We made it to number 1519 on the list of World's Biggest Online Forums. See DP's entry here: http://rankings.big-boards.com/?p=76 The number one only has 505,493,139 posts so next year we'll beat them for sure!
Man, Gaia Online has 505,493,139 posts. I wonder how many times a day people post "we already have 87,657 topics on that" LOL
It probably wouldn't be very hard to fake your way to the top! Just editing the Threads: 49,388, Posts: 567,756, Members: 16,430 numbers might do it!!!
Fancy moderating THAT! I wondered though; how many of those include bot posts like those auto AdSense posts etc. They should be audited, post by post... I'd also be interested to see some of their banned user lists
They have hundreds of mods (and hundreds of servers)... http://www.theadminzone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11135
#2 is far more attainable: 123,094,943 posts. I never heard of Gaia until just now. Oh well. If 16,000 members generates $10,000/month in adsense, how much would 3 million members generate :O
They also must be getting quite a few DDoS attack threats (if they indeed monetize their forums; I haven't even looked yet).
Would be good to see what sort of jump v7n has had recently but they have not made the list yet dp rules