How Many Posts.....?

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Re: How Many Posts.....?

Post by wh..sh » Thu Mar 15, 2012 9:35 am

OregonRed wrote:Well, CO. According to your ranking system, I am ranked at 1032.77777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777

I thought I might've ranked higher than that, but math says no. :(
He forgot to mention that the ranking is in ascending order, 1 being the least esteemed position ;-)
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Re: How Many Posts.....?

Post by wh..sh » Thu Mar 15, 2012 9:37 am

gaminwench wrote:
or...
you get in a flame war with one of Simon's socks...

this overrides all other requirements
Goshdarnit! I thought if I didnt get in an argument with SoP and if he didn't ask me to STFU, I was safe.
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Re: How Many Posts.....?

Post by ygmir » Thu Mar 15, 2012 9:41 am

the only flaw I see there, CO, is if you've gone to BRC, and been on eplaya, about the same number of years, but, started going at the end of the last century, you will be ranked way lower, than a person who started this century

200 posts
eplaya 8 years (04)
BRC 8 years

first year 04

rank: 50

2000 posts
eplaya 14 years
playa 14 years
first year 98

rank: 20.4

of course, the fortune of your statement, is that it matters, not at all.
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Re: How Many Posts.....?

Post by The CO » Thu Mar 15, 2012 9:47 am

Well, yeah.

If you started going in 99, started on eplaya in 01, your numbers will be vastly different from someone that started going in 01 but was on eplaya since 99.

I figured I would try out the "speculative & meaningless" numbers game that so many people in the ticket forum like. Now we can play 'burnier than thou' with a meaningless scoring system!
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Re: How Many Posts.....?

Post by ygmir » Thu Mar 15, 2012 9:49 am

The CO wrote:Well, yeah.

If you started going in 99, started on eplaya in 01, your numbers will be vastly different from someone that started going in 01 but was on eplaya since 99.

I figured I would try out the "speculative & meaningless" numbers game that so many people in the ticket forum like. Now we can play 'burnier than thou' with a meaningless scoring system!
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Re: How Many Posts.....?

Post by theCryptofishist » Thu Mar 15, 2012 10:33 am

So, nothing can be learned by going to profiles and looking at the "posts per day" number.
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Post by theCryptofishist » Thu Mar 15, 2012 10:38 am

oneeyeddick wrote:There is a shortcut for immediate veteran-ship here on Eplaya.

First you must tell Gyre to shut the fuck up and then you must call Iso a cunt.

it really is that easy.
You have to kiss Dick, too.
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Re: How Many Posts.....?

Post by Dr Helix » Thu Mar 15, 2012 10:39 am

I want to tell all of you that it was not my intent to stir up a "burnier than thou" back and forth from any of you here. I am an avid reader of these boards and contribute when I think I have something to add to the discussion. I have enjoyed all the dialogue and have learned a lot from all of you, burn related or otherwise. Again, my thanks. Oh, and according to the CO's equation I am a 77.83. Whatever the hell that means :D
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Re: How Many Posts.....?

Post by tamarakay » Thu Mar 15, 2012 10:45 am

These threads hardly ever go the way the OP intended, do they?

I'm 6.772749on and on, but that will change as soon as I hit submit again lol
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Re: How Many Posts.....?

Post by lemur » Thu Mar 15, 2012 11:07 am

i am so burnier than thou that people think i am a parody of burnier than thouness.

i am the burnier than thou persons burnier than thou example..

larry harvey looks to me to figure out which way the burnie world should be going, i am his canary in his burning man coalmine
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Re: How Many Posts.....?

Post by theCryptofishist » Thu Mar 15, 2012 11:23 am

Ah, he decided Simon's services were too pricey? or is it his attitude?
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Post by lemur » Thu Mar 15, 2012 11:26 am

he realized simon was way too 'rainbow'
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Post by theCryptofishist » Thu Mar 15, 2012 11:40 am

That'll do it...
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Re: How Many Posts.....?

Post by ygmir » Thu Mar 15, 2012 11:46 am

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Post by catinthefunnyhat » Thu Mar 15, 2012 11:55 am

The CO wrote:Solve for E:

(n/e)(B/y)=E

Start with number of posts. (n)
16
(Shit. I talk too much. And work too little.)
The CO wrote:Divide by years you have been on eplaya. (e)
5 days = 0.0136986301 years
(Way too much. And way too little.)

OK, 16/0.0136986301 = 1168
(OK, fair enough).
The CO wrote:Multiply by the number of times you have been to BRC. (B)
That would be 1. So still 1168.
(Sounds about right).
The CO wrote:Divide that by the last two digits of the first year you went (y)
First year I went was 2000. OK...
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Re: How Many Posts.....?

Post by theCryptofishist » Thu Mar 15, 2012 11:57 am

Yeah, yeah, it's just another black hole in the fabric of the space/time continuum. As long as that fabric isn't fun fur, I think we're okay.
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Re: How Many Posts.....?

Post by gyre » Thu Mar 15, 2012 12:08 pm

Now you're doing metaphysical math?


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Re: How Many Posts.....?

Post by Dr Jet Sinister » Thu Mar 15, 2012 12:51 pm

Personally, I try not to post random BS posts like this one. It takes a lot of effort to hit the reply button sometimes. However, I wanted to play with The CO's math, to which I have a score of 79.72 (we only need two significant digits in this answer right professor?).
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Post by lemur » Thu Mar 15, 2012 12:56 pm

Dr Jet Sinister wrote:Personally, I try not to post random BS posts like this one. It takes a lot of effort to hit the reply button sometimes. However, I wanted to play with The CO's math, to which I have a score of 79.72 (we only need two significant digits in this answer right professor?).
OH SO THATS HOW IT IS.. youre some kind of "random BS" elitest?!

i bet you think global warming is real, too, doncha?!
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Re: How Many Posts.....?

Post by moonrise » Thu Mar 15, 2012 1:02 pm

I'm all over the map. Has anybody seen that map?



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Re: How Many Posts.....?

Post by Dr Jet Sinister » Thu Mar 15, 2012 1:04 pm

lemur wrote:
Dr Jet Sinister wrote:Personally, I try not to post random BS posts like this one. It takes a lot of effort to hit the reply button sometimes. However, I wanted to play with The CO's math, to which I have a score of 79.72 (we only need two significant digits in this answer right professor?).
OH SO THATS HOW IT IS.. youre some kind of "random BS" elitest?!

i bet you think global warming is real, too, doncha?!
I don't always post on eplaya, but when I do, I make sure lemur has the ability to make a comment about it.
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Re: How Many Posts.....?

Post by lemur » Thu Mar 15, 2012 1:08 pm

its very easy for me to press "submit"...

just imagine how easy it is for crypto!!

her submit button has the letters worn off
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Re: How Many Posts.....?

Post by AntiM » Thu Mar 15, 2012 1:12 pm

So, is 2001 "01" or ".01"? Because honestly, I suck at math. Am I 20,246.875 or 202.46875?

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Post by Dr Jet Sinister » Thu Mar 15, 2012 1:13 pm

lemur wrote:its very easy for me to press "submit"...

just imagine how easy it is for crypto!!

her submit button has the letters worn off
I just think people underestimate my level of lazy. It's a huge massive volume of lazy and it's hard to push the mouse waaaaaay over there and click it or I just have nothing interesting (IMO) to add to the conversation.
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Re: How Many Posts.....?

Post by B the B » Thu Mar 15, 2012 1:16 pm

Can't we talk about gloryholes? The picture above makes me thirsty.
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Post by ygmir » Thu Mar 15, 2012 1:21 pm

theCryptofishist wrote:Yeah, yeah, it's just another black hole in the fabric of the space/time continuum. As long as that fabric isn't fun fur, I think we're okay.
B the B wrote:Can't we talk about gloryholes? The picture above makes me thirsty horny.
fixed!
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Re: How Many Posts.....?

Post by theCryptofishist » Thu Mar 15, 2012 2:42 pm

What's an order of magnitude amoung friends?
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Re: How Many Posts.....?

Post by wh..sh » Thu Mar 15, 2012 5:01 pm

Dr Jet Sinister wrote:I just have nothing interesting (IMO) to add to the conversation.
Luckily, that has never stopped me.
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Post by ygmir » Thu Mar 15, 2012 5:34 pm

theCryptofishist wrote:What's an order of magnitude amoung friends?
you are so magnanimous!
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Re: How Many Posts.....?

Post by AntiM » Thu Mar 15, 2012 6:04 pm

Now I'm craving champagne.

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