Stop.

Wow, it's quite the interesting post. Maybe it's posessed...
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Mammoth cave is the LONGEST known cave SYSTEM. The LARGEST known cave CHAMBER by volume was just recently (less than a year ago) discovered in China. The cave in this post is one of the largest, but not the largest.
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The link was a link to Google that redirected to Reddit that linked to Imgur. You could just go direct:
http://i.imgur.com/xMFi9TT.jpg
Also, that image has been posted here before I believe.
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(Links with an ampersand (&) don't work on FunSubstance.)

The stats are collected by a friendly neighborhood robot. Robo scrolls down the all page from top to bottom (yes, all the way to post 1) and records important information, like titles, authors, likes, and comments on each post. Robo saves these to files that I then open in Excel, where it's fairly easy to sort by likes, count posts by specific authors, etc.
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To avoid placing a burden on FunSubstance, Robo does this over a period of time. Robo also does not request the actual images from the server, only the post data. However, the volume of content on FunSubstance has increased so rapidly that this year Robo's scan used about 2GB of bandwidth, the equivalent of someone browsing around 7,000 posts.
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While Robo would happily scan millions of pages, I wouldn't want to adversely impact FunSubstance by requesting too much information too quickly. Should the site continue to grow, I may not be able to compile a post like this next year without help from FunSubstance.
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Just added Artemis Fowl 1-8 to the list!

Odd, now it has -30372 likes. Wat. Surely it didn't get 10,000 likes in a few minutes. Something screwy is going on here...
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Top Comments of Year 3 - See them in context!
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1. 229 likes by guest:
http://funsubstance.com/fun/146091#comment689698
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2. 189 likes by cam:
http://funsubstance.com/fun/176281#comment891823
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3. 188 likes by grimcreeper13
http://funsubstance.com/fun/174741#comment882908
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4. 176 likes by darkanhell
http://funsubstance.com/fun/149571#comment714735
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5. 170 likes by guest
http://funsubstance.com/fun/210914#comment1113384

Top Posts of Year 3 - Give 'em your love!
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1. "Imgur doing the neccesairy things" by loiuyt with 6,366 likes:
http://funsubstance.com/fun/129454/
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2. "Coffeetoad" by slayer with 6,320 likes:
http://funsubstance.com/fun/193875/
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3. "Girl escapes from North Korea" by redlans91 with 5,847 likes:
http://funsubstance.com/fun/197939/
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4. "In a Perfect World" by fwahz with 5,817 likes:
http://funsubstance.com/fun/184750/
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5. "Don't usually repost things like this, but thought this was worth sharing." by [deleted]:
http://funsubstance.com/fun/157535/

There are people who marked that they are 55+. That much is true. I mean, they could have lied, but I'm not sure why one would bother.
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Moved! The new library is here: http://bit.ly/funslib2
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Scroll and see all the books recommended by FunSubstancers! I'm working on adding a comment to each book of who suggested it. I'm still working on the books from the original survey, so bookmark and check back if you're looking for something to read!
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I'm moving the entire list to GoodReads, since that site actually works. Google has failed me.
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The "3" logo is a reference to half life, which has yet to receive its third installment. The "Well here we are again" quote is from the ending to Portal 2 (which has also not received a 3, come on Valve). The design of the post resembles the credits sequence to Portal 1.
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It appears to only work when I'm logged in to Google, but it IS public and is supposed to work. I've found other links to public Google Books lists don't work either, so it seems to be an internal error on Google's end. I wouldn't have expected Google to not work (that's just so not like Google) but I'm looking for an alternative solution.
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Actually, the post was too big to post. It has to be under 1100KB to work, and if I made the whole thing that small it would have been impossible to read. The original is several megabytes. I already had to reduce the quality quite a bit to get it into two posts...
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All the results came from my own survey. The questions came from suggestions here:
http://funsubstance.com/fun/212645/
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All the questions were derived from the comments on that post. Some were modified to work well in survey format. I am aware that others have conducted surveys in the comments of posts, but these are often difficult to follow and collect data from.
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There is already a FunSubstance History 2 and a 3 is coming in one week. I release one every year on FunSubstance's birthday, March 23rd. Here's more info, and a survey to take to be included in the history:
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http://funsubstance.com/fun/221377/lets-make-history-together/
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No idea. But that title looks like a person's name, maybe a character or actor? Let's use the power of the Internet to find out!
* Goes to Google *
First result: "Elizabeth Miervaldis "Liz" Lemon is the main character of the American television series 30 Rock."
There we go! Liz is the name of the main character on 30 Rock, so I deduce that this is probably the show "30 Rock". Now you know!
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( Oh, and here's this clip in video form:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ywTyrD-xXu0 )