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[President Punxsutawney Phil]

A different category than usual, though still one that's kept track of in the leaderboard, but the Russia-Ukraine war megathread just surpassed the 2020 US election live commentary megathread in length thus becoming the longest thread in forum history.

A milestone indeed, though an expected and predictable one.

[Kahane's Grave Is A Gender-Neutral Bathroom]

A different category than usual, though still one that's kept track of in the leaderboard, but the Russia-Ukraine war megathread just surpassed the 2020 US election live commentary megathread in length thus becoming the longest thread in forum history.

I would like to think Jaichind and SirWoodbury for doing the heavy lifting with regards to that.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

A different category than usual, though still one that's kept track of in the leaderboard, but the Russia-Ukraine war megathread just surpassed the 2020 US election live commentary megathread in length thus becoming the longest thread in forum history.

I would like to think Jaichind and SirWoodbury for doing the heavy lifting with regards to that.

# of posts in that thread:
Storr 1,891
jaichind 1,236
SirWoodbury 802
TimTurner 683
Hindsight is 20/20 629
Torie 593
Forumlurker161 399
CumbrianLeftie 375
pppolitics 370
Logical 319
KaiserDave 158
rc18 128
theflyingmongoose 116
iBizzBee 86
Lord Halifax 75
Runeghost 53
MOPolitico 49
CanadianDemocrat 31
The Mikado 31
UWS 5
(all the posters who appear on the top three pages)

Interesting numbers. The top 5 being about one in four posts bears out with what I would expect, though I would have anticipated more posts overall.
The number of people who have posted in this thread must run into the many dozens at this point.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

At what pace am I entering the top 10? At what pace does OC hit 150,000?

Posts over the past 30 days
Mr.Barkari Sellers 1154
Atlasian AG Punxsutawney Phil 747
Senator Laki 🇧🇪❤️🇺🇦 513
jaichind 387
These knuckles break before they bleed 374
Just Passion Through 354
Lincoln General Court Member NewYorkExpress 328
Old School Republican 319
Sir Mohamed 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 317
Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee 309

Top 10 posters
These knuckles break before they bleed 107562
Mr.Barkari Sellers 78599
Filuwaúrdjan 66577
minionofmidas 58208
Tender Branson 58171
MASHED POTATOES. VOTE! 57413
NUPES Enjoyer 56774
Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee 54080
Keystone Phil 52611
○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└ 52198

[Sir Mohamed]

At what pace am I entering the top 10? At what pace does OC hit 150,000?

Posts over the past 30 days
Mr.Barkari Sellers 1154
Atlasian AG Punxsutawney Phil 747
Senator Laki 🇧🇪❤️🇺🇦 513
jaichind 387
These knuckles break before they bleed 374
Just Passion Through 354
Lincoln General Court Member NewYorkExpress 328
Old School Republican 319
Sir Mohamed 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 317
Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee 309

Top 10 posters
These knuckles break before they bleed 107562
Mr.Barkari Sellers 78599
Filuwaúrdjan 66577
minionofmidas 58208
Tender Branson 58171
MASHED POTATOES. VOTE! 57413
NUPES Enjoyer 56774
Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee 54080
Keystone Phil 52611
○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└ 52198

How did you get that list from the last 30 days?

Really didn't expect to be in the first list. Lol.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

At what pace am I entering the top 10? At what pace does OC hit 150,000?

Posts over the past 30 days
Mr.Barkari Sellers 1154
Atlasian AG Punxsutawney Phil 747
Senator Laki 🇧🇪❤️🇺🇦 513
jaichind 387
These knuckles break before they bleed 374
Just Passion Through 354
Lincoln General Court Member NewYorkExpress 328
Old School Republican 319
Sir Mohamed 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 317
Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee 309

Top 10 posters
These knuckles break before they bleed 107562
Mr.Barkari Sellers 78599
Filuwaúrdjan 66577
minionofmidas 58208
Tender Branson 58171
MASHED POTATOES. VOTE! 57413
NUPES Enjoyer 56774
Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee 54080
Keystone Phil 52611
○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└ 52198

How did you get that list from the last 30 days?

Really didn't expect to be in the first list. Lol.

[More Stats] is at the near bottom of the forum home page.

[GeorgiaModerate]

At what pace am I entering the top 10? At what pace does OC hit 150,000?

Posts over the past 30 days
Mr.Barkari Sellers 1154
Atlasian AG Punxsutawney Phil 747
Senator Laki 🇧🇪❤️🇺🇦 513
jaichind 387
These knuckles break before they bleed 374
Just Passion Through 354
Lincoln General Court Member NewYorkExpress 328
Old School Republican 319
Sir Mohamed 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 317
Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee 309

Top 10 posters
These knuckles break before they bleed 107562
Mr.Barkari Sellers 78599
Filuwaúrdjan 66577
minionofmidas 58208
Tender Branson 58171
MASHED POTATOES. VOTE! 57413
NUPES Enjoyer 56774
Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee 54080
Keystone Phil 52611
○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└ 52198

How did you get that list from the last 30 days?

Really didn't expect to be in the first list. Lol.

[More Stats] is at the near bottom of the forum home page.

Or direct link: https://talkelections.org/FORUM/index.php?action=stats

[Landslide Lyndon]

Wow! Ten years after their departure and Keystone Phil and Lewis Trondheim are still in the top 10.

[GeorgiaModerate]

Here’s a little list I compiled for fun.  It shows the top 5 users in post count by “class”, i.e. year of registration.  Some caveats:

• Only users with at least 5000 posts are included.  As a result, the class of 2021 only has a top 2, while 2022 and 2023 don’t have anyone.
• I used the member list off the main forum page, which I think excludes banned users.
• For the sake of consistency, I used usernames; many of these people are better known by their display names.
• Post counts were as of the time I looked at that user, and obviously will be changing.
• Apologies if I missed anyone!

2003:

107571 BRTD
66579 Realpolitik
33524 Harry
29766 Gustaf
29285 afleitch

2004:

58208 Lewis Trondheim
52611 Keystone Phil
52202 jfern
44085 Mr. Morden
42174 Ernest

2005 (a tight battle for first place!):

45442 Torie
44923 GM3PRP
39858 Joe Republic
24921 BushOklahoma
24864 Mr. X

2006:

78638 olawakandi
44166 Eraserhead
44079 Lief
35027 Inks.LWC
32318 Hashemite

2007:

43689 dead0man
41212 Xahar
30329 benconstine
22254 Franzl
21629 brittain33

2008:

54099 North Carolina Yankee
30617 PiT (The Physicist)
29230 GeorgiaModerate
25635 shua
22397 tmthforu94

2009:

57413 Kalwejt
56774 Antonio V
38667 Badger
26878 Gass3268
24450 px75

2010:

36287 20RP12
32947 Nathan
26819 Cathcon
26245 pbrower2a
20059 RogueBeaver

2011:

43444 Scott
17539 Runeghost
15742 Simfan34
14704 Alfred F. Jones
13444 TNF

2012:

28465 Maxwell
24089 Fuzzy Bear
23657 NewYorkExpress
19428 ProudModerate2
17765 blackraisin

2013:

31846 IceSpear
26663 Santander
25371 President Johnson
21934 TDAS04
21120 ElectionsGuy

2014:

40416 Computer89
30502 MormDem
29155 xingkerui
28785 Dwarven Dragon
19559 bronz4141

2015:

36587 TimTurner
22164 Kingpoleon
19802 MohamedChalid
18432 Virginia
16165 Thinking Crumpets Crumpet

2016:

18763 brucejoel99
15943 Calthrina950
15894 Pericles
15389 YE
14203 PittsburghSteel

2017:

16443 John Dule
14607 MB
12815 jk2020
12245 HillGoose
11865 darklordoftech

2018:

27471 Progressive Pessimist
22600 Ferguson97
18511 lfromnj
17808 wbrocks67
16340 PSOL

2019:

17380 S019
16638 KYWildman
13538 Forumlurker161
11864 King T’Chenka
9531 GeneralMacArthur

2020:

11338 ProgressiveModerate
10470 Battista Minola 1616
9332 TiltsAreUnderrated
9181 Crane
8800 DaleCooper

2021:

11466 CentristRepublican
9401 theflyingmongoose

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

Here’s a little list I compiled for fun.  It shows the top 5 users in post count by “class”, i.e. year of registration.  Some caveats:

• Only users with at least 5000 posts are included.  As a result, the class of 2021 only has a top 2, while 2022 and 2023 don’t have anyone.
• I used the member list off the main forum page, which I think excludes banned users.
• For the sake of consistency, I used usernames; many of these people are better known by their display names.
• Post counts were as of the time I looked at that user, and obviously will be changing.
• Apologies if I missed anyone!

2003:

107571 BRTD
66579 Realpolitik
33524 Harry
29766 Gustaf
29285 afleitch

2004:

58208 Lewis Trondheim
52611 Keystone Phil
52202 jfern
44085 Mr. Morden
42174 Ernest

2005 (a tight battle for first place!):

45442 Torie
44923 GM3PRP
39858 Joe Republic
24921 BushOklahoma
24864 Mr. X

2006:

78638 olawakandi
44166 Eraserhead
44079 Lief
35027 Inks.LWC
32318 Hashemite

2007:

43689 dead0man
41212 Xahar
30329 benconstine
22254 Franzl
21629 brittain33

2008:

54099 North Carolina Yankee
30617 PiT (The Physicist)
29230 GeorgiaModerate
25635 shua
22397 tmthforu94

2009:

57413 Kalwejt
56774 Antonio V
38667 Badger
26878 Gass3268
24450 px75

2010:

36287 20RP12
32947 Nathan
26819 Cathcon
26245 pbrower2a
20059 RogueBeaver

2011:

43444 Scott
17539 Runeghost
15742 Simfan34
14704 Alfred F. Jones
13444 TNF

2012:

28465 Maxwell
24089 Fuzzy Bear
23657 NewYorkExpress
19428 ProudModerate2
17765 blackraisin

2013:

31846 IceSpear
26663 Santander
25371 President Johnson
21934 TDAS04
21120 ElectionsGuy

2014:

40416 Computer89
30502 MormDem
29155 xingkerui
28785 Dwarven Dragon
19559 bronz4141

2015:

36587 TimTurner
22164 Kingpoleon
19802 MohamedChalid
18432 Virginia
16165 Thinking Crumpets Crumpet

2016:

18763 brucejoel99
15943 Calthrina950
15894 Pericles
15389 YE
14203 PittsburghSteel

2017:

16443 John Dule
14607 MB
12815 jk2020
12245 HillGoose
11865 darklordoftech

2018:

27471 Progressive Pessimist
22600 Ferguson97
18511 lfromnj
17808 wbrocks67
16340 PSOL

2019:

17380 S019
16638 KYWildman
13538 Forumlurker161
11864 King T’Chenka
9531 GeneralMacArthur

2020:

11338 ProgressiveModerate
10470 Battista Minola 1616
9332 TiltsAreUnderrated
9181 Crane
8800 DaleCooper

2021:

11466 CentristRepublican
9401 theflyingmongoose

I just checked and it's a very close battle for 5th between me and darklordoftech for the 2017 cohort.

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

Also, as far as this and last year go, the highest posters are:
Oldtimer for 2022, with 1405 posts.

Oleg for 2023, with 700 posts.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Also, as far as this and last year go, the highest posters are:
Oldtimer for 2022, with 1405 posts.

Oleg for 2023, with 700 posts.

Oleg probably reaches 1000 by the end of the year.

[FairBol]

Oleg for 2023, with 700 posts.

That probably blows my total out of the water.  On average, and as we approach my 7th anniversary on this site (registered 8/8/2016), I make around 378 posts per year. 

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

almost 9 years since this was started. Guess I may as well update this.

1) For We Are Not Yet, We Are Only Becoming 111,633
2) PHARAOH BAKARI SELLERS 85,700
3) Filuwaúrdjan 67,418
4) minionofmidas 58,207
5) Antonio V 57,626
6) MASHED POTATOES. VOTE! 57,394
7)Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee 54,142
8 ) ○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└ 53,279
9) Keystone Phil 52,611
10) Torie 46,016

Changes since Tim's update in May 2023:

Olawakandi has narrowed the gap between him and BRTD for the top spot by 3030 posts. That's above Morden's calculated pace from Jan 2022, with a 378.75 post difference per month on average vs his 250 per month average. If this pace continues, OC will pass BRTD in a little under 6 years.

Antonio has taken Kal's 5th place spot and is almost certain to overtake Lewis Trondheim for 4th soon. Lewis isn't exactly gone, he was last online September of last year, but he hasn't posted since mid 2022.

jfern has overtaken Phil for 8th and considering NCY's hiatus will probably be in 7th soon.

Tender Branson being removed from the list because of his ban allows Torie to enter the top 10, though dead0man is not far behind and I expect he will enter the top 10 very soon.

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

also the class of 2023, previously dominated by Oleg, has him surpassed by a few posters owing to his activity declining later in the year.

All over 500:

riverwalk3: 2920
Aurelius2: 2019
Walterwhite: 1999
BigZuck08: 1093
Oleg: 1037
HL23: 957
Electric Circus: 794
wnwnwn: 758
BlahTheCanuck: 700
Birdish: 515


As far as the 2024 class goes, we have a total of 5 people with any posts:
anbarret: 29 (all of which are on Sanchez's Five Decades of Fear and Loathing)
longestview: 1
emperorcoz: 1
taugustusholm: 1
WhigFreak1836: 1

[Antonio the Sixth]

It appears that Antonio has just officially passed Xahar for #10

1) BRTD 77,333
2) Al 60,430
3) Lewis 58,704
4) Phil 52,857
5) opebo 47,159
6) Kal 43,455
7) Eraserhead 41,763
8 ) Tender 39,992
9) Lief 39,750
10) Antonio 39,229

11) Xahar 39,225

Tender will also hit 40k very soon.

Interesting that it took me until 2016 to get to the top 10, and since then I've climbed all the way to #5 and will probably reach #4 this year, even though my posting rate has dropped considerably in the past few years. I guess we had so many historically active posters quit or become almost totally inactive, whereas I'm still slugging along.

#4 will probably be my peak, though. I'm never catching up to Al, OC or BRTD. And then in the next few years I'm probably going to be surpassed by a lot of the new crop of posters.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

almost 9 years since this was started. Guess I may as well update this.

1) For We Are Not Yet, We Are Only Becoming 111,633
2) PHARAOH BAKARI SELLERS 85,700
3) Filuwaúrdjan 67,418
4) minionofmidas 58,207
5) Antonio V 57,626
6) MASHED POTATOES. VOTE! 57,394
7)Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee 54,142
8 ) ○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└ 53,279
9) Keystone Phil 52,611
10) Torie 46,016

Changes since Tim's update in May 2023:

Olawakandi has narrowed the gap between him and BRTD for the top spot by 3030 posts. That's above Morden's calculated pace from Jan 2022, with a 378.75 post difference per month on average vs his 250 per month average. If this pace continues, OC will pass BRTD in a little under 6 years.

Antonio has taken Kal's 5th place spot and is almost certain to overtake Lewis Trondheim for 4th soon. Lewis isn't exactly gone, he was last online September of last year, but he hasn't posted since mid 2022.

jfern has overtaken Phil for 8th and considering NCY's hiatus will probably be in 7th soon.

Tender Branson being removed from the list because of his ban allows Torie to enter the top 10, though dead0man is not far behind and I expect he will enter the top 10 very soon.

I'm wondering now if and when I would reach top 10. I'm almost at 40k and have had about 7-8k posts annually about three years straight.

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

because I was interested to see if I broke into the top 5 for the 2017 cohort, here's that:

1) 2023 Poster of the Year™ John Dule 18,035 (steady)
2) Dr. MB  15,655 (steady)
3) Sestak 13,229 (steady)
4) GM Team Member and Deputy PPT WB 13,221 (up 2)
5) HillGoose 12,805 (down 1)
6) darklordoftech 12,321 (down 1)

looks like i'll be overtaking Sestak for 3rd in the cohort soon.

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

newest posters in the top 100:

1) s019: #96, registered Feb 2 2019
2) lfromnj: #87, registered Nov 6 2018
3) wbrocks67: #78, registered Sep 6 2018
4) Ferguson97: #53, registered Jul 9 2018
5) PSOL: #92, registered Jun 28 2018
6) Progressive Pessimist: #37, registered Mar 10 2018
7) John Dule: #97, registered Mar 31 2017
8 ) brucejoel99: #86, registered Dec 31 2016
9) Virginia: #90, registered Dec 29 2015
10) Kingpoleon: #69, registered July 3 2015

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

because I was interested to see if I broke into the top 5 for the 2017 cohort, here's that:

1) 2023 Poster of the Year™ John Dule 18,035 (steady)
2) Dr. MB  15,655 (steady)
3) Sestak 13,229 (steady)
4) GM Team Member and Deputy PPT WB 13,221 (up 2)
5) HillGoose 12,805 (down 1)
6) darklordoftech 12,321 (down 1)

looks like i'll be overtaking Sestak for 3rd in the cohort soon.

"soon" ended up being like 12 hours lol

with that I have also broken into the top 150

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

because I was interested to see if I broke into the top 5 for the 2017 cohort, here's that:

1) 2023 Poster of the Year™ John Dule 18,035 (steady)
2) Dr. MB  15,655 (steady)
3) Sestak 13,229 (steady)
4) GM Team Member and Deputy PPT WB 13,221 (up 2)
5) HillGoose 12,805 (down 1)
6) darklordoftech 12,321 (down 1)

looks like i'll be overtaking Sestak for 3rd in the cohort soon.

"soon" ended up being like 12 hours lol

with that I have also broken into the top 150

Meanwhile...
#20 JoeRepublic 39,944
#21 TimTurner 39,930
#22 Badger 39,907

Very close, but I've known I would surpass the duo of Joe and Badger for a while.

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

Update a month later:

1) they don't love you like i love you 112,030 (+397)
2) PHARAOH BAKARI SELLERS 86,521 (+821)
3) Filuwaúrdjan 67,509 (+91)
4) minionofmidas 58,207 (+0)
5) Antonio the Sixth 57,804 (+178)
6) MASHED POTATOES. VOTE! 57,394 (+0)
7)Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee 54,142 (+0)
8 ) ○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└ 53,444 (+165)
9) Keystone Phil 52,611 (+0)
10) Torie  46,033 (+17)

11) dead0man 45,798 (+277)

Dead0man is on track to break into the top 10 by mid-late March. Difference in posts between BRTD and OC is 424, which is even higher than previous averages. If that exact post difference is maintained, OC would overtake BRTD in almost exactly 5 years.

other overtakes possible:
Antonio taking Lewis Trondheim's 4th place position will happen around early May at this rate.
Jfern overtaking Yankee's 7th place position will happen around July.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

After being gone for so so long, it amazes me that Lewis Trondheim is still 4th in active posts.  Damn man. 

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

Monthly update:


1) they don't love you like i love you 112,616 (+586)
2) Tutankhuman Bakari Sellers  86,521 (+998)
3) Filuwaúrdjan 67,597 (+88)
4) minionofmidas 58,207 (+0)
5) Antonio the Sixth 57,908 (+104)
6) MASHED POTATOES. VOTE! 57,380 (-14)
7)Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee 54,123 (-19)
8 ) ○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└ 53,578 (+134)
9) Keystone Phil 52,611 (+0)
10) Torie  46,050 (+17)


11) dead0man 46,011 (+213)
12) The world will shine with light in our nightmare 45,142 (+131) [+1]
13) Grumpier than Uncle Joe 45,078 (+52) [-1]
14) Lief 🗽 44,864 (+124)
15) Eraserhead 44,385 (+135)
16) OSR stands with Israel 44,288 (+328) [+1]
17) Mr. Morden 44,073 (+0) [-1] †
18) True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자) 42,157 (+0) *
19) Хahar 🤔 41,731 (+0)
20) President Punxsutawney Phil 41,016 (+641)

† : Deceased poster, RIP
* : Ernest is rumored to be deceased but it has not been confirmed by my knowledge.


seems like some thread Kal and Yankee both posted on must've been deleted? Meanwhile Scott jumps over Grumps and at this rate could jump over Torie for the 11th place spot (since Torie will fall to 11th soon) by the end of the year. Antonio has slowed down but is still on track to take Lewis' spot sometime in the middle of the year. OSR has overtaken Mr. Morden. Dead0man will overtake Torie by the beginning of April.

Meanwhile in the OC-BRTD race the differential in posts is about the same as last month, 412 this time instead of 424.

Doing this made me realize, does anyone know what happened to Xahar? He hasn't logged on in nearly 6 months. I'm a bit worried.

[Virginiá]

* : Ernest is rumored to be deceased but it has not been confirmed by my knowledge.

How reliable is that? I thought he just got tired of this place. I vaguely remember him saying as much some time ago before he disappeared.