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lazide
Big Wall climber
Bay Area, CA
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jul 31, 2006 - 03:36pm PT
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Sup! As of 6:11pm on sunday, jul 30th - (includes all NON-DELETED
posts and topics for all time)
Excel spreadsheets containing the information and all graphs, explanations, web graphs, etc are all available at:
http://learningleaf.com/content/view/12/28/
My fiancee and I spent a couple days on all of it, so please feel free to check out our product on the webpage there if you like what we did. ;)
I'm going to include a small bit of the info here to avoid killing the dialups...
Totals
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Total topics: 11,627
Total posts: 193,066
Total words in all posts: 13,647,077
Total bytes in all posts: 70,259,466
Average words per post: 17
Total exclamation points in all posts: 99,220
Total images in all posts: 16,959
Total html links in all posts: 9,246
Top 50 topics!
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Topic Title Number of Posts in Topic
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What if posters on ST were not CLimbers??? 513
Contest: Name the true identity of Rajmit 343
Is liberalism a mental disorder? 305
newsflash: sport climbing is stupid 302
Turd Skimmer, Weenie Boy 264
Evolution...fact or fiction? 247
From evolution to...that god thing? 242
Bush Presidency Judged Unsuccessful 242
Reardon--some climbing, some slander? 240
Abort Abortion? 238
Question to/about Juan/Batten 237
Rockstar at JT this Friday!!!!!! 237
Clinton Declares Iraq Grave threat to World!!!! 229
Wings of Steel 224
The Middle East - A Religious War 216
Disgusting 215
Stonemaster stories 212
AKclimber claims Bachar is a fake! 207
Warning: Fixed Lines to Heart Chopped on June 4 207
Bush Wiretapping (sorry more politics) 203
Top 10 Signs You are a Fundamentalist Christian 203
1977 Airplane Crash in Yosemite 199
Question for Bush haters 197
Climbers for Kerry 195
What climbers do for a living. 193
More ASCA transgressions? 192
Subject: Low-Load Climbing-Gym Fall Results In Rope Rupture 191
There is No God 189
Cheney accidentally shoots hunting companion 188
Retreat from Iraq. 186
Creationism, fact or fiction, part 2 184
Politcal Soapbox Rhetoric - The view from the Right 182
Sheriff Lobo 181
Resignation from Posting on Supertopo Climber's Forum 180
Heli Rescue Last Friday in Joshua Tree: WEAR YOUR HELMET! 180
Evolution - Fact or Fiction Contd. 180
dear Mr. Bush... 178
Tookie Must Die 177
Alert!!! Tangerine Trip 177
Anti-war crowd, admit you were wrong... 175
Stonemaster Lore 171
Drill Sargant pulls bolts on Cathedral Peak and others 171
Stonemaster Stories (Part II) 170
The Middle East - A Religious War (part 4) 169
Creationism ... Fact or Fiction? (this one's for Jody) 169
Iran threatens US with 'harm and pain' 166
Black Canyon Stories 163
Love and marriage, love and marriage . . . 162
Karen McNeill and Sue Nott 162
Are gas prices affecting your weekend climbing plans? 162
Top 50 posters
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Author Name Total Posts
WBraun 5119
Jody 3890
Ouch! 3539
Karl Baba 3257
Jaybro 3167
JuanDeFuca 3137
LEB 2967
fattrad 2740
locker 2726
dirtineye 2547
Tarbuster 2425
Dingus Milktoast 2336
Lambone 2258
TradIsGood 2254
Matt 2202
nature 2088
healyje 2056
Ed Hartouni 1896
radical 1862
toulomne*rainbow 1849
Piton Ron 1772
Russ Walling 1748
Shack 1641
Melissa 1477
Gary 1459
Crimpergirl 1448
'Pass the Pitons' Pete 1416
David 1404
Mike. 1401
dirtbag 1376
yo 1278
Hardman Knott 1227
Spinmaster K-Rove 1208
Minerals 1200
426 1150
Mungeclimber 1127
maculated 1103
can't say 1099
Apocalypsenow 1080
Patrick Sawyer 1045
Rhodo-Router 1038
Forest 1023
caughtinside 983
Chaz 976
Largo 937
happiegrrrl 928
ShortTimer 913
Hootervillian 907
Rajmit 863
zardoz 851
Most wordy posters! (average words per post)
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Author Total posts Average number of words per post
LEB 2,967 186
'Pass the Pitons' Pete 1,416 149
Ed Hartouni 1,896 140
Matt 2,202 133
happiegrrrl 928 132
Karl Baba 3,257 125
radical 1,862 108
healyje 2,056 104
Melissa 1,477 95
Largo 937 95
Dingus Milktoast 2,336 93
Spinmaster K-Rove 1,208 90
nature 2,088 89
Forest 1,023 81
dirtineye 2,547 74
can't say 1,099 71
maculated 1,103 69
Hardman Knott 1,227 68
yo 1,278 67
TradIsGood 2,254 66
David 1,404 66
Lambone 2,258 66
Mike. 1,401 65
locker 2,726 63
Patrick Sawyer 1,045 61
Jody 3,890 60
426 1,150 60
Chaz 976 60
Piton Ron 1,772 55
Tarbuster 2,425 53
Russ Walling 1,748 51
Rhodo-Router 1,038 51
Hootervillian 907 50
Rajmit 863 49
ShortTimer 913 49
zardoz 851 48
toulomne*rainbow 1,849 46
fattrad 2,740 45
Gary 1,459 43
Jaybro 3,167 42
Shack 1,641 42
Mungeclimber 1,127 39
dirtbag 1,376 36
JuanDeFuca 3,137 35
Crimpergirl 1,448 35
caughtinside 983 35
WBraun 5,119 34
Apocalypsenow 1,080 34
Ouch! 3,539 33
Minerals 1,200 29
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Jul 31, 2006 - 03:47pm PT
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cool!
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lazide
Big Wall climber
Bay Area, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 31, 2006 - 03:51pm PT
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better be careful there ed, you're dragging down your wordiness average ;)
seriously though, glad you like it! Once I get things packaged a bit better, I'll release the source and DB data as well if people want it. It's all perl, but relies on a couple of CPAN modules for DB interactivity, and uses MySQL for the actual data storage.
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ThomasKeefer
Trad climber
Monterey, CA
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Jul 31, 2006 - 03:57pm PT
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Just out of curiousity, have you considered topics that have subsequently been broken off in to part II and part III, etc to cut down on bandwith?
How did you account for that?
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lazide
Big Wall climber
Bay Area, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 31, 2006 - 04:01pm PT
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because there is no consistent naming convention for them, they are considered seperate topics (joining them is too error prone, or
would require manual intervention).
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Jul 31, 2006 - 04:19pm PT
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Awesome. Thanks!
Don't know whether to be proud or ashamed. But I've been climbing a lot and am posting from a Mammoth Coffee shop now, so my average will go down until the high Country season dims.
I love ya'll
Lois is the most wordy. HA ha Neener Neener!
Reposted from another thread that's too long for me to read these days.
Here's a little irony from Lois lifted from this classic thread of the past
http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.html?topic_id=81864
Lois: "I have trouble following your posts because they are so complex and long. You are obviously a very intelligent man who can put forth and process a great deal of information in a very short time. I for one cannot follow something that long and that complex without printing it out and studying it in detail to analyze what you are saying.
I think it would be better if you could take one point maybe two at a time in a post and then we can all analyze and comment on what you are saying. I believe you are covering too much ground in one post and people get discouraged before they can finish everything you are saying. Can you try to post one or two important points and then we can look at that. Sometimes when you are a very intelligent, analytical person, you have to bring it down a notch or two so that everyone else can follow.
....Now it is true that I have not been reading your posts carefully but in my own defense, KBD, they are sooo....oooo long. It is hard to read and digest as much as you offer however interesting and enlightening it might be. I think if you offered some of these ideas in smaller packages I might get more of it. You have to remember, I work anywhere from 14-18 hours a day, almost every day. I use this forum as a little mental escape when I am on my computer (and I must admit it is getting a bit addictive and taking away far more time from my work then I imagined.) While I am shifting through the ever mountainous piles of work I must do, I sneak a way here and there to the url (which is minimized on my task tray) to see what is being posted. When I see the long posts you put up I say, "Oh S___, I can't deal with this now, I have too much work to do - I'll have to come back to this later" And later never comes because the amount of information you put up is overwhelming
Why can you have shorter posts and not put so much information into any one of them. We have all the time in the world - I am ever at this damn computer trying to get all my work done. I am not going anywhere. You don't have to tell me so much all at once - I can't process that much at one time and still get all my work done. I have more work than should be given to one person but that is just the way it is and it is not likely to change in the near future. "
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Jerry Dodrill
climber
Bodega, CA
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Jul 31, 2006 - 04:41pm PT
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Whew! I'm not a regular junkie. Didn't make any of the lists!
A stat on !exclamation! points?! Strange! How about question marks???
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
New York, NY
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Jul 31, 2006 - 04:48pm PT
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I knew I was wordy, but not Top Ten wordy....
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bonafide
climber
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Jul 31, 2006 - 04:52pm PT
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Excellent job.
What I am really interested in is "Thread Killers"
(i.e. the identify of the last poster on a thread where,
say messagecount > 10 or so and the killer is not the
originator).
Those are the folks with enough charisma vacuum to kill any
thread they contribute to. Kind of a reverse troll - and to
get really good, it probably takes more skill than trolling.
Want to give that a shot?
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Hardman Knott
Gym climber
Muir Woods National Monument, Mill Valley, Ca
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Jul 31, 2006 - 04:53pm PT
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I think Matt––the reigning king of cut-and-paste––would knott be in the top ten for the words he actually wrote.
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mcKbill
climber
Grundy Center
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Jul 31, 2006 - 05:06pm PT
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lazide,
WOW....amazing work!
--mcKbill
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
St. Louis
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Jul 31, 2006 - 05:23pm PT
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Very interesting!
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Oakville, Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Jul 31, 2006 - 05:50pm PT
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Truly the Measure of a Misspent Youth, and some of us are pretty darn old.
I am delighted to see that I am the Second Most Loquacious! Unfortunately, this post is going to lower my average a bit.
It is sad that the most popular posts don't even involve climbing. However equally gratifying is that Wings of Steel is far and away the most-discussed climbing topic of all time. When you add together the four or five threads, there are well over 500 postings.
I'll be publishing my observations of Wings of Steel shortly, hopefully this week with any luck. I apologize for the delay, but I've been busy. Suffice it to say it's a pretty darn hard climb, way too hard for me!
Was caving last weekend in Kentucky. We set a new World's Record!
Actually, come to think of it, if I pontificate just a bit longer I might make my 149 words after all. Am I there yet?
Cheers,
Pete
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Tahoe climber
climber
Texas to Tahoe
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Jul 31, 2006 - 06:12pm PT
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Thanks for doing that - fascinating!
-Aaron
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Jul 31, 2006 - 06:42pm PT
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Great quote from somebody
"Supertopo is the pot belly of my time"
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ricardo
Gym climber
San Francisco, CA
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Jul 31, 2006 - 08:21pm PT
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now we know who is spending all their time on supertopo ..
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Tahoe climber
climber
Texas to Tahoe
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Jul 31, 2006 - 09:05pm PT
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Wonder who posts the least?
Oust the lurkers!
-Aaron
edit:// or, er, those that actually get out and climb. hmmm.
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lazide
Big Wall climber
Bay Area, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 31, 2006 - 09:40pm PT
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Lurkers are hard to find (there are a lot of fake authors created that only post one or two posts in a single thread to harass someone, especially back in '02 before you had to use a real email address).
As for exclamation points, maybe this graph will illuminate the issue.... ;)
I really like the 'who kills the most threads' stat - I'll probably gen it up tonight. :)
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Melissa
Gym climber
berkeley, ca
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Jul 31, 2006 - 09:45pm PT
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For thread killer, you should include a limit on how active the tread was at the time of "death" to differentiate between posters who kill threads and those who are just beating on the ones that are already dead.
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Tahoe climber
climber
Texas to Tahoe
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Jul 31, 2006 - 09:51pm PT
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bwahahahahah!
This thread is awesome!
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