Aspies For Freedom

we are approaching the 10,000th thread
this will be thread number 9997.

any bets as to the timing of 10k?

As of this posting, the VERY NEXT thread will be the big 10K.

I think that some threads must have been lost/deleted/amalgamated as this thread has the 'thread id' 12491.

10,000th thread - First Steps

hmm...you would have been about during Atomikpsycho?

I was - it was very frustrating!

I didn't have a clue what was going on.

ah.

AP was a traditional spam troll; post as much crap in as short a time as possible.
Gareth changed the whole system so that was impossible, so thats ok

anyway; AP, and the other accounts he followed up with, would literally just spam threads titled "SPAM" and then you would have a long block of text, like this;

ATOMIKPSYCHOATOMIKPSYCHOATOMIKPSYCHOATOMIKPSYCHOATOMIKPSYCHOATOMIKPSYCHOATOMIKPS YCHOATOMIKPSYCHOATOMIKPSYCHO
ATOMIKPSYCHOATOMIKPSYCHOATOMIKPSYCHOATOMIKPSYCHOATOMIKPSYCHOATOMIKPSYCHOATOMIKPS YCHOATOMIKPSYCHOATOMIKPSYCHO

as a result, and because of other threads lost when we moved, and mergers, and deletions and locks, there are 2500 threads unaccounted for.