Top GPWA Posters of All Time and Much More!

[MichaelCorfman]

Last week, after I announced the GPWA had passed the 300,000 posts and 10,000 members mark in the thread GPWA Passes 300,000 Posts and 10,000 Members!, Renee said she would be curious to know who were the top posters ever. I agreed to do that in an announcement this week, and more, so here goes.

There are 36 individuals who have made over 2,000 posts in the GPWA forums, and I'd like to begin this announcement by acknowledging their contributions and listing their member names. I've separated the list into two parts. The first list includes the 27 members who are all-time top posters that have made posts in the past year.

Drumroll please!

universal4 - 10,808 posts
GPWA Nancy - 6,133 posts
chalkoutline - 5,078 posts
DVS007 - 4,613 posts
Dominique - 4,490 posts
techwoman - 4,276 posts
Amateur - 3,549 posts
bigbcasinos - 3,399 posts
mojo - 3,388 posts
CityGuard - 3,216 posts
Doolally - 3,155 posts
jarvi - 2,743 posts
FictionNet - 2,713 posts
pgaming (formerly greek39) - 2,583 posts
matted - 2,508 posts
Renee - 2,506 posts
Pam712 - 2,407 posts
nascar1 - 2,364 posts
Professor - 2,277 posts
aksana - 2,250 posts
Chips - 2,228 posts
AmCan - 2,213 posts
TheCPA - 2,199 posts
Captain - 2,114 posts
thepokerkeep - 2,062 posts
MichaelCorfman - 2,060 posts
Paolino - 2,047 posts

A huge round of applause and thanks to everyone on this list for your contributions to the forums over the years and especially for your continued loyalty and contributions this past year.

Bringing the total to 36 are the accounts of 9 additional members that have not participated by posting in the forums in the past year. First on this list is Cindy, the all-time high poster, who was the original founder of the GPWA and next is John who went by the name CasinoGlen in the forum and, who together with his wife Marlene, was the second owner of the GPWA. Thanks and a toast to each of you for helping to lay the foundation upon which the GPWA has grown.



SlyCin56 - 21,737
casinoglen - 3,688
kidd75219 - 3,268
croupier - 3,072
Oneguy2nv - 2,850
modtester - 2,297
WildBill - 2,217
diceman - 2,206
LadyV - 2,015

I promised Renee I would also try to throw in some other topics to make this announcement more interesting, suggesting I might provide a list of the biggest windbags. We have statistics about the average length of posts, so I thought that would make for some good fun. Little did I know where this topic would take me when the idea first crossed my mind.

If I look at the top posters over all time (those members with more than 200 posts) it ends up I am the biggest windbag of all with an average post length of 1,223 characters. The second biggest windbag among the top posters of all time is CityGuard with an average post length of 1,056 characters. Since CityGuard is my son, Steven, this just goes to help confirm the saying "the apple doesn't fall far from the tree."

If we go a little further down the list, GaryTheScubaGuy clocks in with 161 posts and an even higher average post length of 2,101 characters with his long SEO tutorials. Going all the way to the end of the list, the record is an average of 9,618 characters per post for GPWA editorial team member Digo. The ten posts he made were all interviews the GPWA did with affiliates. And I think we all know that when you put the GPWA editorial team together with affiliates in an interview situation the result is some interesting reading, and more than just a paragraph or two of it.

On the other end of the spectrum are those with very short post lengths. Especially noteworthy is the GPWA’s Anthony, belovedly known in these here parts as Sheriff “Quickfire” Anthony. His average post over the past year was only 158 characters in length. He did make a large number of posts in the past year, in fact he was the number four poster in the last twelve months, but his posts were fired off very quickly and were straight to the point. Exactly the sort of behavior you would expect from the local sheriff.

I decided as part of this announcement I should also take a more in-depth look at posts made over the past year. For the twelve month period from 22 June 2009 through 21 June 2010 there were 53,928 posts made on the GPWA website and the average post was 584 characters in length. The median number of posts by members that posted in the last year was five, underscoring the fact that participation in the forums follows a classic "long tail" pattern that is heavily centered on reading posts rather than writing posts for the vast majority of our members. Only a tiny fraction of our members, 513 in total, made ten or more posts. And the even more rarified atmosphere of members making 100 or more posts in the past year was limited to 99 members.

In the interest of recognizing everyone who made 100 or more posts in the last year (and also in the interest of trying to increase even further the average length of my posts) below is a summary of the posting activity by the top 99 GPWA posters over the past year. Let's have a big round of applause!



GPWA Nancy - 3,578 posts averaging 767 characters
universal4 - 2,359 posts averaging 400 characters
Renee - 1,435 posts averaging 571 characters
Anthony - 1,401 posts averaging 158 characters
thepokerkeep - 1,304 posts averaging 546 characters
Chalkie - 1,245 posts averaging 537 characters
Shaun O'neill - 1,145 posts averaging 601 characters
Chips - 1,129 posts averaging 426 characters
GamTrak - 1,083 posts averaging 538 characters
giggles7p - 941 posts averaging 468 characters
casinojack - 883 posts averaging 283 characters
pggaming & greek39 - 792 posts averaging 513 characters
mojo - 783 posts averaging 512 characters
Betpartners - 751 posts averaging 721 characters
PaulM - 707 posts averaging 663 characters
casinobonusguy - 582 posts averaging 456 characters
pompeyrayuk - 507 posts averaging 329 characters
greek39 - 506 posts averaging 435 characters
Nandakishore - 482 posts averaging 262 characters
pumacat - 474 posts averaging 345 characters
MichaelCorfman - 468 posts averaging 1,267 characters
GFPC - 465 posts averaging 637 characters
Skinski - 449 posts averaging 188 characters
Doolally - 434 posts averaging 191 characters
jarvi - 432 posts averaging 554 characters
AussieDave - 428 posts averaging 922 characters
CWC-Martyn - 423 posts averaging 390 characters
ironman2000 - 412 posts averaging 733 characters
alexpratt - 381 posts averaging 783 characters
TheGooner - 376 posts averaging 842 characters
CityGuard - 357 posts averaging 987 characters
WagerX - 341 posts averaging 303 characters
Caruso - 326 posts averaging 709 characters
eaton2003 - 319 posts averaging 472 characters
Income Access Blog - 309 posts averaging 569 characters
Webzcas - 289 posts averaging 501 characters
pgaming - 286 posts averaging 650 characters
bbonline - 277 posts averaging 420 characters
matted - 269 posts averaging 374 characters
PokerNations - 249 posts averaging 486 characters
patmcluk - 248 posts averaging 369 characters
Dominique - 247 posts averaging 417 characters
bb1web - 245 posts averaging 982 characters
Integrity - 243 posts averaging 939 characters
The Buzz - 243 posts averaging 1,243 characters
TrishOZ - 236 posts averaging 411 characters
AmCan - 223 posts averaging 492 characters
Paolino - 214 posts averaging 248 characters
arkyt - 207 posts averaging 594 characters
topboss - 201 posts averaging 562 characters
arisoftnet - 199 posts averaging 759 characters
pokertramp - 196 posts averaging 721 characters
aksana - 194 posts averaging 1412 characters
joeyl - 187 posts averaging 400 characters
GCG - 184 posts averaging 587 characters
Engineer - 182 posts averaging 263 characters
JonOfFinsbury - 176 posts averaging 315 characters
casino2k.com - 175 posts averaging 363 characters
Simmo! - 170 posts averaging 463 characters
ACF-Webmaster - 169 posts averaging 468 characters
HodgeyBoy - 164 posts averaging 374 characters
Daera - 161 posts averaging 568 characters
FictionNet - 153 posts averaging 247 characters
livefree247 - 146 posts averaging 458 characters
sloto - 144 posts averaging 923 characters
AK - 144 posts averaging 384 characters
bonusbeast - 143 posts averaging 141 characters
nitro - 143 posts averaging 638 characters
slotplayer - 138 posts averaging 315 characters
MediaPlexaKris - 137 posts averaging 293 characters
specialagent08 - 134 posts averaging 454 characters
casinogod - 134 posts averaging 431 characters
RayUK - 134 posts averaging 497 characters
kwblue - 133 posts averaging 521 characters
Captain - 131 posts averaging 334 characters
Ixian - 131 posts averaging 650 characters
elgoog - 130 posts averaging 195 characters
TheBoyMitchell - 129 posts averaging 530 characters
ALEX777 - 127 posts averaging 418 characters
Jinnia - 126 posts averaging 512 characters
bonustreak - 121 posts averaging 478 characters
Professor - 121 posts averaging 265 characters
casinobonusrus - 121 posts averaging 430 characters
EP VPMarketing - 118 posts averaging 455 characters
kaus - 118 posts averaging 875 characters
Adamvv - 116 posts averaging 568 characters
TanyaEverest - 116 posts averaging 848 characters
QwertyCasino - 116 posts averaging 329 characters
dhayman - 113 posts averaging 401 characters
NicoleF - 111 posts averaging 442 characters
pandragon - 110 posts averaging 457 characters
hakank - 109 posts averaging 349 characters
brean78 - 109 posts averaging 346 characters
CK - Schalk - 107 posts averaging 610 characters
Lloyd-Brightshare - 107 posts averaging 648 characters
OnlineGamblersReview - 107 posts averaging 654 characters
Spearmaster - 107 posts averaging 644 characters
Amateur - 105 posts averaging 796 characters
vinism - 103 posts averaging 856 characters
lots0 - 100 posts averaging 608 characters
Connie B - 100 posts averaging 498 characters

Thank you and congratulations to everyone for a job well done! And especially to our number one affiliate poster universal4 and our number one affiliate manager poster Renee.

Your contributions, whether they are so many you are included on one of the lists above, or just a few posts here and there, like the vast majority of our members, help make the GPWA what it is today.

Michael

[TanyaEverest]

I can't think of a better reason for cupcake/cake distribution to commence...

[pompeyrayuk]

Wow thats what I call data mining lol.

Well done to all the members in the various lists. Think I even saw a glimpse of myself too.

[thepokerkeep]

We all new the Corfmans' were full of hot air - it's nice to see Michael confirm it here.
Interesting stats. Thanks for taking the time to compile the data.

[arisoftnet]

A very interesting historycal post! surelly is hard to bid 10K Posts

Great job Universal4!

[Doolally]

Great post!! Love the stats.

A few more like this Michael and you'll take your average up and over Digo's.

Just to show how really sad I must be, this post from Michael has a total of 10235 characters!!

[hakank]

Yes! I'm in the list!
What did I win?

Umm.. Mostly crap posts by me, but I will get better on posting, but it' aint easy with Universal4 answering all interesting posts.

[Skinski]

Very surprised to see my name on one of the lists !

[Nandakishore]

Drumroll for Michael for creating this stats

I was just wondering whether I should now try to improve my meagre 262 characters average by starting every post with some nasty jokes copied from somewhere. But then Nancy may revoke my private membership due to serious copyright infringement.

[hakank]

LOL! Quote all your website content before posting, that will bring up character average AND she can't blame you for copying anyone

--snip--

I was just wondering whether I should now try to improve my meagre 262 characters average by starting every post with some nasty jokes copied from somewhere. But then Nancy may revoke my private membership due to serious copyright infringement.

[thepokerkeep]

Yes! I'm in the list!
What did I win?

Umm.. Mostly crap posts by me, but I will get better on posting, but it' aint easy with Universal4 answering all interesting posts.

LOL - You need to get up at 4am and answer the posts before Rick crawls out of bed. That's what I do. I take it one step further though, I actually try to think what Rick would say, then I say it first....

Then I cruise the forums looking for spam posts and report them all, even some that aren't, just to keep him busy.

[Anthony]

Congrats to everyone on the list.
Thanks to everyone who makes GPWA what it is.

[hakank]

LOL! Best reply this year!

I DO have an advantage, I live in Sweden so I if I roll out of bed early enough, I should beat both of you. Whilst you guys sleep I forge my plans

Team up on RP all new posts for two months from now? LOL

LOL - You need to get up at 4am and answer the posts before Rick crawls out of bed. That's what I do. I take it one step further though, I actually try to think what Rick would say, then I say it first....

Then I cruise the forums looking for spam posts and report them all, even some that aren't, just to keep him busy.

[Nandakishore]

That's a brilliant idea. I can e.g. copy every day one page from my site and request a review.

[casinogod]

What cool stats and I made one of the lists what an honour.

Nice to see so many active members.

[hakank]

Yep, and argue with quotes from all answers.
That will bring your char stats up LOL

But then you might feel that Mr. C and universlave4 is sending you the Evil Eye..

That's a brilliant idea. I can e.g. copy every day one page from my site and request a review.

[jarvi]

Great reading, thanks for putting this together and confirming a few things about myself and other members.

[Chips]

Damn Michael, ya'll got too much time on your hands. Reckon that is what CEO's do then?

Very interesting analysis though. Thanks for the mention and kudos too! No surprise Rick topped the list, he may not have the longest posts but still qualifies as a windbag with the volume of posts.

Really neat to see the numbers crunched. Now get back to work!

[chalkoutline]

Woohoo! Second on the list.

I haven't been online as much as I obviously have in the past but have been super busy with some other projects recently. I'll be back online a little more from now on.

Congratulations to all on the lists, it has been great chatting with you all!

[Renee]

Thanks Michael

That is some awesome number crunching you did...

It's nice to see so many people active here for so long..

Also, Tanya - agreed.. I think it's cupcake time!