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Title: I just lost around a thousand posts.
Post by: achtung on June 10, 2008, 10:08:03 pm
I feel young again.   :)
Title: Re: I just lost around a thousand posts.
Post by: Blue Lion on June 10, 2008, 10:08:39 pm
Yea I dropped about 2k, musta been a spammer
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Post by: haloboy100 on June 10, 2008, 10:10:27 pm
What's the point of modifying a post count again?
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Post by: Flipside on June 10, 2008, 10:23:56 pm
I lost about 7000 :nervous:
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Post by: blowfish on June 10, 2008, 10:27:10 pm
Wow.  That's scary.  How did that happen?
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Post by: tinfoil on June 10, 2008, 10:32:02 pm
All spam?
that's where i'm headed :nervous:
Title: Re: I just lost around a thousand posts.
Post by: Blue Lion on June 10, 2008, 10:41:09 pm
Looks like it's time to start over
Title: Re: I just lost around a thousand posts.
Post by: Flipside on June 10, 2008, 10:50:52 pm
I think the General Discussion not counting for postcount has been moved back to the creation of the forum, that's where all the posts went ;)
Title: Re: I just lost around a thousand posts.
Post by: jdjtcagle on June 10, 2008, 11:10:16 pm
No!!! page 3!!...
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Post by: WeatherOp on June 10, 2008, 11:27:07 pm
Hmm, lost over half.
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Post by: Hades on June 10, 2008, 11:53:33 pm
 I don't know how many I lost if I lost any at all.
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Post by: haloboy100 on June 11, 2008, 12:19:45 am
Ditto.
Title: Re: I just lost around a thousand posts.
Post by: Ford Prefect on June 11, 2008, 12:21:10 am
Hahaha! I don't do **** around here.
Title: Re: I just lost around a thousand posts.
Post by: haloboy100 on June 11, 2008, 12:25:05 am
Quote from: Ford Prefect on June 11, 2008, 12:21:10 am
Hahaha! I don't do **** around here.
looks to me you've posted 3250 times. (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?action=profile;u=2015;sa=showPosts;start=3240)
Title: Re: I just lost around a thousand posts.
Post by: Mars on June 11, 2008, 12:41:22 am
I was just about to hit 3000 too.  :ick:
Title: Re: I just lost around a thousand posts.
Post by: Ford Prefect on June 11, 2008, 12:56:45 am
Quote from: haloboy100 on June 11, 2008, 12:25:05 am
looks to me you've posted 3250 times. (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?action=profile;u=2015;sa=showPosts;start=3240)
Yes, and you'll notice that 3190 of those have been removed from my e-penis. I don't think I've done anything remotely related to Freespace since I was about 16.
Title: Re: I just lost around a thousand posts.
Post by: WMCoolmon on June 11, 2008, 01:07:10 am
Hey, I'm top 10 now. :)
Title: Re: I just lost around a thousand posts.
Post by: Mars on June 11, 2008, 01:12:31 am
lol an0n has 1,500 and change
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Post by: Ashrak on June 11, 2008, 01:59:46 am
wonder how much i lost hehehhe
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Post by: Hellstryker on June 11, 2008, 02:19:53 am
about 100, IIRC
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Post by: Nuclear1 on June 11, 2008, 02:20:29 am
Massive e-penis circumcision.
Title: Re: I just lost around a thousand posts.
Post by: Ghostavo on June 11, 2008, 02:34:05 am
Quote from: Ford Prefect on June 11, 2008, 12:21:10 am
Hahaha! I don't do **** around here.
Title: Re: I just lost around a thousand posts.
Post by: jr2 on June 11, 2008, 03:57:16 am
Heh, wonder if this affected Snail much... :doubt:

EDIT: Not that I want it to.  Actually, post count doesn't really add much, except perhaps credibility to newbies coming in looking for help... which is prolly why Gen Disc got nuked as far as post count goes.
Title: Re: I just lost around a thousand posts.
Post by: Kosh on June 11, 2008, 04:33:11 am
Quote from: Flipside on June 10, 2008, 10:50:52 pm
I think the General Discussion not counting for postcount has been moved back to the creation of the forum, that's where all the posts went ;)

Why was this done?
Title: Re: I just lost around a thousand posts.
Post by: karajorma on June 11, 2008, 04:39:39 am
Cause it makes more sense not to count them at all rather than not counting them from some arbitrary date.

As for why they shouldn't count in gen dis at all, let me put it this way. The only tangible value of keeping track of post counts is to allow newbies to instantly tell who is a voice of authority within the community (avatars and badges being another). But if you only post on gen dis you probably aren't. Regardless of whatever your post count is, you probably don't pay that much attention to FS2.

You can always find your own post count fairly easily from last posts or your profile anyway.
Title: Re: I just lost around a thousand posts.
Post by: achtung on June 11, 2008, 04:41:58 am
I kind of wondered why they just cut off after a certain date anyway.
Title: Re: I just lost around a thousand posts.
Post by: Unknown Target on June 11, 2008, 06:19:20 am
Hm, I lost about 5,000.
Title: Re: I just lost around a thousand posts.
Post by: Mefustae on June 11, 2008, 06:22:29 am
I've lost about... *looks*

Jimminy-cricket! ePenis circumcision nothing, i've been ****ing castrated!

Well, it could have been worse. Ford Prefect pretty much got a sex change right then and there. :yes:
Title: Re: I just lost around a thousand posts.
Post by: Wobble73 on June 11, 2008, 07:40:44 am
 :eek2:

I'm very surprised I only lost 668 posts!
Title: Re: I just lost around a thousand posts.
Post by: Blue Lion on June 11, 2008, 09:14:48 am
Doesn't matter to me. I know what I've done and what I know. People who have been here a while know who I am anyways.
Title: Re: I just lost around a thousand posts.
Post by: haloboy100 on June 11, 2008, 09:20:25 am
I think a better way to tell who is more important around here is a clear indication of the date registered and time active statistics.
Title: Re: I just lost around a thousand posts.
Post by: jr2 on June 11, 2008, 09:41:11 am
Mmph, 8,205 (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?action=profile;u=181).  That one used to be 22,912.  No comment.
Title: Re: I just lost around a thousand posts.
Post by: Blue Lion on June 11, 2008, 09:43:52 am
Yea I noticed all the big guys lost a ton
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Post by: Kosh on June 11, 2008, 10:58:25 am
Aldo has been gone for a while, and I don't think he'll be back. What a shame.......
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Post by: Snail on June 11, 2008, 11:54:01 am
Mine grew 7,000.
Title: Re: I just lost around a thousand posts.
Post by: blowfish on June 11, 2008, 12:29:04 pm
Probably because your nuked postcount got unnuked somehow during this change.
Title: Re: I just lost around a thousand posts.
Post by: Snail on June 11, 2008, 12:36:51 pm
I asked for it to be nuked, actually.
Title: Re: I just lost around a thousand posts.
Post by: blowfish on June 11, 2008, 12:37:57 pm
Why?
Title: Re: I just lost around a thousand posts.
Post by: Snail on June 11, 2008, 12:39:25 pm
So that Mobius didn't keep ranting about it to me over MSN.
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Post by: tinfoil on June 11, 2008, 12:41:24 pm
*chuckles* he'll find another reason :nod:
Title: Re: I just lost around a thousand posts.
Post by: Titan on June 11, 2008, 02:23:37 pm
I lost... none. because i only joined winter 06.
Title: Re: I just lost around a thousand posts.
Post by: Snail on June 11, 2008, 02:32:14 pm
I joined in May 2006, and there was a considerable change in my post count.
Title: Re: I just lost around a thousand posts.
Post by: Bob-san on June 11, 2008, 03:22:57 pm
I lost a few, I know that. 200 or so I think...
Title: Re: I just lost around a thousand posts.
Post by: Polpolion on June 11, 2008, 04:30:06 pm
~500

RIP :(
Title: Re: I just lost around a thousand posts.
Post by: Kie99 on June 11, 2008, 04:51:50 pm
Lost about 700, strange, never thought I posted much in Hard Light.
Title: Re: I just lost around a thousand posts.
Post by: colecampbell666 on June 11, 2008, 06:45:20 pm
I didn't lose a single post.

:p
Title: Re: I just lost around a thousand posts.
Post by: haloboy100 on June 11, 2008, 07:02:03 pm
Ditto.
Title: Re: I just lost around a thousand posts.
Post by: Blue Lion on June 11, 2008, 07:28:53 pm
Well you were born here after the procedure!
Title: Re: I just lost around a thousand posts.
Post by: Flipside on June 11, 2008, 07:32:49 pm
Just goes to show how much things have changed around here. There used to be arguments that literally went on for days, back in the time of Stryke9, Tiara and Liberator etc, and thinking back to them now, they were 90% flame wars.

It was fun, but not really conducive to making HLP an accessible website for outsiders.
Title: Re: I just lost around a thousand posts.
Post by: jr2 on June 11, 2008, 08:38:06 pm
Quote from: Flipside on June 11, 2008, 07:32:49 pm
and thinking back to them now, they were 90% flame wars.
  Yup.
Quote from: Flipside on June 11, 2008, 07:32:49 pm
It was fun, but not really conducive to making HLP an accessible website for outsiders.
:rolleyes: no kidding.  I actually stopped visiting the Gen Disc forum entirely for awhile, and when they implemented this change, it did become a bit better.  (Because, at the time of this change, they also introduced the "Padded Cell" where all flame wars ended up... brutally effective.  Having served its purpose (enforcing civility), it was then removed.)
Title: Re: I just lost around a thousand posts.
Post by: blowfish on June 11, 2008, 08:39:10 pm
Your post is formatted oddly.
Title: Re: I just lost around a thousand posts.
Post by: jr2 on June 11, 2008, 08:40:28 pm
Fixx0red
Title: Re: I just lost around a thousand posts.
Post by: Talon 1024 on June 12, 2008, 12:43:30 pm
It seems I didn't lose any posts...  Not that I wanted to, though.

Although I did notice that Starman01 lost ~100 posts...
Title: Re: I just lost around a thousand posts.
Post by: colecampbell666 on June 12, 2008, 12:50:57 pm
Quote from: Blue Lion on June 11, 2008, 07:28:53 pm
Well you were born here after the procedure!
Title: Re: I just lost around a thousand posts.
Post by: Nuke on June 12, 2008, 06:36:19 pm
this is stupid!

you got your balls cut off for spamming, deal with it.
now learn your lessons and quit spamming, thread nuked