how many posts must you have at DU to be a "regular?"

[redsoxliberal]

.

[tyedyeto]

1. I guess that 969 doesn't count??? n/t

[valis]

2. 250.

[hippiepunk]

3. Boohoo!

And I thought I was coming close! :cry:

[evlbstrd]

4. I'm feeling irregular.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

34. Hi there, evlbstrd!

There's your water color! Very nice, IMHO...Good talking with you!

:hi:

[evlbstrd]

37. Hi, CaliforniaPeggy!

Glad you like it!
Later!

[Wapsie B]

5. I don't know if a particular post count makes one a regular.

I think the thing is to hang around in the lounge and try to converse with people more than having 15000 posts. Just find a thread that interests you and jump in.

[Maddy McCall]

6. It's not the quantity of posts...it's the quality.

Anyone can rack up thousands of posts with one- or two-word replies.

It's the quality of the post that matters. Some posters here only have 5,000 posts, and they've been posting regularly since DU's inception. But they post long, well-reasoned responses to threads here.

Others, who haven't been here nearly that long, have five times that amount, and they never post more than a sentence or two at a time.

Post numbers don't matter. Quality of posts does.

[qnr]

9. yes n/t

Why are you looking in here? I said "n/t" --- besides, I'm just tryin to bump my post count with a 3 letter word, so you KNOW you're not gonna find anything particularly interesting in this post :)

[all.of.me]

10. thank you!

sometimes i feel like number of posts is all people look at. i never look at them! i read and usually don't even know WHO i am reading, let alone how many posts they have or how long they've been here. that's all irrelevant information for me.

[uppityperson]

33. Oh.

my feet hurt
:silly:

[latebloomer]

7. and it also matters

how many post are squeezed in during the shortest space of time.

Like I have almost 4000, I think-- but they're spread out over 3 and a half years, and I feel like hardly anyone knows me.

:cry:

But, in order to be a regular, I'd have to become an even worse computer addict than I am, and THAT'S BAD ENOUGH!!

[qnr]

11. Maybe you're just a latebloomer

OK, I'm sorry. I'll shut up now heheh

[latebloomer]

16. I think you've got it!!

[redsoxliberal]

8. i just noticed... i passed 2000 posts today and no one noticed

:cry: :miserablelookingface:

[qnr]

12. Congratulations :)

You're a better person than me, I would have stopped counting after I'd passed the 150th post.... too distracting, since I'm the only driver.

Er, no, really, congratulations :toast: :party:

[hippiepunk]

15. Congratulations!

Dat's alotta posts dere!

[latebloomer]

17. Hurray!!

:party: :party: :party:

Better now?

[redsoxliberal]

22. yay!

[bigwillq]

21. Congrats!

:party: :toast: :bounce:

[Darranar]

24. Congratulations!

:toast:

[Heidi]

30. Congratulations, rsl! (nt)

[valis]

13. Let's see... 15,000 posts. Let's say you spend 1 minute per post

on average. That's 15,000 minutes. That's 250 hours. If you spend less than 1 hr per day you can do it in 1 year or less...

[Darranar]

23. But people don't constantly post...

I, at least, tend to read through a lot of threads in between posts, until something incites me to comment.

And my best posts always take at least half an hour.

[Longgrain]

14. Ahhhhhh...12.

Once you're are past 12, you're in the club!

[tinfoilinfor2005]

18. Oh, 1000 for sure, because I've been told that when you hit 1000

you automatically go on an FBI red flag list, you are instantly frisked at all airports and/or your passport is dusted for fingerprints, and mysterious men in grey raincoats are suddenly seen hanging around your home and place of employment. And DU sends you a dozen roses. OK, I made up that last one.

[BikeWriter]

39. Yes, I had about 1,000 when they bugged my house!

[latebloomer]

19. I think you also gotta start a lot of threads

And I'm too scared of rejection!

[qnr]

20. Start one. Then we'll all ignore you so you can see that it's survivable,

and strengthen you up!

[latebloomer]

26. Good idea-- I'll try it--

Maybe next month!!

[Hatalles]

25. You mean I'm not a regular?

But I visit multipe times every day! And I always, always keep DU minimized when I'm not using the computer!

:cry:

[qnr]

28. Sounds pretty regular to me n/t

[Redstone]

27. More than however many you have.

Redstone

[elperromagico]

29. I have 9000+, and I still don't feel like a regular.

For some reason, I'm not bothered by that.

[lutefisk]

31. I should hit 1000 around 2014, if I keep up my pace....nt

n/t

[BikeWriter]

32. 42. The answer is 42.

[Robeysays]

35. wo0t for 40!!!!!!!!!!

in all your faces ha! i win! no im gonna go drink some vodka.

[BikeWriter]

38. "Forty-two!" yelled Loonquawl. "Is that all you've got to show...

According to the Hitchhiker's Guide, researchers taking the form of mice, which are actually 3-dimensional profiles of a pan-dimensional, hyper-intelligent race of beings, construct Deep Thought, the second greatest computer of all time and space, to calculate the answer to the Ultimate Question. After seven and a half million years of pondering the question, Deep Thought provides the answer: "forty-two".

"Forty-two!" yelled Loonquawl. "Is that all you've got to show for seven and a half million years' work?"
"I checked it very thoroughly," said the computer, "and that quite definitely is the answer. I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Answer_to_Life,_the_Universe,_and_Everything

[CaliforniaPeggy]

36. Now, I voted "1000" to be a regular...

But I really feel that numbers are irrelevant for the most part. I think, to be considered a regular, that people need to know who in heck you ARE. You need to have some presence here to be a regular. And that comes with posting on a fairly regular basis...IMHO...


:kick:

[HEyHEY]

40. No one's ever hit the number

[uppityperson]

41. No particular #, more a state of mind

Talk with people, get to know them and let them know you. It's like building a friendship. But you also are able to actively participate even in your first few posts, if you do so joining in, not just making a short irrelevant comment. Of course there will always be "in jokes", but I found enough people here I like to feel comfortable. ANd I don't like cliques anyway.

[Kerrytravelers]

42. With over 68,000 members, there are posters with 1,000+ I meet each day!