Originally Posted by typical pm loser
I am sure one of them will have enough time for the following challenge: estimate (or ideally, measure) the percentage of unique, helpful commentary/advice/experience posts from those persons whose count goes into the thousands. Piling on or telling someone to "DO A SEARCH" doesn't count. If this ratio exceeded 1 or 2%, I would be surprised. Moderators exempt, of course.
Well, why don't you do that experiment yourself? You can click on ANY FlyerTalker's handle and from there go and look at all their posts. Very easy. Of course, you may not want to read every one of them, but you could certainly sample them!
As to how some people got their huge post counts (especially if they did it in a short period of time), some people play a game on OMNI called "Who Will Be The Next FlyerTalk Member To Post? An OMNI Game." Back in the days when OMNI posts counted in your post total, some people racked up high post counts by playing this game. (To clarify, the post count still includes OMNI posts made before a certain date; after that date, OMNI posts are not added to your count.) If you click on the number of replies (which currently exceeds 27,500) on this thread, a separate window comes up showing "who posted" to this thread. A partial listing of this window:
Who Posted?
Total Posts: 27,517
User Name Posts
Kiwi Flyer 5718
jfe 4571
myefre 3320
Canarsie 1650
empedocles 1412
500 miles at a time 1395
Cholula 1142
FewMiles 859
Jenbel 857
flamboyant 1 847
RobotDoctor 717
Arcolaio99 621
ralfkrippner 611
Rudi 596
rkt10 468
redbeard911 421
UALOneKPlus 259
Gaucho100K 255
MapleLeaf 241
Richelieu 220
chrislacey 210
inkoherent 209
I-flybynight 199
ScottC 157
CameraGuy 127