This might be a reasonable post if it weren't out of whack.
1. Junebug would have only had to search through the posts of those who support/defend 3ABN since that is where one might find someone making a comment like the one Fran used and Junebug challenged.
Now let's just for arguments sake say that half of all posts were written by those attacking and half by those defending. That would mean she would have had to search only 7,332 posts. Now this would mean that she had .53 seconds to review each post.
However, you need to take another 69 posts off the total she had to review, as she knew she did not use the phrase. So now the total is 7,263 which would have given her, again, .52 seconds per post.
2. We all know that the balance of posting is certainly balanced to the attackers side. So, conservatively, let's take 2,000 off the total she had to review. Now we are at 5,263. Now she has .72 seconds to review each post.
3. Let's take off a reasonable amount for the very short 1 - 3 sentence posts, another 1,000. So now there are 4,263 posts to look at, now it's .91 seconds per post.
4. Now toss in the fact that Junebug probably has read all of the posts by the defenders more than once and is probably familiar with a number of them and we are probably down to 100 posts that she would have had to review to refresh her memory. So, she would have had 39 seconds for each post, leaving her enough time to go get a nice frozen confection from the freezer and return to write her post to Fran.
- anyman
Just doing some figuring here. At present, there are 14664 posts on AdventTalk. Junebug says she "looked and looked" for someone saying Danny is holy.
Now then. There was a total of 3870 seconds in elapsed time between when Fran posted and Junebug responded. That means Junebug had .26 seconds to review each post. That's almost 4 posts per second! (That is, or course, assuming that AdventTalk was the only forum she researched.)
We truly have a "human search engine" among us!
