Nostalgia

[Xan]

Top 30 prolific posters:
username - # of posts - first post - latest post
(Not including this one!)

• MachineGhost — 11136 — 2011-11-12 — 2016-11-19
• Pointedstick — 9729 — 2012-04-17 — 2019-08-22
• MediumTex — 9620 — 2010-04-25 — 2019-08-07
• dualstow — 8616 — 2010-10-29 — 2019-11-12
• moda0306 — 8177 — 2010-11-04 — 2019-10-28
• Libertarian666 — 4965 — 2010-09-15 — 2019-11-11
• Gumby — 4036 — 2010-05-10 — 2016-03-07
• Kshartle — 3785 — 2011-09-22 — 2014-09-10
• Mountaineer — 3784 — 2012-02-07 — 2019-11-11
• Reub — 3700 — 2011-01-24 — 2016-10-30
• Desert — 3613 — 2010-06-26 — 2018-11-17
• TennPaGa — 3554 — 2011-05-19 — 2017-11-07
• craigr — 3179 — 2010-04-25 — 2019-08-07
• WiseOne — 3164 — 2012-04-23 — 2019-11-12
• Ad Orientem — 3097 — 2011-08-14 — 2019-11-07
• MangoMan — 2858 — 2012-06-26 — 2019-11-12
• ochotona — 2818 — 2015-01-30 — 2019-11-11
• doodle — 2789 — 2011-02-11 — 2019-10-23
• stone — 2704 — 2011-06-23 — 2018-01-10
• l82start — 2583 — 2010-04-25 — 2019-11-10
• AdamA — 2315 — 2011-01-24 — 2019-11-06
• Xan — 2313 — 2012-03-21 — 2019-11-12
• Anonymous — 2283 — 2010-04-25 — 2015-04-09
• buddtholomew — 2048 — 2010-05-21 — 2019-04-17
• Benko — 2021 — 2011-09-27 — 2018-10-07
• mathjak107 — 1978 — 2015-06-19 — 2019-11-11
• Kriegsspiel — 1801 — 2012-09-16 — 2019-11-11
• Tyler — 1771 — 2011-11-14 — 2019-11-11
• Storm — 1685 — 2010-08-24 — 2013-12-12
• barrett — 1516 — 2014-01-04 — 2019-02-13

Note for myself for running in the future:
echo "select concat('[*]',username, ' — ', (select count(*) from phpbb_posts where poster_id = user_id),' — ', (select date(from_unixtime(post_time)) from phpbb_posts where poster_id = user_id order by post_time limit 1), ' — ', (select date(from_unixtime(post_time)) from phpbb_posts where poster_id = user_id order by post_time desc limit 1)) from phpbb_users order by (select count(*) from phpbb_posts where poster_id = user_id) desc limit 30;"

[WiseOne]

I'm not sure if being on the list is a point of pride or shame!

[dualstow]

I'm not sure if being on the list is a point of pride or shame!

Hah. I like being one of the early joiners, while acknowledging that some of the later forum-joiners adopted the pp in the 80’s.
I definitely don’t take pride in my post count, which largely comprises the afro emoji.

[Maddy]

It's the quality of the posts that matters. Thankfully, I recognize many of the Most Prolific Club as being solid contributors of high-quality stuff.

To me, that's what distinguishes the PP forum from the run-of-the-mill internet discussion board. Contributions are, for the most part, well thought through, and contain at least some level of analysis.