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Who has the highest thanks to posts ratio on Boards.ie?

Mr Rhode Island Red · 2014-08-25 19:11:02

Just wondering about who here on boards has the most thanks received with regard to their total number of posts? There is no facility to search for this as far as I know, so I thought it would be intriguing for people to nominate themselves (or others) for the title. Now I know that somebody with 1 post that received 10…

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#32 30-08-2014 11:05am
Birneybau

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Aphex wrote: »

4.7

Why is it called "thanks" anyway? Shouldn't it be "like"?

Poster A: Man goes into a bar... blah blah blah...
Poster B: hahahahahahahaha thanks!

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#33 30-08-2014 11:09am
Buona Fortuna

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I'm tempted to go through this thread "Thanking" posts just to make all the calculations wrong

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#34 30-08-2014 11:12am
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Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime wrote: »

Probably this

One post and 770 thanks

http://touch.boards.ie/thread/293557/1/#post3244909

779 now

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#35 30-08-2014 11:13am
SimonTemplar

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Some people are miscalculating. It's total posts divided by number of times thanked.

For me at the time of writing, it's 3572 / 761 = 4.7

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#36 30-08-2014 11:48am
bnt

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8,200 thanks over 8,000 total posts, so I suppose I'm ahead overall. I'm curious about how common that is?

From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.
— Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut

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#37 30-08-2014 12:10pm
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vandriver wrote: »

Maybe you should get extra credit for thanks generated from your own effort.:pac:

I don't know what you mean, only original material from me.

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#38 30-08-2014 1:29pm
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1.16

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#39 30-08-2014 1:43pm
Chattastrophe!

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3.33

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#40 30-08-2014 1:51pm
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Anyone up for a good old fashioned thanks invasion? Link to a random post in a quiet forum and we all thank it. For example here - guys response to thread 'need to buy carpet for floor of a 2010 ford mondeo'. Let's give him the thanks he deserves.

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#41 30-08-2014 2:07pm
amdublin

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TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Anyone up for a good old fashioned thanks invasion? Link to a random post in a quiet forum and we all thank it. For example here - guys response to thread 'need to buy carpet for floor of a 2010 ford mondeo'. Let's give him the thanks he deserves.

Well that now is a very interesting post and deserves a big thumbs up thanks alright.

But we're derailing this thread now

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#42 30-08-2014 2:11pm
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There was a thread before where some lad was talking about parking available in Galway, it got something like 100+ thanks, I couldn't stop laughing every time I looked at it. Peoples reactions were the best part, they couldn't understand what was happening.

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#43 30-08-2014 6:10pm
small town girl

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Czarcasm wrote: »

Dev surely must be up there with 2,500+ thanks for a single post.

This sounds like a post worth reading, do you mind directing me to it? Thanks

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#44 30-08-2014 6:13pm
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small town girl wrote: »

This sounds like a post worth reading, do you mind directing me to it? Thanks

Here

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#45 30-08-2014 6:21pm
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small town girl wrote: »

This sounds like a post worth reading, do you mind directing me to it? Thanks

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

Here

Cheers for that Ted

I'm not usually one for the whole 'thanks' thing, and sometimes I think a post deserves more than just a +1, or a thank or a like, and that post was one of them.

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#46 30-08-2014 6:21pm
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Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime wrote: »

Probably this

One post and 770 thanks

http://touch.boards.ie/thread/293557/1/#post3244909

And the best thread ever.

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#47 30-08-2014 6:43pm
small town girl

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Czarcasm wrote: »

Cheers for that Ted

I'm not usually one for the whole 'thanks' thing, and sometimes I think a post deserves more than just a +1, or a thank or a like, and that post was one of them.

Thank you both very much, definitely worth the read and the deserved high number of thanks.

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#48 30-08-2014 7:23pm
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Aciiiiiiiiiid 17.7:1

Mainly for this gem:

Aciiiiiiiiiiid wrote: »

ONE TIME I WAS HITCHING FOR A LIFT HOME AT NIGHT AND A CAR PULLED IN ABOUT 10 FEET AHEAD THEN I WALKED UP AND OPENED THE PASSENGER DOOR AND THERE WAS A SKELETON DRIVING THE CAR

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#49 30-08-2014 7:25pm
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Aphex wrote: »

4.7

Why is it called "thanks" anyway? Shouldn't it be "like"?

Poster A: Man goes into a bar... blah blah blah...
Poster B: hahahahahahahaha thanks!

Agreed. Or a "thumbs up". Never understood the "thanks" name for it.

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#50 30-08-2014 7:31pm
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5.7 here.

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#51 30-08-2014 7:39pm
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Shakespeare's Sister wrote: »

Agreed. Or a "thumbs up". Never understood the "thanks" name for it.

It's like, "thanks for explaining it so well" or, "thanks for saving me from writing that" or, "thanks for that story, I lol'd", etc.

Although "like" would seem to make more sense, overall.

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#52 30-08-2014 7:48pm
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conorh91 wrote: »

It's like, "thanks for explaining it so well" or, "thanks for saving me from writing that" or, "thanks for that story, I lol'd", etc.

Although "like" would seem to make more sense, overall.

Or "Thanks for reminding me why I rarely visit this part of boards."

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#53 30-08-2014 8:01pm
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7.2".

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#54 30-08-2014 8:06pm
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#55 30-08-2014 8:11pm
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Pretty sure people are doing this wrong. You can't look at the

Thanked X amount of times in Y posts and divide X by Y.

Instead divide X by the total number of all posts not the total amount of thanked posts.

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#56 30-08-2014 8:19pm
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3170 posts (not including this one). 12047 thanks.

3.8

I've never been so proud.

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#57 30-08-2014 8:22pm
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Thanks aint nothing but a number, the reflected glory of your peers, the gilted edge of deceit which embroiders the faded glitter on the attire which clings to the sucking vacuum of your soul!

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#58 30-08-2014 9:35pm
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Mr Rhode Island Red wrote: »

Just so everybody is on the same page, to calculate your thanks to posts ratio, go to your profile and divide your "total posts" figure into your "total thanks" figure, and include it in your post.

(total thanks/total posts)

I'll get the ball rolling with a dismal...0.348 thanks per post

I have 1512 posts and have been thanked 2157 times in 533 posts.

Using the above formula 1512/2157 = 0.70097

Am I doing this right?

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#59 30-08-2014 9:39pm
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Shouldn't that be 2157/1513 = 1.42564442?

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#60 30-08-2014 9:45pm
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catallus wrote: »

Shouldn't that be 2157/1513 = 1.42564442?

According to the formula its total thanks divided by total posts so I think its 1513/2157, but I stand to be corrected.

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#61 30-08-2014 9:47pm
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catallus wrote: »

Shouldn't that be 2157/1513 = 1.42564442?

No that would give you posts per thank. What you're looking for is thanks per post.

Ffs some of you guys are thick

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