How Much Time Do You Spend On PPCT?

[Janak Parekh]

Kati helpfully reminded me that this is my 5,000th post here on Pocket PC Thoughts, and suggested that I'd better make it good. ;) So here goes: it's obvious I have no life here if I have time to make 5,000 posts (and Jason has less than no life :lol:), but I'm curious as to how much time the rest of you spend on this little home of ours.<br /><br />(By the way, I'm proud to say that we've got a great community, and I want to thank you all for hanging around here and providing such great sources of discussion!)

[Kati Compton]

;) Congrats!

And I bet you can guess what I voted.... 8O :lol:

[Janak Parekh]

;) Congrats!
Er, isn't that supposed to be "my condolences :cry:"? ;)

--janak

[Ekkie Tepsupornchai]

So, is it time for me to once again harken back to days long ago when Janak was called Big Daddy J and he had only about 500 posts...

...let's see... that was about 9 months ago... December 2002!! :lol:

[Jeff Rutledge]

For me, it fluctuates quite a bit. Some days I can spend hours clicking New Posts over and over and have several conversations running within different threads.

Other times, I can go days at a time without visiting at all.

I have some days where I have a few minutes free, but don't want to click in because I don't have enough time to read all the New Posts waiting for me. So if I were to hop in for five minutes and read the first couple pages, when I leave my New Posts would be reset and I would miss everything else possibly. So I generally wait until I have enough time to read what's there relative to the length of time I've been away.

[ctmagnus]

So, is it time for me to once again harken back to days long ago when Janak was called Big Daddy J and he had only about 500 posts...

...let's see... that was about 9 months ago... December 2002!! :lol:

That's 500 posts per month since then!

(Which actually equates to only 16.6666666667 posts per day, so that's not as many worn-out keyboards as I thought.)


BTW, I voted Substantial chunk of the day, meaning more than an hour but less than three (on heavy day).

[Janak Parekh]

For me, it fluctuates quite a bit. Some days I can spend hours clicking New Posts over and over and have several conversations running within different threads.
Hrm. I should have put an option for that. Oh well, you fall in any of the above categories then. :lol:

I have some days where I have a few minutes free, but don't want to click in because I don't have enough time to read all the New Posts waiting for me.
Yeah, I know what you mean. It would be nice to have per-user tracking, instead of per-session tracking, but that's not officially supported in phpBB. :cry: Maybe the next version will handle that...

--janak

[JonnoB]

Although everyone here is very important to me :roll: , I do have a real job, a family, and other things to do. Perhaps if I quite my job, left my family I would have enough time to become one of the Thoughts fanatics :wink:

[ctmagnus]

Although everyone here is very important to me :roll: , I do have a real job, a family, and other things to do. Perhaps if I quite my job, left my family I would have enough time to become one of the Thoughts fanatics :wink:

What do you mean "become"? You already broke the magical 1K posts. ;)

[Ekkie Tepsupornchai]

What do you mean "become"? You already broke the magical 1K posts. ;)
With exception of JR, everyone responding to this post has broken 1k... we should have our own club with our own exclusive threads!! :|

[Kati Compton]

With exception of JR, everyone responding to this post has broken 1k... we should have our own club with our own exclusive threads!! :|
So the people that are on all the time can tell each other what they had for breakfast/lunch/dinner, what color clothing their wearing, and up-to-the-minute "what I'm listening to right now" information? ;)

[griph]

What do you mean "become"? You already broke the magical 1K posts. ;)
With exception of JR, everyone responding to this post has broken 1k... we should have our own club with our own exclusive threads!! :|

You mean the PPCTK Club? Mmm - let me see - I've got a long way to go! How does anyone with more than 1000 posts actually have a life? My wife already tells me I love my PPC more than her!

Please tell me you secret! 8O

[Jeff Rutledge]

Yeah, I know what you mean. It would be nice to have per-user tracking, instead of per-session tracking, but that's not officially supported in phpBB. :cry: Maybe the next version will handle that...

--janak

It would be way cool if you could click a "New Posts since..." link and a popup would let you enter the time and date.

[Janak Parekh]

It would be way cool if you could click a "New Posts since..." link and a popup would let you enter the time and date.
Yes. We're trying to see if we can fix the Search function to do that. :)

--janak

[Jeff Rutledge]

With exception of JR, everyone responding to this post has broken 1k...

I honestly don't know how you do it. I spend more time on this site than I probably should (not that I'm complaining) and I am just past 500 posts. And it's not a time thing either. I've been a member here for a long time. It is true that I was mostly a lurker until relatively recently.

[Jeff Rutledge]

It would be way cool if you could click a "New Posts since..." link and a popup would let you enter the time and date.
Yes. We're trying to see if we can fix the Search function to do that. :)

--janak

Now that I would pay for. Well, since I'm already a lifer, I'll have to buy y'all a drink instead I guess. :beer: :drinking:

[Anthony Caruana]

Well done on reaching the 5K mark. :werenotworthy: :clap:

Based on the calcs in a previous post you are averaging 17 posts per day. How do you find the time? I'm trying to find a way to weasle visiting this site into my my KPIs at work so that I can contribute and read everything that is going on at PPCT.

[Jeff Rutledge]

Okay, I'll bite. What's a KPI?

[kiwi]

Okay, I'll bite. What's a KPI?

may its "Key Performance Indicator" or something similar

b

[Busdriver]

There is another forum that I check out from time to time and there is somebody there who registered on 01/05/02 and has made 13957 posts. He's averaged 23.9 posts per day, EVERY day, for almost 2 years (582 days).

[Janak Parekh]

Based on the calcs in a previous post you are averaging 17 posts per day. How do you find the time?
Well, averages are misleading. Most days I'll do 5-10, but there are a few where I'll do more. I happen to type fast enough so that it doesn't eat up too much time. Also, around last Christmastime I went nuts (as did some other people, especially Pony99CA and ThomasC22) and started doing ~ 30 posts per day. It also happened to be extraordinarily quiet, as I wasn't traveling during the holidays, which helped.

What I want to know is how Jason's managed to do 12+ posts per day steady since February of last year, and that on top of the thousands(?) of posts he did in the older systems. ;)

--janak

[Paragon]

5000 posts WOW!!

....to be honest 5000 posts isn't that big of a deal. The quality of the content of them is truly the amazing part....CONGRATS!

Dave

[maximus]

(By the way, I'm proud to say that we've got a great community, and I want to thank you all for hanging around here and providing such great sources of discussion!)

Feeling is mutual here. You guys (editors, moderators, etc.) have done a good job with this forum. Congrats for the 5K posts!

Anyway, I visited this site several times a day on weekdays (in morning, after lunch, after 6 pm, etc.) I am rarely here on weekends. Now that I am assigned in indonesia, I used weekends to go apartment hunting ... company will not pay hotel fees for more than 4 weeks. Wish me luck finding a cozy apartment with cable connection :D

[qmrq]

I don't think I even have 100.. :cry:

[Anthony Caruana]

Okay, I'll bite. What's a KPI?

It's a Key Performance Indicator. If I satisfy my KPIs I get some extra cheese to keep the wheel in my cage turning over :p

[davea]

(By the way, I'm proud to say that we've got a great community, and I want to thank you all for hanging around here and providing such great sources of discussion!)

Feeling is mutual here. You guys (editors, moderators, etc.) have done a good job with this forum. Congrats for the 5K posts!

:D

The PPC community is VERY fortunate to have Janek, Jason and the entire
team providing and supporting this site. I appreciate the effort and sacrifice
of personal time to make it all run smoothly and be so informative and timely. I'd be lost without my dailly (and more often) fix of PPCT's

[jkendrick]

With so many posts you must all be those dreaded cross posters we keep hearing about. :wink:

Great job folks - keep up the good work.

[TopDog]

I don't think I even have 100.. :cry:Well, it's now how many post's you post, but how good your post's are ;-)

[FredMurphy]

I used to be clicking "New Posts" 10 times a day. It was practically my homepage.

Since the launch of subscriber services this hasn't been working :( so although I still come back to see if it's been fixed, I'm not here that much any more. My PayPal account is now active, so once it works again I'll be more than happy to subscribe. Until then there's not much point.

Sorry to grumble, but that's how it is. :|

Fred

[Pony99CA]

So, is it time for me to once again harken back to days long ago when Janak was called Big Daddy J and he had only about 500 posts...

...let's see... that was about 9 months ago... December 2002!! :lol:
He had 604 on December 11, 2002, exactly eight months ago. See the Top Ten Posters (http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5614) thread.

The odd thing is that pdadave and ThomasC22 seem to have vanished for the most part. Dave was #3, and I always wondered how he could post more than most of the admins; now he's not even in the Top 20. Thomas has dropped off considerably, and is at #20. Should we have some sort of requiem? :-)

Steve

[Pony99CA]

With exception of JR, everyone responding to this post has broken 1k... we should have our own club with our own exclusive threads!! :|
As if those of us in the 2000+ post range would deign to associate with mere 1000+ posters. :rotfl:

Oh, I almost forgot -- I said that I spend about an hour here a day, although it varies. I've never really timed it, so it could be more, for all I know.

Steve

[Janak Parekh]

Since the launch of subscriber services this hasn't been working :( so although I still come back to see if it's been fixed, I'm not here that much any more. My PayPal account is now active, so once it works again I'll be more than happy to subscribe. Until then there's not much point.
Fabrizio made some changes with new post handling; are you still having troubles? If so, clear the cookies and try again. Otherwise send me a PM and we'll see if we can do anything.

--janak

[Pocket PC Dubai]

Hi Janak

Do you manage the forum from your Pocket PC?

[JonnoB]

As if those of us in the 2000+ post range would deign to associate with mere 1000+ posters. :rotfl:


You would be awfully lonely.

[Kati Compton]

As if those of us in the 2000+ post range would deign to associate with mere 1000+ posters. :rotfl:


You would be awfully lonely.
Nah - we all talk enough to fill the void.

[yvilla]

With exception of JR, everyone responding to this post has broken 1k... we should have our own club with our own exclusive threads!! :|
As if those of us in the 2000+ post range would deign to associate with mere 1000+ posters. :rotfl:
Steve

Hey, don't go getting "exclusive" on us! There are those of us who are "substantial chunkers", and long-timers, but who are just not so talkative. :mrgreen:

[qmrq]

As if those of us in the 2000+ post range would deign to associate with mere 1000+ posters. :rotfl:

:mrgreen:

[JonnoB]

Nah - we all talk enough to fill the void.

Yes, you 2k+ posters sure are 'chatty'

[ctmagnus]

Well, it's now how many post's you post, but how good your post's are ;-)

I concur.

( :twak: )

:mrgreen:

[Kati Compton]

Well, it's now how many post's you post, but how good your post's are ;-)

I concur.
Uh-oh... I think you're in trouble then, ctmagnus.... :twisted: :lol:

:duck: :runaway:

[Sunnyone]

Congratulations, Janak! Pretty amazing in such a short amount of time.

Life intrudes, so I find my posting frequency goes in spurts. It's not in my nature to be as "chatty" as you 2K+ posters! :wink:

[sullivanpt]

So do we have any statisticians amongst us?

What does it mean exactly if in one day, 9% of the respondants claim they visit less than once per day? Does that mean that actually 63% visit less than once a day (9%*7 days - some percentage assigned to other categories).

Anyway, even if the poll is flawed, the event is amazing! 5000 posts is definately an accomplishment. I'm still trying to break 50..

[Kati Compton]

So do we have any statisticians amongst us?

What does it mean exactly if in one day, 9% of the respondants claim they visit less than once per day? Does that mean that actually 63% visit less than once a day (9%*7 days - some percentage assigned to other categories).

Well, the poll is up for multiple days, so that should help. Though it's no longer front-page after a while. Which then begs the question: how many of the people that visit PPCT only visit the threads that appear on the front page?

[JonnoB]

Sometimes I think these threads are just here to help increase post count. :razz:

[Kati Compton]

Sometimes I think these threads are just here to help increase post count. :razz:

Happy #1101 to you! :razzing:

[maximus]

Dave was #3, and I always wondered how he could post more than most of the admins; Steve

So Pony, did you get the answer to that question? :wink:

[Pat Logsdon]

I would just like to mention that I am now on the second page of top posters, at #39.

Thank you.

:mrgreen:

I will now take the liberty to smack myself on the head: :twak:

And tell myself to: :nonono:

[Pony99CA]

Dave was #3, and I always wondered how he could post more than most of the admins.
So Pony, did you get the answer to that question? :wink:
Yes, but somehow I don't think he did it by being unemployed. I think Dave was (is?) in college, where free time grows on trees. :-D

Steve

[Jeff Rutledge]

Sometimes I think these threads are just here to help increase post count. :razz:

I agree.

:alfdance:

[JonnoB]

I agree.



Well, that makes two of us... :wink:

[Jeff Rutledge]

I agree.



Well, that makes two of us... :wink:


Great Minds.....

[Pat Logsdon]

I agree.



Well, that makes two of us... :wink:


Great Minds.....
Birds of a feather... :wink:


And to stay on topic - I keep a window of PPCT open all day at work, refreshing every 20 minutes or so. I guess that puts me in the "Always here" category. :D

[Ken Mattern]

What do you mean "become"? You already broke the magical 1K posts. ;)
With exception of JR, everyone responding to this post has broken 1k... we should have our own club with our own exclusive threads!! :|

You know that's really not fair. I read PPC thoughts four or five times a day. I don't post unless I can make a real contribution. I have been reading this site since the day it opened. Posting only means that you have something that you feel compelled to say. Many of us read constantly but don't feel that compulsion.

There should be a club for us...

D'oh there already is. It's called pocketpcthoughts.com

[Jonathon Watkins]

Congratulations, Janak! Pretty amazing in such a short amount of time.

Life intrudes, so I find my posting frequency goes in spurts. It's not in my nature to be as "chatty" as you 2K+ posters! :wink:

Same here - 'real life' can intrude so much, can't it. :wink:

This is the first time I have been here for days now - yet one some days I can spend all evening just catching up.

[Jason Dunn]

I am rarely here on weekends. Now that I am assigned in indonesia, I used weekends to go apartment hunting...

See, what you need is a wireless Pocket PC and mobile forums! :lol:

[maximus]

I am rarely here on weekends. Now that I am assigned in indonesia, I used weekends to go apartment hunting...

See, what you need is a wireless Pocket PC and mobile forums! :lol:

Yeah, the problem is paypal refuses my membership, since I dont have singapore credit card yet, and my home country is not covered by paypal ... :wink: any other alternatives ?

[Jason Dunn]

Yeah, the problem is paypal refuses my membership, since I dont have singapore credit card yet, and my home country is not covered by paypal ... :wink: any other alternatives ?

It's time for me to publish the subscriber FAQ I think, which has information on alternative payments.

[ctmagnus]

any other alternatives ?

Send him a cheque. I did! And if your bank archives images of your cheques that have been cashed (as mine does) then you can learn to forge his signature! :twisted:

[maximus]

any other alternatives ?

Send him a cheque. I did! And if your bank archives images of your cheques that have been cashed (as mine does) then you can learn to forge his signature! :twisted:

Ha ha ha. Very funny. I was thinking of a simpler method, i.e. wire transfer.

[Jason Dunn]

Ha ha ha. Very funny. I was thinking of a simpler method, i.e. wire transfer.

There's nothing simple about a wire transfer, and for such a small amount, it's really not worth the hassle. A money order would be the best thing to do...