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What the Hell?
Posted: 2002-10-14 11:32am
by Solid Snake
Is there any reason why my post count dropped from 430 to 397?
Posted: 2002-10-14 11:35am
by Stormbringer
Dave nuked the word game threads.
Posted: 2002-10-14 11:36am
by Kelly Antilles
Yep. David scrapped the word/letter threads.
Posted: 2002-10-14 11:41am
by Cal Wright
Explains why mine dropped too then.
Posted: 2002-10-14 11:43am
by Anarchist Bunny
Glad I never went post crazy in em
Posted: 2002-10-14 11:43am
by Stormbringer
Doesn't anyone read the Announcements? I knew I saw that as soon as I logged on.
And I think David's thread nuke got a lot of people.
Posted: 2002-10-14 11:45am
by Kelly Antilles
Stormbringer wrote:Doesn't anyone read the Announcements? I knew I saw that as soon as I logged on.
Yet another reason why people should READ THE ANNOUNCEMENTS!
Posted: 2002-10-14 02:04pm
by Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi
Jesus Christ! I lost about 40 posts! Still, I won't mind. Now, I'm pretty sure that nobody will bother playing in the game threads anymore.
Posted: 2002-10-15 04:56pm
by Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi
I'm being arrogant. If I value posts above everything else (I try not to, but I seem to fall for it), then this would be good, since others lost even more posts. I do agree that my game thread was hijacked, the thought of people posting wildly on it to raise the almighty post count never occured to me when I started it back in July.
I was thinking of somethting like a game forum, where such games could be played, but the posts you make there wouldn't go toward your total post count.
Posted: 2002-10-15 05:11pm
by Alyeska
Just a little FYI.
When it comes to VBB boards, updating the post counts is a BAD thing because it looks at your total posts in the archives and then gives that to you. Well, its not possible to hold complete Archives. Even SB.com doesn't. Yet we still have our register dates and post count evidence.
It could be that here at SD.net the forum is automatically updating the post counts, and when threads are completely deleted people will loose their post counts. The way to prevent this is to stop the board from updating the post counts.
Posted: 2002-10-16 01:41am
by David
Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi wrote:I'm being arrogant. If I value posts above everything else (I try not to, but I seem to fall for it), then this would be good, since others lost even more posts. I do agree that my game thread was hijacked, the thought of people posting wildly on it to raise the almighty post count never occured to me when I started it back in July.
I was thinking of somethting like a game forum, where such games could be played, but the posts you make there wouldn't go toward your total post count.
I spoke to DW about this, but he said adding mods like this would make upgrading more difficult. Maybe sometime in the future. This board is only a few months old, so there is no telling what might happen a year or two down the line.