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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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Lazide, I am a bit confused (actually dazed and confused by we won't go there).
Clicking on the "Search for Forum Messages by Patrick Sawyer" it says that I have 1,513 posts (this is number 1,514) but you have me down as of 6:11pm on sunday, jul 30th, as 1,045.
Now I have just come back from holidays and didn’t post on Sunday or Monday and have only posted several today. Any explanation of the discrepancy?
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Lazide, your explanation to Jody sounds reasonable, plus I started SuperTaco life a little over a year ago as DPatrick (Douglas being my first name but Patrick the one I go by) and had ChrisMac change it to Patrick Sawyer (obviously my surname, and please, no Huckleberry Finn jokes SuperTacos, and yes apparently I am related to Mark Twain, as according to family folklore, he used is cousin’s name – who lived in St Joseph, Missouri – for his autobiographical Adventures of Tom Sawyer).
So would your crawler have noticed that I also posted as DPatrick for several months?
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lazide
Big Wall climber
Bay Area, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 1, 2006 - 11:30am PT
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Patrick: That would make sense. I show seperate entries for you as 'Patrick Sawyer' and 'DPatrick', so my spider wasn't able to tell both were you.
Here is the total post count I see for both of your handles:
mysql> select author.name,count(*) posts from post, author where post.author_id = author.id AND author.id IN (88,1224) GROUP BY author.name;
+----------------+-------+
| name | posts |
+----------------+-------+
| DPatrick | 350 |
| Patrick Sawyer | 1045 |
+----------------+-------+
2 rows in set (0.14 sec)
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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Thanks Lazide, that just about tallies - 1,395, plus about the handful of posts from today plus 2-3 that I may have deleted over time (with good reason, I try to leave my posts up unless I make a real bollocks of something, which usually the edit button solves so I don't have to delete when I make an ass of myself). I have also deleted three threads that I started for good reasons also (two weren't relevant any longer and the third a video of that training accident on Spanish/French border, I decided it wasn't appropriate), plus I am sure that a number of my posts were on threads that were also deleted.
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10b4me
Trad climber
California
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It is sad that the most popular posts don't even involve climbing.
tis sad indeed.
When do I receive my prize/award?
you and Matt get to go out for beers
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
New York, NY
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You shouldn't let statistics slant your view. The "most popular" threads have been so only because they offer people a chance to make statements, jokes, argue, slander, whatever. That doesn't diminish the value on the incredible threads that are geting less volume. For instance - the climbing photo threads - a thousand words per post(and that's if there's only one shot in a post!) - and not a one of those words gets counted.
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David
Trad climber
San Rafael, CA
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Hah! I'm actually a little embarrassed to see my name among the top 50 posters but then again I think I've been lurking on here since the very first day the forum was launched so I guess it is bound to add up. It would be interesting to see the total posts spread over a y axis representing time.
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Oakville, Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Yeah, I'm with David. Could you produce similar stats for say the last six months, to see who is currently producing the most stuff?
Uh-oh, that was less than 149 words....
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lazide
Big Wall climber
Bay Area, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 1, 2006 - 04:53pm PT
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as in, post rate over time for the top 50 posters?
I can do it, but it starts getting a little hard to visualize (graph) due to the data density. I'll play with things and see what happens. ;)
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Pretty Much
climber
San Jose
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How about fewest posts, or words per post? I think I just took myself out of last place with 2.
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David Nelson
climber
San Francisco
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A bit of analysis is needed.
Werner has lots of posts, but he wastes no words: that is good. He is no BS.
Juan starts more than twice the number of threads as anyone else, but they are all nonsense threads: not much to be proud of. Lots of BS.
Ed has long posts, but that is because he posts such great lists of climbs: that is good. No BS.
Just the raw numbers do not mean much.
I am not for censoring, but it would help to make this a climbing site if we would each try to post more about climbing than BS. A bit of BS adds spice and interest, too much and it is no longer a climbing site.
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TradIsGood
Trad climber
Gunks end of country
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How many people on ST spell definitely with an "a"?
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WBraun
climber
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I've been looking at this and it's totally weird.
As of 6:11pm on sunday, jul 30th it says I have 5119 posts.
As of today quarter to eight pm august 1st I now have 5424 posts.
Hahahaha I only posted about 10 times and it totaled 305 posts in 2 days?
It's been doing that since I made those Tarbuster continue threads last winter.
Computers never lie, hahahaha ............
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Shack
Big Wall climber
Reno NV
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I agree!
Some thing's fishy about those graphs!!
There's no way I use that many exclamation points!!!
Locker Edit©®: I think this puts me past Dingus!!!!
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TradIsGood
Trad climber
Gunks end of country
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lazide - I think you have a counting problem. ST shows me at 2543 (before this post). You show me at 2254 and I have made 38 posts since 6:11pm on 7/30 (2292).
So either you are 251 low or ST is 251 high. (I do not think that I have deleted 251 posts. I was not around before an ST login was required.)
Maybe you need to do some experiments to reconcile. Set up id. Post twice. Run your count. Delete a post. Compare your count and ST. Change your e-mail address and post again. Compare your count and ST.
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lazide
Big Wall climber
Bay Area, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 2, 2006 - 12:42am PT
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Keep in mind YOU didn't have to of deleted the posts - rather you just needed to have posts on a thread someone else deleted. (i.e. the thread is no longer reachable via the topics list)
I'll be doing some spot checks later that might identify the causes. I reluctant to do too many, as it will hit the supertopo servers again.
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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feck and fecking are popular terms in Ireland, and I've used them so they will need to be added if such a stat on f*ck is included. ;-)
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Dec 13, 2006 - 11:25pm PT
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lazide had extracted a database of SuperTopo users, etc. as of July 31st 2006, perhaps there is some sign of eastside in that database...
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Mimi
climber
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Dec 13, 2006 - 11:32pm PT
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That's what I thought was going on. Very informative thread!
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Jerry Dodrill
climber
Bodega, CA
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Dec 14, 2006 - 01:51am PT
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Nice thinking Ed.
Hmm. Read through it and came up dry.
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