MoFo Turns 15; Knows Everything

[Yoda]

Yes, today is the site's birthday. On July 14th, 2000, the site officially launched. Which means it's been online for 15 years, which as you probably realize is a really high number for a website, and a really really absurdly high number for a forum.

As always, I want to thank all of you for being a part of this--the biggest part, as it so happens. As much as I have building stuff for you guys to use, how you use it (and how you invent new traditions and games and tournaments of your own) is always the fun part.

In honor of the 15th birthday, and as the title indicates, a small thank you: for today (and maybe a little longer), you can know everything. Meaning you can ask me all sorts of random questions about various site statistics and I'll do my best to answer. For example, you can ask me exactly how many times you've used a particular phrase, or how many posts of yours contain a specific smilie, or what the single longest review on the site is, etc.

I'm sure a handful will involve too much work to answer, but if it's not too extreme, I'll do it.

[The Rodent]

How many posts exist on the site altogether, and how many threads?

[Iroquois]

What's the deal with airline food?

[Yoda]

How many posts exist on the site altogether, and how many threads?
As of just now (but probably already out of date), there are 1,345,962 posts and 38,368 threads.

This includes all threads or posts that have been moved off the public board, as well as any that were "soft" deleted (which is most of the deletions). It doesn't include the ones that were totally removed (which is generally what happens to bulk spam).

What's the deal with airline food?
It's mediocre because of the preservatives and the environment in which it's consumed.

[The Rodent]

How many roads must a man walk down before you can call him a man?

[Yoda]

One, if that road is Become a Man Blvd.

If it's not, then seven.

https://50bfaea075d5b3f31afaafcd3648e309bb79b932.googledrive.com/host/0B1QEbMjj9aglRnFYVm5JRU5adVk/2011/06/b.jpg

[Cole416]

who was the 2nd person to register?

[Gatsby]

- In total, how many times were avatars changed?
- What is the most used smilie so far, and what is the least used?
- How many bad jokes have been made so far?
- Does SC spam posts count as actual posts?
- Will you give out a prize to the one who makes the 1,999,999th post?

[earlsmoviepicks]

Congrats Yoda-- great forum, always fun to pontificate on MF --it's the potato-chip of forums, you keep coming back for more :) Here's to many more years.

[The Rodent]

Congrats Yoda-- great forum, always fun to pontificate on MF --it's the potato-chip of forums, you keep coming back for more :) Here's to many more years.



Once you MoFo, you can't StoFo.

[Sedai]

How long have you been practicing VooDoo? (How else do you explain your team in fantasy baseball being in first?)

What was my first post on the site?

[Yoda]

who was the 2nd person to register?
A guy named wsresource (http://www.movieforums.com/community/member.php?u=2). He was a guy I knew from a web development community where we were both members/learning how to make websites.

[teeter_g]

Congratulations on the longevity of the forum! I love this place!


How many people are registered here?
How many of those people are regular users?

[Yoda]

- In total, how many times were avatars changed?
- What is the most used smilie so far, and what is the least used?
These might be too intensive to measure. But I might be able to do the first with a few minutes' work. Let me get back to this one.

- How many bad jokes have been made so far?
http://www.families.com/wp-content/uploads/media/infinity_symbol1.jpg

- Does SC spam posts count as actual posts?
Yup. Way back in the day we discussed excluding certain forums from post counts, but decided against it.

- Will you give out a prize to the one who makes the 1,999,999th post?
Nah.

[Yoda]

How long have you been practicing VooDoo? (How else do you explain your team in fantasy baseball being in first?)
Funny story, I actually just thought making little dolls of my enemies and stabbing them would be therapeutic. It was only later I found out this was magic. What a co-ink-ee-dink!

What was my first post on the site?
Here it is (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=122419#post122419).

[Yoda]

How many people are registered here?
Well, total users are 50,340. 42,177 are in the Registered group, but there thousands in the BANNED group and obviously a handful in the admin/mod groups.

How many of those people are regular users?
You'd have to define "regular users." Though most of the definitions you'd choose would be pretty hard to track. But if you have a few in mind I can tell you if any of them are feasible.

If you define it as people who've literally logged in today, it's usually about 150. But we have quite a few who log in just a little less frequently than that.

[The Rodent]

There's between 100 and 150 "regular" MoFos with around 80-100 of those being daily/hourly posters. I started the post counts so can answer that one for you.

[Tacitus]

Whatever happened to that TWTCommish guy? Y'know, the one you stole MoFo from. ;)

[Yoda]

I'm still cashing his benefits checks.

[Tacitus]

Bathtub. Locked room. Got it. :up:

[Austruck]

Okay, if I wasn't second to register, how close was I? Because I know I was in the first month-ish after you went live.

And what fortunate soul posted that 1,000,000th post? Did he or she get a prize?

[Sedai]

Here it is (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=122419#post122419).

"Next time I run across one a person who doesn't, I will send them here to read this review, as it is the best I have seen so far!"

Uh, what? Do I even grammar?

[Yoda]

Okay, if I wasn't second to register, how close was I? Because I know I was in the first month-ish after you went live.
You were 27th.

Everyone can find out what order they registered by going to their profile and looking at the number in the URL. It's not perfect because lots of spam bots have been deleted and whatnot, but it gives you a general idea.

And what fortunate soul posted that 1,000,000th post? Did he or she get a prize?
It was me, actually. I noticed it as coming up and stole the glory.

[CinemaRaven]

congrats on the anniversary :)

what was the 1st movie reviewed on mofo?

[Tugg]

What movie has been mentioned the most?

[Austruck]

Twenty-seventh?? (sigh)

The fun part of being 27th is this, of course:

http://weirdal.wikia.com/wiki/27

So... I got THAT goin' for me.

[Austruck]

BTW, what sorts of people were numbers 3-26 then? :)

[teeter_g]

You'd have to define "regular users."



I would call regular users people who log in at least once a week and are active in things. It doesn't really matter I guess if that is too big of a pain in the ass to figure out. LOL!


I know that I wasn't any where near being here when you started but, how many people have registered since I joined?

[Yoda]

what was the 1st movie reviewed on mofo?
Depends on what you count as a review. We tag reviews, for example. But the very first thread in site history was about Mission: Impossible II (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?t=1), and people talk about what they thought, so if your definition is expansive enough, the first thread and the first review would be one and the same.

[Yoda]

What movie has been mentioned the most?
Don't have any way to track that. I could, however, tell you how often a specific title has shown up in all posts.

[Yoda]

I would call regular users people who log in at least once a week and are active in things. It doesn't really matter I guess if that is too big of a pain in the ass to figure out. LOL!
Heh, yeah, sorry. But the 150-ish per day probably gives you a rough idea.

I know that I wasn't any where near being here when you started but, how many people have registered since I joined?
You joined August 30th, 2012. So about 14,400. Which is exactly ten times the number of minutes in a day (working with timestamps teaches you things like this).

[Yoda]

BTW, what sorts of people were numbers 3-26 then? :)
Don't think you'd recognize any, though in the 30s I believe we get into OG- and thmilin.

You can bring up any by just changing the number in the URL, though:

http://www.movieforums.com/community/member.php?u=NUMBER

[False Writer]

Happy Birthday MoFo and congrats Yoda!

What was the single most active day MoFo ever had?

What was the first ever post? I'm guessing it was by you but what did it say exactly?

What was the first ever movie that was discussed?

Just cuz I'm feeling lazy, what was been my most rep'ed post so far?

[Yoda]

What was the single most active day MoFo ever had?
You'll get different answers depending on how you measure activity (visits, pageviews, posts, threads, logins, whatever). But if you go by posts, it was quite recent: May 18th, 2015. Before that it was September 23rd, 2014. And before that it was September 12th, 2014.

If you go by visits, it was definitely Simon Pegg Day. That's the day Simon Pegg linked to us on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/simonpegg/status/28975536762
What was the first ever post? I'm guessing it was by you but what did it say exactly?

What was the first ever movie that was discussed?
Both are answered via the link above: it was a post/thread about Mission: Impossible II (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1#post1), since that's what I'd most recently seen when I started the site.

Just cuz I'm feeling lazy, what was been my most rep'ed post so far?
It was this post (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1292661#post1292661) from your Top 100 thread, at +17.

[Cole416]

What has been the most repped post on all of mofo?

[Yoda]

What has been the most repped post on all of mofo?
Don't even have to check (but I did anyway, to be sure): It's Holden's introductory post for the Top 100 of the Seventies list (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1125422#post1125422), at +62.

[Yoda]

- In total, how many times were avatars changed?
I realized this actually wasn't hard to find out: excluding deleted users and a few other things that might tweak the count a little either way, it's 19,343.

[honeykid]

Congrats on making another year, Yoda. :) It's needless to say (so I'll say it anyway) but this is my home from home on the net.

So, questions.... Umm... How many times have I mentioned Drew Barrymore? How many times has my username been linked to Drew Barrymore? Why isn't the HK 100 an official MoFo list? :D

[Tugg]

Don't have any way to track that. I could, however, tell you how often a specific title has shown up in all posts.
Can you find out what movie shows up among favorite movies in members profiles the most?

[Sedai]

Back when we had negative rep, Holden was number one in both positive AND negative rep at one point in time.

[Yoda]

So, questions.... Umm... How many times have I mentioned Drew Barrymore?
"Barrymore" = 361 times.
"Drew Barrymore" = 199 times.
"Drew" = 724 times.

How many times has my username been linked to Drew Barrymore?
Posts containing both "drew" and "honeykid" = 349.

Why isn't the HK 100 an official MoFo list? :D
Because of the awfulness.

[Yoda]

Can you find out what movie shows up among favorite movies in members profiles the most?
Yes! In fact, I can answer a whole lot of questions about movies and favorites and stuff, because I've got that all linked up to a centralized system since the relaunch.

The most listed is Pulp Fiction, which is listed by 309 active users (http://www.movieforums.com/community/favoritesearch.php?movieid=680). Second place is The Godfather, listed by 231 (http://www.movieforums.com/community/favoritesearch.php?movieid=238).

[honeykid]

"Barrymore" = 361 times.
"Drew Barrymore" = 199 times.
"Drew" = 724 times.


Posts containing both "drew" and "honeykid" = 349.
Thanks. :)


Because of the awfulness.
lol.... Yoda can't spell awesome properly. ;)

[Sedai]

I will post HK's list as evidence:

1: The Happy Little Elves in Tinkley Winkley Land
2: The Happy Little Elves in Tinkley Winkley Land
3: The Happy Little Elves in Tinkley Winkley Land
4: The Happy Little Elves in Tinkley Winkley Land

...

...


100: The Happy Little Elves in Tinkley Winkley Land


I dunno man, I think you might want expand you watching sometimes, but that is just me. :D

[Mr Minio]

In Poland you can have sex with people 15 or above.

That makes MoFo legitably f*ckable!

[Yoda]

In Poland you can have sex with people 15 or above.

That makes MoFo legitably f*ckable!
I can't even imagine how often you have to clean your monitor.

[christine]

Congrats on such a long lived and well loved site :)

Is there anyone still posting now that joined in the first year besides yourself and Austruck?

[Frightened Inmate No. 2]

who is the best member?

[Yoda]

Is there anyone still posting now that joined in the first year besides yourself and Austruck?
Yup: jrs.

jrs, myself, and Austruck are the only people from that first year who still post regularly. Though there are still a lot of memorable names there who haven't been around in awhie (spudracer, and the aforementioned thmilin and OG-).

[Yoda]

who is the best member?
The best member will join the board on October 18th, 2016.

[Nostromo87]

What movie has been mentioned the most?

i'd bet either Pulp Fiction or Taxi Driver

MoFo Yoda story time

http://oi60.tinypic.com/33xj6ki.jpg

Ready are you? What know you ready? For 800 years have i trained MoFos, my own council i will keep on who is to be trained !

http://oi57.tinypic.com/2yu1211.jpg

For my ally is the Arthouse, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us, and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Arthouse around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes

http://oi59.tinypic.com/wbqa2x.jpg

Yes, a MoFo's strength flows from the Arthouse. But beware of the Mainstream. Anger, fear, aggression; the Mainstream of the MoFo are they. Easily they flow, quick to join you in a fight. If once you start down the Mainstream path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will!
Is the Mainstream stronger?
No, no, no. Quicker, easier, more seductive.
But how am I to know the Arthouse from the Mainstream?
You will know... when you are calm, at peace, passive. A MoFo uses the Arthouse for knowledge and defense, NEVER for attack.
But tell my why I can't...
No, no! There is no "why"

http://oi59.tinypic.com/3161dv6.jpg

But i can help them! I feel the arthouse!
But you cannot control it. This is a dangerous time for you, when you will be tempted by the Mainstream of the MoFo

[Yoda]

i'd bet either Pulp Fiction or Taxi Driver
Pulp Fiction has been mentioned in 6,339 posts.

Taxi Driver has been mentioned in 5,061.

Note: this includes deleted posts, and the totals include the entire title, so shorthand or misspellings are not included, nor are oblique references, obviously.

[False Writer]

I guess more of a personal question, but what "era" of this site has been your favorite? Like the site's inception, a particular year, right now etc.

[Mr Minio]

I can't even imagine how often you have to clean your monitor.

http://www.motifake.com/image/demotivational-poster/0808/sex-sex-yoda-demotivational-poster-1219346367.jpg

Look what I found. I don't even.

[Yoda]

I guess more of a personal question, but what "era" of this site has been your favorite? Like the site's inception, a particular year, right now etc.
This is going to sound like a cop out, but it's the truth: I like (and yes, dislike) different things about different time periods.

Years 2-3 were fun because the site was active for the first time, and I was adding tons of features. Everyone was pretty friendly (though everyone being so close-knit meant that, when there was drama, it was a bigger deal).

By contrast, I'd say the site is less friendly today, but it's also more active, has a wider range of opinions, and has way more (and more in-depth) reviews. The community is generally more self-sufficient, and dust-ups are more short-lived.

So, there are always trade offs, and I need a little distance from any era to form a clear opinion about it. But I will say that I think last year's relaunch was way up there. Everyone dug all the new stuff, so we had a nice mix of congeniality and activity, when there's usually a bit of a push-pull between those two.

[Iroquois]

Why "TWTCommish"?

[Camo]

Congrats Yoda!!! Great achievement :).

My mind has went totally blank right now. I'll have to come back with a few questions later if you are still doing this.

[bluedeed]

Congrats on the longevity, and for the great members that give it that longevity!

I'm curious what my most used non-trivial word is

[Yoda]

Why "TWTCommish"?
TWT = The Warning Track, the name of a baseball newsletter I ran (and my first ever website, though it went through a name change at one point). Commish as in Commissioner, because baseball has a Commissioner and I thought it was fun/clever to use that title instead of "owner."

I'm curious what my most used non-trivial word is
It's too intensive to run open-ended full text searches on over a million posts, unfortunately, but I can find counts or instances of individual words.

[Mr Minio]

How many times did I say 'kinky'?

[Yoda]

How many times did I say 'kinky'?
186 times (including this last one).

[Skepsis93]

How many times has SC threatened to leave "for real this time"?

[Citizen Rules]

How many current accounts does SC have? (no need to name them, just a number).

How prevalent is multiply accounts for MoFos to have? (in percentage terms).

[Yoda]

How many times has SC threatened to leave "for real this time"?
Depends on the phrasing, but the word "leaving" appears in his posts 153 times, if that helps.

How many current accounts does SC have? (no need to name them, just a number).
I don't wanna spoil the fun, but I think all the ones he's had, banned and active, come to about seven.

How prevalent is multiply accounts for MoFos to have? (in percentage terms).
I couldn't tell you; we have to check case-by-case. But since we only allow it here and there for joke purposes, it's extremely small, even though people joke about alts a lot. You probably don't have to worry about anyone you interact with even semi-regularly actually being someone else, for example.

[Skepsis93]

153 times

Seems about right.

Anyway, congrats MoFo, and congrats Yoda. 15 years is mega impressive - thanks for all your hard work in keeping this place in top notch working order for us all to enjoy.

[Citizen Rules]

Thanks for the answers:)

One more question for now, does MoFo have a Site Map?

I know there are features such as the A-Z Members list, that doesn't have a link on MoFo's site. Is there a Site Map or list of these other pages?

[Skepsis93]

How many current accounts does SC have? (no need to name them, just a number).

Maybe SC is Yoda's alt account and it's an elaborate scheme he cooked up to f**k with us all. Mark my words, on the 20th anniversary of the site all will be revealed. You'll see. *dons tinfoil hat*

[Sedai]

I wish to know if I beat my old spam time with my recent One-Touch?

[tatmmw2]

OMG Congratulations! Also happy birthday MoFo, I will remember it as today si also SpongeBob Squarepants's birthday (don't you dare asking how I know that)http://i.imgur.com/7iCV8zT.jpg

About the questions, Do you know which is the first post of 10/24/2002 if there was any?

[Thursday Next]

Congratulations Yoda and MoFo! 15 years is quite a long time :)

[Yoda]

One more question for now, does MoFo have a Site Map?

I know there are features such as the A-Z Members list, that doesn't have a link on MoFo's site. Is there a Site Map or list of these other pages?
We don't, no. I'm not really against the idea, though they seem to have fallen out of style, as they can be a little redundant (and therefore one more thing to keep track of). I suppose one might become necessary if we want to add a handful of extra sub-pages and don't have anywhere to link them from, though if that happens I'll probably just rethink the navigation a little.

[Yoda]

Just out of interest have you ever had cause in all that time to have to remind young Austruck just who's site it is?
You mean like admonish her for rulebreaking? If so, no, I don't think so!

[Yoda]

I wish to know if I beat my old spam time with my recent One-Touch?
The tracker I built actually doesn't tap into that ban tool the way the other method does. But looking it up manually (assuming I'm looking at the right thing), I think it ended up taking about 3 minutes. So your high scores (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=393263#post393263) are unchanged, for now.

[Yoda]

About the questions, Do you know which is the first post of 10/24/2002 if there was any?
Yup: it was this one (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=64792#post64792), 12 minutes into the day.

[tatmmw2]

Thank you! OMG jrs has been here 14 f!cking years?! He must be one of the oldest on the forum, did he found the forum or you knew him Yoda?

[Yoda]

He just found it. He signed up almost exactly a year after it launched.

[Sedai]

The tracker I built actually doesn't tap into that ban tool the way the other method does. But looking it up manually (assuming I'm looking at the right thing), I think it ended up taking about 3 minutes. So your high scores (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=393263#post393263) are unchanged, for now.

Oh wow - three minutes? I saw the post pop up on the recent activity and I was on that thing in seconds! But maybe it had been up for a bit longer and I just didn't see it!

[Yoda]

Could be. I also could be wrong--I've never had to look the time up manually with that particular system, so I might have looked at the wrong thing. If you're pretty sure it was quicker I'll be glad to take a closer look.

[Sedai]

Nah - no biggie!

As usual, the error is probably on my end, because I wasn't paying a ton of attention to the activity roll before that.

[MovieMeditation]

Wauw, 15 years? Congrats Yoda and everyone who build this thing from the ground up! I arrived late to the party, but I'm glad I can be one of the people to keep this thing going for as long as possible! I love this site and it's definitely the best forum I've ever been on and I've been to quite a few. :) There is a much better bond between users on this forum and though we have heated discussions they are nowhere near those of which I have experienced in the past. Yoda you are truly the master, thanks for an awesome place to use my spare time! :up:

Anyways, question time... :p

- Since you asked it yourself, I'm curious what is the longest review ever written on here (I bet JayDee's Avengers review)? ;)
- Since I used to spell 'definitely' defiantly, I wonder how many times I used the latter and thereby failed at gramma (edit: GRAMMAR! See? Another freaking mistake I make all the time because of the danish spelling)! :p
- What is my longest post not counting reviews... and what is my longest post when counting reviews?
- Who was the first to do an official tagged review and which was it?
- Who has the highest post count on the forum?

Here is a little to play with, I don't want to overstuff you! :D Congrats to you and MoFo once again btw!

[Mr Minio]

186 times (including this last one). Gotta use it more often!

[neiba]

How many times hv I used the word "so" on all my threads?

What's the word I use the most?

[The Gunslinger45]

Happy Birthday Movie Forums!

[neiba]

Who is The Duchess a clone from?

[Rhys]

Happy Birthday Movie Forums! I haven't been here too long but I have really enjoyed it here so far! :)

[mark f]

Who is The Duchess a clone from?
Himself. :)

[Kaplan]

How many posts have you deleted, not counting spam?

How many people (again, besides spammers) have you banned?

How many pictures have users uploaded?

Do I hold the record for the longest period of time between registering and making their first post?

[Sexy Celebrity]

Who are the Top 10 Banned MoFos?

By "Top 10" I mean banned users with the highest post counts. Who were not just spambots.

[rauldc14]

How many alternate accounts does Sexy Celebrity have and is one of them Santa Claus?

[Sexy Celebrity]

http://oi57.tinypic.com/2yu1211.jpg


That might make a nice profile banner.

[Sexy Celebrity]

How many alternate accounts does Sexy Celebrity have and is one of them Santa Claus?

Believe it or not, this has already been asked and answered.

Yoda said 7, but, he's wrong.

[Powdered Water]

Couple more years and this site will just be beamed directly into our brains.

[Cobpyth]

Happy Birthday, Movieforums!

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What's my longest post?

Can you see who is giving +reps to who?

If so, who has given me the most +reps and who have I given the most +reps in total?

Who has quoted me the most (with actual quote tags)?

How many times has Mark used 5?

[Mr Minio]

By contrast, I'd say the site is less friendly today, It's very friendly! I am friendly, too! All the mainstreamers and anti-arthousarians are the plague of these forums, though. We got to kill 'em! But I am friendly. Really.

[Harry Lime]

Wow. 15! You make me feel old. I know I say this every year, but that's senior citizen age in internet years.

Question: Movieforums, what's the meaning of life?

[The Rodent]

Anyways, question time... :p

- Since you asked it yourself, I'm curious what is the longest review ever written on here (I bet JayDee's Avengers review)? ;)




This is another I can answer... my Star Trek review. I had to split it into 2 posts.
Rodent win.

[Ðèstîñy]

Yup. Way back in the day we discussed excluding certain forums from post counts, but decided against it.

Are you sure you don't want to talk about that again?!? :|


How many avatars did I make for Martian Leader, and why didn't you ever stop me? :p

I could, however, tell you how often a specific title has shown up in all posts.

Which movie has been asked about more times than any, in the Movie Questions forum?

I know the answer to this. :)

The tracker I built actually doesn't tap into that ban tool the way the other method does. But looking it up manually (assuming I'm looking at the right thing), I think it ended up taking about 3 minutes. So your high scores (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?p=393263#post393263) are unchanged, for now.

What about mine, please?


Also, how many people have I banned?

[jrs]

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

[Yoda]

Since you asked it yourself, I'm curious what is the longest review ever written on here (I bet JayDee's Avengers review)? ;)
Yup, that's the one (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1297204#post1297204). It's around 4,800 words. His Jurassic Park review (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1208570#post1208570) is only a couple hundred behind, though.

Since I used to spell 'definitely' defiantly, I wonder how many times I used the latter and thereby failed at gramma
"Defiantly" has appeared in your posts 78 times (including this one). However, that is a word, so I'm not sure how many of those were misspellings.

What is my longest post not counting reviews
I assume you mean excluding your film diary review collections, too (even though those aren't tagged as reviews because they're collections of reviews). If so, it's this one (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1321891#post1321891), at about 2,300 words.

and what is my longest post when counting reviews?
If you count film diary review collections, it's this one (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1283615#post1283615), which is 3,200 words. Among single reviews, it's the 3,300+ words in your Age of Ultron review (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1335553#post1335553)

Who was the first to do an official tagged review and which was it?
Well, we introduced a rudimentary version of the tagging system forever ago, but we used it to tag reviews that were older than the system, obviously, so it depends on whether or not you're asking about the first we tagged or the first posted that was eventually tagged.

For the latter, just go to Reviews -> View All (http://www.movieforums.com/reviews/search/any/higher) and you can browse every last one of them. And when you do, you'll find that the oldest tagged review is this review of Training Day by Holden Pike (http://www.movieforums.com/reviews/18529-training-day.html) from wayyyyy back in 2001.

Who has the highest post count on the forum?
honeykid, with a little under 55,000.

Here is a little to play with, I don't want to overstuff you! :D Congrats to you and MoFo once again btw!
Thank you! :) Thanks for being part of it.

[Yoda]

How many times hv I used the word "so" on all my threads?
375.

What's the word I use the most?
Couple people have asked things like this earlier in the thread, and sadly, it's not something I can easily track.

Who is The Duchess a clone from?
Nobody. I know a lot of people think The Duchess is an alt, but there's no evidence of it.

[Yoda]

How many posts have you deleted, not counting spam?
Unfortunately I don't have a way to exclude spam deletions from other types, since we go about removing them the same way.

How many people (again, besides spammers) have you banned?
Ditto, on the spam thing. But I can tell you that all mods together have banned almost 5,000 people. And that would be a lot higher, except that certain types just get deleted outright.

A decent substitute question, though, is how many people we've banned at various post count thresholds, since most banned spammers post very little. Here's a quick breakdown of that:

Banned users:

...with at least 1 post: 759
...with at least 5 posts: 334
...with at least 10 posts: 249
...with at least 25 posts: 100
...with at least 50 posts: 62
...with at least 100 posts: 39
...with at least 500 posts: 7
So, after 15 years and tens of thousands of members, we've still only had to ban a few dozen people with any significant board presence.

How many pictures have users uploaded?
16,649 images have been uploaded as attachments. Way more have been embedded from external sources, of course.

Do I hold the record for the longest period of time between registering and making their first post?
This is a great question. It was harder to figure out than most, technically, but I think I have. You took the 3rd longest in site history between your registration and your first post (a little over five years, or 1,834 days). But this guy (http://www.movieforums.com/community/member.php?u=312) and this guy (http://www.movieforums.com/community/member.php?u=21969) each took closer to six. That first one, though, came back simply because he got a "we're deleting all unused accounts" notice, and the second only posted once. So you definitely hold the record among any site regular.

[Yoda]

Who are the Top 10 Banned MoFos?

By "Top 10" I mean banned users with the highest post counts. Who were not just spambots.
Powderfinger, 5402
cinemaafficionado, 3865
Django, 1826
Vertical Gunn, 1252
MovieFan31, 1139
Michael_10, 1022
The Next Big Thing, 521
darkhorse, 496
Purandara88, 489
42ndStreetFreak, 466

And, of course, some of these are actually one person (off the top of my head, darkhorse is Django, and I think TNBT is at least one other person on this list, but I forget which).

[Yoda]

How many alternate accounts does Sexy Celebrity have and is one of them Santa Claus?
Answered earlier, as SC pointed out. He says I'm wrong about it being seven, but that was just a rough glance, so it might be one or two higher I suppose.

He is not Santa Claus, however.

[Yoda]

What's my longest post?
This one (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=935738#post935738), at over 4,000 words. Just a really long list of movies, though. The longest "real" one is this 2,300 word one (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1066079#post1066079) where you're arguing with SC about The Wolf of Wall Street.

Can you see who is giving +reps to who?
Technically, sure, I can log in to the database backend and look it up. That's pretty tedious, though. I don't have a way to just look it up easily on the site itself.

If so, who has given me the most +reps and who have I given the most +reps in total?
Hmmm. Technically, people give rep with the expectation that it'll only be seen by the receiver, so I'm inclined to answer the second question more than the first. But I guess since it's in aggregate and not related to any specific post, there's no issue. But please, everyone, don't all flood me with this same question. ;) Though I'm kinda wondering if this is the kind of thing I should just write up a tool to calculate for everyone, anyway.

Anyway, you've received the most rep from Lucas (+639), and you've given the most to Daniel M (+539).

Who has quoted me the most (with actual quote tags)?
I can't calculate individual tags easily, but I can give you the number of posts that quote you (IE: if they quote you five times in one post, that still only counts as one (https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/1b/54/64/1b54647e8350b19ec568da9d362e0730.jpg)). And in that case, it's Guaporense at 126.

How many times has Mark used 5?
It's appeared in 78 of his posts, though I'm guessing a handful of those were him quoting someone else. ;)

[Yoda]

Question: Movieforums, what's the meaning of life?
I actually answered this just the other day (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=1350928#post1350928).

[Sedai]

Last night I was thinking. Who is the one MoFo, aside from Yoda (who owns the place), that most represents MoFo and sticks in my mind as not only one of the biggest contributors to the site, but that was also one of the most vibrant personalities on the boards, and immediately I thought of Holden Pike. The guy has been contributing reviews, info threads, conversation and film tidbits longer than I have been on the site, and I joined in '03. I must admit, when i first started interacting with him, I found him to be a bit gruff. Hey, what did I expect from a guy named Holden pike with a tagline that said "one honery sumbitch"?

Little did I know how big of an influence he would be on my watching habits and outlook on film in general. Up until then, I had been content to watch mere movies, and I rarely considered the subtext, happily ingesting surface concepts as light entertainment. I liked films like Bloodsport, Event Horizon, and Highlander. Yes, over the years my tastes and outlook on film have changed drastically, in no small part due to Holden busting balls, which was of course always followed by a slew of recommendations for films that were actually good. along with some information about the making of the film, the actors in the film or more frequently, info about the directors he liked with a shortlist of their best work. I don't think I would have given films a shot by directors such as Altman, Peckinpah, Lean, or Albert Brooks.

The guy has been here since almost the beginning - the old guard of Movie Forums!

[Yoda]

How many avatars did I make for Martian Leader, and why didn't you ever stop me? :p
No idea/because I'm lazy.

Which movie has been asked about more times than any, in the Movie Questions forum?

I know the answer to this. :)
I don't log the solutions, so I dunno. But I assume you're referencing the unofficial, anecdotal count, by which we're all pretty sure it's Frailty.

What about mine, please?
Your high scores are at at the same link (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=393263#post393263).

Also, how many people have I banned?
738.

[Citizen Rules]

Yoda, can you tell me about rep ratios...Who has the highest deferential ratio between giving reps and receiving them? (I mean which person is most free giving with reps but doesn't have many themselves)...And the flip side of that, who has the greatest difference in ratio between receiving most reps but not giving them out (stingy;))

And where do I fall in that line, have I given out much more than I have received?

[Yoda]

Way too intensive to calculate some of that, I'm afraid--the quick version I tried initially just forced me to restart the database, and the version that won't crash the database would take awhile.

I can easily get you more narrow results, though. For example, your ratio is 1.6 received for every 1 given.

[Miss Vicky]

Is the Pulp Fiction live commentary chat ever going to happen?

[Yoda]

I think so, yeah. Participation was looking like it was gonna be very sketchy last time, but I think with the rise of thread commentaries it's totally viable now. That, and I really want to replace the chat software for next year's Oscars, so it'd be nice to use this (and the Star Wars marathon Rodent's been planning for the end of the year) as test runs.

FYI, if someone wants to start a thread and start getting people to (really) commit to being there for it, that would help a lot from a planning perspective, on my end. :)

[Loner]

How many members have I banned all time? What's the highest amount of members I've banned in a month? What's the highest amount of members I've banned in a day? What's the highest amount of threads I've deleted in a day?

[Yoda]

How many members have I banned all time?
1,818.

What's the highest amount of members I've banned in a month? What's the highest amount of members I've banned in a day? What's the highest amount of threads I've deleted in a day?
For some reasons the queries I'm using to group by date are coming up all weird, so I'm not sure I can figure this out all that easily. I'll try a bit more though and let you know if I figure out why it's misbehaving.

[Citizen Rules]

Way too intensive to calculate some of that, I'm afraid--the quick version I tried initially just forced me to restart the database, and the version that won't crash the database would take awhile.

I can easily get you more narrow results, though. For example, your ratio is 1.6 received for every 1 given.

OMG! sorry, it figures my question would crash the database.:cool:

[honeykid]

What was my first post?

[Yoda]

Here it is (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=188332#post188332) (you mention multiple Drew Barrymore movies).

[christine]

I was away from the site for quite a while a few years ago. How long was I away for? Silly me, what a waste of valuable mofo time.

[Camo]

Same question as Cob. Who have I given most +rep to and who has given me most +rep? If you only want to answer the first that's fine.

[honeykid]

Here it is (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=188332#post188332) (you mention multiple Drew Barrymore movies).
Thanks. Nothing changes, huh? :D

I just counted up and 20 of those films are on my 100. More if you include the multiple Drew Barrymore films. See, nothing changes.

[Yoda]

I was away from the site for quite a while a few years ago. How long was I away for? Silly me, what a waste of valuable mofo time.
I'd need a general time range this took place to find the answer without digging a lot, I think.

[Yoda]

Same question as Cob. Who have I given most +rep to and who has given me most +rep? If you only want to answer the first that's fine.
You've given 533 to Sexy Celebrity, and received 258 from honeykid.

[Ðèstîñy]

I know about that page for our high scores. I've posted there before. I was referring to what Sedai asked. With the new one touch ban system.

As far as the movie question goes, it's a movie that both Holden and I have answered more than a few times each, so we joked about starting a fan club, or something like that. The answer was The Wraith. I was gone for a while, so maybe Frailty caught up. I don't know.

[doubledenim]

Is there a chance you could do a screen grab from what your control panel looks like? I've always been curious to see how it differs from the serfs.

[Yoda]

If you mean the User CP, it's identical.

If you mean the behind the scenes stuff, most of it is run through a piece of software called vBulletin. The control panel on the version of vBulletin we're using looks like this:

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/filedata/fetch?id=4006096

There are a handful of other purely custom tools, but most of them are just used by me, so they're spread out and really plain; purely utilitarian. Like, blank white page that just spits out the results of whatever thing it just did (sometimes not even that).

There are, however, a few extra dropdown menus and checkboxes as we browse the site. Checkboxes next to threads and posts so we can move or delete then en masse, extra options under the Tools menu in threads. Stuff like that. It's pretty similar looking, though.

[Sedai]

I know about that page for our high scores. I've posted there before. I was referring to what Sedai asked. With the new one touch ban system.

As far as the movie question goes, it's a movie that both Holden and I have answered more than a few times each, so we joked about starting a fan club, or something like that. The answer was The Wraith. I was gone for a while, so maybe Frailty caught up. I don't know.

I watched The Wraith a couple weeks ago. It's a gem!

[christine]

I'd need a general time range this took place to find the answer without digging a lot, I think.

Don't worry if it's too difficult, I was just curious. Must've been 2012/13

[Camo]

You've given 533 to Sexy Celebrity, and received 258 from honeykid.

Thank HK :highfive:

Really surprised SC is the most I've given. Still that's probably a 0.1111% ratio with the amount of spam I have skimmed over :p

JK Sexy, you know I love you the rep proves it apparently :D

[Daniel M]

Most rep I've gave to someone and most I've received would be interesting too, thanks :)

[Sexy Celebrity]

I have a question -- will someone break two ties for me in TV Show Theme Song Tournament?

Bewitched or WKRP in Cincinnati?

The Love Boat or Married... with Children?

[Yoda]

Don't worry if it's too difficult, I was just curious. Must've been 2012/13
I'm not sure what you consider to be a long period of time, but glancing around, I'm not seeing anything over a few months. There are a few places where a lot of time is covered over a small number of posts, but it looks like you pretty much always popped back in to post before too long, even if it was short-lived.

[Ðèstîñy]

I watched The Wraith a couple weeks ago. It's a gem!

It is, isn't it!?! I have it, but it's an old VHS of mine, from way back.

[Yoda]

Most rep I've gave to someone and most I've received would be interesting too, thanks :)
I would like to draw everyone's attention to the bolded part below, where I predicted this would happen. :D

But I guess since it's in aggregate and not related to any specific post, there's no issue. But please, everyone, don't all flood me with this same question. ;)
I'll think about maybe putting together a detailed stats page for certain interesting rep factoids like this, though.

[Sexy Celebrity]

Most rep I've gave to someone and most I've received would be interesting too, thanks :)

I know you've given me a lot.

[Camo]

I've been on another forum that uses VBulletin, it regularly has database errors like this used to have. Can I ask what you did to stop them if it is not asking too much? I'm just curious because the Admin usually blames VBulletin.

[Camo]

I have a question -- will someone break two ties for me in TV Show Theme Song Tournament?

Bewitched or WKRP in Cincinnati?

The Love Boat or Married... with Children?

Married With Children haven't listened to the other two

[Yoda]

I've been on another forum that uses VBulletin, it regularly has database errors like this used to have. Can I ask what you did to stop them if it is not asking too much? I'm just curious because the Admin usually blames VBulletin.
That's kind of like asking what you do to stop your car from breaking down. I could list every single thing that goes into it, but it'd be a lot easier to talk about what causes the errors in a given case.

If this guy's getting database errors with any regularity, and he seems powerless to stop it, then it's probably not a broken query or anything. It's probably the database server going down. I guess someone can sort of blame vBulletin for this if they feel it's not efficient enough (is the site highly active, for example? Like, several times moreso than this one?). But vBulletin can handle some pretty huge sites if you give it sufficient server power and/or don't bog it down with tons of plugins.

That said, I'm always willing to help out a fellow forum owner, if you want to put him in touch with me.

[Camo]

I'm not sure what you consider to be a long period of time, but glancing around, I'm not seeing anything over a few months. There are a few places where a lot of time is covered over a small number of posts, but it looks like you pretty much always popped back in to post before too long, even if it was short-lived.

I haven't been here for to long but I've noticed Christine becoming a regular again over the last year and a half or so. I don't think she was about to much my first year and for however long before that, as you said she must have just kept a steady amount of post without showing her presence even to herself apparently :p

Glad you are a regular again Christine :)

[Daniel M]

I know you've given me a lot.

That's what I was wondering, I know I give you a lot, there's a few others that I rep most things they post, but you make so many posts I think you would be top.

[honeykid]

As far as the movie question goes, it's a movie that both Holden and I have answered more than a few times each, so we joked about starting a fan club, or something like that. The answer was The Wraith. I was gone for a while, so maybe Frailty caught up. I don't know.
Surely it's one of those two. Over the last couple of years I'd think Frailty was the leader, but whether it's managed to overtake The Wraith is another thing. The Wraith has managed to clock up a couple requests in that time, too. :D

[Camo]

Not sure if you can check this at all nvm easily. If you can how long have I had this Avatar? I had Pazazu and Solozzo before this, but I've had this by far the longest must be a year at least.

[Sexy Celebrity]

Not sure if you can check this at all nvm easily. If you can how long have I had this Avatar? I had Pazazu and Solozzo before this, but I've had this by far the longest must be a year at least.

Seriously? These questions are getting ridiculous. What are you gonna get out of life knowing how long you had that avatar?

[Sexy Celebrity]

Powderfinger, 5402
cinemaafficionado, 3865
Django, 1826
Vertical Gunn, 1252
MovieFan31, 1139
Michael_10, 1022
The Next Big Thing, 521
darkhorse, 496
Purandara88, 489
42ndStreetFreak, 466

And, of course, some of these are actually one person (off the top of my head, darkhorse is Django, and I think TNBT is at least one other person on this list, but I forget which).

I think you told me Michael_10 was Powderfinger's first username.

Purandara88? Wasn't that the guy who was obsessed with that Queen guy? Freddie Mercury.....

[Sexy Celebrity]

Answered earlier, as SC pointed out. He says I'm wrong about it being seven, but that was just a rough glance, so it might be one or two higher I suppose.

He is not Santa Claus, however.

I am absolutely 100% Santa Claus.

[honeykid]

I'm sure Michael_10 was PW.

[Sexy Celebrity]

I'm sure Michael_10 was PW.

PF, not PW.

[Sexy Celebrity]

Santa Claus and I are both SC's.

[honeykid]

PF, not PW.

Doh! :facepalm:

[Camo]

Seriously? These questions are getting ridiculous. What are you gonna get out of life knowing how long you had that avatar?

What are you going to get out of life with any of your 50000 posts or threads? Damn look at my "What time is it?" thread thriving, apparently it is 3.53 in Belgium :rolleyes:

[Sexy Celebrity]

What are you going to get out of life with any of your 50000 posts or threads? Damn look at my "What time is it?" thread thriving, apparently it is 3.53 in Belgium :rolleyes:

I try to spread around happiness and joy. You're just concerned with yourself and your avatar.

[Camo]

I try to spread around happiness and joy. You're just concerned with yourself and your avatar.

How is my wondering how long I've had this Avatar any more trivial than the vast amount of your threads? That is the thing you would have created a thread asking that, I only did when Yoda offered to answer any questions he could.

Who has the most threads with under ten replies? It is SC right?

[Sexy Celebrity]

How is my wondering how long I've had this Avatar any more trivial than the vast amount of your threads? That is the thing you would have created a thread asking that, I only did when Yoda offered to answer any questions he could.

No, I wouldn't have made a thread for that. I don't like that idea.

Although, it might be interesting to create a thread called "Count How Many Days You've Had Your Avatar." Where every day, you go in there and count how many days you've had your current avatar.

"First day."

"Second day."

"Third day."

"Day 4."

"Two weeks!"

"A month!"

"TWO YEARS TODAY!!!!!!!!!"

[Swan]

One day Sexy is going to make The Apostrophe Thread, where every post is just an apostrophe.

[Sexy Celebrity]

GASP. Now I do have a cool idea for something.......

[Sexy Celebrity]

One day Sexy is going to make The Apostrophe Thread, where every post is just an apostrophe.

On Facebook, I saw this great group where every day at the same time, they posted the same picture of Bill Cosby in one of his sweaters. I wonder if that group still exists, though, considering everything happening with Bill Cosby lately... I bet it still does. Anyway, it was very Sexy Celebrity. I considered doing something similar here, but I don't like to be a ripoff artist.

[christine]

I'm not sure what you consider to be a long period of time, but glancing around, I'm not seeing anything over a few months. There are a few places where a lot of time is covered over a small number of posts, but it looks like you pretty much always popped back in to post before too long, even if it was short-lived.

Ah right. I must've kept popping by I suppose. I just went through a bad patch so must've not been engaged much. Thanks for looking :)

I haven't been here for to long but I've noticed Christine becoming a regular again over the last year and a half or so. I don't think she was about to much my first year and for however long before that, as you said she must have just kept a steady amount of post without showing her presence even to herself apparently :p

Glad you are a regular again Christine :)

Thanks luv :)

[Camo]

No, I wouldn't have made a thread for that. I don't like that idea.

Although, it might be interesting to create a thread called "Count How Many Days You've Had Your Avatar." Where every day, you go in there and count how many days you've had your current avatar.

"First day."

"Second day."

"Third day."

"Day 4."

"Two weeks!"

"A month!"

"TWO YEARS TODAY!!!!!!!!!"

Brilliant idea!! Should win the best thread mofie!

I only asked because I'm one of the few here who never changes their avatar, and I usually do on other sites. Glad I gave you an idea for a thread though.

[Sexy Celebrity]

I wanna make your next avatar.

[Mr Minio]

Why was Powderfinger banned? I remember this guy when he was still posting, but can't recall why he got banned.

[Sexy Celebrity]

Why was Powderfinger banned? I remember this guy when he was still posting, but can't recall why he got banned.

For everything.

[Yoda]

Not sure if you can check this at all nvm easily. If you can how long have I had this Avatar? I had Pazazu and Solozzo before this, but I've had this by far the longest must be a year at least.
You uploaded it on February 19th, 2004.

[Yoda]

Purandara88? Wasn't that the guy who was obsessed with that Queen guy? Freddie Mercury.....
That was medusa2012 (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?anchor=1&p=825356#post825356). Purandara88 was the Neo-Nazi who I found out actually went to the university my father in law teaches at. It was a shame to have to ban him, because apart from the offensive things he said, he was very smart and had very insightful things to say about the films he discussed (here's his review thread (http://www.movieforums.com/community/showthread.php?t=11971)).

[Yoda]

Oh, and if you still have a question, please ask it soon. I'll have to beg off doing this sometime tomorrow afternoon. ;)

[AdamUpBxtch]

congrats on 15 years, that is a long ass time to keep a site going

[Yoda]

Thanks. :)

And yeah, it's kind of crazy to think about the scale. I turn 31 in a month. Around the middle of next year I'll have been running this place half my life.

[Camo]

You uploaded it on February 19th, 2004.

Are you joking? Or did you type the wrong year?

[Mr Minio]

And yeah, it's kind of crazy to think about the scale. I turn 31 in a month. Around the middle of next year I'll have been running this place half my life. That must be an incredible feeling. I spent most of my life on the Internet and sometimes get feels from remembering old games I played with (online) friends and posting on forums and discovering stuff, and what not. It's kinda scary I have more memories of this sort than these from 'real' life. Even if I still have a lot of these from real world, I still recall these online memories with greater nostalgia. No wonder, really good things mostly started like 5 years ago, or something and still I'd rather not think about these. Come to think of it, I may be the online generation of no-lifes.

[Sexy Celebrity]

Are you joking? Or did you type the wrong year?

I was about to say -- I would have felt bad if I really hadn't noticed Camo until very recently.

[Yoda]

Are you joking? Or did you type the wrong year?
Whoops, sorry. Yes, 2014. So you were right: over a year.

[Camo]

I was about to say -- I would have felt bad if I really hadn't noticed Camo until very recently.

Handing you reps since the nineties :walter:

[Sexy Celebrity]

Handing you reps since the nineties :walter:

It's a shame MoFo wasn't around in the '90s. I truly could have used it back then. It would have been interesting.

[Miss Vicky]

How many times has Guaporense edited his posts?
How many times has Swan deleted posts?

[MovieGal]

How many times did Mr Minio mention my user name on the forum? I randomly find my user name mentioned days after he posted it.

[Mr Minio]

How many times did Mr Minio mention my user name on the forum? I randomly find my user name mentioned days after he posted it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDKgVtbGhmI

[Austruck]

Thanks. :)

And yeah, it's kind of crazy to think about the scale. I turn 31 in a month. Around the middle of next year I'll have been running this place half my life.

I've been online since 1987, when I was 26... so, MORE than half of my 54 years. Now THAT is crazy!

I like that I had an entire life *before* the Internet and now can't see how any of us lived without it. My own current career path (writing, proofreading, typesetting) would be very different without the Internet.

And I remember Yoda/TWTCommish starting this place, and before that, starting The Warning Track stat site. :)

[Sedai]

Whoops, sorry. Yes, 2014. So you were right: over a year.

I sat there for perhaps two minutes with grave doubts about my memory. How can I have missed this MoFo for over TEN years??

"Do I moderate this site while somehow being completely disengaged from the user base to the extent that I don't notice new users for over a decade??"

Whew!

[Yoda]

How many times has Guaporense edited his posts?
719.

How many times has Swan deleted posts?
1,024.

:eek:

[Yoda]

How many times did Mr Minio mention my user name on the forum? I randomly find my user name mentioned days after he posted it.
He's mentioned your name in 96 posts.

[Yoda]

I sat there for perhaps two minutes with grave doubts about my memory. How can I have missed this MoFo for over TEN years??

"Do I moderate this site while somehow being completely disengaged from the user base to the extent that I don't notice new users for over a decade??"

Whew!
Gah, sorry. Didn't meant to provoke an existential crisis.

This does kinda happen to me sometimes. I'll be browsing and think "I wonder why X hasn't been around." And no joke, the overwhelming majority of time I go check their profile and they're online right that moment, and have plenty of recent activity.

I used to be able to stay on top of the whole site at any one time, but I guess it's a little too big for that now.

[honeykid]

It's a shame MoFo wasn't around in the '90s. I truly could have used it back then. It would have been interesting.

I'd have killed this place in the 90's. If you think I post a lot now...:D

[Yoda]

Okay, closing up shop on this, at least for this year. ;)

Thanks everyone. It was fun digging up these factoids.

[Sir Toose]

5003 posts over 14 years averages out to 29 per month ... or a post a day.

I'm proud of my output :)

HBD MoFo (a bit belated).