TechRepublic’s EIC Jason Hiner instigated a hot discussion this past week when he talked about his favorite uses for the iPad. Find out what other topics and members were the most active on the boards.

Top 5 discussion threads:

  1. I discovered a third use for the iPad (Jason Hiner)
  2. Suicides at iPhone manufacturing plants cause corporate change (Toni Bowers)
  3. Samsung and Acer Chromebooks: More netbook than notebook (Bill Detwiler)
  4. When the Significant Other pulls rank (Chip Camden)
  5. 10 things you can do to conserve Internet bandwidth (Brien Posey)

TR members with the most total posts on the forums

  1. AnsuGisalas and seanferd (55 posts)
  2. Palmetto (49 posts)
  3. jck and Hal 9000 (42 posts)
  4. robo_dev (39 posts)
  5. OH Smeg and AV . (34 posts)
TR members with the most Votes Up in the Discussions forum
  1. robo_dev (44)
  2. AnsuGisalas (33)
  3. Hal 9000 (28)
  4. bill.andersen (25)
  5. maxwell edison (21)

TR members with the most Votes Up in the Q&A forum

  1. robo_dev (3)
  2. Who Am I Really (2)

Top spam busters

  1. seanferd (7)
  2. Palmetto (4)
  3. Who Am I Really (2)
  4. inouyde, keithc, jck, SKDTech, chuck.jolley, and Frowie (1)

Here are a few other links that you should check out:

TechRepublic Community photo galleries:

If you’d like to contribute to the pics galleries, please send us your photos.

Psssst! If you aren’t already, become a Fan of TechRepublic on Facebook and follow TechRepublic on Twitter!

You can now also purchase merchandise from the TechRepublic store on CafePress!

Addendum:

Happy birthday to TR member GSG! If you just celebrated a birthday, please let us know so that we can give you a shout out next year — and if your birthday is quickly approaching, we want to know that too!

Have you signed up for TechRepublic Live 2011 on Sept. 28-30? Seating is limited, so if you haven’t registered, please reserve your spot today!