Ask Metafilter's Forty Thousandth Post

June 13, 2006 11:45 AM

Milestone: Yesterday Ask got its fourty thousandth post.
posted by Ogre Lawless to MetaFilter-Related at 11:45 AM (17 comments total)

the appropriateness of the question is not lost on me.
posted by shmegegge at 11:50 AM on June 13, 2006

Not exactly. AskMe was originally a MetaTalk category, and questions were therefore numbered with corresponding MeTa thread numbers, starting with 3705. The last AskMe question with a MeTa thread number is 7939. From 7940 to the present, AskMe has independent thread numbering. So yesterday we got thread number 40000, but not the forty-thousandth question. It's still a lot, though.
posted by monju_bosatsu at 11:55 AM on June 13, 2006

Ogre didn't say it was the "forty-thousandth question." He said "Ask got its fourty (sic) thousandth post." So when you say "not exactly" you should say "exactly."
posted by Pacheco at 11:59 AM on June 13, 2006

So that means it's already past fivety thousand?
posted by Kirth Gerson at 12:04 PM on June 13, 2006

Kirth: no, it means we're well under 40K.

Pacheco: exactly would apply to "AskMe thread-id 40000". Anything, not so much.
posted by cortex at 12:08 PM on June 13, 2006

Dear me, that's a lot of confused people.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 12:11 PM on June 13, 2006

so like ~35,000 questions in three years?
posted by mathowie (staff) at 12:25 PM on June 13, 2006

Then you subtract the deleted questions…
posted by armoured-ant at 12:25 PM on June 13, 2006

Kirth: no, it means we're well under 40K.

Now that's cold.
posted by Kirth Gerson at 12:27 PM on June 13, 2006

Now that's cold.

I am so sick of your Kelvin ad homs.
posted by cortex at 12:32 PM on June 13, 2006

still confused...
posted by Pacheco at 12:32 PM on June 13, 2006

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posted by OmieWise at 12:33 PM on June 13, 2006

I'm just here for the cake.
posted by horsewithnoname at 12:48 PM on June 13, 2006

Now that's cold.

I am so sick of your Kelvin ad homs.

Just fucking brilliant.
posted by quin at 5:55 PM on June 13, 2006

Round here we don't take our humor wattersoned down.
posted by cortex at 6:03 PM on June 13, 2006

I thought it was a non seq.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 9:28 PM on June 13, 2006

yeah, but how many of them have useful answers?
posted by tiamat at 5:26 AM on June 14, 2006