100+ Posts a day

[Agent Proto]

Now, it is possible that someone may have all the time in the world to post 100 times a day. It can be done, albeit not legitimately, as in most of the posts were spam, consisting of a short sentence and in a couple threads, but that seems to be overdoing the spam. Anyway, is it possible for someone to spend so much time to respond to at least 100 threads in one day? Can it be done? Post in 100 threads with valid responses, whether they be simple or long? Have you even attempted doing such a feat? Do you even remember the most threads you replied to in a day? (in 24 hours no doubt) As for myself, no I don't remember how many threads I have replied to in a day, but I can guess it's most likely at least 20. Posting in 100 threads in 24 hours seems like a daunting task that I don't think anyone could accomplish that without being viewed as spamming.

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

Didn't Daniel Towns do this every day for a number of years?

[Agent Proto]

I do believe so. It's possible to post in 100 threads if you actively view all or most of the FF forums. 10 posts in 10 of the forums do make 100 posts. Now granted, that's an easy accomplishment, but is it really worth it? xD

[Rye]

I've probably done something high (maybe not that high) one a bored day. ;__;

[McLovin']

Clearly you have overlooked Devil Man.

And I can't be damned to post in any other forums besides General these days.

[escobert]

if there were 100+ threads for me to post in that I wanted to post in I could do it no problem.

[Christmas]

Do usernotes count? :bigsmile:

[Tavrobel]

Clearly you have overlooked Devil Man.

[Xander]

Probably, I'm amazed how much some people post in usernotes.. I can't reply to topics unless I have something to say or know about them, which doesn't really include any of the forums except three here now, so I'd have trouble reaching 30 in a day... I think 100 might be fairly easy if you keep replying in one topic or something.

[themagicroundabout]

I very rarely make more than even 5 posts a day, so 100, to me, seems a bit much.

[Quindiana Jones]

I wonder how much I post....

[Denmark]

I don't think I've ever posted that much in a day, or even conceived the possibility. I get distracted by something else, usually. Like, I'll start playing a game or go to other websites or stuff like that, and I'll just forget about posting.

[XxSephirothxX]

I'm sure it's possible, but I know I've never done it. Or tried. :p


Clearly you have overlooked Devil Man.
Proto said without spamming. :p

[Rainecloud]

I'm sure I've done that on numerous occasions during my teens.

When I was at College, I had nothing better to do than post at EoFF all day.

[Vikeve]

I bet someone could do it but not me. I do post a lot here though.

[Fire_Emblem776]

Clearly you have overlooked Devil Man.

Hes a canidate for this:love:

[Old Manus]

I can't even think of anything to contribute to this discussion, let alone 100 :spin:

[Skarr]

I may have come close yesterday. I was so bored, I think I posted in nearly ever new thread in GC last night for half an hour. Then I went to bed feeling bad about having nothing better do but put off college work. >_< Then I saw the procrastinating thread.

[Iceglow]

The forum for the online beta test I worked on was pretty cool in the fact that in the ooc part of the forum (out of character not context in this case) we had threads for spamming in that were held as competitions of a sort to see if the members of the forum could manage it. The First competition was to get to 1000 replies in the same thread. We did that in a leisurely pace (infact due to the fact that players tended to run out of things to spam about that they hadn't already spammed about it took a lot longer than I expected it to). The forum was tiny so getting there took a while (well small in comparison to here only about 400 members from around the world and a vast percent spoke French only). After completing that one we decided to up the ante, and open a 10,000 post thread which took almost 2 years to complete. The last 500 posts were made by about 5 people (myself and tinkers included here) in one day which easily equates to 100 in a day. Add to this the other threads we kept posting in we had made 200+ in one day. After that they opened a 100,000 post thread and as far as I know it's still running.

So 100+ posts in a day is no problem. The problem is being a moderator/admin for that thread (I was on the 10,000 post one and the 100,000 post one and I was the only one to actually moderate it and decide what stayed and what went) As I had trouble getting online all the time if I was off for like 3 days as I frequently was if an argument kicked off and I had to moderate it I could have to wipe 300 posts off the forum and then make sure it never flared up again.

[Khaotic]

I'm sure if I could if I really wanted to, but why would anyone want to?

[Jimmy Dark Aeons Slayer]

I don´t know maybe in one of those days where i was home all the time i might have posted about 50 to 60 times...but more than 100 i don´t think so...

[Odaisé Gaelach]

Quality over quantity, my friend. :cool:

EDIT: I've just noticed: I've posted 1256 times here, but only started 49 threads...

[Vincent, Thunder God]

Expect a marked spamming increase resulting from this thread. :p

[Captain Maxx Power]

If we take the average waking day to be sixteen hours (twenty-four hours with eight hours sleep), and knock-off two and a half hours for eating/toilet, and assuming that you had no other problems such as connections, we'll consider the following factors.

Np = t/(ty + ld + sea)

Where Np is the number of posts possible
t is time
ty is the time it takes you to type a post
ld is the time it takes a forum page to load
Sea is the time it takes you to find a topic that has been posted in recently (remember that EoFF has a rule against double-posting).

Time we've already established to be thirteen and a half hours, which is about 810 minutes. That would be t.

Typing would depend upon the post. A good typist can probably type at about 65~70 words per minute. To not constitute as spam it must be at least two sentances (feel free to dispute this one). They need to be of decent length. At the moment I'm averaging about ten words a sentance. We'll make that our minimum. So, considering you type ten words at 67.5 words per minute, that's 0.3 minutes to type (about twenty seconds). If we add on an average variance of +10%, that's approximately twenty two seconds to type out a "full post".

Loading would depend upon your connection. Let's take the best case scenario. You haven't quoted anyone (so you won't get that annoying "please click here to go on" jazz), your connection is steady and EoFF doesn't grind to a hault. If you're on a standard ADSL/Cable connection at best you could be looking at up to 2Mbits per second. Checking this page, it's about 17.49 Kilobytes. I'm going to shoot in the dark here and say that the average page will be somewhere in the realm of 15~30kB at best, giving us an average of 17.5kB's. On a 2Mb connection, that would take 143360/2,000,000 = 0.07 seconds to load each page. If we consider that we have to load the topic, the reply screen, the topic again, and then go load another forum, that's 0.28 seconds in total.

Now comes the searching time. This is aided greatly by blue chocobo's and red folders, so it's down to thinking time and acuity. Since human beings have very fast reflex responses, we can assume it wouldn't take long for us to see a link and click on it. At a guess I'd say around 0.5 seconds on a bad day. But what if we load up a forum that hasn't had a new topic? Since we can't double post we have to move onto another forum, which is more loading time (0.07 seconds) and more thinking time (0.5 seconds). Let's say that you're logically scanning each posts, and that the forum remains generally active. I'd say that, on average, to find a new topic to post in, would take 2.28 seconds (thats 0.5 + 0.07 * 4).

So, our big fat equation comes out as follows;

48600 (810 minutes in seconds) / 22 + 0.28 + 2.28
= 48600 / 24.56
= 1978.82
= 1978 (rounding down)

So yes, it's very much possible, and probably within the first half an hour if you were on the ball. This is, of course, best case scenario only.

[NorthernChaosGod]

In a forum of this size I would imagine with would be quite an easy feat to accomplish.

[Agent Proto]

In a forum of this size I would imagine with would be quite an easy feat to accomplish.

Sure it is. There are numerous FF forums. If you can make 10 posts in 10 of the forums, that an easy 100 posts. But can someone who don't browse the FF forums easily make 100 posts in as many threads?

[Visual_Paradox]

As you can see, I'm new :D so I dont know how many I'll have haha

[nik0tine]

Good luck finding 100 threads that warrant a response.

[Yamaneko]

The Man used to post like forty times a day during his early stay here, and half of them were essays.

[Markus. D]

^-^

[Reine]

I cant imagine myself posting that much in a day. Especially as most threads are utter crap :p

[Kirobaito]

Someone tried something like posting 100 times in a day a few years ago. I thought it was you, Preton.

[Goldenboko]

This thread is proof... yes it is. http://forums.eyesonff.com/showthread.php?t=90170&highlight=SeeD+Test
All of that was in one day.

[Araciel]

WHY....god why??

seriously i have no idea how many i've racked up here on my best day but i would say it's less than 40