The Official WTDWTF 2022 Recap Review Retrospective Rewind

[kazitor]

In honour of last year’s (elitist privilege required), following is a review of posts and posters for all of Coordinated Universal 2022, plus the first annual WTDWTF Awards. Unlike the previous iteration, this is less about upboated posts in particular, and aims to capture a wider range of the year’s activities. It would have been nice to include counts of direct replies in both directions, but that would have required querying every, single, post. So, nope. Perhaps in future we could arrange to run something on the server directly, but I don’t want to write it for Node…

I tried as best I could to identify every real user who posted something this last year, but if I’ve missed any elusive lurkers or someone too obvious, point it out and I’ll edit them in soon.

EDIT: godammit nodebb, I can scroll horizontally in the preview but not the actual post >:| Disable overflow: hidden on .topic .content for a hacky fix, or view raw for beautiful unaligned columns.

User	Posts	Upboats	OPs	Most popular thread	Thread coverage	Favourite thread	Best post
@acrow	2070	8575 (4.14/post)	3	Scammers putting in more effort these days (23 posts)	169	(192 posts)	18: In
@aitap	87	462 (5.31/post)	2	Offline, transport-agnostic, PGP-like encryption but for humans (5 posts)	40	WTF Bites (13 posts)	21: In WTF Bites
@algorythmics	7	31 (4.43/post)	1	8 years is a long time (36 posts)	1	8 years is a long time (7 posts)	11: In 8 years is a long time
@anotherusername	1	2 (2.00/post)	0	N/A	1	Challenge: Minesweeper (1 posts)	2: In Challenge: Minesweeper
@antiquarian	821	5577 (6.79/post)	4	(70 posts)	141	(62 posts)	21: In
@apapadimoulis	9	108 (12.00/post)	0	N/A	6	(2 posts)	24: In 
@applied-mediocrity	2763	19049 (6.89/post)	1	WTDWTF Vidya Awards 2022 (17 posts)	281	 (354 posts)	28: In 
@arantor	4584	18359 (4.01/post)	14	In other hostile takeover Tweets... (843 posts)	278	TDWTF Plays Minesweeper (532 posts)	26: In 
@atazhaia	396	3048 (7.70/post)	8	Music database considerations (40 posts)	75	WTF Bites (62 posts)	24: In The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@auction_god	1	5 (5.00/post)	0	N/A	1	Supermarket Self-Checkout (1 posts)	5: In Supermarket Self-Checkout
@benjamin-hall	1708	13542 (7.93/post)	20	Housing Bubbles? Is this a housing bubble? (228 posts)	210	 (213 posts)	31: In Programming Memes Thread
@berniethebernie	1802	10100 (5.60/post)	14	It has started (324 posts)	232	The Official Status Thread (124 posts)	29: In What's an image file?
@blek	1311	10814 (8.25/post)	0	N/A	100	(279 posts)	30: In
@boner	114	1675 (14.69/post)	0	N/A	26	In other news today... (29 posts)	30: In The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@boomzilla	12405	111852 (9.02/post)	65	(328 posts)	487	(629 posts)	36: In Programming Memes Thread
@buddy	16	38 (2.38/post)	0	N/A	4	(13 posts)	15: In
@bugmenot	1	9 (9.00/post)	0	N/A	1	Reddit doesn't want you stealing their new warning (1 posts)	9: In Reddit doesn't want you stealing their new warning
@bulb	1886	8713 (4.62/post)	10	Going to the Google's walled garden with Go (240 posts)	139	WTF Bites (321 posts)	20: In In other news today...
@cabrito	27	168 (6.22/post)	0	N/A	15	The Official Status Thread (5 posts)	22: In The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@captain	119	648 (5.45/post)	1	The DIY thread (2 posts)	34	 (59 posts)	24: In 
@carnage	2787	18668 (6.70/post)	1	(18 posts)	256	 (430 posts)	27: In 
@chaostheeternal	43	249 (5.79/post)	1	SQL - Getting "Best Match" Results Only [Answered] (7 posts)	12	The Official Status Thread (15 posts)	23: In
@cheong	1089	3802 (3.49/post)	1	(20 posts)	41	[B][O][G][G]le (345 posts)	30: In The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@chudbert	50	300 (6.00/post)	8	New B-21 Stealth Bomber... Buzzword Bingo! (51 posts)	34	 (3 posts)	19: In
@codejunkie	13	72 (5.54/post)	1	Fake 30TB SSDs from Walmart (4 posts)	9	Re: WTF Bites (My longest running banking to date) (5 posts)	18: In Fake 30TB SSDs from Walmart
@coldandtired	5	65 (13.00/post)	0	N/A	5	(1 posts)	19: In WTF Bites
@cvi	1058	8410 (7.95/post)	3	 (33 posts)	101	 (324 posts)	28: In 
@da-doctah	341	2380 (6.98/post)	0	N/A	31	The Official Funny Stuff Thread™ (101 posts)	27: In The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@dangeruss	1438	2051 (1.43/post)	12	(237 posts)	86	(274 posts)	27: In The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@darkmatter	31	38 (1.23/post)	0	N/A	5	TDWTF Plays Hangman (27 posts)	13: In The Official Status Thread
@dcon	2460	17193 (6.99/post)	1	Makefiles are driving me batty (13 posts)	264	 (252 posts)	31: In The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@deadfast	345	2927 (8.48/post)	1	Dates are hard... and may lead to tax fraud? (26 posts)	74	(31 posts)	22: In
@djls45	905	3135 (3.46/post)	1	Recover dead external hard drive (35 posts)	146	TDWTF Plays Hangman (98 posts)	21: In
@dkf	2409	13253 (5.50/post)	1	(898 posts)	235	 (346 posts)	22: In WTF Bites
@doctorjones	24	484 (20.17/post)	0	N/A	3	The Official Funny Stuff Thread™ (19 posts)	30: In The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@dogsb	3060	26948 (8.81/post)	3	(3026 posts)	189	 (344 posts)	31: In The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@dragoon	950	4781 (5.03/post)	1	Turning a flat file into a PDF (26 posts)	154	🎤 Song of the day 👂 (131 posts)	21: In Things that remind you of WDTWTF members
@e4tmyl33t	39	135 (3.46/post)	0	N/A	11	The Cooking Thread (10 posts)	18: In Initiative Q - Money from nowhere?
@error	771	3138 (4.07/post)	0	N/A	68	TDWTF Plays Picross (272 posts)	29: In Internet of shit
@gern_blaanston	146	1125 (7.71/post)	4	Is it safe to use __SECRET_INTERNALS_DO_NOT_USE_OR_YOU_WILL_BE_FIRED ? (146 posts)	35	WTF Bites (37 posts)	30: In Is it safe to use __SECRET_INTERNALS_DO_NOT_USE_OR_YOU_WILL_BE_FIRED ?
@gog	1821	9667 (5.31/post)	0	N/A	190	(112 posts)	22: In WTF Bites
@gribnit	4778	6340 (1.33/post)	43	[B][O][G][G]le (1288 posts)	371	WTF Bites (441 posts)	16: In The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@groaner	193	947 (4.91/post)	5	 (138 posts)	27	(35 posts)	27: In 
@gurth	247	1101 (4.46/post)	3	Automatically starting a program on Raspberry Pi OS (28 posts)	56	Internet of shit (32 posts)	27: In Housing Bubbles? Is this a housing bubble?
@gustav	1500	4881 (3.25/post)	4	I knew Python was slow, but not THIS slow. And I knew JS was bad, but not THIS bad (136 posts)	136	WTF Bites (97 posts)	27: In The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@guywhokilledbear	2928	20743 (7.08/post)	5	(1670 posts)	198	(157 posts)	29: In
@gąska	2214	11554 (5.22/post)	6	 (306 posts)	194	(144 posts)	27: In 
@hardwaregeek	5542	36273 (6.55/post)	7	The Official 2022 Death Pool (282 posts)	394	 (478 posts)	27: In Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
@homobalkanus	170	1279 (7.52/post)	2	Musical frog (25 posts)	63	 (30 posts)	27: In 
@hungrier	2347	16808 (7.16/post)	4	Another AI based art generator, DALL-E Mini (202 posts)	229	TDWTF Plays Hangman (324 posts)	32: In Programming Memes Thread
@ixvedeusi	202	1360 (6.73/post)	1	Re: Shameless Plug - My New Novel (7 posts)	70	WTF Bites (19 posts)	20: In 
@izzion	6262	21664 (3.46/post)	29	(216 posts)	322	TDWTF Plays Minesweeper (3428 posts)	27: In Internet of shit
@jaime	14	84 (6.00/post)	0	N/A	9	Supermarket Self-Checkout (3 posts)	16: In Supermarket Self-Checkout
@jaloopa	24	152 (6.33/post)	0	N/A	8	D&D thread (7 posts)	20: In Parenting advice - you're gonna get hit
@japonicus	1	6 (6.00/post)	0	N/A	1	 (1 posts)	6: In 
@jbert	710	5863 (8.26/post)	5	Art Wars: The AI Menace (19 posts)	139	In other news today... (75 posts)	28: In The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@jinpa	393	1685 (4.29/post)	6	Reddit doesn't want you stealing their new warning (58 posts)	87	 (54 posts)	21: In 
@julmu	2	9 (4.50/post)	0	N/A	2	The Official Status Thread (1 posts)	5: In The Official Status Thread
@kamil-podlesak	267	1490 (5.58/post)	1	Caching is hard: docker edition (18 posts)	67	WTF Bites (58 posts)	22: In In other news today...
@karla	916	4939 (5.39/post)	0	N/A	108	 (127 posts)	22: In 
@kazitor	363	2984 (8.22/post)	8	Mozilla alienating everyone and everything (112 posts)	114	The Official Status Thread (53 posts)	38: In Mozilla alienating everyone and everything
@keith	14	157 (11.21/post)	1	Do you even know how semantic versioning works? (30 posts)	6	In other news today... (4 posts)	27: In The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@kt_	13	32 (2.46/post)	0	N/A	2	(9 posts)	10: In
@laoc	844	4894 (5.80/post)	2	(25 posts)	94	WTF Bites (164 posts)	29: In The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@lathun	12	60 (5.00/post)	0	N/A	7	Just Souls Things (3 posts)	16: In
@lolwhat	425	3158 (7.43/post)	1	(59 posts)	81	(81 posts)	21: In Things that remind you of WDTWTF members
@loopback0	2860	24390 (8.53/post)	6	 (142 posts)	256	 (226 posts)	31: In Programming Memes Thread
@luhmann	942	5604 (5.95/post)	1	Re: ↕👆⯬⬇✴↗🔁⛔🔚🚌 - Wallpaper e-peen (10 posts)	166	 (117 posts)	23: In 
@marczellm	13	74 (5.69/post)	1	We need to elect a politician named Delivers Remarks (20 posts)	10	VS Code Autoerase (2 posts)	28: In VS Code Autoerase
@mason_wheeler	840	5993 (7.13/post)	12	 (185 posts)	129	The Official Funny Stuff Thread™ (84 posts)	32: In 
@mathnerdcnu	2	21 (10.50/post)	0	N/A	1	The Official Status Thread (2 posts)	18: In The Official Status Thread
@medinoc	85	496 (5.84/post)	1	 (5 posts)	9	WTF Bites (54 posts)	21: In Internet of shit
@mrl	1554	9035 (5.81/post)	1	(2 posts)	160	(167 posts)	25: In 
@no_1	5	59 (11.80/post)	0	N/A	4	 (2 posts)	25: In Advanced Trolly Logic
@obeselymorbid	36	365 (10.14/post)	0	N/A	5	The Official Funny Stuff Thread™ (15 posts)	30: In The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@objectmike	96	331 (3.45/post)	2	Metric units in stores (52 posts)	32	 (22 posts)	12: In
@parody	553	1182 (2.14/post)	2	Nova: No Go? (18 posts)	63	[B][O][G][G]le (321 posts)	17: In WTF Bites
@pjh	41	254 (6.20/post)	3	Mark as Read > Selected? (21 posts)	18	[Solved] Ubuntu 22.04 - strange goings on with the desktop Home folder (8 posts)	22: In
@placeholder	27	209 (7.74/post)	0	N/A	21	 (3 posts)	21: In
@planar	6	27 (4.50/post)	0	N/A	3	TDWTF Plays Hangman (3 posts)	14: In PANTONE® dictates the colour of 2022!
@pleegwat	2683	7114 (2.65/post)	3	(19 posts)	265	TDWTF Plays Minesweeper (1002 posts)	22: In Things that remind you of WDTWTF members
@polygeekery	5735	50521 (8.81/post)	4	 (165 posts)	130	(1073 posts)	28: In 
@potatoengineer	403	2185 (5.42/post)	0	N/A	93	 (70 posts)	20: In 
@r10pez10	2	13 (6.50/post)	0	N/A	2	The Cat Status Thread (1 posts)	7: In The Cat Status Thread
@remi	1502	7418 (4.94/post)	2	Network access from WSL with ZScaler (47 posts)	184	 (130 posts)	27: In 
@rhywden	754	4958 (6.58/post)	4	 (41 posts)	89	 (210 posts)	26: In The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@royal_poet	21	229 (10.90/post)	0	N/A	4	 (17 posts)	26: In 
@sebastian-galczynski	222	1574 (7.09/post)	1	Typescript types don't compute (10 posts)	21	WTF Bites (100 posts)	25: In The Cheatpocalypse
@shoreline	11	26 (2.36/post)	0	N/A	8	PANTONE® dictates the colour of 2022! (2 posts)	6: In PANTONE® dictates the colour of 2022!
@slackerd	42	151 (3.60/post)	0	N/A	11	TDWTF Plays Hangman (18 posts)	15: In
@slapout1	22	197 (8.95/post)	0	N/A	15	(2 posts)	21: In Programming Memes Thread
@sloosecannon	3	10 (3.33/post)	0	N/A	3	 (1 posts)	4: In 
@sockpuppet7	135	663 (4.91/post)	8	Is clean architecture controversial? (260 posts)	35	 (61 posts)	19: In 
@steve_the_cynic	191	768 (4.02/post)	0	N/A	52	Is it safe to use __SECRET_INTERNALS_DO_NOT_USE_OR_YOU_WILL_BE_FIRED ? (25 posts)	18: In The Cheatpocalypse
@stillwater	580	3511 (6.05/post)	13	 (492 posts)	47	 (126 posts)	30: In 
@the_quiet_one	373	2940 (7.88/post)	8	Entry level philosophies: How should new developers become exposed to a codebase? (31 posts)	55	(53 posts)	41: In I would like to unsubscribe from this trainwreck
@thecpuwizard	45	113 (2.51/post)	1	(10 posts)	30	It's tools all the way down! (4 posts)	11: In It's tools all the way down!
@timebandit	477	4045 (8.48/post)	0	N/A	53	(64 posts)	27: In The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@topspin	3265	23402 (7.17/post)	2	(5 posts)	208	 (468 posts)	32: In The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@tsaukpaetra	3109	9865 (3.17/post)	4	Tsaukpaetra's Injection Dependency (124 posts)	201	The Official Status Thread (687 posts)	23: In
@twelvebaud	167	1256 (7.52/post)	1	April Fools 2022 (33 posts)	52	 (28 posts)	26: In In other news today...
@unperverted-vixen	477	686 (1.44/post)	1	Home network revamp suggestions (6 posts)	35	TDWTF Plays Hangman (351 posts)	18: In 
@vault_dweller	59	532 (9.02/post)	1	Email flagged as spam (13 posts)	26	The Official Funny Stuff Thread™ (9 posts)	27: In Internet of shit
@watson	265	1409 (5.32/post)	0	N/A	71	In other news today... (32 posts)	24: In Internet of shit
@xaade	1365	8982 (6.58/post)	2	(34 posts)	46	(591 posts)	27: In The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@zecc	3001	19726 (6.57/post)	7	↕👆⯬⬇✴↗🔁⛔🔚🚌 (46 posts)	241	 (321 posts)	33: In Programming Memes Thread
@zenith	673	4187 (6.22/post)	5	 (225 posts)	75	The Official Status Thread (234 posts)	28: In The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@zerosquare	2040	18099 (8.87/post)	1	 (4 posts)	167	 (290 posts)	29: In Things that remind you of WDTWTF members

Note: one thread did not contribute to any statistics per a personal request. If you spot a particular discrepancy, that’s probably it.

As certain individuals posted way too much, next this year I might have to consider only pulling posts from public categories… be warned; this is the future that awaits for those who do not amend their ways

Regardless,

2022 WTDWTF Awards

The Alex Papadimoulis Award for User-Friendly Posting goes to boomzilla, with a staggering 65 new topics!
The Rockstar Consistent Quality Award goes to DoctorJones, who sustained an average of 20 upboats per post! Honourable mention goes to coldandtired, who maintained 13 ascentships per post without them mostly being external reposts.
The Golden Paula Bean Award is presented to The_Quiet_One, for collecting 41 upboats on a single post. Brillant! Honourable mention to the runner-up with 38, for no particular reason
Last, and least, The Sweaty Warthog Disaward goes to boomzilla, who somehow worked up the energy to make 12405 posts, just shy of 34 every day. Shameful.

A round of applause to all of our 2022 posters! Everyone’s a winner, but some winners win more than others.

And if you have an award of your own to present, go ahead. As an example, I currently cannot be arsed to find who collected the largest proportion of their posts in a single thread, but maybe you can.

Addendum: the Completely Retarded Moron Award goes to yours truly for having “2023” in the title for a full hour I’m still adjusting…

[hungrier]

most popular thread: AI art
favourite thread: bot game

[HardwareGeek]

@kazitor Hmm, I posted more in  than in . I'm a bit surprised.

[DogsB]

The best posts shouldn't include the funny stuff threads.

[boomzilla]

@kazitor said in The Official WTDWTF 2022 Recap Review Retrospective Rewind:

Perhaps in future we could arrange to run something on the server directly, but I don’t want to write it for Node…

Ultimately, we're in a Postgres DB, so in theory it could be possible to write some sql to do this.

[izzion]

@kazitor Thanks for the writeup and the effort.

I guess I can take solace in the fact that if you exclude the Minesweeper thread, I actually don't have a terrible LPP ratio

[Applied Mediocrity]

Wonder who'd have won the Wall-o-text award this time, @Polygeekery's Tales from the Crypt Construction or Late Night Ramblings with @remi.

[boomzilla]

@Applied-Mediocrity what are the considerations? I suspect @Gustav's voting scheme could be a contender.

[Applied Mediocrity]

@boomzilla Oh right! The Diary of an Election Priest.

[HardwareGeek]

@boomzilla said in The Official WTDWTF 2022 Recap Review Retrospective Rewind:

in theory it could be possible

In practice, the army of s disagrees.

[Atazhaia]

So my best contributions of the year was a lesbian with pillows, and how to make a music database. Ok!

[jinpa]

@Atazhaia There's got to be a way of combining those two into a super post.

[Zecc]

@Atazhaia

Meanwhile, my best thread is ↕👆⯬⬇✴↗🔁⛔🔚🚌 .