What the Hell?

Solid Snake · Post by **Solid Snake** » 2002-10-14 11:32am

Is there any reason why my post count dropped from 430 to 397?

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2002-10-14 11:35am

Dave nuked the word game threads.

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2002-10-14 11:36am

Yep. David scrapped the word/letter threads.

Cal Wright · Post by **Cal Wright** » 2002-10-14 11:41am

Explains why mine dropped too then.

Anarchist Bunny · Post by **Anarchist Bunny** » 2002-10-14 11:43am

Glad I never went post crazy in em

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2002-10-14 11:43am

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.

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2002-10-14 11:45am

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!

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2002-10-14 02:04pm

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.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2002-10-15 04:56pm

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.

Alyeska · Post by **Alyeska** » 2002-10-15 05:11pm

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.

David · Post by **David** » 2002-10-16 01:41am

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.