Originally Posted by
freeloader
Maybe they just aren't big fans if counting backwards, posting random numbers, or writing three word stories... It's seems that's pretty much all milepoint is about these days.
I had a chance to do some number-crunching again.
The airline boards total about 584,447 posts.
Code:
Air Canada 15,966
Air New Zealand 415
Alaska Airlines 2,561
ANA 1,901
American Airlines 38,396
British Airways 5,942
Cathay Pacific 1,266
Delta Air Lines 40,052
Emirates 528
Flying Blue 794
Frontier Airlines 193
Hawaiian Airlines 473
JAL 33,669
JetBlue 702
LAN 698
Miles & More 4,204
Qantas Airways 1,667
SAS 2,708
Singapore Airlines 2,450
Southwest Airlines 1,482
Thai Airways 657
United Airlines 413,631
US Airways 9,295
Virgin America 396
Virgin Atlantic 318
Other Airlines 1,104
Other Airlines 1,405
Other Airlines 324
Other Airlines 452
Other Airlines 482
Other Airlines 316
584,447
Of these, 408,203 (70%) are in the following threads alone (which appear to be all of the threads that have over 1,000 posts):-
Code:
Teh Penalty Box | original 164,076
Teh Penalty Box | part 3 95,430
Teh Penalty Box 93,573
The JAL Forum Conversational Thread 28,589
Delta Forum Lounge Thread 22,913
AA Chat/Lounge Thread 1,914
Grand Slam 2011 1,708
408,203
"Off Topic/Social" has about 906,060 posts. 901,021 (99.4%) of these posts are in threads with more than 1,000 posts, which appear to be:-
Code:
Count Backwards From 123,456 123,681
The FL* Lounge - Part 5 (V) 113,070
The FL* Lounge (Part 3) 100,650
The FL* Lounge - Part 4 (IV) 98,032
Post a random number + different color 93,974
The FL* Lounge 65,061
Post a random number + different color (Part 2) 64,285
The FL* Lounge (Part 2) 60,420
Post A Random Number 54,183
People Association Thread 22,830
Three Word Stories 21,038
Post a random number + different color (Part 3) 18,705
Seven Word Stories 12,727
Food Association Thread 9,251
The "misunderstand this post and reply" thread 8,974
Make Up a Lie About the Previous Poster 6,198
The Geography Association Thread 5,697
Count from 123.456 to 223.456 5,327
Movie Association Thread 4,960
Count up from 1 and post a picture 4,269
Music association thread. 3,126
. 2,068
Four Word Stories 1,270
The FL* New York Do Page 1,225
901,021
The Community Center has about 131,247 posts. 120,744 (92%) of these posts are in these threads (with more than 1,000 posts):-
Code:
The Community Lounge 69,852
SPIN: Win custom luggage from Rimowa 49,814
Anyone else stuck in Milepoint Silver purgatory? 1,078
120,744
And the MegaDO boards appear to have a total of about 286,939 posts. 272,188 (95%) of these are in these threads:-
Code:
Win a free ticket on the Star MegaDO4 (SMD4) 78,948
Win a Free Ticket to the oneworld MegaDO 77,417
Win Free Tickets for the Star Mega Do 3 72,592
WIN: a free ride on the SMD5 23,352
SMD4 -- Official Master Thread 6,645
oneworld MegaDo | Master Thread 5,369
StarMegaDO3 -- Official Master Thread 3,148
Star MegaDO 4 - Pre event discussion 2,368
SMD4 Launch Party, by DCA June 2nd @630PM 2,349
272,188
These four categories account for about 1,702,156 posts, out of a total of MilePoint posts of about 2,364,980 (so about 72%).
Indeed, 38% of total MilePoint posts are in those long Off Topic/Social (ie games) threads.