When will we have 30,000 PF members?

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The discussion revolves around the anticipation of reaching 30,000 members on a forum, with participants making predictions about the exact time and date it will happen. Various members speculate on the current membership count, which fluctuates due to the forum administrator, Greg, deleting inactive accounts to maintain an accurate representation of active users. There is a playful competition among members to guess when the milestone will be reached, with humorous exchanges about the potential for the 30,000th member to be a spammer. As the count approaches 30,000, excitement builds, culminating in the announcement of the new member, "nabla." However, some members express skepticism about the legitimacy of this new account, suspecting it may be linked to another member, Ivan, raising the possibility of a conspiracy. The thread captures a mix of camaraderie, humor, and light-hearted conspiracy theories as members engage in this milestone event.
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Day and time?

I'll guess next Monday at 8 PM PDT.
 
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I'll say next tuesday at 6:00 Mountain time.
 
If everyone would just spend the rest of the evening joining up under assumed names, we could do it by midnight.
 
I will guess 12,00 wednesday Bishops itchington time.
 
Zooby, no prediction...? Come on, use your spidey senses. :biggrin:

Yomamma, you didn't indicate AM or PM.

Edit: and wolram...

Also edited another Zobby :smile:
 
Are you purging again?
 
Knocked out over 2k, whew.

I will say 4am. I will leave the date and time zone off, so that I can change them as needed.
 
Greg Bernhardt said:
Check the number now, muahaha
That was curious.
 
  • #10
Well, that sure blows the hell out of my little contest.

Too bad, I as going to offer a $1000 cash prize, but why bother now? [oh yes, I forgot this, :rolleyes:]
 
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Ivan Seeking said:
Well, that sure blows the hell out of my little contest.
I figured that just by bringing attention to it you had created the temptation for people to play with the rate of increase.

Little did I know the power existed to make it go backwards.
 
  • #12
Greg is all powerful. :approve:

He also periodically deletes inactive accounts so that the membership number reflects actual active members, not every person that registered since the beginning of time. Some forums claim huge membership, but only have three members at a time online. :rolleyes:
 
  • #13
27,158, Hmmm, so we need another 158-1000 = well its 158+2 = 160
160 +40 =200 no its 2 +40 = 42 + 800 = 842

So i change my guess to 2200 Wednesday Bishops itchington time.
 
  • #14
Evo said:
Greg is all powerful. :approve:

He also periodically deletes inactive accounts so that the membership number reflects actual active members, not every person that registered since the beginning of time. Some forums claim huge membership, but only have three members at a time online. :rolleyes:

So true. I used to frequent another physics forum that claimed 50,000, but the threads only proceeded at a rate of a few posts a day; that is to say, the sum of all posts to all threads! 50,000... :smile: :smile: :smile: At the time, PF had ten times the level of activity with 3000 members.
 
  • #15
the prognosticator said:
Yomamma, you didn't indicate AM or PM.


I meant PM, sorry
 
  • #16
i say in 18 days from the very moment that i post
 
  • #17
*Rubs skull* "I am seeeeeiinngg innnttooo the fuuttuuurrree"

Wednesday... afternooon.. around dinner... just after simpsons... cable channel 64... and a half... 7:01... am...
 
  • #18
Yeah, I agree. The amount of members never seem to reflect the activity.

This is by far the best forum I've been on. Not the most active, but certainly the best.
 
  • #19
If the data was at hand (PF members over time) it would be possible to roughly extrapolate a date and time of when there will be 30,000 members.

Have to fit a curve to it though.
 
  • #20
motai said:
If the data was at hand (PF members over time) it would be possible to roughly extrapolate a date and time of when there will be 30,000 members.

Have to fit a curve to it though.
Pfft, my way is definitely easier than that. Get some psychic powers wimp.
 
  • #21
27169, that's 1 2 3 4 , some more since last time.
27,158 aha that's 11 more so, 11 in 4 hrs that's 110 in 40 hrs and we need
3000 so that will be hmmmmm
 
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  • #22
October 9th. It's a special day for me. 2:00 AM EST

Um, actually, that's rather soon. Maybe December 15th. 3:00 AM EST
 
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  • #23
October 10th. Just for spite. 2:00 AM EST
 
  • #24
Smurf said:
October 10th. Just for spite. 2:00 AM EST
Parasitic worm. :-p
Get off - you're sucking the luck out of my day!
 
  • #25
I have changed my guess to 22 past 12 BIT in the anno mento next
ticklmouse friday.
 
  • #26
Thursday at 2:30PM
 
  • #27
Ivan Seeking said:
Last check: 29,523
Are you sure? :bugeye: I see it's 27,176! :blushing:
 
  • #28
greg may have snipped a bunch recently.
 
  • #29
Smurf said:
greg may have snipped a bunch recently.
He did. In fact he did it because of this thread. See his post on page one. He also almost banned you, yommamma, and pengwuino to prevent the count from rising.
 
  • #30
I predict that we will never hit 30,000 because Greg will continue to delete members to prevent it. Once he's deleted all of the inactive accounts, he'll start deleting active accounts. I would suggest becoming a contributor as those will be the last members to be deleted. :-p
 
  • #31
Evo said:
I predict that we will never hit 30,000 because Greg will continue to delete members to prevent it. Once he's deleted all of the inactive accounts, he'll start deleting active accounts. I would suggest becoming a contributor as those will be the last members to be deleted. :-p
What happens if greg self-deletes?
Has he tried that out yet?
 
  • #32
Evo said:
I predict that we will never hit 30,000 because Greg will continue to delete members to prevent it. Once he's deleted all of the inactive accounts, he'll start deleting active accounts. I would suggest becoming a contributor as those will be the last members to be deleted. :-p
And if we want to be deleted first? :rolleyes:
 
  • #33
Greg cannot self delete, there is a fail safe. Rumor has it that the entire universe would vanish if that were to happen. :bugeye:
 
  • #34
The universe has to have a END!
 
  • #35
I feel save in my little gold letters :approve:

evo said:
Greg cannot self delete, there is a fail safe. Rumor has it that the entire universe would vanish if that were to happen.

hmmm...I just realized something! the universe is not entirely PF! :eek: only cyberspace would collapse, causing problems all over the world! So we'd invent a time machine to fix the problem, mess up something back in time...and...oh, yeah. the universe would collapse, never mind... :redface:

! said:
The universe has to have a END!
no it doesn't
 
  • #36
yomamma said:
I feel save in my little gold letters :approve:
If I were you, I felt another way! :wink:

yomamma, I have very cool respond for quoting me as a !, but I am not going to share it because it's too impolite. o:)
 
  • #37
o...kay...
 
  • #38
Shall we try again?
 
  • #39
Oooh, it's very close, maybe Greg is too preoccupied with the new skin to notice. :rolleyes:

I say Sunday night at 6pm central time.
 
  • #40
Sunday, 6:34 Guam ChST. Ha ha you guys have no idea when that is.
 
  • #42
Tonight at 7pm central time.

Members: 29,929
 
  • #43
6pm central time.
 
  • #44
2am MST [10 char]
 
  • #45
Smurf said:
6pm central time.
6:01 PM CT. Because I can. :-p
 
  • #46
November 28th

Just watch.
 
  • #47
Looks like hrw and Smurf will be wrong in a few minutes. Anybody else going to guess?
 
  • #48
It's now 29,950 ! 50 to go...my guess : tomorrow, a little before this time (unless the architect taketh away).
 
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  • #49
Yeah this is going much slower than I thought. I don't think my time will be it either :cry:
 
  • #50
I'd say in 6 to 9 hours time.
 

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