we give to numbers"

Everything I do is about numbers.
Stats are my friends.

If it weren't for numbers, I would still have a 9 to 5.

[Syzygy]

If it weren't for numbers I'd be doing an A to H...

I like the irony of waiting to post something meaningful in order to mark the reaching of point - only to find that the post doesn't count towards the tally and thus doesn't take the poster to the milestone; there's something almost allegorical about it.

Syzygy

[Quadrille]

If it weren't for numbers I'd be doing 7 to 10 ...

It is weird that numbers that really don't matter, matter so much.

Did you know that in any given year, the number of threads divided by the number of active members is always equal to
3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974
94459230781640628620899862803482534211706798214808651328230
66470938446095505822317253594081284811174502841027019385211
05559644622948954930381964428810975665933446128475648233786
78316527120190914564856692346034861045432664821339360726024
91412737245870066063155881748815209209628292540917153643678
92590360011330530548820466521384146951941511609433057270365
75959195309218611738193261179310511854807446237996274956735
18857527248912279381830119491298336733624406566430860213949
46395224737190702179860943702770539217176293176752384674818
46766940513200056812714526356082778577134275778960917363717
87214684409012249534301465495853710507922796892589235420199
56112129021960864034418159813629774771309960518707211349999
99837297804995105973173281609631859502445945534690830264252
23082533446850352619311881710100031378387528865875332083814
20617177669147303598253490428755468731159562863882353787593
7519577818577805321712268066130019278766111959092164201989 = pi

[g1smd]

Hmmm, I could have slowed down and posted my 4000th post on the exact day of 4 years being here... but in actual fact I passed the 4000 a few days ago.