Coming Soon, Our One Millionth Post

[Keith Outten]

As of today we have 979,990 posts here at The Creek since February 11th, 2003. We are averaging between 800 to 1000 posts per day so it looks like we will see our one millionth post before the end of 2008 or shortly thereafter.

Clearly a celebration will be in order, I wonder who will make the one millionth post here? If it is you you will have some kind of prize coming to you and this includes our Moderators, everyone is eligible, you just have to click the submit button at the right time :)
Our System Administrator Aaron Koehl will query our database to identify the winner once we have gone over the magic number.
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[Bruce Page]

My money is on Jim :D

[Brent Ring]

If it is the end of the week, it will be the Weekend Doin's man! But +1 on Jim as well.

[Mitchell Andrus]

Is there a way to limit the posts posted per minute - to avoid stuffing the ballot box? I can forsee a crashed server... ?

[Angus Hines]

LOL just one for the books !

[Chris Padilla]

On the blue bar at the top of every page, there is a link for "Member's List".

Click on that and then click on the Posts column to sort it.

From that, one can determine the odds of who might hit the 1M post. :)

Yeah, the odds are clearly in Jim B.'s favor.... :D

[Dave Mura]

Wow forum is growing fast! Congrats!!

[Michael Schapansky]

I'm going to go out on a limb here and make a prediction. The one millionth poster will not be me. Thanks for the very successful site. I keep coming back because of all you prolific posters.

[Shawn Honeychurch]

Apparently Jim has a lot of free time on his hands. Maybe he should take up woodworking. :p

[John Schreiber]

My money's on Jim too. He has made about 1 in 30 of ALL the posts on the Creek so far.

Wow :eek::)

[Anthony Anderson]

Apparently Jim has a lot of free time on his hands. Maybe he should take up woodworking. :p

I think Jim is one of those people who can do a hundred things at once and can still get them all done before schedule. I think he types with one hand on one computer, the other hand typing on a laptop, writing with left foot, and with the right foot, typing his posts here on SMC on a third computer. Have you seen the Michael Phelps commercial. They got the idea from Jim B. ;):D. My money is on Jim also. He deserves it. Bill

[Bob Noles]

Keith,

Unless my math is terribly off, you will see our 40,000th member come aboard during this same time period :D:):cool:

I am with the majority on Jim :p

[Richard Wolf]

So maybe it will be the 40,000 th member with his 1st post!!

Richard

[Jim O'Dell]

So maybe it will be the 40,000 th member with his 1st post!!

Richard

Wouldn't that be a trip!! Jim. (No, not that one.:rolleyes:)

[Steve Clardy]

Adding a post to close the gap...:D

[Don Bullock]

Considering how much Jim contributes in information and encouragement perhaps it should be him who gets the honor of the one millionth post.:D

[Jeff Lien]

Is it me ? Jeff

[Brian Effinger]

As of today we have 979,990 posts here at The Creek since February 11th, 2003. We are averaging between 800 to 1000 posts per day so it looks like we will see our one millionth post before the end of 2008 or shortly thereafter.


Keith,

Unless my math is terribly off, you will see our 40,000th member come aboard during this same time period :D:):cool:

I am with the majority on Jim :p
I noticed both of those things the other day. And my money is on Jim, too :p

Oh, and I noticed that our "Active Members" number was just over 10,000 - what ever that means.

[Bruce Page]

I think Jim is one of those people who can do a hundred things at once and can still get them all done before schedule. I think he types with one hand on one computer, the other hand typing on a laptop, writing with left foot, and with the right foot, typing his posts here on SMC on a third computer. Have you seen the Michael Phelps commercial. They got the idea from Jim B. ;):D. My money is on Jim also. He deserves it. Bill
And he builds a lot of beautiful pieces!

[Steve Rozmiarek]

+1 for Jim. Where is he though? Strangly silent.... Timing it perhaps?

[Keith Outten]

No matter who it is we are cooking up something special to commemorate the event. It would be almost impossible for anyone to generate a plan to be the one millionth poster, the odds of timing clicking the submit button on the exact post are huge given the number of people online here is often 500 to 600 people.

Maybe it will happen on New Years Eve, it would add one more major event for 2009 which will undoubtedly be our most eventful year to date.
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[Joe Chritz]

I have nothing useful to add to this thread. :rolleyes:

Joe

[Randy Klein]

Is this the millionth?

And who's this Jim guy everyone's talking about?:rolleyes: :D

[Jack Kenney]

Here's an interesting statistic:

Of the 38470 listed members, only 11968 have at least 1 post.

[Lee DeRaud]

Here's an interesting statistic:

Of the 38470 listed members, only 11968 have at least 1 post.S'okay, Becker's got enough to cover the 26502 that have zero...with enough left over to cover all of mine. :eek:

[Jason White]

How about me? Is this the 1-millionth post?????




As of today we have 979,990 posts here at The Creek since February 11th, 2003. We are averaging between 800 to 1000 posts per day so it looks like we will see our one millionth post before the end of 2008 or shortly thereafter.

Clearly a celebration will be in order, I wonder who will make the one millionth post here? If it is you you will have some kind of prize coming to you and this includes our Moderators, everyone is eligible, you just have to click the submit button at the right time :)
Our System Administrator Aaron Koehl will query our database to identify the winner once we have gone over the magic number.
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[Brad Noble]

And you think my luck is that good? What are ya ............. NUTS!? I never win anything. Nada, nuttin, zip/zero.

But, that's OK. I still enjoy the creek.

Brad

[Norman Pyles]

I'm in, I'll probably be no. 999999.

[Bob Genovesi]

I'll jump in too but I'm probably post 1,000,007 or something like that... But I'm in anyway!! :)

How will we know??????

[Jim Sears]

I'm trying to be the one

[Chris Padilla]

http://www.sawmillcreek.org/index.php

The above is the main SMC page listing all the forums. Scroll to the bottom of the page and you will find the info.

[Greg Hines, MD]

Congratulations to whomever is the magic number.

Doc

[Dennis Peacock]

Adding a post to close the gap...:D

I'm with ya Clardy..!!! :D

[Dick Bringhurst]

Jim, What are you going to do with your winnings? Dick B.

[Steve Clardy]

I'm with ya Clardy..!!! :D


Yep. One more :D

[Jim Kountz]

Ah heck I'll throw another rock at the fence!

[Art Mulder]

Maybe you should make a special thread and move the millionth post into it, so we can stop by and pay homage... :D;):D;) :rolleyes:

And considering this thread, I kind of hope Jim doesn't get it, or he'd never hear the end of it, poor guy. :p

ttfn
...art

[Brad Noble]

I'm trying to be the one


Need I say more? :D

Brad

[Keith Outten]

You can keep track of the current number of posts, the number is at the botom of the main menu.

[Chris Padilla]

985,000+ now :)

[Russ Sears]

I've already made the millionth post. I'm just saving it for the right time :)

[Mike Spanbauer]

Sheesh, 1million posts? How many forums are active, moderated, and on topic with that quantity of content?

About the only other forum I've participated in with that qty is AVS. Great work everyone.

+1 :)

mike

[Jim Becker]

Mike the horsie forum I'm on has 3.2 million posts and about the same number of members as SMC. There are not many forums that are this large, however. Or as nice. ;)

[Chris Padilla]

The BMW forum I help moderate is at 3.65 million posts.... :D

[Sonny Edmonds]

The BMW forum I help moderate is at 3.65 million posts.... :D

Well, they have to do something while their car is in the shop!
So they sit at Starbucks and post. :D

(You left yourself w_i_d_e open for that one!) :p

[Chris Padilla]

Less than 10,000 posts to go!! :D

[Jim Becker]

So they sit at Starbucks and post.

I do that for SMC...Starbucks. The airport. Hotels. Restaurants. iPhone takes care of it all! :D

[Chris Padilla]

Now less than 9,000 posts to go!! :D

[Angus Hines]

Were only 3800 away from 100,000 Threads !

[Jason Roehl]

The BMW forum I help moderate is at 3.65 million posts.... :D

Oh, yeah, well the Ford truck forum I visit is about 100 thou short of 7 million posts and coming up on 800,000 threads. :D ;) :cool:

[Brian Effinger]

Were only 3800 away from 100,000 Threads !
And we're only 89 new members away from 40,000!

[Greg Hines, MD]

Has it been reached? One of the posts on another thread was over 1,000,000.

Doc

[Chris Padilla]

Doc,

I'm not sure where you are looking but we're just under 8,000 posts to go to reach a million.

[Jason Roehl]

Chris, roll your mouse pointer over the post numbers in the upper right-hand corner of each post. Perhaps the front page counter doesn't count the posts in the mod forum? Or maybe it doesn't count all the deleted posts...:eek:

Jason

[Keith Outten]

The post counter on the main page is the number of active posts here at The Creek. We have had over a million posts if you count the deleted posts which we don't. For the record other than deleted posts and those that have been removed to our Moderators Forum every post is accessible in our archives. We don't delete or remove old messages or threads as we feel they are a valuable part of The Creek.

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[Angus Hines]

Less Than 4,000 to go !!!! :eek::D

[Scott Vigder]

And DOWN THE STRETCH THEY COME

[Greg Hines, MD]

Doc,

I'm not sure where you are looking but we're just under 8,000 posts to go to reach a million.


I got it off of the post # stamp on one of the posts this afternoon, that I got as an email. Such as:
http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?p=1000022#post1000022

Doc

[John Schreiber]

Threads: 96,224, Posts: 992,749, Members: 39,934, Active Members: 10,294

I just looked and it looks like we've got almost 8,000 posts to go to hit a million. I guess it won't be a Christmas present for the Creek.

[Brian Effinger]

I just noticed we are now at 40,000 members, and counting. (And one post closer to 1 million :D )

[dan grant]

gonna save mine till dec 29 at 731 am

[Steve Clardy]

I'll plug another one for the heck of it. :)

[Denny Rice]

me too..........

[Brad Noble]

Yeah, what the heck, me too!

Brad

[James Gillespie, Jr.]

Wow, surprised we haven't hit the 1 mil mark yet....

[Steve Clardy]

995,516



Gettin closer

[Mike Langford]

Think I'll jump in on this.........

[Gary Herrmann]

Are we there yet?

[Gary Herrmann]

I will turn this car around. Don't make me come back there.

[Jason Whitaker]

must be close

[James Gillespie, Jr.]

Certainly must be close by now...

[Steve Clardy]

996,256 :eek:

[Matt Meiser]

We better get moving if we are going to make it by midnight tomorrow night. :D

[Randy Klein]

We better get moving if we are going to make it by midnight tomorrow night. :D

Here's my part of the effort...

[Glenn Clabo]

Hey Clardy...I'm going to delete ALL of your posts so you don't win the prize.

(Hey everyone...I'm just kidding...really...no kidding)

[Mike Langford]

We ain't thar yet? :D

[Mark Rios]

Where are we going? When will we get there?


Is a million a lot?
:D

[Angus Hines]

Less than 2800 to go. so heres another !!!!!! :) :D

[Chris Padilla]

Being that the holidays are slow at SMC, I didn't think we'd make 1M before 2008 expired. I expect it'll happen January 2 or 3. :)

[Mike Langford]

This is the ONE! I can feel it!!!.................;)

[gary Zimmel]

One more closer.....

[Jim Kountz]

Are we there yet?

[Steve Clardy]

Nope....

997,562

[Jason Roehl]

What about now?

[Steve Clardy]

997,609


get busy posting Jason :D

[Jason Roehl]

It's not like I'm doing anything else that's useful.

[Steve Clardy]

Lol. I'm puttering around in the shop yet, working on a shaper modification.

And plugging this thread again. :D

[Lee Schierer]

Happy New Year everyone. I plan on spending most of the day in the shop to get the year off on the right foot. I've got a deacon's Bench in progress. I will be making the raised panels today. I can start assembly right after I mortice out the four legs.

[Mark Rios]

In honor of all the effort that Mr. Clardy is putting into this thread, I too am putterin' and pluggin'. :D

[Randy Klein]

Well, since I haven't made a post since last year :D here's my first 2009 contribution...

[Jim Kountz]

Lol. I'm puttering around in the shop yet, working on a shaper modification.

And plugging this thread again. :D

Why Steve Clardy if I didnt know better I would think you were trying to win this thing!:D Oh wait will this post put us closer? Why yes, yes it will!! I cant help myself now!!:D:D:D

[Gary Herrmann]

Happy new year all. Yes, this is a blatant attempt to be the one millionth poster...

[Steve Clardy]

In honor of all the effort that Mr. Clardy is putting into this thread, I too am putterin' and pluggin'. :D

Alright!!


Why Steve Clardy if I didnt know better I would think you were trying to win this thing!:D Oh wait will this post put us closer? Why yes, yes it will!! I cant help myself now!!:D:D:D

Yessir...


Happy new year all. Yes, this is a blatant attempt to be the one millionth poster...

Back atcha with the Happy New Year. :D




Less than 2 thou to go..... 998,023

[Andy Hoyt]

One small step for man, one giant leap for creekerdom.

[James Gillespie, Jr.]

Have we made it yet???

[Steve Clardy]

998,923..........

[Jason Roehl]

1076...errr...1075 to go (with this post)

[Randy Klein]

It'd be interesting if THE post occurred in this thread. Almost a self-fulfilling prophecy. It'd be even better if THIS post was it...

[Dave Verstraete]

Less than a thou left!!

[James Gillespie, Jr.]

Hmm, will it go tonight or wait until tomorrow?

[Kerry Adams]

So, who is staying up all night to see it happen?LOL

Kerry

[Steve Clardy]

Not me. :D



999,213

[Dewey Torres]

For it to happen tonight we would need eveyone online right now (663) to post something. It aint gonna happen.

[Jim Becker]

I don't know, Dewey...don't underestimate how many posts can come in in a short period of time when you spread them across all the different forum areas, especially on a weekend evening. If it doesn't hit tonight, it will most certainly hit tomorrow, that's for sure...

And who only posts once in a session?? LOL :D

[Narayan Nayar]

And who only posts once in a session?? LOL :D

Well, definitely not you, Jim. :p

[Dewey Torres]

I don't know, Dewey...don't underestimate how many posts can come in in a short period of time when you spread them across all the different forum areas, especially on a weekend evening. If it doesn't hit tonight, it will most certainly hit tomorrow, that's for sure...

And who only posts once in a session?? LOL :D

Not you and I for sure!

Take a look at the most posts for persons who joined in 2008 or later and you tell me who's names come up!

Hint Peter Quinn has me beat but not by much.

[Joe Mioux]

just posting for well.... well you know why! :)

[Joe Mioux]

btw: is there a counter some where?

joe

[Dave Verstraete]

Joe
At the bottom of the Home Page.

I think everyone online needs to post RIGHT NOW.....C'MON It would get us real close

[Mark Rios]

I"m rooting for tonight. The suspense is sorta kinda just killin' my dogs. They keep checking in to look at this thread every couple of minutes.

[Jim O'Dell]

999,325 as I started typing this. No I won't stay up either, but it is going to happen soon. Probably tomorrow morning. But I'm doing my part. Several posts this evening! :D Jim.

[Joe Mioux]

i am a postin'

[John Schreiber]

999,352 - Getting there slowly. I wonder if the fireworks will be viewable on YouTube.

[Brian Effinger]

Just over 600 now. It will probably happen early in the morning.

[Andrew Nemeth]

Are we there yet.....

[Mark Rios]

Once more into the fray............


I hope Steve Clardy gets it. :D

[Ted Calver]

This has got to be the one!!

[Andrew Nemeth]

Are we there yet...

[Keith Starosta]

mmmmmmmm............uhhh...............is this thing on?

[Jason Roehl]

Less than 500 now...

[Bryan Berguson]

I'm sure everyone here knows that it's going to be the "other" guy who makes the 1,000,000th post. N(one) of us have a chance of winning! :D

There, one more closer!

Bryan

[Steve Clardy]

Boink!!

Morning all!!!

No one has hit it yet? :confused:

:D

[Steve Rozmiarek]

I thought one of you night owls would get that post overnight! Slackers:D

[Rick de Roque]

Just a post to up the count.

[Bob Noles]

This is dragging far slower that I would have ever thought. C'mon Clardy get busy posting :p

[Steve Clardy]

Hey I had to stop and go eat. :p


I'll hit it again for good measure.:D


999,721

[Jim Kountz]

I think its funny, there seems to be more interest in what harbor freight stuff is in your shop than the 1,000,000,000 post:confused::confused:
Go figure!!

Anyway heres one more!!

[Steve Clardy]

There's a HF thread to post in? :confused: :rolleyes:

:D:D:D

[Brad Noble]

I'm good for one more hit. Good Luck to who ever hits it.

Brad

[Matt Meiser]

If I'm doing my math right, only 208 to go.

[Steve Clardy]

If I'm doing my math right, only 208 to go.


Becker could use that amount up in about 20 seconds. :p:D

[Andrew Nemeth]

Are we there yet? ...

[Glenn Clabo]

999,8..,... and counting.

[Randy Klein]

Here's one before dinner.

Just wait until the after dinner post. It'll be much better.

[Steve Clardy]

Well I'm trying to catch Becker.

Course I have 3 trillion to go yet.

[dan grant]

its getting exciting

[Paul Ryan]

Tick, tock, tick, tock. The time is approaching!

[Randy Klein]

Should we just start spamming now???

[Randy Klein]

Also, if I did this right, here's the thread that contains 1,000,000 post if you counted all the deleted ones:

First post in this thread. (http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?p=1000000)

[Walt Caza]

Yes Randy,
I think it is high time to start spamming....... now!!
be well,
Walt

[dan grant]

this is going ridiculously slow

[Frank Townend]

How slow is it?

[Brian Effinger]

60 more now!

[dan grant]

but whose counting

[Steve Clardy]

Sheesh. Where'd all the talkie one's go :confused::D:D:D



999,952


Edit. Hey I hit 7,000

[dan grant]

wish it was over so i could get on with my life

[Brian Effinger]

ugghhhhh!!!!!!!!!! it wont be me - my wife just told me i'm taking her to dinner and a movie. now.

[dan grant]

its me i know it

[Steve Clardy]

wish it was over so i could get on with my life



Yea I have window trim to make, and here I sit :o

[Frank Townend]

We are getting there...

[dan grant]

ok one more

[Frank Townend]

Over the top?

[Randy Klein]

Is this the one?

[dan grant]

nine to go

[Myk Rian]

5 more to go

[Frank Townend]

Like my Volvo....

[Randy Klein]

Is this the one?
Or this one?

[Frank Townend]

One down....

[Steve Clardy]

Woo. Had a sudden spurt...
1,000,002

[dan grant]

well it is finally over that was fun

[Myk Rian]

Well, I didn't see my computer light up. I must not have made it.

[Jim O'Dell]

Ok, now how do we find out who was the 1 millionth? :D I think I had a post between 993 and 998. :( Jim.

[Steve Clardy]

Fer sure.


Well, back to work.

[Walt Caza]

Hey.....
No streamers and balloons fell from my ceiling.
No flashing lights.
None at all...

I guess I didn't win?
shucks,
be well,
Walt

[Steve Clardy]

No sirens going off here.

Lol

[Jim Kountz]

Hey GUESS WHAT!!!! You're not going to believe this but....................
IT WASNT ME!! LOL

[Randy Klein]

Woo. Had a sudden spurt...
1,000,002

That ended like some ebay auctions - fast and furious.

[Myk Rian]

We probably won't find out till Monday. :D

[dan grant]

well off to glue up a top for my night stand, this is my third one, the other two ended up short, cant figure out how i did that twice

[Steve Clardy]

Hey GUESS WHAT!!!! You're not going to believe this but....................
IT WASNT ME!! LOL





>Insert Rolling on floor smiley here<

:D

[Scott Vigder]

I think I can I think I can....

[Brad Noble]

Geeeessshh! Enough already. Hurry up will ya? Somebody flip the counter up to one million so we all can turn in will ya.

Brad

[Mike Langford]

Wasn't this thread "locked" earlier?......:confused:

[Jim Becker]

It's over by 237 posts as I type this one...hopefully Keith can ascertain who the lucky millionth poster is!

[Keith Outten]

We are obviously over the one million mark. The winner can only be announced by our System Adminstrator Aaron Koehl as he must query our database and deduct the deleted posts from the total then backtrack to the post that put us over the top. Aaron goes to church on Sunday morning so it will probably be tomorrow afternoon before he announces the winner.
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[Art Mulder]

It's over by 237 posts as I type this one...hopefully Keith can ascertain who the lucky millionth poster is!

Well, it sure wasn't me. I was in the shop making sawdust this afternoon, not on the computer! :cool::D

...art

[Jim Becker]

Well, it sure wasn't me. I was in the shop making sawdust this afternoon, not on the computer! :cool::D

...art

I was on the back of a horse, eating pizza at Bertucci's and then in the shop myself... :D

[John Keeton]

When do I pick up my new Corvette? That was the prize wasn't it? It was me that posted the millionth post wasn't it?

[Aaron Koehl]

As of today we have 979,990 posts here at The Creek since February 11th, 2003. We are averaging between 800 to 1000 posts per day so it looks like we will see our one millionth post before the end of 2008 or shortly thereafter.

Clearly a celebration will be in order, I wonder who will make the one millionth post here? If it is you you will have some kind of prize coming to you and this includes our Moderators, everyone is eligible, you just have to click the submit button at the right time :)
Our System Administrator Aaron Koehl will query our database to identify the winner once we have gone over the magic number.
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....and the 1,000,000th active post is:

Myk Rian, 6:36 pm, EST
It's a very deep, insightful, well-thought out post. You can read it here (http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showpost.php?p=1008651) :)

[Glenn Clabo]

Profound Myk...It will part of SMC folklore for all time!

[Dewey Torres]

....and the 1,000,000th active post is:

Myk Rian, 6:36 pm, EST
It's a very deep, insightful, well-thought out post. You can read it here (http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showpost.php?p=1008651) :)

I picked it earlier today....

Any prize for that?

http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=100651

[Randy Klein]

....and the 1,000,000th active post is:

Myk Rian, 6:36 pm, EST
It's a very deep, insightful, well-thought out post. You can read it here (http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showpost.php?p=1008651) :)

Yeah, but he was obviously wrong. Can I submit a protest?

[Myk Rian]

Yeah, but he was obviously wrong. Can I submit a protest?
No!! LOL. I don't believe that post won. :eek:

Edit: My Wife has always said I have an uncanny way of putting words together.

[John Schreiber]

Only 999,063 left to go until two-million. Should I start a new thread?:eek:

[Steve Clardy]

Well it was fun while it lasted :D


Congrats Myk :D

[Keith Outten]

Myk,

I will contact you shortly concerning your prize :)

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