How do people have that many posts?

[Nebuchadnezzar]

I think I'm on this board a lot and post casually but it seems there are others who live on this board 24/7.

How do you all find the time to read and post so much?

[XenoMorph]

(10-26-2015, 06:11 PM)Nebuchadnezzar Wrote: I think I'm on this board a lot and post casually but it seems there are others who live on this board 24/7.

How do you all find the time to read and post so much?

if you play some of the games or get into a back in forth with someone or just have a thread you track and update all the time it jumps pretty quick.

[*Awful Llama*]

(10-26-2015, 06:27 PM)XenoMorph Wrote: if you play some of the games or get into a back in forth with someone or just have a thread you track and update all the time it jumps pretty quick.

Yeah, the game room is an easy way to get post count up. I probably log about 25-30 posts in there alone per week.

[coachmcneil71]

(10-26-2015, 06:11 PM)Nebuchadnezzar Wrote: I think I'm on this board a lot and post casually but it seems there are others who live on this board 24/7.

How do you all find the time to read and post so much?

Some of these cats apparently have nothing else going on in their lives to occupy their time. Not mentioning any names but they know who they are.

[Se ky bengal]

(10-27-2015, 12:21 AM)coachmcneil71 Wrote: Some of these cats apparently have nothing else going on in their lives to occupy their time. Not mentioning any names but they know who they are.

This^^^^

[Belsnickel]

I use it like a lot of people use social media, since I have no social media presence. Need a break from my spreadsheets? What's happening on the boards? Some people have Facebook up all day, I just leave a tab open on the boards.

[Benton]

Buckets and buckets of amphetamines.

[Rotobeast]

(10-27-2015, 10:32 AM)Benton Wrote: Buckets and buckets of amphetamines.

Yes.... I was stumbling around P&R, when they started kicking in.
I remember saying to myself "I feel a bit lightheaded, maybe I shouldn't post ?".
Suddenly there was a terrible roar of threads abound and the forum was full of what looked like bigoted partisan spiel, all swooping, screeching and diving at peoples throats; which were bellowing their own bloated agenda.
Inside my head a voice was screaming: "Holy Jesus! Who are these goddamn animals?"

[Johnny Cupcakes]

I probably have a more-than-average posting amount, and it's still only 8 posts per day. That isn't a very difficult accomplishment.

[Wes Mantooth]

I'm not sure whether or not my post count on the old board qualifies as enough to meet the OP's criteria but I thought I'd weigh in with what I think is an obvious answer. (Fwiw, my old post count was somewhere around 6k, over 5 years. Which I think comes out to around 3 a day)

I think the answer for many, and it certainly was for me, was working a desk job, having internet access, and having loads of idle time.

My old job was an inside sales gig. I was a cube monkey. Actual selling or account maintenance probably only accounted for about 1/4 of my day. Another 1/4 was probably sales meetings and just everyday normal office interaction (water cooler talk, etc) The true reality was I had a ton of down time, and I had to be at my desk, to at least appear to be working.

Enter dicking around the internet, which I think is the case for a lot of people nowadays. As Peter said, in a given week "I do about 15 minutes of actual work". A lot of people dick around on social media or browse Amazon or whatever. I used to read sports pages, local news stuff, and switch between sites like Barstool and Reddit. I stated lurking around a few forums and found that they were a great time killer.

Also, it's real easy to fire off a good 20 posts in a very short amount of time. Get into an argument here or there, start a thread that sees varied responses, and you can rack up quite a few posts pretty quickly. Sometimes I used to see posts counts and think "God Damn" but 20k posts over years and years is easily broken down to less eye catching numbers.

Ex: Guy gets on the board, while listening to the Reds or Sport Talk or whatever, for an hour or so every evening, and fires off 5 posts a nights. If he's a member for 7 years and stays consistently active, that's 12,775 posts right there. Is he any less productive or more of a loser than someone who watches an hour of reality TV in that same hour?

[Wes Mantooth]

(10-27-2015, 11:40 AM)Johnny Cupcakes Wrote: I probably have a more-than-average posting amount, and it's still only 8 posts per day.  That isn't a very difficult accomplishment.

8 posts a day?!?!?!?!

[Johnny Cupcakes]

(10-27-2015, 11:40 PM)Wes Mantooth Wrote: 8 posts a day?!?!?!?!

Feelings, bro. 

It's even worse because I'm responding 10 minutes after you...like I sat around waiting.....  

[StLucieBengal]

(10-27-2015, 09:22 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: I use it like a lot of people use social media, since I have no social media presence. Need a break from my spreadsheets? What's happening on the boards? Some people have Facebook up all day, I just leave a tab open on the boards.

Same.

[Tiger Teeth]

(10-26-2015, 06:11 PM)Nebuchadnezzar Wrote: I think I'm on this board a lot and post casually but it seems there are others who live on this board 24/7.

How do you all find the time to read and post so much?

Meth.