I was trying to think, after describing to a roommate how Hatrack sort of works... how many pages worth of writing have I contributed to this board?
There are many hundreds of posts I've made with a few sentences or a few words in them, but there have been others that were much longer, some containing hundreds or even over a thousand words in one post.
I think it's safe to say that at nearly 4,000 posts, I'm probably at somewhere over 1,000 pages, if you count 500 words to the page. What about you? How many novels could you have banged out by now if you weren't posting here? How many man hours have you contributed to this great endeavor?
Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :
I shudder to think. But more importantly, I shudder to think of the contrubtions of TomDavidson and rivka. Posted by rollainm (Member # 8318) on :
Well, it should be noted that a good 60% of TomD's posts are witty one liners.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
quote:Originally posted by twinky: But more importantly, I shudder to think of the contrubtions of TomDavidson and rivka.
Hey! What about Bob, Katie, and ak?
quote:Originally posted by rollainm: Well, it should be noted that a good 60% of TomD's posts are witty one liners.
No idea what my percentages are, but I definitely post a fair number of posts with fewer than 10 words.
Or no words at all. Posted by Achilles (Member # 7741) on :
Cool. 8)
Posted by Mucus (Member # 9735) on :
quote:Originally posted by rollainm: Well, it should be noted that a good 60% of TomD's posts are witty one liners.
This reminds me of this exchange
quote: Julian Bashir: I can't believe you're not pressing charges. Elim Garak: Constable Odo and Captain Sisko expressed a similar concern, but really doctor, there was no harm done. Julian Bashir: They broke seven of your transverse ribs and fractured your clavical. Elim Garak: Ah, but I got off several cutting remarks which no doubt did serious damage to their egos. Julian Bashir: Garak, this isn't funny. Elim Garak: I'm serious, doctor! Thanks to your administrations I'm almost completely healed but the damage I did to them will last a lifetime.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
"Ministrations". Unless it's a comment on HR. Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
I look at my post count and my registration date satisfied that I have, in fact, exchanged several thousand posts for two and two halves of novels.
The thing is, they aren't published or anything. Stuff I post on Hatrack at least gets read.
Posted by JonHecht (Member # 9712) on :
I've posted a fair bit, but I think I've only posted one or two posts of substance, if that.
Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :
It just occurred to me recently that I might no longer be a noob. I mean, I'm not in the tens of thousands, but four thousand is at least adult in Hatrack years... I don't know if that made sense.
Posted by BandoCommando (Member # 7746) on :
Alas, I have not posted all that much, but I can only imagine how much time I have spent here!!
Orincoro, you have definitely reached maturity as a poster on Hatrack. Pooka, Tom and rivka (no offense, I hope) seem to me to be the revered elders of the community.
I read Geoff's thread about his kids' witty expressions and had to pick up my jaw when I read about rivka and him knowing each other, probably years before I first heard of OSC.
Me? I'm still a 'tween in terms of posting, but I'd like to think that I'm mature and responsible for the average (figurative) 11 year old.
Posted by Mucus (Member # 9735) on :
rivka: Wikiquote has some fixing to do Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
quote:Originally posted by BandoCommando: I read Geoff's thread about his kids' witty expressions and had to pick up my jaw when I read about rivka and him knowing each other, probably years before I first heard of OSC.
Heh. Luck, and being on Prodigy back when very few people knew what "online" was. There were fewer than a 1000 people in the SF&F area of Prodigy, IIRC. So Geoff and I pretty much had to run into each other. (In fact, I had interacted with him for months before I learned who his dad was.
And plenty of people (Tom, ak, Bob) have been on Hatrack way longer than I have.
Also, I'm not offended when someone points out my post count. It IS ridiculous. Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
quote:Originally posted by Mucus: rivka: Wikiquote has some fixing to do
While you're at it, the word is "clavicle".
Posted by Mucus (Member # 9735) on :
Hopefully you're right on the latter change, since it will remain that way for all time. (Or until the next random editor anyways)
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Latter in the quote, not latter chronologically on Hatrack
Posted by BandoCommando (Member # 7746) on :
Heck, rivka, I don't even know what Prodigy even is...
(off to wikipedia)
edit: okay. NOW I know...
Posted by Lyrhawn (Member # 7039) on :
I couldn't even begin to guess at the word count of the sum total of my posts. I tend to ramble...a lot. And even then I wonder what my signal to noise ratio would be. I think if I could go back and read them all (well, I suppose I could, but have little interest in doing so), I'd find a new appreciation for pith over elaboration.
Orincoro -
I wouldn't feel bad about the newbie feeling. I didn't stop feeling like a newbie until earlier this year.
Posted by BandoCommando (Member # 7746) on :
Lyr, I hadn't looked at your post count in a long time. Holy cow man, you do talk a lot on here! (Though I suspect that your frequent participation in election-related threads has much to do with that.)
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
quote:Originally posted by Mucus: Latter in the quote, not latter chronologically on Hatrack
THAT one I'm willing to defend on my own recognizance.
quote:Originally posted by BandoCommando: Heck, rivka, I don't even know what Prodigy even is...
(off to wikipedia)
edit: okay. NOW I know...
That goes back to it being a long time ago, and comparatively small. I bet you've never heard of GEnie (or Delphi) either!
*compares # of posts in thread to # other posters in thread have*
I begin to see where the problem is . . .
Posted by T:man (Member # 11614) on :
Well considering most of Lyr's posts are at least 5-8 paragraphs... dang...
Posted by Mucus (Member # 9735) on :
rivka: Personally, I'm undecided but since you seem pretty sure, I made the change. However, google lists 343 matches for "administrations" and 6 matches for "ministrations," so that gives me pause.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
That is merely proof that misinformation travels faster than information, as everyone knows.
"Administrations" makes no sense!
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
It's "ministrations." Trust me. Posted by Mucus (Member # 9735) on :
I'll take your word for it.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
If Tom and I agree, it MUST be true! Posted by Belle (Member # 2314) on :
One day I will finish a novel. And hopefully, people from Hatrack will buy it and read it.
But, I don't begrudge the page count I've thrown up here. I've gotten something out of it. Just as I get something out of the pages I write on my novel, even if it never gets published. Considering the long odds on publication, I would hope I'm writing it for more than one reason.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
The way I look at it, comparing the words I've written here to the words of a hypothetical great novel I might have written is like comparing the tunes I've hummed in my life to the popular songs I might have recorded, or the words I've spoken to the stirring, inspirational speeches I might have given.
Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :
quote:Originally posted by Mucus: I'll take your word for it.
But don't take MY word for it...
quote: The Oxford English Dictionary Says:
ministration |ˌminəˈstrā sh ən| noun (usu. ministrations) chiefly formal or humorous the provision of assistance or care : a kitchen made spotless by the ministrations of a cleaning lady. • the services of a minister of religion or of a religious institution. • the action of administering the sacrament.
Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :
quote:Originally posted by TomDavidson: The way I look at it, comparing the words I've written here to the words of a hypothetical great novel I might have written is like comparing the tunes I've hummed in my life to the popular songs I might have recorded, or the words I've spoken to the stirring, inspirational speeches I might have given.
Do you fee like Barack Obama sits down at the breakfast table, looks at his wife and children, picks up the box of cheerios, and says:
"In this great time of need, on the morning of a great and historical day, your voices have been heard, and change has come to my breakfast menu. No longer will we sit idly by, as the days pass, and the cheerios become perpetually soggy in their confining bowl of 1% milk; no longer should our children have to remain crazy for CocoPuffs. When I went to the store, and they told me there were no CocoPuffs, I looked out at the faces of the shoppers...
like Anne Johnson, a mother of 2, who works 50 hours a week in a factory in Scranton, and eats frosted mini-flakes every morning, and wonder if one day, she can taste the sweet confection, a taste her granparents could only have imagined if they dared- the taste of Crunchberries...
When they told us there were no CocoPuffs, no Fruity Pebbles, no Waffle Crisps, no Fruity O's, what did we say? 'Yes, we Can!'
Thank you, and God Bless America"
I can only imagine what his dirty talk might sound like.
"Not tonight sweetheart,... I have a headache"
"Yes, We Can!"
Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :
quote: It just occurred to me recently that I might no longer be a noob.
And, yet, I'm still pretty sure your name is Orinoco. Which makes me think of the "Pure Moods" CD. Which makes me happy.
That's unrelated to anything. Back to banging out my novel.
Posted by Alcon (Member # 6645) on :
They might have misused the word in show on purpose. They do do that sometimes you know. You'd have to go back and watch the episode to be sure. Maybe there's some sort of pun or joke from earlier in the episode about how the doctor is a bureaucrat or something...
Posted by Wendybird (Member # 84) on :
*snort* Orinoco - that was funny!
I am definitely not a noob but you can't tell from my post count I'm the quiet one in the corner that just watches fascinated by all the creative energy around here. Posted by Vasslia Cora (Member # 7981) on :
Haha, I wonder the opposite. How much more productive would I have been if I had read and posted on Hatrack more.
Its been far too long. Hello again Posted by Colonel Graff (Member # 11872) on :
I've only made 11 posts so far. I just joined here recently so that's why I don't have that many psots.
Posted by Vasslia Cora (Member # 7981) on :
Don't worry, almost everybody was a troll at some point or another.
Egad! (I don't know if that is spelled right but it is the actual word I used) I just looked at my post history and I haven't post in over a year!
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
quote:Originally posted by Orincoro: It just occurred to me recently that I might no longer be a noob. I mean, I'm not in the tens of thousands, but four thousand is at least adult in Hatrack years... I don't know if that made sense.
I think that last year I finally stopped feeling like a noob. I don't know what made me feel that way, but post count had nothing to do with it, I don't think. Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :
My god, you're well into 5 digits, and you're telling me you're a nOOb? You only registered a year before me. That means you've posted like 5 times as much as me in that time.
Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
I don't think I've ever made it out of noob status, although I've been a jatraquero for more than 8 years now.
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
LOL...how do you atop being a nOOb?
Well....whenever you FEEL like you aren't one, you have stopped being one. Some people stop being a nOOb within 100 posts. Posted by Strider (Member # 1807) on :
hatrack was so welcoming I think it took me all of 50 posts and less than a month to stop feeling like a noob. then again, i didn't introduce myself and didn't start my own thread, I just jumped into posting. I tried to circumvent the whole noob issue by pretending I had been here all along and hoped nobody would notice. Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :
quote:Originally posted by Orincoro: It just occurred to me recently that I might no longer be a noob. I mean, I'm not in the tens of thousands, but four thousand is at least adult in Hatrack years... I don't know if that made sense.
Hmm. Can I be grandfathered in if we're following this definition? At my posting rate, I'll be lucky to hit 4000 by the time I hit ten years here.
Posted by Sterling (Member # 8096) on :
quote:Originally posted by Orincoro: How many novels could you have banged out by now if you weren't posting here? How many man hours have you contributed to this great endeavor?
Actually, all my posts are going into a database, which is going into a random word sequencer. My agent is supposed to give me a ring when we have something publishable.
Jove knows, I've written some excessively long posts. But I don't start threads very often, and I don't get pulled into extended give-and-takes as often as I used to. I'll leave others to judge whether that's a sign of growing maturity or fatigue. Posted by Samprimary (Member # 8561) on :
I am posting away my high quality life
Posted by Launchywiggin (Member # 9116) on :
I don't often have much to add, so I'd say I post just the right amount. I do spend a good half-hour every day catching up on new posts and threads, and I don't consider it a waste at all. I learn a lot from hatrack--and laugh a lot too.
Posted by String (Member # 6435) on :
quote:Originally posted by Orincoro:
quote:Originally posted by TomDavidson: The way I look at it, comparing the words I've written here to the words of a hypothetical great novel I might have written is like comparing the tunes I've hummed in my life to the popular songs I might have recorded, or the words I've spoken to the stirring, inspirational speeches I might have given.
Do you fee like Barack Obama sits down at the breakfast table, looks at his wife and children, picks up the box of cheerios, and says:
"In this great time of need, on the morning of a great and historical day, your voices have been heard, and change has come to my breakfast menu. No longer will we sit idly by, as the days pass, and the cheerios become perpetually soggy in their confining bowl of 1% milk; no longer should our children have to remain crazy for CocoPuffs. When I went to the store, and they told me there were no CocoPuffs, I looked out at the faces of the shoppers...
like Anne Johnson, a mother of 2, who works 50 hours a week in a factory in Scranton, and eats frosted mini-flakes every morning, and wonder if one day, she can taste the sweet confection, a taste her granparents could only have imagined if they dared- the taste of Crunchberries...
When they told us there were no CocoPuffs, no Fruity Pebbles, no Waffle Crisps, no Fruity O's, what did we say? 'Yes, we Can!'
Thank you, and God Bless America"
I can only imagine what his dirty talk might sound like.
"Not tonight sweetheart,... I have a headache"
"Yes, We Can!"
You must be one of Baracks speach writers, That was dead on. You should make a video and put out somewhere, I'm still laughing pretty hard over here.
On the original subject of post counting, I feel kind of bad. I've been registered and reading here for years, but I don't post very often. I feel like I know some of you folks a little bit, but that I haven't contributed much. Maybe I'll change that soon. But I'll probably get side-tracked with some project I'll never finish and post again= in six months. Oh well, rest assured that just about everyone here has given me many novels worth of fine reading and discussion. You guys are cool.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
I've posted an awful lot, but most of it doesn't count because they're haikus, questions to be begged, or other nonsense. And besides, I'm a bot, which may disqualify me altogether.
Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :
Which begs the question:
Winter knows the truth Hatrack loves creative folk Tante is a Bot
Posted by BandoCommando (Member # 7746) on :
<groan> (directed to Orincoro's Haiku)
Though the Obama breakfast speech should end up on SNL, if you ask me...
Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :
I'm what's known as a Hinkley in the comedy department.
I'm hit and miss.
Posted by T:man (Member # 11614) on :
Woah, I grew out of n00biness before I joined!
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
quote:Originally posted by T:man: Woah, I grew out of n00biness before I joined!
Or perhaps you are the exception that proves the rule...
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
quote:Originally posted by BandoCommando: <groan> (directed to Orincoro's Haiku)
Though the Obama breakfast speech should end up on SNL, if you ask me...
It wouldn't fit in SNL...it's funny.
Posted by String (Member # 6435) on :
Ouch, that's rough kwea. It's gotten a little bit better right? I was rolling on the floor over the last digital short song.
Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
I think my first post was in 1996 or 1997. I remember being so afraid that I would say something dumb or that people wouldn't like me. Obviously I got over that fairly quickly. I can't even remember roughly how many posts I've had. I'd have to log in as all my old sns to find out. But I'm pretty sure it's over 10k and far less than 30k. And as for average words per post, I have no clue about that either. I write plenty of short posts. I remember posting a single smilie on at least one occasion. But then it seems I run on to a screenful fairly often as well. So, after careful analysis, my answer is .
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Not Enough!
Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
Thanks, rivka! I think I'm still under 15k (14,627, though I posted at least 200 on the old BML forum), so I must have posted around 400 or so posts this year. I'm much more active now on the bloggernacle and kiva friends than hatrack.
[ December 21, 2008, 02:57 AM: Message edited by: Tatiana ]
Posted by Uprooted (Member # 8353) on :
Orinoco, good stuff!
Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :
Who is this south American river person?
Posted by Lupus (Member # 6516) on :
I posted more in my first year, than in the rest combined. Of course I didn't work nearly as much back then either.
The real question is how many ellipses have I used in those years. My guess is quite a few. Posted by Altáriël of Dorthonion (Member # 6473) on :
Lately I haven't posted here. Don't really know why, either. This whole year has been so very stressful on me. I got to ride this very non-enjoyable emotional and financial rollercoaster. It got to me really bad. I stopped doing a lot of the things I liked the most, like reading, painting, crafts, games, etc. Yeah, I wasn't doing too good.
With school pretty much out of the way though, things are starting to look up and I realize that I'm no longer going to be in such emotional crunches anymore.
Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :
You could always just start drinking... is that not sound advice?
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Oh well, rest assured that just about everyone here has given me many novels worth of fine reading and discussion. You guys are cool.
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