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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
Have Alex or any of the mods weighed in on the 1,000,000th post?
Marc--is it time to celebrate yet?
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If you look at the
image I attached to my explanation of the 1,000,000th post you will see a list of the posts around the time of the event. Using FizzyWater's
posting of the 1,000,002th post brings it back to her previous post or Marc's. Dreams was my original gestimate, but these things are
subject to human interpretation so I could be off by a few.
The method I used to predict that post number was alluded to before, but I'll repeat it here:
1) With two tabs/windows opened in your browser, go to the Forums page and Forum Spy page in each window respectively.
2) Wait for it to settle and quickly refresh each tab/window
3) Wait for an extened time and repeat step 2)
4) If the results are the SAME, then open the top-most post in the Forum Spy page and note it's post number.
5) Then go to the Forums page (without any refreshing this time) and note it's Post count.
6) Now do that math and you get you're predicted post number for the 1,000,000th post i.e. 1,000,000-Post count+Forum Spy Post number!
However, there could be some posts that "slip in" while I'm waiting in steps 2-4 or the Forum page and Forum Spy page could "lag" each other in which case my gestimate won't be right.
But, I would think Alex has access to ALL the relevant data to make this call and settle/certify it. We should wait for their valued input, especially if they are going to show up at the winners door with a Sweepstakes
-like prize ("Hello, MR poster, you've just won a
Million dollars"...
)