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The Argonaut · **Posted:** Tue Oct 25, 2011 5:10 pm

For example, the number under my avatar is right now 4966. But if you click on my profile and then on Search user's posts,the count there is 4971, five more posts.
For our most prolific poster, chud, the discrepancy is even more pronounced: 80438 under the avatar and 80527 in Search user's posts, a difference of 89 posts.
Everyone who has been here for a while has some sort of discrepancy between the two numbers. Why the discrepancy? Does the second number take into account posts made in threads that have since been moved to the mod forum? Could we then re-construct those beloved but lost threads?

Spike · **Joined:** Sat Oct 16, 2004 11:54 pm **Posts:** 40914

36675/36611, 64 posts unaccounted for

nah · **Posted:** Tue Oct 25, 2011 5:35 pm

right now i have 1894 but am only missing 1 post. so basically i only lose 1 post per 1894 posts. argo loses 1 post per 995, spike 1 per 573 and chud 1 per 903. i think these numbers conclude that my posts are more important. lock er up.

dimejinky99 · **Posted:** Tue Oct 25, 2011 5:41 pm

private messages. forthe win.

thodoks · **Joined:** Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:19 pm **Posts:** 25134

those missing posts attributable to the "what's on kosmicjelli's homeless sign" thread stick in my craw to this very day

nah · **Posted:** Tue Oct 25, 2011 5:55 pm

thodoks wrote:

those missing posts attributable to the "what's on kosmicjelli's homeless sign" thread stick in my craw to this very day

but they are preserved on the event horizon of that black hole. information cannot be lost. its a fundamental rule of physics.

Rebar · **Posted:** Tue Oct 25, 2011 5:59 pm

13,699/13,812

thodoks · **Joined:** Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:19 pm **Posts:** 25134

*13700/13813

lennytheweedwhacker · **Posted:** Tue Oct 25, 2011 6:02 pm

I'd noticed this, but never looked at the difference in my own. It's only 32.

nah · **Posted:** Tue Oct 25, 2011 6:05 pm

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

I'd noticed this, but never looked at the difference in my own. It's only 32.

lenny, do you find this cat humor to be a+

The Argonaut · **Posted:** Tue Oct 25, 2011 6:06 pm

thodoks wrote:

those missing posts attributable to the "what's on kosmicjelli's homeless sign" thread stick in my craw to this very day

well, if the mod forum theory is correct, you should be able to find those posts on your "search user's posts" page, which is arranged by date. I'm not convinced that that theory is correct, though.

lennytheweedwhacker · **Posted:** Tue Oct 25, 2011 6:08 pm

nah wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

I'd noticed this, but never looked at the difference in my own. It's only 32.

lenny, do you find this cat humor to be a+

D-

It would have been funnier without the dialogue, but since it's apparently an advertisement for free flexor I suppose it needed to include something. Either way, still not very funny.

bmacsmith · **Joined:** Fri Jul 10, 2009 5:52 pm **Posts:** 8288

the fed is printing posts in a desperate attempt to save the economy.

nah · **Posted:** Tue Oct 25, 2011 6:12 pm

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

nah wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

I'd noticed this, but never looked at the difference in my own. It's only 32.

lenny, do you find this cat humor to be a+

D-

It would have been funnier without the dialogue, but since it's apparently an advertisement for free flexor I suppose it needed to include something. Either way, still not very funny.

how about this?

lennytheweedwhacker · **Posted:** Tue Oct 25, 2011 6:15 pm

nah wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

nah wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

I'd noticed this, but never looked at the difference in my own. It's only 32.

lenny, do you find this cat humor to be a+

D-

It would have been funnier without the dialogue, but since it's apparently an advertisement for free flexor I suppose it needed to include something. Either way, still not very funny.

how about this?

nah

dkfan9 · **Posted:** Tue Oct 25, 2011 6:48 pm

i think i'm taking posts away from some of you. 18380 under my avatar, 18360 in search user posts

Owl_Farmer · **Posted:** Tue Oct 25, 2011 6:52 pm

dkfan9 wrote:

i think i'm taking posts away from some of you. 18380 under my avatar, 18360 in search user posts

cutuphalfdead · **Posted:** Tue Oct 25, 2011 7:11 pm

This is an outrage!

lennytheweedwhacker · **Posted:** Tue Oct 25, 2011 7:13 pm

cutuphalfdead wrote:

This is an outrage!

Do you have a target date in mind for your 100,000th post?

ScottZeagle · **Posted:** Tue Oct 25, 2011 7:20 pm

I'm almost positive that B is responsible for this post count error thing...

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