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ffr

(22,649 posts)
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 06:54 PM Mar 2016

How is it possible for a single DU'er to be posting virtually 24/7?

Is that normal on here?

I don't suppose it's a crime to look at the posting history of other DU'ers. Out of curiosity and to satisfy my analytical side, I did a random sample of those who hit the REC button to certain threads and guess what? They must be superhuman. They're on here posting literally, at least, every 30 minutes, around the clock and multiple subjects.

What, don't these people sleep or work or have a life outside of DU?

You cannot view past posting hours beyond the last 24, but they're posting as many posts at 3 AM as at 3 PM, 9AM or 9PM, etc...? Coincidentally, these same users are quite outspoken, having a controversial opinion on virtually everything. What are they, Harvard graduates on 5 Hour Energy? I'm outspoken as any of you, but JC!!!

Trying to understand how that is possible. Mind consuming more and more resources trying to solve the riddle. Shutting down other unnecessary body functions, taking up more processor time, steam coming out of my ears, still unclear how that's possible...

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How is it possible for a single DU'er to be posting virtually 24/7? (Original Post) ffr Mar 2016 OP
Lol. hrmjustin Mar 2016 #1
It's not? Rex Mar 2016 #2
all you need to do is not have a life, hollysmom Mar 2016 #25
But what about sleep? Rex Mar 2016 #26
Oh, I posted down thread about that, hollysmom Mar 2016 #32
That makes total sense. Rex Mar 2016 #34
Hang in there Hollysmom. Vattel Mar 2016 #119
DU has members in all time zones of the planet, as far as I can tell. It's always been... Hekate Mar 2016 #141
I tend to stay up late sometimes yuiyoshida Mar 2016 #158
Oh I hear you about the 15 yr old dog nadine_mn Mar 2016 #170
but we love them hollysmom Mar 2016 #191
5100 posts in about 5 years. You're human. leveymg Mar 2016 #79
I posted down thread about starting to question someone who posted 2000 times in 2 weeks hollysmom Mar 2016 #192
Thanks for bringing up this subject. leveymg Mar 2016 #194
awww, c'mon NJCher Mar 2016 #134
Get busy! That mouse isn't going to click itself, you know n/t eridani Mar 2016 #166
Chronic insomnia ? JonathanRackham Mar 2016 #3
dingdingding! redruddyred Mar 2016 #117
I'm gonna post on this thread every 5 minutes for the next 3 days... Dont call me Shirley Mar 2016 #4
I'm going to reply to your reply every 3 minutes for the next 5 dqys... leeroysphitz Mar 2016 #135
Thank you, I admire your tenacity and dedication... Dont call me Shirley Mar 2016 #179
I Am PostBot 3000. onehandle Mar 2016 #5
Is that you Little Marco? ToxMarz Mar 2016 #51
That was funny. metroins Mar 2016 #77
Chris Christie says to Marco: "THIS guy is a f-ing mook, and we don't pay mooks..." TrollBuster9090 Mar 2016 #130
there are a few that are home bound Kali Mar 2016 #6
Some also seem to have a good supply of ethanol Major Nikon Mar 2016 #42
Ethanol Wibly Mar 2016 #64
I'm not sure it isn't bath salts Major Nikon Mar 2016 #73
Ha! Listen to yourselves. jberryhill Mar 2016 #111
LOL I see what you did there CreekDog Mar 2016 #157
people can rec anytime. the rec isn't always at the same time the thread was posted JI7 Mar 2016 #7
...and the answer is not nearly as fun as the question... ScreamingMeemie Mar 2016 #65
That's true. polly7 Mar 2016 #68
Hello my dear friend. fun n serious Mar 2016 #87
Hi, my sweet fun. polly7 Mar 2016 #98
I know you do. I know your heart. fun n serious Mar 2016 #113
Man, time flies. polly7 Mar 2016 #124
I was a young mom first born at 18... fun n serious Mar 2016 #137
I know. I too have wondered about that. DU is an obsession for some riderinthestorm Mar 2016 #8
Sad? Duppers Mar 2016 #91
I just recc'd your thread. Blus4u Mar 2016 #9
Train & airline delays nt TheDormouse Mar 2016 #10
Account sharing? There used to be a poster in the I/P forum Purveyor Mar 2016 #11
You're in good company then ffr Mar 2016 #17
The magic of coffee Scootaloo Mar 2016 #31
No, normal people would refrain from comment cprise Mar 2016 #110
Yep. polly7 Mar 2016 #46
I'd say the OP was trolling people he just disagrees with cprise Mar 2016 #131
Oh, that's really rich Oilwellian Mar 2016 #184
Exactly my point! ffr Mar 2016 #189
STOP IT. Matt Filipowicz is a US video blogger. Get over it. cprise Mar 2016 #199
It was meant for you too, mostly. I cannot help it if people choose to take sides ffr Mar 2016 #200
Lets ignore the ones about insomnia and other details cprise Mar 2016 #203
This is nuts. matthewf Mar 2016 #205
That is easily explainable. Maybe they're phone typing at work in the morning R B Garr Mar 2016 #197
Amazing isn't it? Milestone Mar 2016 #12
If you know the topic and can type quickly, you can do a 100 posts Hoyt Mar 2016 #22
you aren't very good at math LOL snooper2 Mar 2016 #175
Dang it. Milestone Mar 2016 #185
sometimes they are different people Skittles Mar 2016 #13
A lot of us have wondered that BuelahWitch Mar 2016 #14
Is it me? hollysmom Mar 2016 #15
Nope, not you. ffr Mar 2016 #23
I used to hang out at this bar in San Juan, PR that had Happy Hour at 4 o'clock AM & PM. bluedigger Mar 2016 #16
I swear you made that story up just so you could use that emoticon! Kip Humphrey Mar 2016 #36
I can't remember the name, but it was just a block from my apartment on Calle de Christo. bluedigger Mar 2016 #70
I've been known to have insomnia, myself Aerows Mar 2016 #18
I've heard some people have an auto-unrec device Enrique Mar 2016 #19
Spring Break my friend... RepubliCON-Watch Mar 2016 #20
Why do kids need a "spring break" anyway? jberryhill Mar 2016 #115
What sometimes bothers me is that some of these same posters, who seem to post night and day - cwydro Mar 2016 #21
Wow noretreatnosurrender Mar 2016 #24
Totally agree! Iwillnevergiveup Mar 2016 #66
Coffee? Sanity Claws Mar 2016 #27
Maybe they have an IV of 5 hour energy drink drip. Rex Mar 2016 #29
Type, type, type, click submit. blogslut Mar 2016 #28
Have seen all sorts of shennanigans over the years. salin Mar 2016 #30
I am an agoraphobic. SamKnause Mar 2016 #33
"I am an agoraphobic." beergood Mar 2016 #86
Did you just call my condition slimy ??? SamKnause Mar 2016 #90
thanks for pointing that out beergood Mar 2016 #97
Autobots. misterhighwasted Mar 2016 #35
But... Else You Are Mad Mar 2016 #118
Ha. Well now, sacrifices must be made misterhighwasted Mar 2016 #122
GOP troll accounts? applegrove Mar 2016 #37
I'd say troll accounts dlwickham Mar 2016 #146
It is a Ralph E. Wolf and Sam Sheepdog team system. Agnosticsherbet Mar 2016 #38
Or the 'Interchangeable Darren' system from Bewitched? TrollBuster9090 Mar 2016 #125
They post in their sleep? n/t left-of-center2012 Mar 2016 #39
Even androids dream of electric sheep Matariki Mar 2016 #40
AI Bots ? nt ladjf Mar 2016 #41
I'm thinking not, each is someone actually typing opinions ffr Mar 2016 #156
Yeah I've been known to post at all hours. 47of74 Mar 2016 #43
someone, here, has got too much time on their hands Warren DeMontague Mar 2016 #44
And all that worrying pintobean Mar 2016 #75
Immediately made me think of the famous quote passiveporcupine Mar 2016 #84
Home bound, disabilities, retired... SoapBox Mar 2016 #45
I was accused once of being several people sharing one ID Omaha Steve Mar 2016 #47
Lol, the same thing happened to us once jberryhill Mar 2016 #116
Tag team. NV Whino Mar 2016 #48
Identity Management Software. Maedhros Mar 2016 #49
This message was self-deleted by its author silvershadow Mar 2016 #50
Please share your theories about why eleny Mar 2016 #52
Any online forum has people that literally do nothing but post on that forum day in and day out. And Gene Debs Mar 2016 #53
Not alleging anything about any particular monied interest. It's an inescapable conclusion that GoneFishin Mar 2016 #54
Yes, yes and yes 840high Mar 2016 #57
Absolutely correct. laundry_queen Mar 2016 #144
Yep. There are at least 4 who are pretty narrow in focus and not interested in information, but are GoneFishin Mar 2016 #151
Not sure if worring abut other people posting hours can be,,, Cryptoad Mar 2016 #55
Lol, for realz. giftedgirl77 Mar 2016 #60
Imagine a couple of students making money with an ID management program rotating the computer chair. Festivito Mar 2016 #56
yeah, there could be a group thing easily Fast Walker 52 Mar 2016 #123
I'm sometimes on here posting in the middle of the night, Blue_In_AK Mar 2016 #58
My sleep has been screwed up since my first month of working with the ambulance, polly7 Mar 2016 #59
Well some of us are retired and have little else to do. jwirr Mar 2016 #61
I'm not nearly as prolific of a poster as others, but I post and rec stuff nearly 24 hours a day Victor_c3 Mar 2016 #62
Good to see you. You have my number if you ever need to talk. nt msanthrope Mar 2016 #78
yes, and thanks Victor_c3 Mar 2016 #168
I'm so glad. msanthrope Mar 2016 #172
I see you've been on a posting marathon as well ornotna Mar 2016 #63
I was waiting for a longtime silent DUer to show up and say that. ScreamingMeemie Mar 2016 #69
Low hanging fruit ornotna Mar 2016 #71
I know of one DUer who posts an average of almost 100 a day, at all hours of the day and night. George II Mar 2016 #67
I don't believe that. zappaman Mar 2016 #103
I've read a few studies lately madville Mar 2016 #127
You find the same type of thing in online roleplay games Marrah_G Mar 2016 #160
Bots? Deadshot Mar 2016 #72
Many DUers are shut-ins AngryAmish Mar 2016 #74
excellent point nt steve2470 Mar 2016 #95
I can understand that madville Mar 2016 #133
Yeah! libodem Mar 2016 #206
This message was self-deleted by its author Android3.14 Mar 2016 #76
Is it normal to catalog the number of posts of other site participants? Vinca Mar 2016 #80
Could it be... Mike Nelson Mar 2016 #81
I once saw a DUer post in the California Group and then, not more than one minute later, post... greendog Mar 2016 #82
He/She may be Aussie national living in Cali. nt fun n serious Mar 2016 #88
lol beergood Mar 2016 #93
. greendog Mar 2016 #101
The internet (and telecommunications & media) shrink distance, of course. What's mysterious? . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2016 #94
Does the Internet also shrink beer? If so, I'm against it. greendog Mar 2016 #99
It expands beer by disseminating open source beer recipes and reviewing microbreweries. nt Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2016 #105
. stonecutter357 Mar 2016 #83
Интернет исследования Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2016 #85
Inside Russia's Troll Army Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2016 #89
When I'm not posting, my pet monkey Boris takes over, he's quite good! steve2470 Mar 2016 #92
I tried that with my dog. But I spill a lot of food on my keyboard, and he spent his whole shift GoneFishin Mar 2016 #152
hungry doggie :) nt steve2470 Mar 2016 #173
There are lots of members where if you do the math they post A LOT 7962 Mar 2016 #96
Message auto-removed Name removed Mar 2016 #100
Yep, and "meta" is absolutely permitted here, Nye Bevan Mar 2016 #128
They aren't single.... Spitfire of ATJ Mar 2016 #102
The same way it is possible that people mine the internet for trash to bring here to harass bravenak Mar 2016 #104
Those people aren't insomniacs.... Hekate Mar 2016 #150
I have bravenak Mar 2016 #155
I didn't rec this post teach1st Mar 2016 #106
Insomnia is hell. Duppers Mar 2016 #107
Hmm... FourScore Mar 2016 #108
The first rule of the posting club is Loki Mar 2016 #109
Simply put... Else You Are Mad Mar 2016 #112
It's just a shadow. jtuck004 Mar 2016 #114
Hah! Retired, galloping ADHD. Internet, as someone else with ADHD said, is like crack. djean111 Mar 2016 #120
MUST POST EVERY 30 MINUTES...OR THE UNIVERSE WILL IMPLODE!! TrollBuster9090 Mar 2016 #121
People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, Nye Bevan Mar 2016 #126
It's been like that since spring RandySF Mar 2016 #129
Were you here in 2008? We had such an entity here then as well Lorien Mar 2016 #132
LA Times and NewYorker Studied How billhicks76 Mar 2016 #136
This link fully explains the OP......... cprise Mar 2016 #138
Take one DUer who's a born night owl, stir in a sleep disorder & a dash of chronic insomnia.... Hekate Mar 2016 #139
I've wondered the same thing for years, there was a poster whose post count meant they could not ... slipslidingaway Mar 2016 #140
part of it is time zones KT2000 Mar 2016 #142
I rack up posts when I'm doing one_voice Mar 2016 #143
I've noticed something similar dlwickham Mar 2016 #145
I'm an insomniac and have a low sleep threshold. Chan790 Mar 2016 #147
A good lot of us are overseas too! flygal Mar 2016 #148
You aren't the only one who has noticed that laundry_queen Mar 2016 #149
That is rather suspicious. Odin2005 Mar 2016 #153
Who are you talking about? hfojvt Mar 2016 #154
My schedule is fairly similar revbones Mar 2016 #177
lol hfojvt Mar 2016 #180
Exactly! lol nt revbones Mar 2016 #181
I've never considered it. Solly Mack Mar 2016 #159
LOL! I have not heard of this, um, affinity before. ebayfool Mar 2016 #161
Check my profile under the "about me" section. Solly Mack Mar 2016 #162
I did that. And I must say you are the sanest person I've run into on DU all day! ebayfool Mar 2016 #163
I'd like that. Thanks! Solly Mack Mar 2016 #164
(Sotto voce) ... me too! Shhh! n/t ebayfool Mar 2016 #165
It's very simple, TV commercials interrupt my naps followed by ... In_The_Wind Mar 2016 #167
It's the well-known super hero - Super DU'er (SUDU for short) who can bash republicans 24/7 pampango Mar 2016 #169
I've simply posted the same message 49,074 times. Orrex Mar 2016 #171
I hate to go all conspiracy-theory here, but... Snarkoleptic Mar 2016 #174
Rec'ing isn't often just a way of giving a nod to a post underpants Mar 2016 #176
Is the content of their threads or post consistant? liberal N proud Mar 2016 #178
Telepathic messages being sent via the Internets! yortsed snacilbuper Mar 2016 #182
I'm thoroughly enjoying this thread. Mary Mac Mar 2016 #183
It's something in the water. (nt) So Far From Heaven Mar 2016 #186
I have a life but I am naturally curious and observant... Phentex Mar 2016 #187
So did any of the folks you are talking about show up in your thread? Rex Mar 2016 #188
Off the top of my head, no. ffr Mar 2016 #190
See The Math Subthread Above ProfessorGAC Mar 2016 #193
Less about post count and more about 24/7 ffr Mar 2016 #202
Don't mind me, Blue_Tires Mar 2016 #195
I observe much more than I post. But I'm an observing fiend. Buns_of_Fire Mar 2016 #196
There is one poster comes to mind who has around 8,000 posts in 90 days R B Garr Mar 2016 #198
Dude I've wondered the same thing titaniumsalute Mar 2016 #201
Troll power, no life and caffeine tabasco Mar 2016 #204

hollysmom

(5,946 posts)
32. Oh, I posted down thread about that,
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 07:15 PM
Mar 2016

!) I am retired and going through a bad patch of stuff death, illness etc dogging my family.
2) I have a 15 year old dog that has to pee a lot and wakes me at least every 4 hours to pee. So while I wait for her in the yard, I post and this is the only board where people post in the middle of the night,

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
34. That makes total sense.
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 07:18 PM
Mar 2016

Just thinking about it, I could be there too since after hitting my 40s I have to get up EVERY NIGHT now and pee.

Hekate

(90,191 posts)
141. DU has members in all time zones of the planet, as far as I can tell. It's always been...
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 10:05 PM
Mar 2016

....a feature I've liked, since I'm a born nightowl.

yuiyoshida

(41,762 posts)
158. I tend to stay up late sometimes
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 02:34 AM
Mar 2016

Must be the Asian Teas I drink, some have more caffeine than others. I am either here, on twitter and another website. By the way, I work at home..and yes I work from this very computer. Its allowed me a great amount of freedom, and most of the time, I chose to stay at home, snuggle in my blanket, and see what's new in the world.

nadine_mn

(3,702 posts)
170. Oh I hear you about the 15 yr old dog
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 07:40 AM
Mar 2016

People ask why I am up at 2am, and it's because my old girl needs to go...and I need to wait patiently for her. She also likes to make sure she has re-sniffed everything in the yard.

Today I slept in - my 17 yr old cat woke me up at 2:30 by stepping on my face for food. I stayed up to see my husband off to work because the dogs have to potty at least 2x before we can go back to bed.

DU and Facebook keep me company

hollysmom

(5,946 posts)
192. I posted down thread about starting to question someone who posted 2000 times in 2 weeks
Thu Mar 24, 2016, 02:23 PM
Mar 2016

at first I found the person annoying, but when they started collecting money for something I got suspicious. When I complained to the mods, they obviously knew the person who was hiding under a new ID and defended that person and threatened to ban me for looking for that person on that board and on others. I was on disability at the time, had lots of free time and like I said this person was collecting money with really no posting history, and I had been posting there for years and and felt there was something wrong. Well, for one thing this person and some mods immediately took a hostile attitude toward any questioning like who are your to question this person handling hundreds of dollars that did not exist 2 weeks ago. It was later shown this person was nuts, riling people up with fake stories about another person, and was not donating money but living off it. And I was the person who got banned.
Sock puppets and the people that protect them, heh. And why were almost every post they did bumping threads. the good news is the owner of the board got involved and fired the mods. The owner had just had a baby and much more important priorities, I had to contact her through an old e-mail I found from years before when it was a small start up group. who knew that there is so much intrigue on-line? The crazy person survived on other boards for a while longer, but eventually everyone got to see the manipulation of the crazy.

leveymg

(36,418 posts)
194. Thanks for bringing up this subject.
Thu Mar 24, 2016, 03:22 PM
Mar 2016

I am also aware of the improbably active posters, those who appear to be industry shills and on the other side, those who post an endless stream of seemingly random items or psychotic rantings, and those who simply lie dormant between election cycles and reemerge to toot a particular candidate. All that is to be expected.

There is the related problems of sock puppets and on-line begging and frauds. I'm just glad I don't have to try to manage this place. That would be a nightmare, without enough fun or money in it. My hats off to the owners and the mods, who generally do a great job regardless.

NJCher

(35,427 posts)
134. awww, c'mon
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 09:42 PM
Mar 2016

How can you say that--"not have a life?" I think it's just a different version of a life. Who says that all worthwhile life interaction has to be face to face (f2f)?

I'm not saying it's the same as RL (real life), but it's a relatively new option. I think it suits the needs of various people. At the point I am writing this, I have read all posts on this thread. I see that many people have offered their own life situation up as possible rationales for having a lot of posts. None of them, or very few of them, meet the extreme that was pointed out in the OP, however.

I think both the OP and answers are all very interesting. If i wasn't so tired, I'd have much more to say on this issue. Maybe I can return tomorrow.



Cher

 

redruddyred

(1,615 posts)
117. dingdingding!
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 09:19 PM
Mar 2016

that and the "too disabled to go to college or hold a job to some exacting ableist arsehole's standards but well enough to write on the internet all day" paradigm.

I'm speaking to my senator about it on thursday, what a waste of taxpayer money i am.

TrollBuster9090

(5,953 posts)
130. Chris Christie says to Marco: "THIS guy is a f-ing mook, and we don't pay mooks..."
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 09:33 PM
Mar 2016
Rubio: "But I didn't SAY nothing...."

Kali

(54,990 posts)
6. there are a few that are home bound
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 06:57 PM
Mar 2016

and seem to have a good supply of caffeine. I have seen a few with something on the order of 100 posts per day for months on end.

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
111. Ha! Listen to yourselves.
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 09:15 PM
Mar 2016

I used to live down the street from a bar where I would occasionally stop in for a drink.

Every time I was there, I'd see the same people sitting there and I used to think "Damn, those people must be problem drinkers, because they're here every time I come."

polly7

(20,582 posts)
68. That's true.
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 08:09 PM
Mar 2016

I can be gone for hours and hours or even days, come back and read and rec everything on the greatest page or everything I've missed - I often do that.

 

fun n serious

(4,451 posts)
87. Hello my dear friend.
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 08:45 PM
Mar 2016

I'm happy to see you here. I don't post often here but I am online a lot. Here is my reason as I suspect many have the same reason but do not disclose..

I have a rare disease that has kept me from being able to work for the last 4 years. My husband works so I am OK financially. I often can not have a regular sleep schedule due to pain. I take a couple of hours here and there. I do not sleep just at night.

polly7

(20,582 posts)
98. Hi, my sweet fun.
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 08:57 PM
Mar 2016


I hate that you're having to deal with this. Chronic pain affects every minute of the day and night - if posting here or anywhere else takes your mind off it even a tiny bit I hope you do it more often, though with a family, that's not as easy as it sounds. I wish I could take away your pain.

 

fun n serious

(4,451 posts)
113. I know you do. I know your heart.
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 09:16 PM
Mar 2016

I care deeply for you. I'm OK really. I'm home with my family and even get my grand-baby on weekends. But Yes, DU is a very good pain distraction. I think a lot of us here are on similar situations. My 30 year old and my 24 year old flew the coop. I just have my 12 year old home now and he is a good kid. Really easy.

polly7

(20,582 posts)
124. Man, time flies.
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 09:26 PM
Mar 2016

Your home life sounds great - it must be wonderful to have a baby to cuddle/spoil every weekend, and I'm glad your little guy is so good - I cannot believe he's twelve already. I also can't believe your other kids are that old - I remember your picture and you looked 16 - that wasn't nearly long enough ago to have changed too much. It was a good surprise to see you back here posting and I'm happy you're enjoying it. Yes, there are many here who post - whenever - for reasons all their own, and I haven't seen anyone here who says they've been harmed by it. I still laugh at some of the things we went through and did all those years ago now - we really weren't angels, heh, .... but whoah those people we were arguing with were something else.

 

fun n serious

(4,451 posts)
137. I was a young mom first born at 18...
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 09:54 PM
Mar 2016

My little man now Jayden he is the love of my life he is 2 and a handful. I haven'y aged well at all. I know I looked young in my 30's but yikes not anymore. Polly, those people we fought against were today's Trump and Cruz supporters. They're ugly. They're nasty. The war in Iraq was an inhumane slaughter of Muslim Arabs by Americans for absolutely NO reason. I still do not know the reason. Those people we battled were cheering the massacre and rape of innocent lives. They deserved every bit of nasty we threw at them and then some. I couldn't wrap my mind around it except to say there must be some humans who just have no souls. It was awful.

Duppers

(28,094 posts)
91. Sad?
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 08:50 PM
Mar 2016

How about educational and entertaining? And for us news junkies it might be a bit of escapism from some personal problems.

Go easy, okay.


 

Purveyor

(29,876 posts)
11. Account sharing? There used to be a poster in the I/P forum
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 07:02 PM
Mar 2016

that in the morning, couldn't construct a 2 word sentence but lo and behold, by the evening hours was quite eloquent in their writings.

IIRC, I had a post hidden for questioning that oddity.

ffr

(22,649 posts)
17. You're in good company then
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 07:06 PM
Mar 2016

I'm actually surprised one of them isn't on here find a way to ban my OP. Was half tempted to not hit the Submit button, because of it.

cprise

(8,445 posts)
110. No, normal people would refrain from comment
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 09:12 PM
Mar 2016

at times when they don't sound up to their par, or at least coherent.

People sharing accounts would be a more likely explanation if their is a consistent departure in quality or style.

polly7

(20,582 posts)
46. Yep.
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 07:44 PM
Mar 2016

I saw that here too. One poster was timed out but appeared to use a pal's account. The difference in capitalization, spelling, grammar, etc. was more than obvious. Coincidentally - every time that person was timed out the writing style for the other often changed.

Oilwellian

(12,647 posts)
184. Oh, that's really rich
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 04:00 PM
Mar 2016

To whom it may concern: The OP thinks the people he's referring to look like this:





Something smells.

ffr

(22,649 posts)
189. Exactly my point!
Thu Mar 24, 2016, 03:39 AM
Mar 2016

I basically asked who are these super human people on here, writing all these controversial posts, throwing out red herring fallacies to distract from the original question? Who are these troll-like individuals who add nothing constructive to the discussion, yet feel the need to post commentaries, with the intent to cast suspicion?

Why would anyone do that? Unless perhaps they (and I use they, loosely) were, as I said earlier, really from some far-off land, working in shifts 24/7, spreading deceit and discourse, as if with an agenda.


cprise

(8,445 posts)
199. STOP IT. Matt Filipowicz is a US video blogger. Get over it.
Fri Mar 25, 2016, 05:06 AM
Mar 2016

Shouldn't you take a look in the mirror, casting vague unproductive aspersions against DUers?

Red-baiting for the Clintons isn't an agenda?!

Matt Filipowicz has been on DU since 2005 and has only 3600 posts. You need some kind of help with your reading comprehension or something.

ffr

(22,649 posts)
200. It was meant for you too, mostly. I cannot help it if people choose to take sides
Sat Mar 26, 2016, 11:35 AM
Mar 2016

without thinking first.

If the words I wrote don't apply to you, why get upset? What you wrote added nothing productive to my thread. By what others wrote, it sounds like you're in the minority.

cprise

(8,445 posts)
203. Lets ignore the ones about insomnia and other details
Sat Mar 26, 2016, 12:11 PM
Mar 2016

that would make a McCarthyite numbskull suspicious.

matthewf

(3,781 posts)
205. This is nuts.
Mon Mar 28, 2016, 11:46 AM
Mar 2016

Hi. I'm Matt. I'm the person IN the video. I host a progressive talk show.
I've been on DU since the Bush administration.

So, I'm confused. Am I some kind of right wing spy?

R B Garr

(16,920 posts)
197. That is easily explainable. Maybe they're phone typing at work in the morning
Thu Mar 24, 2016, 05:56 PM
Mar 2016

and can't spend much time composing, but they get home on their home computer/laptop with a regular keyboard and have much more time and flexibility to type so the quality/quantity goes up.

Phone typing is svck, and I have a fairly large phone. I can't imagine it on a smaller iPhone. Punctuation and editing goes out the window. Some phones insert the last words you type every time you move the cursor to a location you want to edit. Imagine trying to punctuate a word when the last word is typed and then you have to erase all that extra crap. It's quite tedious. I admire those that are even moderately proficient at it, and I know they're out there. Some just do enough to get by, lol.

 

Milestone

(37 posts)
12. Amazing isn't it?
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 07:03 PM
Mar 2016

Do the math on one of the 100,000 + posters. Works out to roughly one post every 20 minutes 24 hours a day every single day for 13 years.
My best guess is multiple trolls and operatives working the same accounts.

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
22. If you know the topic and can type quickly, you can do a 100 posts
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 07:09 PM
Mar 2016

in 2.5 hours. Heck, you just have to be opinionated if you can type. 2.5 hours is still a lot of time in a day.

 

Milestone

(37 posts)
185. Dang it.
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 04:11 PM
Mar 2016

Seems I used the weathervane calculator. Using real math it's more like every 68 minutes huh?

Skittles

(152,964 posts)
13. sometimes they are different people
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 07:04 PM
Mar 2016

people have writing styles and make the same spelling and grammar errors; it's not hard to notice it's different people if you study those styles

they are usually pimping for or against something in particular

hollysmom

(5,946 posts)
15. Is it me?
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 07:04 PM
Mar 2016

I have looked at peoples posts myself
first, I have an old dog who wakes me in the middle of the night to let her out. SoI tend to get at most 4 hours sleep at a shot and I tend to get on the computer and people are up and posting here until I can go back to sleep, so that is my excuse.

Now I was involved in an interesting situation where someone came out of nowhere and was suddenly a "trusted" person and collecting money for stuff. I went and checked them out they had over 2000 posts in only 2 weeks, mostly bumping other posts. I figured since the mods were backing them, they must have been signing in and posting as her to get the post count up. Then the style of her posts seemed familiar, I am pretty sure that she was someone who I had been posting with for years on a different board, but thought she had been going off the rails for a while (when you post that you are sneaking on the computer because you promised you husband you would spend time with your 3 year old and stay off the computer - something is very wrong. Then she would talk about how she was supposed to be in a meeting at work but wanted to post something. I figured she was going looney tunes, so when this strange person suddenly shows up collecting money I was very concerned, when I complained to the mods abut this , I was told it ws none of my business and I had to stop accusing people of stuff. yadda yadda, well, she eventually got banned everywhere when she started talking really weirdly, could not account for other money people gave her, and then you hear she has been fired and her husband ws divorcing her and keeping custody of their child. whee. bonkers. So yes, I have looked at other people's history and compared different id posts, heh. I did not even scratch the surface of the insanity about fake pregnancies and other whacko stuff.

ffr

(22,649 posts)
23. Nope, not you.
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 07:09 PM
Mar 2016

They haven't shown up yet, but I'm sure they will here soon to say something controversial.

bluedigger

(17,077 posts)
16. I used to hang out at this bar in San Juan, PR that had Happy Hour at 4 o'clock AM & PM.
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 07:06 PM
Mar 2016

It was an achievable goal, too.

bluedigger

(17,077 posts)
70. I can't remember the name, but it was just a block from my apartment on Calle de Christo.
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 08:11 PM
Mar 2016

Mostly, I hung out with staff from the American Star (Hunter S. Thompson wrote for them decades before) at El Betey, a few blocks up the hill. They closed from 4-6 AM so...

 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
18. I've been known to have insomnia, myself
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 07:07 PM
Mar 2016

but I can't figure it out, either. I've read about people that don't sleep, but they can't stay butt-planted 24/7 - every one of them that I have read about needs vigorous exercise to maintain themselves.

Enrique

(27,461 posts)
19. I've heard some people have an auto-unrec device
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 07:07 PM
Mar 2016

usually set for threads about Glenn Greenwald.

Maybe there's one for auto-reccing?

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
115. Why do kids need a "spring break" anyway?
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 09:17 PM
Mar 2016

Nobody gives me any damn Spring Break, and I could make better use of one.
 

cwydro

(51,308 posts)
21. What sometimes bothers me is that some of these same posters, who seem to post night and day -
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 07:09 PM
Mar 2016

claim to have children.

That makes me sad.

I can't imagine if my mother had been sitting on a keyboard all night and day. On the other hand, maybe the kids are the same now.

It's very sad actually.

blogslut

(37,955 posts)
28. Type, type, type, click submit.
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 07:14 PM
Mar 2016

It's not like posting is hard. I can think of worse things than enthusiastic participation on a message board.

salin

(48,954 posts)
30. Have seen all sorts of shennanigans over the years.
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 07:14 PM
Mar 2016

shared accounts - and puppet accounts - double bonus: puppet accounts from a single poster who introduced his boyfriend to the forum, who became a poster - except he wasn't a boyfriend he was the original poster. All sorts of drama ensued. What trips folks up - as appears in an example up thread - inconsistency.

SamKnause

(13,043 posts)
33. I am an agoraphobic.
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 07:17 PM
Mar 2016

I rarely leave my home.

I need very little sleep.

The first thing I do when I wake up is click on DU.

I post all day and into the night.

Sometimes I post all night and take a nap during the day.

beergood

(470 posts)
86. "I am an agoraphobic."
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 08:44 PM
Mar 2016

thats the first thing that came to mind for me. there are probably hundreds of DU'ers with slimier issues.

SamKnause

(13,043 posts)
90. Did you just call my condition slimy ???
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 08:49 PM
Mar 2016

I know you didn't.

Just kidding.

I think you meant similar.

I am still chuckling.

Have a wonderful evening.

ffr

(22,649 posts)
156. I'm thinking not, each is someone actually typing opinions
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 01:58 AM
Mar 2016

I only checked up on one. They finally did take a break this afternoon, after 69 counted recommends and about half as many brief posts over a 15 hour marathon on here. Can't seem actual times beyond midnight last night. Their pace quickened during the AM hours, then tapered off and stopped this afternoon.

So maybe some of them are like those who posted on here about their strange hours and it's just a lot of really passionate individual people. That or they're laying low because they saw this thread and didn't want to make it any more obvious than it already was.

 

47of74

(18,470 posts)
43. Yeah I've been known to post at all hours.
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 07:41 PM
Mar 2016

Especially during the weeks I'm on call overnight. I work four weeks on day shift then two weeks as the on call overnight person. Most of those nights pass without any calls or anything else to do, in which case we can sleep all night, but I have been woken up in the middle of the night before to help. This has kind of led me to sleep with one eye open most nights when I'm on call, and when I can't sleep sometimes I pop on to DU and post something, even if it's the middle of the night.

SoapBox

(18,791 posts)
45. Home bound, disabilities, retired...
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 07:43 PM
Mar 2016

A whole range of things.

If they have no other life, this becomes their life.

I can think back to a LONG time ago, I spent 24 hours in a chat room...I finally felt so bad, that I laid down on the floor by the desktop because I was so dizzy when I stood up, I was afraid I would fall.

Talk about curing me of that!

Omaha Steve

(99,071 posts)
47. I was accused once of being several people sharing one ID
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 07:45 PM
Mar 2016

It does happen. There are some DUers with several IDs too.

OS

Response to ffr (Original post)

eleny

(46,166 posts)
52. Please share your theories about why
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 07:51 PM
Mar 2016

Since you've spent time studying the posting habits of some members here you must have some conclusions of your own.

 

Gene Debs

(582 posts)
53. Any online forum has people that literally do nothing but post on that forum day in and day out. And
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 07:52 PM
Mar 2016

yes, they usually are extremely outspoken. You'll find it anywhere, not just here.

GoneFishin

(5,217 posts)
54. Not alleging anything about any particular monied interest. It's an inescapable conclusion that
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 07:53 PM
Mar 2016

there are paid posters online when you answer the following 3 questions:

1) Do some people and/or corporations spend a lot of money on public relations?
2) Do PR agencies know about the internet?
3) Do any people exist who would accept money in exchange for posting on the internet?

laundry_queen

(8,646 posts)
144. Absolutely correct.
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 10:19 PM
Mar 2016

I think it was in my marketing textbook back when I was in business school (heck, that was first year so it was known at least 6 years ago)...paid "PR" (aka trolls) online is quite popular. Usually they are sent to certain message boards to simply 'talk up' certain products or companies or ideas related to those things. You can usually identify them because they tend to post mostly about a single issue.

It's quite a cost savings for companies, as they can actually reach more people online for much cheaper than with television or radio ads. So yeah, it happens. A lot.

GoneFishin

(5,217 posts)
151. Yep. There are at least 4 who are pretty narrow in focus and not interested in information, but are
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 10:56 PM
Mar 2016

only interested in advancing certain points of view. All of them align perfectly with the wealthiest and most powerful players in the respective fields.

 

giftedgirl77

(4,713 posts)
60. Lol, for realz.
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 07:58 PM
Mar 2016

How sad does your life have to be that you take notice of other anonymous ppls posting habits.

Festivito

(13,452 posts)
56. Imagine a couple of students making money with an ID management program rotating the computer chair.
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 07:55 PM
Mar 2016

Capturing the eye of a large donor who picks up tuition.

Blue_In_AK

(46,436 posts)
58. I'm sometimes on here posting in the middle of the night,
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 07:57 PM
Mar 2016

but it isn't really that late here. I can post at midnight and it's 4:00 a.m. on the East Coast.

Plus, I'm retired, so I don't keep regular hours. You won't likely see me before noon EDT, though.

polly7

(20,582 posts)
59. My sleep has been screwed up since my first month of working with the ambulance,
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 07:58 PM
Mar 2016

and that was years ago, though now I usually do only transfers unless someone is out sick and I take a shift or two. I am a horrible insomniac, always a bit anxious at night thinking I might miss a call - even though when I do fill in for real calls I don't even stay at home. Not sure if that ever leaves you, but it would be nice if it did. But I do books for a small oilfield construction company too so do have a real reason to be on the computer .... and all my favourite sites are always open. Good multi-tasker here. But as soon as the snow goes (it was gone, until today! and we got 6 inches) I will be gone fixing up my new old money-pit!!

Victor_c3

(3,557 posts)
62. I'm not nearly as prolific of a poster as others, but I post and rec stuff nearly 24 hours a day
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 08:00 PM
Mar 2016

My sleep is very sporadic at best - despite enough meds that'd knock out an ordinary person for several days. I go to sleep around 10:00 pm, I wake at midnight and I'm up for at least an hour, then I'm up again at 3:00 for another hour then again at 5:00 for another hour. I usually wake up for real at 7:30 for the rest of the day.

Aside from that, I'm retired on disability and don't work anymore. I have a wife and two kids, but if it wasn't for them I'd probably sleep like that on and off again all day and just about never get out of bed. My wife certainly isn't willing to wait on me in bed like a nurse so I have to get out of bed to eat. I've thought getting a bed pan and/or depends adult diapers, but I do r even have to know her answer to that question before I ask it.

Victor_c3

(3,557 posts)
168. yes, and thanks
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 06:49 AM
Mar 2016

I've actually been doing really good recently. I've gotten myself into a routine where I go to the local old folks home several times a week and play the piano in their lobby for several hours a week. I do it mostly for my own sake (I get lost in the music and it makes me feel really good about myself0, but the staff and patients really give me a lot of good feedback for my efforts and seem to like it.

I'm getting ready to buy a house, I'm thinking about trying to ease my way back into the workforce, and my relationship with my wife is getting much better. Honestly, things are really looking up compared to where they were this time last year.

Thanks,

Victor

ornotna

(10,763 posts)
63. I see you've been on a posting marathon as well
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 08:04 PM
Mar 2016

3,126 post since '09. Slow down slick, you're making me dizzy.

George II

(67,782 posts)
67. I know of one DUer who posts an average of almost 100 a day, at all hours of the day and night.
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 08:09 PM
Mar 2016

It's mind boggling that one person would spend so much time on a single website.

madville

(7,397 posts)
127. I've read a few studies lately
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 09:30 PM
Mar 2016

about links between introverts and internet/social media addiction. It's interesting stuff, especially how the perceived anonymity empowers people to display their persona in a way they never would/could in real life or create a new one entirely.

Marrah_G

(28,581 posts)
160. You find the same type of thing in online roleplay games
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 03:29 AM
Mar 2016

There are always a certain percentage of people who live their lives virtually, for whatever reason.

madville

(7,397 posts)
133. I can understand that
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 09:42 PM
Mar 2016

I'm an introvert myself, being around people in real life (once I finally got sober for good) makes me very uncomfortable. Interacting through the internet can morph into it's forms of addiction and compulsion though.

Response to ffr (Original post)

Vinca

(50,170 posts)
80. Is it normal to catalog the number of posts of other site participants?
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 08:29 PM
Mar 2016

And why might anyone care?

Mike Nelson

(9,903 posts)
81. Could it be...
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 08:30 PM
Mar 2016

...more than one person is working the account? It could be someone working for a campaign or cause - making sure their candidate or cause gets more positive posts and recs. If so, they are wasting time and/or money!

greendog

(3,127 posts)
82. I once saw a DUer post in the California Group and then, not more than one minute later, post...
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 08:31 PM
Mar 2016

....in the Australia Group. 8000 miles apart. How is that possible?

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,788 posts)
85. Интернет исследования
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 08:43 PM
Mar 2016
Since 2013, the state has employed Internet users in order to spread propaganda advocating activities of the Russian government and discrediting opposition and Western countries. The major organization employing them, "Internet Issledovania" (Russian: Интернет исследования ), initially had an office in Olgino, Saint Petersburg, and subsequently moved to a bigger office to Savushkina Street, also in Saint Petersburg. The employees have to be present in the office for 12 hours per day every second day. They are involved in various activities including creating of visibility of mass-support of the government in social media (both in Russian and in English), propagating texts between different media, and collectively attacking users with anti-government views, often using multiple identities. The salary is fixed and is only paid if an employees has written a fixed number of comments per day not shorter than a fixed number of letters. The comments must contain key words, a fixed set for every day. Collectively, they are known as "Kremlin trolls" or "Olgino trolls".[23][24] The same organization also hosts a number of websites, including the Kharkov News Agency, which claim to be news agencies operating from Eastern Ukraine or from the Donbass area and providing local news, but in fact have no staff outside the Saint Petersburg office building.[24][25]
-- Internet Issledovania

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,788 posts)
89. Inside Russia's Troll Army
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 08:49 PM
Mar 2016
Any blog post written by an agency employee, according to the leaked files, must contain "no fewer than 700 characters" during day shifts and "no fewer than 1,000 characters" on night shifts. Use of graphics and keywords in the post's body and headline is also mandatory.

In addition to general guidelines, bloggers are also provided with "technical tasks" - keywords and talking points on specific issues, such as Ukraine, Russia's opposition and relations with the West.

One recent technical task, former employee Lena told Radio Liberty, was devoted to the murder of prominent Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov.

"It was mandatory to convey the message to the people that Nemtsov's murder was a provocation ahead of the [opposition] march and that he was killed by his own associates," she said.


http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-31962644

GoneFishin

(5,217 posts)
152. I tried that with my dog. But I spill a lot of food on my keyboard, and he spent his whole shift
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 11:00 PM
Mar 2016

licking the crumbs from between the keys.

 

7962

(11,841 posts)
96. There are lots of members where if you do the math they post A LOT
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 08:55 PM
Mar 2016

Some of them average out to 100 a day

Response to ffr (Original post)

Nye Bevan

(25,406 posts)
128. Yep, and "meta" is absolutely permitted here,
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 09:30 PM
Mar 2016

as long as it is not "disruptive", which I don't think this thread is.

 

bravenak

(34,648 posts)
104. The same way it is possible that people mine the internet for trash to bring here to harass
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 09:02 PM
Mar 2016

people about that you have already apologized for a hundred times. Then they start contacting your family and friends because they investigated you to the point that they feel comfortable going after and targeting your relatives over a post you made on a webiste that they do not participate in.
How they post the message you apologized for previously on your twitter feed and threaten your relatives and say nasty racist things to people who they would be scared to walk down the same street as.
Because some people actually have nothing going on in their lives besides the internet. They are sad sad hopelessly sad people if they are posting 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Hekate

(90,191 posts)
150. Those people aren't insomniacs....
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 10:40 PM
Mar 2016

They're obsessed stalkers.

I hope you've removed as much of your personal info as possible from the totally-public sphere.

teach1st

(5,928 posts)
106. I didn't rec this post
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 09:05 PM
Mar 2016

Sorry, but because of a shortage of time, I couldn't recommend this post.

I'm on DU a lot, but I average just one post each day, so I'll see you all tomorrow.

Duppers

(28,094 posts)
107. Insomnia is hell.
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 09:06 PM
Mar 2016

Sleeping in spurts makes me weird but even I cannot keep up with the reading, posting, and recording that you're describing.

My guess, there's a household of friends sharing the same account?

Loki

(3,825 posts)
109. The first rule of the posting club is
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 09:11 PM
Mar 2016

you do not talk about the posting club. The second rule.......is you do not talk about the posting club.

 

jtuck004

(15,882 posts)
114. It's just a shadow.
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 09:16 PM
Mar 2016

An internet identity, characters typed into a little database. Could be a person, persons, an entire office, a program, a paid huckster.

Let it go. Try something that doesn't involve sitting for awhile. We are learning that sitting for more than 20 min at a time might be worse for us than we think.

Anyway, for what it's worth...






 

djean111

(14,255 posts)
120. Hah! Retired, galloping ADHD. Internet, as someone else with ADHD said, is like crack.
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 09:23 PM
Mar 2016

Always have 5 or 6 windows open, off on tangents. Don't sleep much.
Never once occurred to me to analyze other posters' information, though.

TrollBuster9090

(5,953 posts)
121. MUST POST EVERY 30 MINUTES...OR THE UNIVERSE WILL IMPLODE!!
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 09:24 PM
Mar 2016


Of course, the more obvious explanation is that some of the DU identities are just sock puppets for propaganda groups.

Nye Bevan

(25,406 posts)
126. People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect,
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 09:28 PM
Mar 2016

but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... timey wimey... stuff.

Lorien

(31,935 posts)
132. Were you here in 2008? We had such an entity here then as well
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 09:40 PM
Mar 2016

it went by the name "Prosense"; it was able to post multiple threads and responses within seconds and it never slept. It was protected by juries here. It always had hundreds of links to post to back up it's assertions, but the links rarely had anything to do with the topic. It also never shared personal information of any kind about itself. It would never directly respond to a question other than to post a link. Maybe this is the same entity with a different name?

 

billhicks76

(5,082 posts)
136. LA Times and NewYorker Studied How
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 09:48 PM
Mar 2016

They said online personas are just that. Simply sick-puppet profiles managed by military contractors, foreign government contractors, security contractors and corporations. No one has any idea which ones but only those who live in a dreamy fantasyland don't accept the system being gamed.

Hekate

(90,191 posts)
139. Take one DUer who's a born night owl, stir in a sleep disorder & a dash of chronic insomnia....
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 09:58 PM
Mar 2016

...and that would be me sometimes.

slipslidingaway

(21,210 posts)
140. I've wondered the same thing for years, there was a poster whose post count meant they could not ...
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 10:05 PM
Mar 2016

have had much of a life outside DU.

They always had numerous links that skirted the discussion of a particular topic and could lead one astray, but they did this with a variety of topics.

But if you hinted at how that was possible, others would be at the ready to defend.









KT2000

(20,544 posts)
142. part of it is time zones
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 10:10 PM
Mar 2016

west coast people whose posts show up at 4 AM are actually posting at 1 AM. A 4 PM post is 1 PM. As for 24/7 - who knows. Also there are paid "influencers" here.

one_voice

(20,043 posts)
143. I rack up posts when I'm doing
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 10:10 PM
Mar 2016

3 months of hosting. When my 3 months are up, my posts drop a lot.

dlwickham

(3,316 posts)
145. I've noticed something similar
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 10:26 PM
Mar 2016

you have people with really 90 day post counts

I post a lot but there are posters who have three and four times the count I have. Just makes you wonder

 

Chan790

(20,176 posts)
147. I'm an insomniac and have a low sleep threshold.
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 10:29 PM
Mar 2016

I generally only sleep 4-5 nights/week and a cumulative total of about 36 hours.

laundry_queen

(8,646 posts)
149. You aren't the only one who has noticed that
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 10:39 PM
Mar 2016

In the past, when I had more time to read, I would notice some people were practically in every thread, posting constantly, faster than I was able to read/catch up with every thread and I was ONLINE CONSTANTLY at the time. Even had I been driven to post a lot, I never could have kept up - and I'm a fast reader and typist. So, my only answer to that is some people either have software to notify them of certain types or threads, or some people share the same usernames, or something else I haven' t thought of. But even during my days of being a stay at home mom with a tiny infant who I would nurse all day and in the middle of the night in front of the computer (my chosen nursing spot) I never managed to be online as much as some of these posters. And I was obsessed with DU for a long time.

I even tried to keep up at one point in time and didn't even come close, LOL. I still had to sleep several hours a night, LOL, and my kids, though the old ones were in school during the day, still needed attention and needed to be fed (and of course I gave a shit about them, so I wanted to be with them as well). Yeah, I don't know how people do it. Now that my kids are older and basically take care of themselves, when I'm not working and I'm online, I don't get interrupted and there's no way I can keep up. They must have some kind of help, it's impossible in many cases for a single human being to post that much.

hfojvt

(37,573 posts)
154. Who are you talking about?
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 11:08 PM
Mar 2016

For myself.

I generally turn in at 3 AM, sometimes later depending on what I get involved in. I work in the evenings something like 8 to midnight or 9 to 1, so I can get up whenever I feel like it.

Sometimes, for whatever reason, I don't sleep that long. Maybe the dogs wake me up or the sun does. So I am up at 9:30 AM. Generally I am on the computer from the time I get up until the time I turn in, with some exceptions. I had a one hour lunch meeting and then three hours of volunteering at the free community meal today.

Probably a schedule like mine is not typical.

 

revbones

(3,660 posts)
177. My schedule is fairly similar
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 10:17 AM
Mar 2016

And I work from home so I tend to check in fairly often - probably much more than I should for my blood pressure...

hfojvt

(37,573 posts)
180. lol
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 01:13 PM
Mar 2016

either your blood pressure, or your work output.

Suddenly I look around and think "I haven't done a bloody thing all day."

Solly Mack

(90,740 posts)
159. I've never considered it.
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 03:16 AM
Mar 2016

But then that would require a level of attention and energy I'd rather use on more important things, like dust bunnies.

I enjoy dust bunnies. A lot.

ebayfool

(3,411 posts)
161. LOL! I have not heard of this, um, affinity before.
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 04:00 AM
Mar 2016

Speak to me of dust bunnies - mine are out of control.

Solly Mack

(90,740 posts)
162. Check my profile under the "about me" section.
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 04:04 AM
Mar 2016

dust bunnies can be quite tribal (a bed bunny will never be a couch bunny) and if you observe long enough, you'll see that they are a lot like us.




ebayfool

(3,411 posts)
163. I did that. And I must say you are the sanest person I've run into on DU all day!
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 04:12 AM
Mar 2016

I shall name a dust bunny after you!

Solly Mack

(90,740 posts)
164. I'd like that. Thanks!
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 04:15 AM
Mar 2016

Course the real reason I observe dust bunnies is because I'm too lazy to sweep.

In_The_Wind

(72,300 posts)
167. It's very simple, TV commercials interrupt my naps followed by ...
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 06:28 AM
Mar 2016

a fresh cup of coffee, a bathroom break, post on DU for a few, more nap (or bird watching) time.

Anymore questions?


[img][/img] BTW The coffee pot is never empty at my house.


pampango

(24,692 posts)
169. It's the well-known super hero - Super DU'er (SUDU for short) who can bash republicans 24/7
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 06:55 AM
Mar 2016

without rest or nourishment or ever losing an argument. Finally a super hero we can believe in.

Snarkoleptic

(5,995 posts)
174. I hate to go all conspiracy-theory here, but...
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 09:48 AM
Mar 2016

It's quite likely that there are active sockpuppets being run by groups and individuals on DU.

Below is an excerpt, but this is a chilling must-read article-
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/02/16/945768/-UPDATED-The-HB-Gary-Email-That-Should-Concern-Us-All

As I also mentioned yesterday, in some of the emails, HBGary people are talking about creating "personas", what we would call sockpuppets. This is not new. PR firms have been using fake "people" to promote products and other things for a while now, both online and even in bars and coffee houses.

But for a defense contractor with ties to the federal government, Hunton & Williams, DOD, NSA, and the CIA - whose enemies are labor unions, progressive organizations, journalists, and progressive bloggers, a persona apparently goes far beyond creating a mere sockpuppet.

According to an embedded MS Word document found in one of the HBGary emails, it involves creating an army of sockpuppets, with sophisticated "persona management" software that allows a small team of only a few people to appear to be many, while keeping the personas from accidentally cross-contaminating each other. Then, to top it off, the team can actually automate some functions so one persona can appear to be an entire Brooks Brothers riot online.

underpants

(182,279 posts)
176. Rec'ing isn't often just a way of giving a nod to a post
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 10:16 AM
Mar 2016

A way of saying "interesting but I don't have a comment" or a thanks for the work someone has put in. At least that's what I've found.

Some of us have regular DU Windows but others, I guess, are here almost continually. Look at my post count and tell me which kind I am.

liberal N proud

(60,302 posts)
178. Is the content of their threads or post consistant?
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 10:33 AM
Mar 2016

If it is more than one person there would be some variation is how sentences were structured and the tone of the threads would vary.

Phentex

(16,330 posts)
187. I have a life but I am naturally curious and observant...
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 04:59 PM
Mar 2016

I notice things on DU (and elsewhere) that make me go hmmmm. And if you've been here long enough, you will spot some "interesting" things yourself.

But I'll take it to PM now.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
188. So did any of the folks you are talking about show up in your thread?
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 08:00 PM
Mar 2016

I bet they are still missing.

ffr

(22,649 posts)
190. Off the top of my head, no.
Thu Mar 24, 2016, 04:11 AM
Mar 2016

But I haven't given it much thought. Every time I log in now, or just about, I'm asked to serve on a jury and by the time I'm done being the best judge I can be, I'm kind of burned out from doing anything more.

ProfessorGAC

(64,425 posts)
193. See The Math Subthread Above
Thu Mar 24, 2016, 02:37 PM
Mar 2016

You could hit 100k posts by posting every 68 minutes each day for 13 years.

If you sleep 7 hours and spend 9 hours working, it's still only a post every 23 minutes. Now, say that you just spend 2 hours on DU instead of 8. That's still only a post every 5.75 minutes.

Since every post is not a novel, a post every 345 seconds is not that much.

On top of that, i know someone who was a mod, spent time on MIRT, and was a host of a group. In a couple hours one was MIRT'ing or hosting, a post a minute is pretty likely. That's 120 a day. So, just a month of that is 3600 posts.

It's not as weird as you are suggesting.

Buns_of_Fire

(17,119 posts)
196. I observe much more than I post. But I'm an observing fiend.
Thu Mar 24, 2016, 04:24 PM
Mar 2016

This is what you do when you're retired, broke, and suffer from insomnia.

But since I've developed new software that allows me to turn on the camera at the top of everyone's screen, it's gotten more interesting.

Oh, and if __________ is reading this (you know who you are), please stop posting in the nude. It's very disturbing.

R B Garr

(16,920 posts)
198. There is one poster comes to mind who has around 8,000 posts in 90 days
Thu Mar 24, 2016, 06:01 PM
Mar 2016

just in the GDPrimaries forum. Break down the math on that one!

titaniumsalute

(4,742 posts)
201. Dude I've wondered the same thing
Sat Mar 26, 2016, 11:40 AM
Mar 2016

I have like 2100 posts and I've been on here since 2009 I think. I read almost everyday stuff on the site. But when I see people with 100,000+ posts I wonder what life they live outside of DU. And is someone really that excited to post their every thought 24 hours per day? I'd lose interest in about 15 minutes.

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