THREAD GAME (QUESTION FOR STAFF)

If posts get deleted, are they still counted? Could account for fluctuations.

Can't tell you. I just collect the information from the this page: http://www.chess.com/forum/ 

Darn it all..petrikeckman was ahead of me on the chess.com page giving the totals.I just read past posts, sorry to have claimed the prize. Got too excited.

   Wow, this thread lite up  I just woke up. I'm gonna get a free breakfast at Denny's.  I'll come back tonight, update the guesses, check the links, etc.

Could be chess.com has a program to read all posts older than x time and deletes those deemed irrelevent, greatly reducing the time to read relevant ones. Oh wait a sec... this may leave large gaps, a topic would lose all continuity.

I have Threads I started and on my home page it says how many posts there were; however if you actually go on these older threads the number of the last post is most often a lot lower than what it says it should be.

I do know it is because they have banned some of those original posters and anything they may have posted. Sometimes you know who they are because they were quoted in the Thread.

if i count forums i ll become old

If I keep waking up in the morning I will become old.

Counting threads makes for a very long day, boredom makes for a longer life as time passes slower.

                                                                                                  This is Candy Kane from Chess.com with a thread update and a couple announcements from RJC. The current serious entries are as follows;                                                                                    Aaron Go       212,965                                                                                                            BOYonFICS      87,782                                                                                                    Boogalicious         201,000                                                                                                      FRENCHBASHER     80,000                                                                                                    Luis Albert           105,000                                                                                                                     RJC      50,000                                                                                                    mdinnerspace                 3 million                                                                                 GuessWhoIAm              292,079    +     292,651                                                                          petrikeckman           292,071 threads, + 3,706,252 posts                                                    thatchampUK               159, Quadrillion  159,000,000,000,000,000                                        badenwurtca          20,465.8    I remember that .8  That was a fabulous thread BTW                                                                                                                                          As far as the deleted threads. In my opinion, maybe we shouldn't count them, because Chess.com has already determined that they don't belong here. They got deleted. "How Do I Fix My Toilet?"   "A Flying Fish Threw A Football At Me".  If its IN the archives, its part of Chess.com.  2nd Issue; A question was raised about the pages NOT going farther than 104   As just a member, I can't address that. It might be a technical issue, it might be Erik's desire. IDK, and frankly I don't care. Take a guess.  Maybe we could get more staff support & input to help us with the "parameters" of this experiment

I confused threads with posts... my bad. A quick view and no calc. revealed 3+million posts. Petrikeckman has accurately added the totals. Deleted/banned and outdated threads substantially effect totals.

53,098 threads.

waking up in morning is essential frndthan waking up in night...

18 hours ago · Quote · #1

erik  

I'm happy that I don't fullfit those "must" demands so I do not need to seek that job. IT-technology and php-, HTML-, javascript- and MySQL-programming which I handle quite well are damned wonderful hobbies but not as works.  I prefer full-time hobby, nearly 16/7=sixteen hours per day. Just today I proggammed a little chat window for one person.

      I got a call from Carl Sagan over the weekend  He said, "Ronnie, put me down for billions and billions of threads on chess.com                                                       

The first game was aborted...

The first game is no longer available. The first available game is this one:

https://www.chess.com/livechess/game?id=2

Neither of those players was erik.

However, the first Online Chess game was played by erik. 

that game was painful to watch.

      .....Well apprently, I was able to create a thread SO BIG that even staff was MUTED!!!

        I noticed a CLUE today. In "off-topic" for V3 the page count is 849. Each page has 20 entries. Round it up to 850 because some threads have been deleted. 850 X 20 = 17,000 threads just in off-topic.        If there are approx 17,000 threads in ONE forum,  then   17,000 X 24 forums =  408,000 threads.