It took me 15 years to reach 4000 posts. How do some of you get to 100,000? Damn.

[davekriss]

18. OMG! Yes, DU has been around for 15 years! Yikes!

Although I'm a relative newbie, joining in 2002.

Pretty soon movies made after 2000 will show up on Turner Classic Movies, then I'll really feel old!

I, too, cannot comprehend how posters have the time to post tens of thousand of posts (I think I'm just a little bit over 3000). On another site (U75), I used to passionately engage with a right-wing user that was amassing more than 10,000 posts a year. I knew it was the same person, because we'd pick up arguments where we left off (and he praised me for my diction - I used to be able to write before senility kicked in). However, depending on what time of day I'd engage this user, sometimes he had no idea who I was or what we previously discussed. (I posted much more actively on that site and had a bit of a following, so it struck me as strange.) Others noticed the same. So we concluded that he really was more than 1 person, and they were assigned to propagate right-wing memes and obstruct arguments that otherwise steered consent to the left. In fact there were several users where we could say the same. I never saw concrete evidence proving anything, but it sure did seem like we were being trolled by teams of people signing on with the same userid. Thus "they" had lots of time to post tens-of-thousands of posts per year.