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One Millionth Comment!
On 2020-05-28 the SoylentNews community attained an amazing milestone: the posting of its one millionth comment!
First off, please accept my sincere thanks and gratitude to the community for all your contributions to the site to get us to this point. Never did I imagine in those first few days when comment IDs were 3 or 4 digits long that such a milestone was even feasible! I mean the site was crashing several times a day. Not an auspicious start, that's for sure! But we all pulled together, weathered some challenges, and got things pulled together.. and we're still here!
So, who was the lucky poster of comment 1,000,000? And who was the runner-up at comment 999,999 (which has a nice palindromic ring to it, wouldn't you agree?
The honor of the very first 7-digit comment fittingly goes to story-submitter extraordinaire takyon. Yes, not content to post comment ID 1000000 because that could be just a one-shot lucky break. No, he has posted (as of this writing) 18,731 comments. Oh, and as for submitting stories, he is unfortunately omitted from the "Most Active Authors" list on the SoylentNews Hall of Fame because he is also an editor. So, please join me in thanking takyon for submitting 5,852 stories! Oh! And as an editor, he has also pushed out 1,350 stories! Whenever I see one of his subs in the queue, I know it only needs a quick review before pushing it out to the story queue. He makes my job as an editor much easier and makes SoylentNews look good! Thanks takyon!
So who was our runner-up with comment number 999,999? Well, he wasn't just spinning his tires when he posted this comment. None other than our also-prolific Runaway1956! He is no slouch when it comes to posting comments, either, as he has posted 18,483 of them so far. He has taken an active part in comment moderation, too with 2,968 moderations of which 78% were upmods. As if that were not enough, he is also an active contributor to our Folding@Home team, sitting currently at 3rd place and making a hard run for 2nd place! (F@H investigates — via computer modelling — how proteins fold.) The F@H group's efforts have almost exclusively been redirected to understanding the SARS-CoV-2 virus which causes COVID-19 disease.
For those who may be unaware, SoylentNews is purely a volunteer organization. Nobody has ever been paid even one cent for their work. Further, we have never accepted any advertising on SoylentNews; the site is entirely self supporting through the subscriptions of the community. We run a tight ship and expenses run approximately $20 per day for everything.
Speaking of volunteers, it brings me great pleasure to call out another major milestone, fnord666 has now edited over 5,000 stories on SoylentNews! (See Most Active Authors.) Thanks so very much, fnord666, for all your hard work and sacrifices to make that happen!
Thanks everybody! Here's to many more years!
(Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Saturday May 30 2020, @10:46AM
Keep on trollin', and fuck beta! :)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2020, @10:53AM (2 children)
Isn't this kind of thing one of the Signs of the Apocalypse?
Not that we're exactly lacking in Signs at the moment, of course...
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2020, @11:21AM
Another sign, both of these "significant number" posts were by known users...and not by the most frequent poster, AC.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2020, @05:05PM
Around here we've had the place burn to the ground, flooded, hailed on, and now plagued.
How many signs do you need?
(Score: 3, Funny) by Kell on Saturday May 30 2020, @12:01PM (2 children)
Frist Post!
Scientists ask questions. Engineers solve problems.
(Score: 5, Funny) by martyb on Saturday May 30 2020, @12:09PM (1 child)
Not too bad, only off by a million or so.
Better luck next time!
;^)
Wit is intellect, dancing.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Kell on Saturday May 30 2020, @12:49PM
Next time for sure! Fuck beta! :D
Scientists ask questions. Engineers solve problems.
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2020, @12:26PM (5 children)
... and their beta is far better.
(Score: 2, Informative) by shrewdsheep on Saturday May 30 2020, @12:39PM (1 child)
There is the difference between the warm and uplifting draft of insight and knowledge and the hot blaze of, well, hot air.
(Score: 5, Funny) by shrewdsheep on Saturday May 30 2020, @12:41PM
... also my comment ID is much better than yours
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2020, @01:18PM (2 children)
But here you can post as a true Anonymous Coward, and at the green site you no longer can.
That makes this place far, far better IMHO.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 31 2020, @01:18AM (1 child)
You can post anonymously on Slashdot but you have to log in first. You check the anonymous box before you submit.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 31 2020, @05:05AM
Logging in means you're not anonymous.
Yes, any site can track your IP address, but most of them won't bother unless you're making some kind of illegal posts. There's always VPNs for the more privacy-minded, as well.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by The Vocal Minority on Saturday May 30 2020, @01:21PM
Well done SN and good work all.
(Score: 2) by zeigerpuppy on Saturday May 30 2020, @02:22PM
great to see it still going strong!
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2020, @03:12PM
(Score: 3, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Saturday May 30 2020, @04:42PM (1 child)
I was just walking in the rain, minding my own business. Suddenly, the guy behind me was struck by lightning! I didn't even hang around to see if he was alright. I hightailed it to shelter!!
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Saturday May 30 2020, @09:44PM
You should have gone back and knelt on the guys neck for a while!
*Ducks*
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 30 2020, @07:18PM (1 child)
The mighty AC the Great. Be envious, you may.
(Score: 2) by martyb on Saturday May 30 2020, @08:13PM
Quoth an Anonymous Coward:
You forgot to mention how you are so very humble!
;)
Wit is intellect, dancing.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Sunday May 31 2020, @12:54PM
5,582 stories submitted is phenomenal, takyon. Thanks for all your hard work!
Thanks to all the editors and coders who keep the site running. May Soylent continue for another million comments!
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by Wootery on Monday June 01 2020, @10:01AM
Congratulations, SoylentNews. It really is made of people.