<p>Could someone who has been following the Duke (alleged) rape thread please explain to me how it got to 455 pages of posts? I’d like the jacket blurb instead of reading the book…</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>One post at a time. ;)</p>
<p>I call it The Thread and find it amazing. I have checked in from time to time and have had the same question as you, dmd.</p>
<p>I’ve also formed some hypotheses. Somewhere along the way, frequent posters on the thread addressed this questions themselves. Some posited that the extreme interest is because the “case” has so many compelling elements - race relations, gender power issues, town-gown issues, haves vs. have-nots, the role of athletes in the college community, how our culture handles sexual assault issues, etc.</p>
<p>From reading a significant number of the posts (but even so barely making a dent), I see a lot of what I call the Law and Order/CSI syndrome: some sort of instinctive interest in detectiving/analyzing cases/speculating on what might have happened, who is probably guilty, who is credible etc.</p>
<p>In the early going, the willingness of some of the posters to jump to conclusions left me stupefied.</p>
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<p>That’s why I quit quit reading.</p>
<p>lol! </p>
<p>Yes, I have glanced at that thread once or twice but only read a few posts here and there. I don’t have the time nor interest to read all posts and respond. </p>
<p>NTTAWWT</p>
<p>There’s a few things that are particularly addictive about this thread. One is that the most recent links are immediately posted and discussed. Can’t get the newest <em>stuff</em> from either Google Alerts or from Laxpower.com. And they are discussed from many varied viewpoints. We seem to have some very dedicated researchers, as well as posters with a lot of knowledge of the situation, the law, the university, and lacrosse in general.</p>
<p>And only 130 posts to the shopping and sheets thread, which ought to be of more pressing concern</p>
<p>Thank you all so much for the information!</p>
<p>still not the record, though.
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=32441[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=32441</a>
That one just mystifies me.</p>
<p>Make a list of the top 5 posters within the thread. I am guessing there are one or 2 individuals with hundreds, perhaps multiple hundreds of contributions to that 7k (and growing) total.</p>
<p>“Make a list of the top 5 posters”??!!! That sounds like work!</p>
<p>not really…</p>
<p>Who Posted?
Total Posts: 6,902</p>
<p>User Name Posts</p>
<p>alexatduke06 520
interesteddad 393
jack 381
1sokkermom 336
hazmat 298
mini 244
JeepMOM 241
Northstarmom 239
DukeEgr93 225
soozievt 225
hereshoping 216
kluge 197
NewAtThis2 154
citygirlsmom 150
rds248 136
marite 131
epistrophy 128
farawayplaces 117
tyr 113
Mourning 111
latetoschool 110
berurah 110
gla 107
MomofWildChild 100</p>
<p>those are all the ones above 100.</p>
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<p>:eek: :eek: <em>ACK</em> :eek: :eek:
You mean I wasted 110 posts on that thread?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? My bad.</p>
<p>gee, berurah~I guess I’m a little jealous!!! 
You made the top 10 list, and I didn’t! You just needed to stay occupied while you were waiting for the quadruple batch of Chocolate Chip cookies to bake before your S came home!! So… you’re the good Mom who can multi-task!!! :)</p>
<p>Ooops–I meant top 22!</p>
<p>upstater:<br>
Wow. That must have taken some time to compile. Well, you’re gonna have to re-do all this in another month or so, because alex, the top poster, is graduating on Saturday. I’ve sworn off, too, as that thread has gotten way too repetitive at this point. So could you compile this again in another month or so? By all accounts, things should surely pick up by Monday afternoon, so be sure and check back! </p>
<p>dmd77: You haven’t missed a thing. Everything that’s been said has been said at least 10 times by now. People are just getting more brazen in saying it (whatever “it” is). So, you can just wait–like I’m planning to do–for the trial or the book(s) or the movie(s) or the Broadway musical–whichever arrives first. Any of those options will probably be more factual-- and far more entertaining. :)</p>
<p>upstater05 You could have included how many of the HOT100 have students at Duke. That would be some added glory. How many of the HOT100 are new to CC…new since the Duke Story gained national press.</p>
<p><em>lolololol</em> irish! If I had made the top ten on that list, I think I’d be seeking some good therapy—or at least a very compelling hobby. <em>lol</em> ;)</p>
<p>As far as the multitasking…NO! Anymore I am a HORRIBLE multitasker—that’s why you’ll see no posts on that thread whilst the cookies were baking! :)</p>
<p>~berurah</p>
<p>berurah: On the other hand, some of us don’t have a thousand+ posts under our names, either–you know, speaking of seeking therapy . . . :)</p>
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Sorry if I have offended you jack…it truly wasn’t meant to be a personal dis…just a feeble attempt at humor. 
Hey, I have a couple of great friends on that top ten list! </p>
<p>You have NO idea how utterly PROUD I am of those 1186 posts–a good many of them were spent in seeking help for my son’s college admissions process, and I’m so very thrilled to be able to say that they were MORE than worth the time/effort spent! And I’m just thrilled that you noticed! :)</p>
<p>~berurah</p>