Currently he makes about 3 posts per day, that's more than 11000 in 11 years. Sometimes, updates and thus discussions/ problems come more often than right now, so I don't think that cheating was necessary. ;>
Dan Silverman is still around, he's using a different nick name/ account, though.
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