A SoylentNews Milestone
martyb writes:
I am generally not one to "toot my own horn", but I'm making an exception in this case. In large part because SoylentNews has been a huge part of my life since its very start. Also, as a result of the confidences placed on me, here, I've grown in areas I never expected when I first started. It has been a distinct privilege to serve the community all these years. At first I performed software test on the site and its updates. Later, I reviewed the documents which were filed to enable us to become a legal entity. (Never before in my entire life had I seen a single sentence that contained over 500 words! I did, here... not just once, but twice!) Later came becoming an editor on the site, and still later the Editor-in-Chief.
In each case I've found I've grown in directions I had never anticipated. I am a better man thanks to the opportunities and challenges provided here. High on the list is how it has affirmed these long-held convictions:
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The more I know, the more I know I don't know.
Thank You!
At the time of this story's release, it marks seven years since the very first story I edited appeared on SoylentNews. I count myself extremely fortunate to have worked with some amazingly-gifted people who founded, developed, and supported this site. And, even more importantly, the community that sprung up as we made ourselves known, waaay back on 2014-02-17 02:06:00 UTC.
I so want to personally thank everyone who had a part in this journey, but I am also absolutely certain I will be unable to list them all. Everyone on staff has had a hand in helping me reach this milestone.
This marks another milestone, as well: as of April 13, I posted my 10,000th story to SoylentNews! (Specifically, this one.) More about that later.
Comparison:
By sake of comparison, here are the TOP 20 users by count of comments posted to the site, since the site started:
mysql> SELECT count(comments.uid) as ct, comments.uid, users.nickname FROM comments, users WHERE comments.uid = users.uid GROUP BY uid ORDER BY ct DESC LIMIT 20;
+--------+------+----------------------+
| ct | uid | nickname |
+--------+------+----------------------+
| 412967 | 1 | Anonymous Coward |
| 24345 | 3766 | khallow |
| 22841 | 2926 | Runaway1956 |
| 21134 | 18 | The Mighty Buzzard |
| 20426 | 881 | takyon |
| 17327 | 156 | c0lo |
| 12478 | 5839 | DannyB |
| 11433 | 5086 | Azuma Hazuki |
| 10875 | 1554 | frojack |
| 10837 | 3937 | JoeMerchant |
| 10624 | 445 | VLM |
| 9593 | 6150 | fustakrakich |
| 9252 | 1380 | DeathMonkey |
| 8961 | 1357 | bob_super |
| 8852 | 2645 | aristarchus |
| 8343 | 552 | Phoenix666 |
| 7838 | 863 | FatPhil |
| 6979 | 1608 | maxwell demon |
| 6947 | 636 | Thexalon |
| 6683 | 2339 | MichaelDavidCrawford |
+--------+------+----------------------+
20 rows in set (4.48 sec)mysql>
Hat tip to FatPhil for helping with the syntax of the query!
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