Who will hit the coveted 250 mark first? Rat in her number of posts, or the number of board members?

FYI:

Rat - 171
Members - 240

I underestimated Labby on the last poll -- not gonna bet against her on this one <g> But hopefully they'll both top 250 soon

PJ

:p

Actually, can I get Annette to fix the mbs so that the numbers run backwards each time I post? Being a cub reporter made me look a lot younger and more windswept and interesting than a Kerth.

LabRat

Well last time I posted about Lab`s numer of posts I was totally of.
An don`t really want to go against her but she seems...mhhhmm,how should I say this....ahh, a little bit distrected from posting.
An new man in your life maybe, or just the old flame anew?

Anyway I think the boards` members are going to reach the 250 mark sooner than LabRat
Come and prove me wrong

sunshine

ROTFL, Sunshine. No...fear of lynching. Still trying to get the Muse to co-operate on part two of Epiphany and it's due to be posted in the morning. It's been a bear of a week with too many distractions and no real time to settle down to it.

Don't worry - I am way behind on my fanfic reading because of it. Hoping to catch up there and post lots and lots of comments over the weekend.

Providing I haven't been lynched by then of course.

LabRat

Labby all the way...It's only 75 more posts...I believe in her

-Breanna

Going with the member count on this one. Labby amazing, and I'm sure she could put her mind to it if she wanted to. But I'm hoping that she's going to be putting her mind to Epiphany for now, and by the time that she finishes that up, I'm guessing the member count will be above 250.

Annie (who has finally found time to post all the things she's been meaning to say all week but couldn't because of finals, and as a result has seen her post count go from 8 to 49 in 36 hours. <G>)

Ehm, I've voted for the other members - I myself have now topped 100, and I know that Pam has, and one or two others have. Certainly we can all pull together to beat that Rat?

Melisma (charging back under her Rock to ready the Wildguy brigade if Rat doesn't come up with Epiphany Two any time soon - like in the next five hours...)

Voted for LabRat! The board member numbers seem to be increasing slowly, much slower than LabRat's posting, IMO!

Plus
This may well result in a huge influx of posts!

Melisma suggested

Well, I'm certainly trying!

As I post this -
No of members = 241
No of Posts = 175

Loriel

I voted for Labby - once she admitted to herself that she couldn't get Epiphany done on time, that gave her plenty of room to up the posting count. She has 3 posts in her "Epiphany Apology" thread alone! :rolleyes:

Kathy

ROTFL, Kathy.

Hang on a minute though - this has just clicked with me:

Are you serious? Geez, what do you think I am? SuperRat?!?

LabRat

Yes, but...

Current state of play:

Members: 241
The Rat: 200.

Increase over less than 24 hours:

Members: 1
The Rat: 29


Missy, can I change my vote?

Had to come back to edit five minutes later, since I noticed that LabRat's post count had increased from 197 to 200 in that time!

Well, I claim exceptional circumstances there, having spent the afternoon catching up with the fanfic I was behind with and mass commenting.

Call it an aberration. <G>

LabRat (well, unless I get behind on fic again, of course....)

Hmm, Labby-215, members-246. Ok, yeah, I stand by my vote. Labby's good, but she has to sleep sometime!

And write!

What's the stats at now, and how do I go about checking them myself? (I can get Lab's by checking her post count under her sig, but what about the members other than her? Can you tell I'm mostly clueless here?

Melisma (giggling under her Rock)

Mel, the current number of board members is shown on the front page of the boards. That's where we're getting the count of 246 from.

So... Members: 246. LabRat: 219. We need another four members, or another 31 posts from Rat. It sounds like a no-brainer, but...

Maths Warning: Rat, you might want to look away now!

• Number of additional members since Missy started this poll: 6.
• Number of additional LabRat posts since Missy started this poll: 48.
• Average new members per day: 1.5
• Average new LabRat posts per day: 12.

So in the time it takes to get four new members - three days - LabRat will have made 36 more posts. It's too close to call, FoLCs!


Wendy (ducking and running very fast... )

/me puts on her Math <g> Protection Glasses, which handily blocks out all the scary stuff and lets her read the rest of Wendy's post.

Mel, you can also check out member stats if you hit the directory link at the top of the front page. That will let you see who the newest members are and who the top five posters are.

LabRat

Oh...

/me feels stupid...

I thought the question was, who will reach 250 posts first - Rat or the rest of the boardmembers combined...

I stand corrected...

Melisma (crawling under her Rock, feeling galactically stupid)

GO RAT GO!!

(Can you tell how I voted!?)

~Liz

well, i finally broke down and voted. in favor of the rat. it looks like it'll be close, but as i post this:

members: 247
labrat: 228

so, getting down to the wire. either could go over in the next 2 days. i'm thinking it'll be labby, tho.

funny that you posted this... i'd been wondering when labby's post count would pass the member count.

also, i'd like to point out that we're almost back up to the pre-crash member count. we had been up to 253 2 weeks after the first opening. now we're 12 days after the reopening, and up to 247. cool, huh?

Paul

Rat, if you want to win this race you better hurry up! We have now 249 members. So before that last one joins, you need to make about 22 messages.

/me thinks this is going to be an interesting day...

Saskia

I was considering registering under another name to seal the deal. But that would be cheating -- and surely unnecessary to boot! Come on, we just need ONE more!

Besides, I can't stay caught up on the boards now. Imagine if I had to read everything twice!

LOL! Well, no fair sneaking up on me while I'm sleeping!

LabRat (Just starting to do her morning trawl through....)

Sleep? Sleep is for... well, me, soon. But right now I'm busy chasing a Rat around the boards...

Hey, Rat better get those little paws flying. Not only does the board have to get only one more member for her to lose the Rat Race, but we are all waiting with Rat-baited breath for her to post Epiphany!

Melisma (grinning like a dirty rat here under her Rock)

Well, there I thought that the member count had put on a late spurt - went up overnight from 246 to 249 - but when I checked this thread I saw that LabRat had also put on an even bigger late spurt.

So the winner is... LabRat!!!! )

I was so distracted with nerves over posting part two of Epiphany I never even noticed!

Just trawling and finding interesting posts.

LabRat

I was just having a quick peek at the boards before going back to researching and noticed the members had risen to 249, so had to check out LabRat's post count, and discovered it was at 250!

Loriel (who's sure it had to have been rigged to be so close! )

Well, very good try, board members. But the Rat beat us. She's good, very good! Now what shall we challenge her to do? under her Rock)

But we have 250 members now, too, so it was nearly a tie! No wonder the poll's been running 50-50! <g>

PJ
who knew Rat could do it

YAY, Rat!!!!



Congratulations!!!!

As a matter of fact, I don't think we have any losers in this race!!

Job well done!!!

Missy

You know, Missy's right!

It's PARTY TIME...








Melisma (under her Rock, teaching herself to dance for the occasion)

When will I learn? If history has taught us two things, these are they: never invade Russia... and never bet against the Rat!

But I agree, it's party time!

LOL! Congrats, Labby! I happened to remember the poll and looked at the directory page. There were 250 members and 250 Rat Posts, so I had to look here to discover who won! LOL.

ROTFLMAO!!!!!

Well, thanks, guys. I guess if I have to have a claim to 'fame' there are worse ones. <g>

LabRat (who'll take any excuse for a party and pops open the cider....)

/me asks innocently, "Would that be hard cider?" Either way, pour me a glass!

Cyber cider, right, Rat? In that case, perfectly safe for a diabetic, so pour me one, too

Melisma (under her Rock, needing a little pick-me-up after the first day of class )

Nope, definitely the hard stuff. Is there any other kind?

Shhh... If you don't tell my doctors on me, I'll let you in on a secret...

Every once in a *very* long while I like to have a small bottle of BC fruit cider - they make the nicest pear and peach and raspberry and apple ciders with a low or slightly higher alcohol content, (I think they are low - one is .05%, the other is .7%, if memory serves - but then, I know nothing about alcoholic drinks, LOL) and when I'm home, especially if I go out to a nice restaurant that carries them, I will have one. Nice little treat, and I wish I could split a bottle with you, Rat - you deserve it

EDIT: It occurs to me that this kind of cider is prolly *very* different from the kind of cider you were referring to, Labby. Knowing that cider in Britain is different from what I think most of us in North American think of as cider... But I still think you'd like it, if you don't think of it as British cider and just another interesting drink to try

Melisma (raising her cybercider glass in a toast to the Rat, here under her Rock)

Good job Labby..I knew you could do it!



-Breanna