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Offline Kosh

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Ok......
on: June 02, 2009, 02:23:19 am
Is it my imagination or have some people's post counts totally exploded while others have remained the same? I could have sworn mobius did not have 10,000+ posts just a couple of days ago.
"The reason for this is that the original Fortran got so convoluted and extensive (10's of millions of lines of code) that no-one can actually figure out how it works, there's a massive project going on to decode the original Fortran and write a more modern system, but until then, the UK communication network is actually relying heavily on 35 year old Fortran that nobody understands." - Flipside

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Offline Dilmah G

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Re: Ok......
Reply #1 on: June 02, 2009, 03:43:49 am
I always remember him having 10,000, as far as I remember (which is not long in the lifespan of this forum).
 

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Re: Ok......
Reply #2 on: June 02, 2009, 03:51:09 am
A couple of days ago I had pretty much the same postcount...

Oh, by the way, the title of this thread is... familiar...
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Offline Kosh

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Re: Ok......
Reply #3 on: June 02, 2009, 09:00:24 am
Right. Well I've been out of touch with the forums recently, totally lost track. My bad......
"The reason for this is that the original Fortran got so convoluted and extensive (10's of millions of lines of code) that no-one can actually figure out how it works, there's a massive project going on to decode the original Fortran and write a more modern system, but until then, the UK communication network is actually relying heavily on 35 year old Fortran that nobody understands." - Flipside

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Re: Ok......
Reply #4 on: June 02, 2009, 12:10:22 pm
All I know is it's been eight years, and mine is still under 300.  Oh, shi-.
 

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Re: Ok......
Reply #5 on: June 02, 2009, 12:36:08 pm
Mobius's postcount was set to 0 at one point.  Someone probably did a post recalculation.
 

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Reply #6 on: June 02, 2009, 12:40:24 pm
Skippy set my postcount back to the real value.
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Offline Knight Templar

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Re: Ok......
Reply #7 on: June 03, 2009, 12:44:02 am
post counts are serious business. apparently someone deleted 8,000 of mine a while ago.
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Offline Kosh

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Re: Ok......
Reply #8 on: June 03, 2009, 02:12:14 am
Quote from: Knight Templar on June 03, 2009, 12:44:02 am
post counts are serious business. apparently someone deleted 8,000 of mine a while ago.


No, they are still there. They decided general discussion posts wouldn't count towards it.
"The reason for this is that the original Fortran got so convoluted and extensive (10's of millions of lines of code) that no-one can actually figure out how it works, there's a massive project going on to decode the original Fortran and write a more modern system, but until then, the UK communication network is actually relying heavily on 35 year old Fortran that nobody understands." - Flipside

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Offline Kie99

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Re: Ok......
Reply #9 on: June 03, 2009, 05:12:26 pm
I never really got the rationale behind that one.
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Offline Rhymes

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Re: Ok......
Reply #10 on: June 03, 2009, 05:31:14 pm
GD is unrelated to FS, maybe, and this is the largest FreeSpace site on the internets?  Might that have anything to do with it?   ;)
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Re: Ok......
Reply #11 on: June 03, 2009, 05:32:54 pm
Post counts are post counts. I don't see how posts in general discussion aren't posts by some arbitrary designation..
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Re: Ok......
Reply #12 on: June 03, 2009, 06:22:09 pm
If GD posts counted, I would look like I contribute something to the forum.
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Offline Kie99

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Re: Ok......
Reply #13 on: June 03, 2009, 06:25:35 pm
Quote from: Rhymes_With_PSYCHO on June 03, 2009, 05:31:14 pm
GD is unrelated to FS, maybe, and this is the largest FreeSpace site on the internets?  Might that have anything to do with it?   ;)

Yeah, they're unrelated to Freespace, but this site isn't dedicated entirely to Freespace, and as far as I know, it never was.  The tagline is "Bringing Modders together", a general discussion forum helps to do that.
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Offline NGTM-1R

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Re: Ok......
Reply #14 on: June 03, 2009, 06:34:43 pm
Quote from: haloboy100 on June 03, 2009, 05:32:54 pm
Post counts are post counts. I don't see how posts in general discussion aren't posts by some arbitrary designation..

On one hand, GD has some of the longer and more insightful posts.

On the other hand, it contains most of the utter garbage.

The two cancel out.
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Re: Ok......
Reply #15 on: June 04, 2009, 03:22:24 am
Post counts are e-penii, and while most of us agree that they really don't matter, every now and then some n00bs start comparing theirs and therefore start posting a lot of nonsense to increase it.

Since GD is the place where one can post the most wihtout being called a spammer, its posts were excluded from the post count to discourage that behavior. It was only partially successful, since some people have since then started to post mostly irrelevant blabber in virtually every other subforum.

Thus endeth the story.
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Offline Dilmah G

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Re: Ok......
Reply #16 on: June 04, 2009, 03:32:24 am
Quote from: iamzack on June 03, 2009, 06:22:09 pm
If GD posts counted, I would look like I contribute something to the forum.

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Quote from: Col. Fishguts on June 04, 2009, 03:22:24 am
Post counts are e-penii, and while most of us agree that they really don't matter, every now and then some n00bs start comparing theirs and therefore start posting a lot of nonsense to increase it.

Since GD is the place where one can post the most wihtout being called a spammer, its posts were excluded from the post count to discourage that behavior. It was only partially successful, since some people have since then started to post mostly irrelevant blabber in virtually every other subforum.

Thus endeth the story.

I thought that was the reason... I read something similar a few months ago.
 

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Re: Ok......
Reply #17 on: June 04, 2009, 11:06:25 am
my post count sucks for the time I have been here.
what are you guys complaining about?
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Re: Ok......
Reply #18 on: June 04, 2009, 12:49:31 pm
are we doing this again? initiate lockage!

the first rule of post counts is you do not talk about post counts.
the second rule about postcounts is you do not talk about post counts.
third rule, make your posts look useful
fourth rule, reply to every comment, reference, or flame to your post
fifth and final rule, if i catch you doing this, i will nuke you.
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