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8 years and 9 months after logging on April 25 2000 with a rumour post about the upcoming release of the FW waveserpent I've hit the next milestone of dakka posting.

20,000 posts.

3205 days, or 6.24 posts per day.

When I started dakka looked like this:
http://web.archive.org/web/20000510210820/pub1.ezboard.com/bdakkadiscussions.html


The site has changed many times.

Members, moderators and even owners have changed. (Where did Phanobi disappear to?)

But dakka is still the rough house it always was.
Some posters may scoff at the last comment, thinking moderation is too heavy. But dakka has always been a place where regular users help to keep the more boisterous posters in line and let the mods know if things are getting out of control and on the whole we do give a fair amount of leeway as long as dakka rule 1 is not violated. Which is a testament to Russ' original rules and the great site he set up.

Dakka has literally been a home away from home. Many members I've known for years, heard the stories of their lives (who's have thought a US state department employee could have so much fun on haloween in Guyana), and seen the families they raise (and even the odd student of a certain teacher from Chicago) but have never met the vast majority of them face to face. Some others I have, in my time in the UK and around Australia, usually at tournaments. Some have even become facebook BFFs (Dakka's Rabbi, derflaM, and Scott).

I know Yakface and Legoburner are really stretching what dakka can accomplish and the sense of vigour behind the scenes is great. The increasing posting volume, meaning more mods with a fresh perspective required in the last few months,

Thanks to Yakface and Legoburner, thanks to the regular and not so regular posters for giving me the reason to hang out here and thanks to GW for giving us the games that we endlessly discuss.

And sorry to Malfred for passing you at about 19,200 posts.

Waaagh_Gonads

o_- Grats how old is dakka?

And just for you, from the surviving posts that made it through the years:

(stats exclude words with 2 or fewer characters)

Total words: 83522
Unique words: 19835
Median length: 6
word count weight word 211 3.8421496 republic 211 3.8421496 san 213 3.8325122 germany 213 3.8325122 islands 213 3.8325122 waaaghgonads 215 3.8229630 kingdom 217 3.8135003 good 218 3.8088009 pbase 221 3.7948280 marshall 222 3.7902116 canada 226 3.7719469 south 229 3.7584544 jordan 230 3.7539953 youtube 235 3.7319797 united 239 3.7146940 red 242 3.7019140 image 244 3.6934795 states 249 3.6726848 images 251 3.6644806 great 255 3.6482617 back 261 3.6243920 watch 262 3.6204657 saint 268 3.5972100 army 286 3.5303632 time 319 3.4177781 australia 353 3.3130007 dakka 458 3.0417113 engrishfunny 529 2.8901617 owned 630 2.7047644 tumblr 646 2.6779846 hh10 646 2.6779846 runfast800 647 2.6763314 i252 656 2.6615592 media 839 2.3958344 photobucket 845 2.3880568 albums 864 2.3637542 fail 881 2.3424168 failblog 1414 1.8094011 wordpress 1433 1.7938508 files 2205 1.2690214 engrish 2418 1.1492781 uploads 2432 1.1416686 content 3236 0.7444946 www 3768 0.5109848 2008 6215 -0.4830571 jpg 6368 -0.5481010 img 6675 -0.6822702 http

Word length (characters, count, percentage, total count, cumulative percentage):
3: 7099 8.50% 7134 8.5% 4: 13207 15.81% 20341 24.4% 5: 14675 17.57% 35016 41.9% 6: 13488 16.15% 48504 58.1% 7: 12254 14.67% 60758 72.7% 8: 8144 9.75% 68902 82.5% 9: 5408 6.47% 74310 89.0% 10: 3374 4.04% 77684 93.0% 11: 2464 2.95% 80148 96.0% 12: 1190 1.42% 81338 97.4% 13: 565 0.68% 81903 98.1% 14: 289 0.35% 82192 98.4% 15: 160 0.19% 82352 98.6% 16: 98 0.12% 82450 98.7% 17: 63 0.08% 82513 98.8% 18: 72 0.09% 82585 98.9% 19: 59 0.07% 82644 98.9% 20: 34 0.04% 82678 99.0% 21: 38 0.05% 82716 99.0% 22: 29 0.03% 82745 99.1% 23: 27 0.03% 82772 99.1% 24: 13 0.02% 82785 99.1% 25: 13 0.02% 82798 99.1% 26: 15 0.02% 82813 99.2% 27: 4 0.00% 82817 99.2% 28: 439 0.53% 83256 99.7% 29: 5 0.01% 83261 99.7% 30: 197 0.24% 83458 99.9% 31: 9 0.01% 83467 99.9% 32: 14 0.02% 83481 100.0% 33: 15 0.02% 83496 100.0% 34: 7 0.01% 83503 100.0% 35: 2 0.00% 83505 100.0% 37: 3 0.00% 83508 100.0% 40: 3 0.00% 83511 100.0% 41: 2 0.00% 83513 100.0% 42: 1 0.00% 83514 100.0% 43: 1 0.00% 83515 100.0% 45: 3 0.00% 83518 100.0% 46: 1 0.00% 83519 100.0% 48: 1 0.00% 83520 100.0% 53: 1 0.00% 83521 100.0% 77: 1 0.00% 83522 100.0%

Nobody else is getting this until they hit 20k posts as it is too much work to put together!

edit: oh and congrats and thanks!

oh and if you want the word count for any specific word then feel free to ask. Eg; you have said 'monkey' 13 times and 'monkeys' twice. You've never used the F word and have only said sh*t twice. Ninja = 9, pirates = 16, 40k=116.

Grats to Waaagh_Gonads, a balanced part of a dakka breakfast.

I'm sort of surprised to see my name on the list. Have you been talking about me, Gonads?

LunaHound wrote:how old is dakka?

http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/The_History_of_Dakka

Hellfury wrote:

LunaHound wrote:how old is dakka?

http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/The_History_of_Dakka

ahh! very nice.

the tyranid picnic was the first thing that caught my eye when i visited here.

Then i started checking out the new release / model section .

Hey lego, post a table of Gonad's most frequented Topics. I dare ya.

Fail Thread or no, you're definitely dedicated to this site, and congrats on reaching 20K. You're only another 20K away from the game most of us play, so keep it up...

LunaHound wrote:the tyranid picnic was the first thing that caught my eye when i visited here.

It really is amazing how many people know of Tyranid Picnic from their earliest visits to Dakka, yet it is talked about so little when they reminisce about what drew them here in the first place.

Arctik_Firangi wrote:Hey lego, post a table of Gonad's most frequented Topics. I dare ya.

Fail Thread or no, you're definitely dedicated to this site, and congrats on reaching 20K. You're only another 20K away from the game most of us play, so keep it up...

The FAIL Thread is up to 6092 posts as I post this.... I guess people will just have to become DCMs to bask in its 204 page glory, and intermittent double posting due to new sources of fail....


Also when you get to 20,000 posts your level goes up again.... I'm on Blood Angels and I was 'Captain of The Folorn Hope' since 10,000.

legoburner wrote:And just for you, from the surviving posts that made it through the years:

(stats exclude words with 2 or fewer characters)

Total words: 83522
Unique words: 19835
Median length: 6

Lots of numbers



edit: oh and congrats and thanks!

Lol, a concordance of Waaagh Gonads on Dakka.

Kinda scary.

Waaagh_Gonads wrote:
And sorry to Malfred for passing you at about 19,200 posts.

"A strange game. The only winning move is not to play."

malfred wrote:

Waaagh_Gonads wrote:
And sorry to Malfred for passing you at about 19,200 posts.

"A strange game. The only winning move is not to play."

Pwned

Gratz, Gonads! You're an upstanding elder member of the Dakka community!

I think you need to go outside.

Death By Monkeys wrote:Gratz, Gonads! I remember the days of your Green Marines (those were yours, right? Or am I thinking of another Aussie Greenskin player?)

Both Snord and Waaagh Gonads had Green Marines.

lol, gratz mate

and theres nothing wrong with having alot of posts in a short time XD
im back from iraq now, so back into 40k i go

malfred wrote:

Death By Monkeys wrote:Gratz, Gonads! I remember the days of your Green Marines (those were yours, right? Or am I thinking of another Aussie Greenskin player?)

Both Snord and Waaagh Gonads had Green Marines.

Okay - I thought that was the case, but I started thinking about it and thinking that maybe I was remembering Snord's models and so went back edited my post.... :/

Well done Gonads - a labour of love.

I've been around since those ancient times (but as I rarely post, everytime the site gets an upgrade I go back to being new user...). I remember the great Green Marine controversy, the Tyranid Picnic and the old crew. Who here still recalls those long ago heroes? Trask, Barpharanges, Bugswarm, Clouseau, Snord. Some still linger in the ether - Hubcap, whilst others seem immortal - Malfred, Kid Koyoto, and of course, Gonads.

This thread is an opportunity to revisit those long ago times and some of the great moments in Dakka history - I hope all the old guard contributes a little something.

You've just made me feel old man

Thats a heck of a lot of posts- and I still fondly remember the tourney armies done in a blog style- tempted to finally bite the bullet and do the same myself

Arctik_Firangi wrote:You're only another 20K away from the game most of us play, so keep it up...

So in about 10k posts he should fall to Chaos; beginning to posting drivel and make frequent use of lolspeak. Then a little while later, DakkaDakka will rebuild from the ashes of the Gonads heresy.

congrats!!!
now go get a life*!


(*=just kidding!)

w00t.

captain.gordino wrote:

Arctik_Firangi wrote:You're only another 20K away from the game most of us play, so keep it up...

So in about 10k posts he should fall to Chaos; beginning to posting drivel and make frequent use of lolspeak. Then a little while later, DakkaDakka will rebuild from the ashes of the Gonads heresy.

Maybe I should forewarn Yakface(with mind warnings!).

He'd probably just send Russ(not the Primarch, mind) after me...

Congratulations. You've been on Dakka almost as long as I have

Well, well. Someone finally reached a max rank.

Shoot, now I'll have to go ahead and add the 'Sanguinius' rank at the 30,000 mark just to give you something to shoot for!

So, confess Gonads, you're really an Old One who has been preparing us all for DakkaDakka dominion this whole time. Well, I think its working. And to think, I was getting antsy with glee this close to my first thousand.

yakface wrote:
Well, well. Someone finally reached a max rank.

Shoot, now I'll have to go ahead and add the 'Sanguinius' rank at the 30,000 mark just to give you something to shoot for!

I was going to ask on the mod forum when the top rank was hit, I guess now we know.

If 20,000 is top rank why is Nicole Wakelin the listing for Classic Dakkaites?

Wait, just remembered some ranks have more than others....

warpcrafter wrote:So, confess Gonads, you're really an Old One who has been preparing us all for DakkaDakka dominion this whole time. Well, I think its working. And to think, I was getting antsy with glee this close to my first thousand.

No just a guy who spends a portion of each day on dakka whilst doing modelling/painting.
Plus work is pretty light the last year or so (or with long periods of waiting between operations) so get a fair amount of online time at work.