Congratulations to everyone, LTS has had the 5000th post today.
Not that I cared much about the number of posts here... oh, who am I kidding, of course I do but I'm glad to see that most of the posts here aren't flood or spam, but nice and interesting topics and replies. Please keep up doing what you're doing, I'm very grateful for every good post LTS gets.
Again, congratulations! And thanks

Typically, that can be done by looking at the poster with the message ID of 5000.

In 1.1 finding that out is a pain in the ass without phpMyAdmin, in 2.0 its just index.php?msg=5000

http://www.lisa-simpson.net/topic/261.msg5000#msg5000

Hey, this means Casper is the main man Thank you ALM, and congratulation Casper!

Hah! I evaded celebration yet again! 

Nice one Serge! Congrats! And cheers to ALM for working that out.

*gives Lisa cookies*

Long live LTS!

Wow it is hard to believe that this place has been around for this long. Viva LTS (everyone spread the word.)

yeah, but you must remember, ALM, that this forum has only a limited fan base. Even with all the extra sections and such, LTS is still based around one little girl. MT2 has quite a few general boards, compared to this forum that has only one. So dont be a party pooper join in the celebration. 

Personally, I prefer small forums. And for a small forum like LTS, it's amazingly active. Some time ago, there were already voices that predicted it would die soon, but IMO, the opposite has happened.

No offense, no worries
But let's see the big picture though, shall wee?

LTS Members:  93 total, with about 30 with 10 posts or more. (about 30%)
ALM Members: 2995 total, with about 230 with 10 posts or more. (less than 10%)

I don't need to do much calculation to say that in percentuals, this little forum is doing much better. Your timespan-based calculations relates a lot to 1) the younger age, a year is a lot on the interenet, where novelties born and die in the span of a month 2) the great advertising you do, and i'm afraid to say, i would hate to resort to advertise as much as you do only for the numbers.

Lastly, It's been said so many times that this board doesn't care about the numbers of its members. The very point of this whole board is by its own nature a niche, and a little small percent of the internet community. LTS has its pride into welcoming that little percent. So with these things in mind, this was still an achievement to be proud of for LTS.

True, it's younger and thus hasn't gotten as far out yet, but a *little* bit of advertising, like sigs on other boards you post on regularly, affiliate with bigger Simpsons sites (I'll add you to my links page in the next update)

I can see where you're coming from, that sometimes smaller is better of course. It's really all down to the target audience, in this case it's a collection of Lisa-nuts, I myself happen to be one, hence why I joined, The NHC is more for the general Simpsons fan, and my place is for just anybody with an opinion or a picture to share. 

This is a nice little community, I'll say that, but could always do with a little more coming in.

5000 is indeed a nice milestone, it just took a little longer than some would've seen really. There are those that wont join a forum (even if they find it interesting) if it doesn't look very active. (Not that I'm saying that LTS isnt of course )

This is just some advice, so feel free to ignore my last few posts, I'm just speaking as someone "In the business" so to speak.

ALM
I was far from idea of comparing LTS with other forums. Most of the forums I've seen (not necessary Simpsonic) are too crowdy, overwhelmed with kids and meaningless threads, so I ignore them. Of course they all have the right to live, Internet is for everyone, but I personally don't want LTS to become something like that. Read my first post - I'm glad not just because LTS has hit that milestone, but also because I see that most of the posts here (or, at least, very significant part of them) are good posts, are something interesting to read. That's not possible on big forums, from the certain point you have to choose between quality and quantity. And like others already said, LTS is a thematic forum, not a forum "about everything", and its subject is very special. I don't know how to make it 10 times more active than now without converting it into yet another offtopic forum.

Some advertisement could be a way, I agree with you here, but it should be done carefully. Public advertisement is an irreversible step, before taking it you should be sure it won't make more harm than good to the community.

ALM
Of course it's very personal. To me, a good post is the post that you like to read and re-read afterwards. It's hard to make a good post with short one-liner, and it's hard to claim a topic interesting if it consists of posts like that. Again, that's how I see things, someone else's vision can be different, and everyone's free to choose a forum he likes more. What I'm pointing at, is that there is a lot of "fast forums" already. They are huge, they are crowdy, they are mostly offtopic. I see no sense in making yet another one. I want to see something unique, something special, something that haven't been done before. And if we'll have to pay with lower activity for that - well, okay.

Nah!   The descriptions on the index page of the forum clearly state that they're not exclusively for Lisa stuff.   The one for the Lisa's Family board even says "Don't be afraid to create offtopic threads".   Anyone who dismisses the forum because they can't even be bothered to read few short descriptions isn't going to have enough sense to contribute anything worthwhile anyway.   
I think the board names are rather sweet! 
Quality beats quantity every time.

Yay

Yeah, unless you're one of those big boards that is actually on big boards (500,000 posts or more) then its likely there (10 times over )

In this case, I have to agree, that they could be just Yahoo bots which is the most common culprit. (If you install the "Googlebot and Spiders" mod you'll see what I mean.