Post making contest 3.0

Anyway I guess I'll stop trying to pass rule 1 (...and the other rules...). I thought it had to do with posting a post containing every letter except one, determined by post number modulo 26. Akumu "conveniently" posted at 26 mod 26 and 17 mod 26 (Z and Q). Not using the letter D made that last post significantly more stilted.

Since that hunch (probably) is wrong, feel free to have this probably wrong intel.

I think this is at least vaguely on the right track; it's easy to write a post without a Q, X, Z or some other uncommon letters, so it's odd that Akumu went out of his way to include those. The coincidence of the post number mod 26 makes it especially unusual.

However, an important point to add to this observation: the first Rule 1 post didn't use X, in addition to not using Z But I double-checked the second, and it definitely only excludes Q.

If this is on the right track, then there must be some secondary condition, and it so happens that the second post hit Q for both conditions - or met some requirement that made the other excluded letter irrelevant.

For reference: first Rule 1 post is 5720, second is 5893.