"he's just one of those European types"...wait anybody feel that?"
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Posted on 01/18/2011 9:22:15 AM PST by bezelbub
1. Just by looking at the IDs and by counting valid accounts.
2. John Robinson should be able to check the numbers with ease. In fact, I'd rather appreciate if he takes his time for this task: it should be a simply query on Freerepublic's database.
What’s your point? This is NOT something that’s important. It’s simply a nonsense point of contention.
Wow, how sad for you. I would suggest seeing someone for your OCD issues.
I agree, and a major waste of time if they manually counted accounts as they claim. It would really suck for them if JR changed how the IDs populate somewhere mid stream, thus, making all that time spent even more of a waste.
This non-issue matters not a whit to FR’s popularity. Simply sounds like someone nattering for attention.
You are being very patient...
Like I said at the top of the thread
he is going to make the number drop to
299,999
And I don’t really care if he does.
The number is important enough to be featured on the main page of freerepublic.com - shouldn't it be correct?
Yep.. there was a guy over at one of the anti-sites who had a similar obsession over fundraisers keeping charts and graphs for how much time each took and the donations day by day, jumping up and down if something took an hour or a day longer than before.. it was really sad to watch his obsession and how he kept posting it as though anyone cared beyond his little circle.
The numbers that really count in my opinion, are not number of Freepers but number of external views (that, according to all external analysis websites, reach into the millions per day). That shows influence.
The number on the front page is just a nice round number and is close enough for marketing purposes. Technically, it is accurate even based on your own analysis because the only quantifible number one has to go on is member number. Everything else is assumptions. You really need a life.
Well, that’s all well and good, but I repeat, who cares? The inactive accounts are people who registered screen names but never activated their accounts. Don’t know if he still does it or not, but John used to purge the unactivated accounts after a month or so. We still have somewhere in the general neighborhood of 300,000 registered screen names. Whatever the number of registered screen names, it’s my guess that there has been considerable interest in what the FReepers have to say.
Freedom’s just another word for nothing’ left to lose:
Nothin’ left is all she left for me.
Feeling good was easy, Lord, when Bobby sang the blues.
Buddy, that was good enough for me;
Good enough for me and Bobby McGee.
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La la la da, Me and Bobby McGee.
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LOL, there is the big oops to all that time the OP put into counting accounts... I wonder how many wasted hours of counting that just shot down?
Pablo is cool with it.
He is supportive as well as wily.
lalalalala ...just donated....good enough for me!
Besides, we got more important things to worry about:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45-6duFvfuI&NR=1
Thank you very much, caww!!
Woo hoo!!
And we have incoming:
$100.00 from Never Never Land
$20.00 from Pennsylvania
$10.00 from Never Never Land
$10.00 from Colorado
$50.00 from California
Thank you all very much!!
You've got to be kidding.
John maintains this site, keeping it running, improving it, dealing with issues around the clock...
I'm the director of system administration for a software company whose offices span the globe and operate 24/7, and I have some appreciation for what John is doing, in fairly decent detail.
I wouldn't want him spending even 3 milliseconds counting up numbers like that. Who bloody cares, except as an estimate? "About 300,000" is fine with me, and I suggest you re-arrange your priorities so that it's fine with you, too.
"Take his time for this task"... geez, you must be a riot at parties.
Sorry Mr. Jacks, if you're out there somewhere...
"he's just one of those European types"...wait anybody feel that?"
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