Quote from Wendell on October 4, 2020, 9:29 pm

As of this post, we have 498,740 forum posts here in the RPLS Today forums. When will the 500,000th post be posted and who will post it?

Care to make a guess? I'll send a free RPLS Today coffee mug to the following:

• The one who most closely guesses the date and time (PST) when the 500,000th post is posted.
• The one who guesses which person posts the 500,000th post.
• The one who actually posts the 500,000th post.

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Here's how to enter:

Reply to this post with your guess for the date/time (PST) and the username of the person who you think will post it.

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Contest rules:

• One entry per person.
• We must be able to accurately determine the user you are guessing; the best way would be for you to tag them in your reply, e.g. @wendell -- you can find their tag ID attached to their posts in the forum or you can find them in the Members Directory.
• Only one mug per person, so if you guess more than one right, we'll adjust accordingly.
• One guess per person. If we find that you have submitted multiple guesses using multiple accounts, you will be disqualified from this and all future contests.
• Please try not to duplicate the entries of others. If there are duplicates, we will base the winner on who posted first.
• Entry deadline is when we reach 499,900 posts.

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Other things to consider:

• The user that posts the 500,000th post might not even be registered yet.
• A post is any post in the Community Forums. A post can be a topic (the first post in a thread) or a reply to another post.
• Private Messages don't count as posts.
• Blog posts and replies to those posts DO count as posts because they also appear in the Community Forums.
• I will occasionally post an update with the current number of posts. There will be no regularity to it, just whenever I feel like it.
• Spam posts are deleted upon discovery and do not count toward the total number of posts.
• The statistics at the bottom of forum pages is rather vague, so good luck with that!