One of the most pointless and silly things to ever be done by the members of arc-t, the arc-t Thread-A-Thon is an attempt at seeing just how long a thread can go on before a) the end of the world, b) all of the people participating go into comas or c) somebody comes up with something better to do. The thread began on January 20, 2001.
And of course, no pointless expenditure is complete without a completely pointless page about it! So here you will find all sorts of stats in regards to the thread. This of course is going to be a work in progress. Be sure to let me know though if you have any ideas!
For those of you who care about that sort of thing: I have set up an archival system on the Linux portion of my computer which basically acts as a person newsserver. Every few days I retrieve posts from my
ISP's newsserver as well as 10-15 free newservers. When I want to update this page, I run a script against the contents of my archive which provides me with all of the totals. This system seems fairly stable and reliable so the counts should be complete, or at least close enough that nobody better say a word otherwise. ;)
Overall Statistics
This section will cover the overall posting statistics for the thread-a-thon. I'll try to update it roughly once a month, time permitting.
Thread Began - January 20, 2001 - Current Date - March 19, 2003
The Thread Has Been Running For - 788 Days
Total Posts By Day
Month |
March |
Day |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
11 |
12 |
Posts |
0 |
5 |
12 |
37 |
27 |
89 |
167 |
147 |
308 |
166 |
97 |
26 |
|
Day |
13 |
14 |
15 |
16 |
17 |
18 |
19 |
20 |
21 |
22 |
23 |
24 |
Posts |
0 |
33 |
0 |
3 |
13 |
10 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Day |
25 |
26 |
27 |
28 |
29 |
30 |
31 |
Posts |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Month |
February |
Day |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
11 |
12 |
Posts |
25 |
23 |
11 |
3 |
5 |
10 |
9 |
15 |
13 |
17 |
2 |
3 |
|
Day |
13 |
14 |
15 |
16 |
17 |
18 |
19 |
20 |
21 |
22 |
23 |
24 |
Posts |
2 |
3 |
4 |
1 |
0 |
20 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
Day |
25 |
26 |
27 |
28 |
Posts |
6 |
3 |
17 |
0 |
|
Total Posts By Month
Year |
2002 |
2003 |
Month |
Apr |
May |
Jun |
Jul |
Aug |
Sep |
Oct |
Nov |
Dec |
Jan |
Feb |
Mar |
Days |
30 |
31 |
30 |
31 |
31 |
30 |
31 |
30 |
31 |
31 |
28 |
19 |
Posts |
146 |
149 |
403 |
351 |
84 |
32 |
19 |
81 |
176 |
269 |
197 |
1140 |
Total Posts By Year
Year |
2001 |
2002 |
2003 |
Days |
346 |
365 |
78 |
Posts |
18,206 |
2056 |
1606 |
Total Posts Overall - 21,868
Average Posts Per Day - 28
Average Posts Per Month (not including current month) - 740
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Individual Statistics
This section includes various stats on individual posters to the thread. Yes, it's more general then the overall stats. You wanna do more detailed ones, be my guest! ;)
Total Posts By Month
Year |
2002 |
2003 |
Month |
Apr |
May |
Jun |
Jul |
Aug |
Sep |
Oct |
Nov |
Dec |
Jan |
Feb |
Mar |
Days |
30 |
31 |
30 |
31 |
31 |
30 |
31 |
30 |
31 |
31 |
28 |
19 |
|
The Astute Andrew |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
4 |
10 |
45 |
58 |
547 |
Charos |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
4 |
10 |
3 |
3 |
0 |
Jon Downie |
16 |
41 |
29 |
1 |
4 |
8 |
3 |
7 |
0 |
4 |
15 |
0 |
Dr. Worm |
0 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Ben Ferguson |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Jane Hall |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
19 |
26 |
11 |
Inky |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
10 |
65 |
34 |
2 |
Kelly |
0 |
0 |
86 |
99 |
19 |
2 |
1 |
13 |
61 |
0 |
0 |
219 |
Cameron King |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
Melissa |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
14 |
Chris Nelson |
0 |
0 |
6 |
27 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
nick |
0 |
0 |
0 |
8 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Pastor John |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Rewnfloot |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Sam |
33 |
5 |
0 |
86 |
32 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
21 |
12 |
177 |
Steven Schrader |
30 |
53 |
131 |
25 |
12 |
15 |
5 |
13 |
16 |
25 |
2 |
3 |
Steel Wolf |
16 |
17 |
27 |
6 |
6 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Suzi |
27 |
31 |
80 |
51 |
5 |
0 |
1 |
10 |
13 |
54 |
36 |
165 |
Trey |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
wersh |
24 |
2 |
41 |
48 |
6 |
1 |
7 |
28 |
52 |
28 |
10 |
2 |
Previous Top Posters:
- Jon Downie - May 2001
- nick - January 2001
- Sam Rusling - February, March 2002
- The Steel Wolf - November, December 2001, January 2002
- Steve Schrader - April, June, July 2001
- wersh - February, March, August, September, October 2001
Total Posts By Poster
Amy (Tala) |
633 |
Antisocial |
27 |
The Astute Andrew |
664 |
Mike Bigg |
1 |
Blade |
1 |
Bobby |
134 |
Ed Bradshaw |
1 |
J Chang |
79 |
Charos |
196 |
Jon Downie |
233 |
Dr. Worm |
20 |
Ben Ferguson |
2 |
Stephen Gallagher |
1 |
GOD'S CREATOR |
1 |
Jane Hall |
57 |
Inky |
471 |
Kelly |
500 |
Cameron King |
6 |
Laurence |
8 |
Corli Meiring |
6 |
Melissa |
15 |
MiSSY |
1 |
Chris Nelson |
94 |
nick |
2611 |
Okamura |
6 |
Pastor John |
3 |
mich pharm |
1 |
Rewnfloot (Michelle) |
3 |
Kevin Rowe |
66 |
Sam |
827 |
Jon Seymour |
1 |
David Shipley |
2 |
Steven Schrader |
3250 |
Spectral37 |
3 |
The Steel Wolf |
3336 |
Suzi |
1551 |
Leslie Terrell |
2 |
Trey |
1 |
Tweety |
1453 |
wersh |
5601 |
Total Number of Participants - 40
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Records
Being pointless isn't enough. We want to break records! Records are updated about the same time as the rest of the stats, although I won't record month-based records until that particular month is over.
Overall
Most Posts in One Day: July 31, 2001 - 1841 posts
Most Posts in One Month: July 2001 - 7166
Most Posters in One Month: November 2001 - 12
Individual
Most Posts in One Month: Steven Schrader - July 2001 - 2248 posts
Most Posts Overall: wersh - 5601
Most Times as Top Monthly Poster: tie
Steve Schrader - 6 - Apr, Jun, Jul 2001; May, Jun, Sep 2002
wersh - 6 - Feb, Mar, Aug, Sep, Oct 2001, Nov 2002
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Selected Posts
This section includes selected posts from the ThreadaThon. Have one you'd like me to add, just let me know!
The Origin of the ThreadaThon
From: Jonathan -D-
Newsgroups: alt.religion.christian-teen
Subject: A Question
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 20:28:50 GMT
Message-ID: <94csdt$2bi$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
Actually two questions.
What was the longest running thread on arc-t?
And which thread contained the most posts?
Also, would anyone be interested in a ThreadAThon to try and
see how long we can make one thread go?
--
Somewhere, somehow, something may make sense of arc-t.
Be afraid, be very afraid.
---
Jonathan
From: wersh
Newsgroups: alt.religion.christian-teen
Subject: The arc-t Thread-A-Thon aka The Thread That Never Ends
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 16:40:30 -0500
Message-ID: <7p0k6t0n04hch989jmh599q9lldpe6nk5v@4ax.com>
This is Jon Downie's idea. He was obviously too chicken to
start it himself, so....
Let's see how long we can keep this thread going, AND how many
posts we can get in response to it. I'll keep track of both,
and will periodically post updates (in this thread of course!).
In this thread, anything goes, so long as we keep the thread
alive!
The goals are:
1) run this thread forever; if not forever, then as long
as possible
2) get as many posts made to this thread as possible,
hopefully more than any thread in arc-t history
3) have a representative number of posts made to the
thread daily (if there's only 20 posts made in a day,
then 2 or 3 is representative; but if there's 500
posts in a day, we'd damn well better have 15-30 or
more posts in the thread!)
4) have fun!
The rules are:
1) do *not* change the subject line
2) post frequently and repeatedly
3) have fun!
So, peoples, let's get the game going!
*breaks out a deck of cards and starts dealing people hands
while humming the song "This is the Song That Never Ends"*
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wersh Z@wersh.com
http:\\www.wersh.com
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