Good morning everybody (feeling all warm and fuzzy inside)
Didn't realise I was already at #6 in posts in this thread (surpassing CaroLiza_fan himself)... go me!
My excuse is that it was only during the season just passed that I started visiting the Fan Fest forum, and posting in it. Before that, I avoided this part of Golden Skate completely.
But, I've now seen the light and realised the error of my ways.
Although understandably, I imagine most of the activity for Liza's topic has spiked recently over the past year.
Yeah.
Sam's comment a few days ago that something they had posted exactly a year ago was only on page 10 of this thread pretty much says it all!
How on earth do you guys know how many posts people put in a thread?
*runs for the Internet cave of shame*
LOL, I was wondering the same thing as Sam-S ... until I decided that I think CL_fan meant, "one of the members in this thread who has a high post count" -- meaning a high post count on GS overall, not specifically within this thread.
But I shouldn't underestimate CL_fan, who has all kinds of tricks up his sleeve

. Wouldn't surprise me if he knows something that mere mortals like me do not.
#LoiteringInTheCaveOfShame
Nope, it was for this thread itself that I was talking about. If it was for the whole of Golden Skate, I wouldn't even come close to the Top 100, never mind the Top 10! Like, look how many posts
Mathman has!!!
By the way,
Golden, you are 13th in the list of most posts on the whole of GS! I'm not even on the first page...
That would make less sense to me. Caro has more overall posts than I... and I can count at least 6 members on this one page alone that have more overall posts than I do.
Anyhow, in this thread:
sabinfire: 105 posts
CaroLiza_fan: 71 posts
and adelia at 211! :thumbsup:
So did you use the advanced search function to search within this thread by each GS member??
My apologies to CL_fan. I hadn't thought of that method when I posted earlier ... and even if I had, I would have been too lazy :hopelessness: to do ten (or more) searches

.
#ReturningToTheCaveOfShameAndNeverComingOut
Actually, I didn't do it using the Advanced Search. But, I can imagine how time consuming it would be if somebody did attempt it like that. Like, first you would have to go through the thread and see whose names keep appearing to get an idea who to then do a search for. I may do some time consuming research for some of my pet projects, but I couldn't be bothered doing it for something like this!
Considering all the other complex and time-consuming projects that CL_fan embarks on, this one wouldn't be too bad. If you're familiar enough with the 'usual suspects' in the Liza thread, the search thread tool will return results in a couple of seconds, and you could perform 20+ searches to have your top 10 list developed in as little as 5 to 10 minutes... if one cared to dive into that sort of thing.
And, quite frankly, I don't care. Some members may be obsessed with having a lot of posts, but I am not like that. I was just curious to see if statistical analysis could help us work out who wanted to be the new OP.
So, now for the moment of revelation!!!
It's actually quite simple to find out the post count for each poster within a thread. But, it is not obvious how to do it. I probably shouldn't admit this, but I found out purely by accident one time!
I had the Fan Fest forum main page open in a narrow window (I was watching a stream in another window alongside GS at the same time), and was trying to click on the last post link for a thread. And my hand slipped, and I ended up clicking on the wrong place. And, lo-and-behold, a pop-up window appeared listing everybody who had posted in that thread, ordered by the number of posts they had in that thread!
After quite a few attempts at repeating it to try to find out what I had done, I discovered that this window appears when you click on the number of replies in the "Replies / Views" column. And it only works if you click on the number itself; it doesn't if you click on the word "Replies".
A very ingenious feature which vBulletin should make more obvious!
Hope this helps
CaroLiza_fan