I was bored, so I whipped up a quick spider to find the top 50 posters. Enjoy!

# 1 23yrold3yrold
# 2 ThomasFjellstrom
# 3 X-G
# 4 RichardPhipps
# 5 ReyBrujo
# 6 MatthewLeverton
# 7 Derezo
# 8 Evert
# 9 WilliamHeatley
#10 SteveTerry
#11 spellcaster
#12 gnolam
#13 BAF
#14 Bob
#15 miran
#16 CGamesPlay
#17 ChrisKatko
#18 KittyCat
#19 BrucePerry
#20 ThomasHarte
#21 Zaphos
#22 SonShadowCat
#23 HoHo
#24 Marcello
#25 OscarGiner
#26 kentl
#27 Rick
#28 Kanzure
#28 FladimirdaGorf
#29 gillius
#30 jhuuskon
#31 nonnus
#32 XArchon
#33 kazzmir
#34 Korval
#34 KrzysztofKluczek
#35 AJ
#35 Trezker
#36 NeilWalker
#37 TobiasDammers
#38 Mars
#39 Inphernic
#40 JohanHalmn
#41 Ultio
#42 Mithrandir
#43 OICW
#44 Sirocco
#45 DanielH
#45 theyman
#46 Carrus
#47 Rampage
#48 RichardPett
#49 MichaelJensen
#50 StevenSilvey

#3 used to be Bob IIRC... wonder how he ended all the way to #14.

I thought the list was missing X-G, so I checked, and sure enough X-G is #3. Not sure why it didn't find him. Weird.

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It was a problem with one of my regexes, it thought his username was XG and not X-G. I've fixed the regex to include dashes now.

The proper name of this is the Steve Terry List. You aren't 1337 like him until you can compile this manually.

Spellcaster's still up there ... why does Korval have a 1 on his name?

I could have compiled it manually, but I wanted it to be 100% accurate, not trial and error and hopefully getting everyone.

But for the record, it spit it out all unordered (I was too lazy to sort it programatically), so I had to sort that list by hand.

It's showing the "real" name, not user name. I keep forgetting I actually signed up with my actual name.

Oh, actually it is Korval. But some usernames had some artifacts from the console (I printed the status then a \r, then when it found a Top-50 it printed it to that line, so that 1 was part of the numbers I was printing to monitor the status), and I missed that 1 when I cleaned it up. Oops.

Haha your spider code is still flawed then. Just curious how long it took you to compile the list? BTW how are your balls feeling? ML may still castrate you.

Well, it took less than 2 hours. I started the spider, then watched a movie, and 2 hours later it was done.

And I checked with a few people as far as how much to limit the requests, and the 2-3 requests per second my spider did was deemed to be fine. When I was crawling, I checked the online users list and Yahoo Slurp! was hitting it WAY heavier than my spider, so I'm hoping what I did was fine.

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Hell, Yahoo Slurp is hitting the site pretty good right now. Check out Online Users.

I was bored too, so I made Pyves a new avatar. <3

Thanks to X-G for the material.

Wow, I suck. All those years and I can't even make top 50 .

[edit] Well, at least I'm in the top 100 now .

Just keep telling yourself "quality, not quantity."

Do both. Ah, another quality post!

PS: To be picky, a lot of names are missing spaces too ...

I was 49 the other day. Michael must be barely ahead...

Wait, holy crap, I'm 50? I need to get a life.

Matthew thanks you, BAF I can't believe I am still 5, I have been posting around 5-10 posts per day only.

I just took the name from the URL a.cc redirected me to when I got their forum stats (/members/blah/forums).

Can you attach the whole list?

Edit: Whoa, I'm in the top 200. That's a surprise in itself. I didn't think I posted much.

I didn't generate one past 50. I could generate a list ranking every forum user, but ML would be more likely to castrate me from running my spider yet again.

If you really want one, I'll generate it though.

I was #1, man! And then, work happened. Ah well, such is life.

Also, I need to fix my avatar. It's still showing xmas-Bob.

Fixed.

BAF, you read my mind.

Great minds think alike. Either that, or beta 2 of Allegro 5 has working mind control.

I used to be in the top 50, but my posting dropped to like less than once a day on average...

That happens.

So does this list represent how strong we are in the cyber-world?

Maybe it's like Mortal Kombat and the challengers have to fight Onewing first, all the way up to the impossible 23yrold3yrold.

I rarely post because I usually feel that I have nothing to say... Even so, I made it to 102! With an average of 0.43 posts per day, heh.

I still remember when you had to get 100 posts to become a 'member' instead of a newbie. I couldn't believe that people would actually write 100 posts.

For how little I post I'm surprised I'm still in there.

I'm easily defeated, but watch out for my special move..."Monday Thread!!! Yahhh!"

I'd think that Thomas Fjellstrom would be like Motaro (MK3) but has the body of a moose which can do things like charge and look silly.

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Look at attachment.

avatar updated8-)

i demand a recount>:(

Las time we had one of these threads I was #49, so I'm okay with #47 now.

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le_y_mistar: I liked your previous avatar.

Is this total post count ever?

Wouldn't it be more interesting to see a list over top poster over the latest year/half-year/month? Or isn't that kind of data available...?

It must be, since you can see a posts/time graph.

Yeah, I dunno. Not really that hard to get to the top 50. I barely post at all and I'm in the top 10. I guess everyone here is a slacker.

This page says you are #611, as This one says that I am #66.

Probably only Matthew can generate that sort of info, but it might take an entire database crawl select foo from db where date >= bar && date <= baz;

Who? Where?

Nice, I finally made that to top 50 Last time this thread occured I was only in top 100

I've been around #15 for a long time now. For a while it looked like I was going to go to higher places but it seems I got stuck. Every time I overtake someone, another newbie comes and pushes me back.

Last time, I was at about #70. Soon, you will be mine. Bwa ha ha ha.

Meanwhile I broke the magical 7000 post barrier. What's next? 8000?

Try to beat 23yrold3yrold to 25,000.

And now I'm another post closer to Rampage...

Hmm, I was kind of expecting someone to say 9000.

Nooooo! That would suck for me

I'm surprissed I'm still #25

And I used to be tied for 11th place (?) with Miran!

Is it possible to rank posters by the number of cookies they've been given instead of the number of posts they've made?

AE.

No, once you log out, all your cookies are deleted.

Now we just to have to figure out which one of us has four arms and doesn't wear pants .

It makes sense after all. With four hands you can spam way more effectively.

That would explain 23yrold3yrold's post count.

I'm designing my t-shirt as we speak!

http://www.allegro.cc/files/attachment/591200

That's have to be X-G since this guy is Moosetaro whom is the hardest, not-last-guy guy.

Kent: wow, that's geeky enough. I want one too

I want a T-Shirt that says "FLAC You!"

How come Yves (the y man) is at 45? He's only used this new account this last year and he's way down according to allegro.cc

You could probably manipulate the search feature to get the posts in the last month, and then spider those.

Well, it kind of is. You have to fight #50 in posts, then 49, etc.

Yes, it is total post count ever. It would be more interesting to see more recent data, but that data isn't available. On the other hand, I'm sure our Benevolent Leader could make something like that happen...

It goes by username. Perhaps I'll update it to scrape forum nick from someplace, if that data is easily available.

Do you have any idea how long that would take (the search feature isn't exactly fast)? Plus the load it must put on the server? Matthew would castrate me for sure if I did that.

Of course, I could just go through each of the forums for the past month and spider that out, but that's still a fair server load. Perhaps I'll write something and just throttle it. Matthew: what is an acceptable request-rate for such a spider?

Personally, when I'm spidering without permission, I do 1 request per 2 seconds.

That could take a really long time at that rate. I mean, unless overridden by robots.txt, don't the Yahoo and Google spiders go faster than that? (for the record, it doesn't appear that A.cc's robots.txt file specify a rate limit.)

Yeah, but they have a purpose

And so what if it takes a few hours? You're not going to be running this with a 5-minute deadline looming.

You should see how hard the Yahoo spider hits, its bloody evil. I don't care that they claim they follow all the current standards with regards to robots.txt, having a SENSIBLE default is much better than hammering a server to death.

I actually had a pretty high cookie count back in the day too. It was shortly after that system was implemented that I bought World of Warcraft though.

World of Warcraft took many people out of commission for a while. I'm still one of them

Am I like the only person who has never even seen WoW playing?

Nope, I've never seen it myself. I got FFXI though (even though I don't really play it...).

I've seen it but never played myself. I assume it's addictive. I lump it together with DDR and heroin.

Not even WoW could stop the mighty 23 from ruling the world of acc. By the time someone reaches 20K posts, he'll be posting hist 30,000th. It's all hopeless! Hopeless I tells ya!

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Usually after 7000 comes 7001, not 8000.

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Yeah? I'm 46 now.

I've even seen it played during lectures, heh.

Hmmm, I think I was #31 the last time we had one of these threads.....

I've seen a few screenshots. And the South Park episode. That was funny.

I haven't seen it playing. Though I tried something simmilar, and also addictive - Silkroad Online, and I must say it got boring after a while, so I guess WoW wouldn't be disaster for me

And I'm now 47, and only 11 post behind. Actually, make that 10!

I'm still #2.

I post too much.

Amen! It was great. -"Mooooooom!" (Cartman calls for her services)

Eleven again!

Ah, who am I kidding... with my increased workload, I'll be lucky to be in the top 50 by November.

Actually, I'd posted again since then. It's eight now.

Nine!

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I could do this all day long.

Only on A.cc can WoW overtake even a thread on who spamsposts the most.

WoW is so last year!

ouch!

He'll have a chance to race ahead again when I go on holiday next week.

I've not seen WOW playing either (apart from a few 'joke' videoes). Even so, WOW has had a serious impact on some people's post-graphs (see 23's for instance). See also this thread.

AE.

Yes, it's destroyed 23 and killed Spellcaster. For that alone I declare the game pure evil!

i wonder if people stared to sew blizzard for not labeling that there product may be additive.

You call this overtaking? You must be new here.

I'm actually a bit surprised there hasn't been a Burning Crusade thread ...

Hey, I don't even have that much time for WoW lately. Spellcaster I can't speak for though; didn't he get married or something?

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Heh, I might play a World of Starcraft...;D

ARe you kidding? We're all busy playing it.

In the new world of warcraft a new race is going to come into the world.
Every last one of them is going to be computer controlled by an insane AI.
All the races will have to band to gather to fight them. All the strong people that gave their screen names fame owning every one in this world of warcraft will have to log back in to help fight new race.

No spelling errors: Check
Punctuation: Check
Capitalization: Check

Who hacked Piccolo's account?

Copy-paste?

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Err, also: "to band to gather" doesn't seem correct after all. Unless he really meant "band and gather" not "band together" .

Where's that page with the list of members currently browsing the site? You could check which moderators are online.

One spelling error then.

I agree, it's still uncanny. Perhaps he already got under control of one of those AIs.

Capitalization is not in check, I see some proper nouns that aren't capitalized.

I didn't miss that, I just chose to ignore it since he did such a good job of capitalizing the first word of each sentence. And technically, it only needs to be checked if there is any capitalization (which is a rare occurrence). It didn't say perfect capitalization, after all.

So LennyLen has bad orthography too?

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Beaten!

I could make comments about people who insert spaces into people's names that don't belong there.

What spaces? Your quote-fu is weak.

And your attempts to stay one position ahead of me won't avail you for long... unlike me, you need to sleep.

Not all of us have the habit of sleeping, you know .

Yeah I know, but I needed something to put me back into the 46th position.

What attempts? If you're talking about the post count, I let it go long ago*, because I just can't keep up with you making 40+ posts a day . I have work, and you're right, I need to sleep.

• 30000000000000 picoseconds, to be exact.

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And I'm still #46.

There, back on topic. Spam more pls.

And here's my daily post.