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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Stealth on June 04, 2003, 06:28:10 pm

Title: Trivia Question!
Post by: Stealth on June 04, 2003, 06:28:10 pm
A cookie to whoever can guess why this thread has over 500 views while other threads in the forum have only a dozen or so.

(http://www.swooh.com/lorenzo/hlphosted/trivia1.jpg)

Hint:  It's got nothing to do with HLP being down and more people being at the VWBB.

It also has nothing to do with this thread having more replies than other threads shown.
Title: Trivia Question!
Post by: karajorma on June 04, 2003, 06:55:21 pm
Wasn't that the topic where everyone was being told to go vote for FS2 at the interplay site?
Title: Trivia Question!
Post by: Knight Templar on June 04, 2003, 07:03:13 pm
because it was the vote freespace thread...

why is that so funny?
Title: Trivia Question!
Post by: Stealth on June 04, 2003, 10:14:47 pm
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Originally posted by Knight Templar
because it was the vote freespace thread...

why is that so funny?


WRONG!!!

You're right, it is the "vote freespace" thread, but the poll ended on 02-15-03 or something like that with less than 200 views.  explain why since then, over the course of 3 months it's gained over 350 views, even though it now doesn't even appear in the "show topics from the last 100 days"...
Title: Trivia Question!
Post by: Black Wolf on June 04, 2003, 10:38:01 pm
Someone probably linked to it from another board or something.
Title: Trivia Question!
Post by: Stealth on June 04, 2003, 10:41:10 pm
close, BUT why would someone link to a thread who's content expired 3 months or more ago... also, if so many people are linked to it and visit it, why does no one ever reply in it?

The "answer" isn't going to blow your breath away or anything, i just though it was pretty funny when i realized :D
Title: Trivia Question!
Post by: Knight Templar on June 04, 2003, 10:44:40 pm
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Originally posted by Stealth
close, BUT why would someone link to a thread who's content expired 3 months or more ago... also, if so many people are linked to it and visit it, why does no one ever reply in it?


 


Because so many people wanted to see how the Descent People were being assholes? And you locked it....
Title: Trivia Question!
Post by: Stealth on June 04, 2003, 10:50:16 pm
true KT, i locked it about 4 or 5 hours ago (right before i made this thread) and i locked it for a very good reason.

anyway, you're getting close, but why are about 95% of the views from the same (more-or-less) IP?
Title: Trivia Question!
Post by: betterthanyou on June 05, 2003, 12:29:03 am
Ummm... there was porn involved?
Title: Trivia Question!
Post by: WMCoolmon on June 05, 2003, 04:06:07 am
DOS Attack?

I know, you spent the past day repeatedly refreshing the thread so you could post this thread about it, then everyone who visited this thread visited that thread... :p ;)
Title: Trivia Question!
Post by: Knight Templar on June 11, 2003, 04:54:41 pm
And the Answer is.....

Spoiler:
0_o
Title: Trivia Question!
Post by: Hippo on June 11, 2003, 05:02:51 pm
:wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf:
Title: Trivia Question!
Post by: Black Ace on June 11, 2003, 11:42:42 pm
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Originally posted by betterthanyou
Ummm... there was porn involved?


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Originally posted by WMCoolmon
I know, you spent the past day repeatedly refreshing the thread so you could post this thread about it, then everyone who visited this thread visited that thread... :p ;)


:lol:
Title: Trivia Question!
Post by: J.F.K. on June 12, 2003, 07:04:21 am
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Originally posted by Stealth
anyway, you're getting close, but why are about 95% of the views from the same (more-or-less) IP?


Because you're bored? :)
Title: Trivia Question!
Post by: Goober5000 on June 12, 2003, 09:05:44 am
Are you going to enlighten us?
Title: Trivia Question!
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on June 12, 2003, 09:09:40 am
Do we care?
Title: Trivia Question!
Post by: Stealth on June 12, 2003, 11:15:45 am
no point.  it was a cheesy reason anyway.
Title: Trivia Question!
Post by: kasperl on June 12, 2003, 12:15:34 pm
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Originally posted by Stealth
no point.  it was a cheesy reason anyway.


nevermind, tell us!
Title: Trivia Question!
Post by: Stealth on June 12, 2003, 01:27:52 pm
pointless, but anyway:

shortly after that thread, the administrators at my school went on a banning spree, and blocked all websites not "school-related"... hard light productions was one of them.  the only way i could get to it, was by linking to a PHP file... in that thread, Knight Templar posted something with a link to Kazan's profile in HLP.  so at least 2 or three times a day, that was the way i got into HLP :D :D :D :nod:

heh
Title: Trivia Question!
Post by: Black Ace on June 12, 2003, 01:48:53 pm
What a great story... :)
Title: Trivia Question!
Post by: Knight Templar on June 12, 2003, 02:42:43 pm
:blah:
Title: Trivia Question!
Post by: Goober5000 on June 12, 2003, 03:22:00 pm
Heh, that's pretty funny.  Dunno how we would have guessed it, though. :)