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...and still growing. Are we in a vitamin commercial?


M.

Was just noting the milestone - with all the melodrama, I thought it important to remember the positives associated with our community.


M.

Hey, the fact that we made it this far without either destroying ourselves through infighting or being shut down by the government means that we're doing pretty well. Rongepuraneju banzai! Here's to 66k members!

That's really fun to say, but I think I'm missing the accent pattern in the first word.


M.

Well maybe the kamikazes were referring to their country, as in "NIPPON BANZAI!!"

But I do agree that I screwed up the spelling of Wrong planet, though I was close.

I was browsing alphabetically through the member list not long ago, trying to find out who "HCTR" might be. (Yes, it's true I have no life!) I thought this person might be "HardCoreSomethingSomething." It turns out there is a "HArdcoreraver247," and wouldn't it be cool to hear from them a little more frequently? It wasn't the same person I was looking for, though.

Eventually I figured out who "HCTR" is; go me! In the course of it, I browsed quite a few pages of the member list. (Yes, I do read the phone book for fun sometimes!) And I discovered some interesting facts:

There are three accounts for gnome, joined Dec 16, 2006.
There are two accounts for Hokiemom, joined Nov 25, 2008.
There are five accounts for jls, joined Dec 30, 2006.
There are three accounts for Jodie, joined Nov 6, 2006.
There are six accounts for kmgoodwin, joined Dec 11, 2006.

None of these nineteen members has contributed any post that I could see. No big deal; not everyone who joins and lurks on a forum ends up becoming a total Chatty McPostalot like your humble servant here. However, this suggests to me that... (looks over to the left-hand side of the page) 33,043... (looks again) 33,044 members might be just a teensy bit of an overestimate?

Given that four out of the five above-listed names signed on around the same time period (Nov-Dec 2006), I'm thinking "glitch" and not "vitamins."

Oh wow, 33,000 members, yet the most that ever gets online at the same time is 600-700. Does that not look suspicious to anyone here? Maybe there's a lot of accounts that got banned and sock puppets that are being counted as members?

I don't think Wrong Planet has even half of the number of active members it claims to have. So this little "whoop-dee-doo" is just a crock of bull.