I dont really want to search through the 2000+ pages to find my listing....
(Hmm, I think I just messed up my last post, hopefully this isn't a repeat. And it's probably ninjaed anyway...)
What I did for me (and then, for you, which I think wiped my Preview off the system, when I thought I'd posted what I'd said) is to check the user profile, see how many messages I have, then do a modified binary search (biased towards a likely proportion of the way through the page listings).
I found myself at the number 5 spot of page nine, which (by my calculation) puts me at position 245. When I checked yourself, with 95 posts (at the time of checking, may well have changed) I didn't go so far as to find your spot
exactly (there are a whole lot of people on the same number, in that part of the table[1]) but if you check for "posts starting at 3690" (if you alter the figure at the end of the URL to that) or otherwise get to page 124, you'll see the tail-end of the 95-post people, and you should be in somewhere in that or the immediately preceding few pages.
Personally, I don't consider myself prolific. My forum browsing activities are mainly a matter of checking the "new replies to your posts" link, to see if anything I'm already embroiled in needs further response. When I have a bit of time (usually indicative that there are no, or few, actively running threads that already involve me[2]) I'll check the top page of the "unread posts since last visit" link, looking for intriguing and/or infuriating subjects. (In this way, I do not limit myself too just Upper or Lower forums, although I also do not get to saturate myself with any particular sub-board's information, so I probably miss out on a lot.) If I don't find much and I'm
still at a loose end, I'll delve a page or maybe even two back in this history. Very occasionally I
will go to a specific sub-forum, but I'm as likely to find more historic posts through a bit of searching for a term I've got a specific interest in.
But I often self-sensor my desire to reply (although it may not always look like it), so every now and then I find a thread that I'm interested in, but it goes by-the-by because I've not found good cause to make myself active within it. (Sometimes I save the URLs/tabs involved and continue to read, parallel to other items. Especially true of forum games. But it's not a reliable manner of keeping in touch with these.)
Anyway, while not particularly prolofic, as I say, I
do know that when I post I tend to post in a rather verbose and word-heavy fashion, full of overexplanations and inconsequential details, often with tauologically recurring repetitions that reiterate and rehash prior points incessantly. Thus, if there were a version of that table ranked according to word-count, I'm fairly sure I would place higher. Not through actual intention, but.. well, you know.
[1] Whereas I need to make 20 more posts (including this one) to get above the guy in front of me, were I so desperate to do so. I don't think even my natural daily accumulation will do that, and rarborman is also currently logged in/active (if that's what the green Status thing means), so may well advance his lead as quickly away, or more so. No matter, it's not a race.
[2] This form of feedback probably acts to moderate (without squishing) my interactions level... Too much "already contributing", and I don't seek out new threads, too few, and I get opportunities, however.
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