[an0n]

...did 12k of my posts go?

 

[tinfoil]

Ha ha ha ha ha - 12000
that's of gen disc posting you did

[an0n]

Urgh, is that why....

And it wasn't GenDisc posting. It was Hard Light and Art and all kinds of other crap.

Bastards...

[karajorma]

Hard Light = Gen Disc

I think 12k probably is the biggest single loss though unless Aldo beat you.

[Polpolion]

You're so lucky, Karajorma. You get to hit 20k posts twice. All I get to do is take a year longer to hit 3000.

[jr2]

Hmm.  As for aldo:

Mmph, 8,205.  That one used to be 22,912.  No comment.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Why are post counts cleared once somebody hits four digits? Is it done to free up bandwidth or something like that?

[Fury]

General Discussion board has not been counting posts for quite some time now, but the change only affected messages posted afterwards. Messages posted were recalculated recently and this is why people also lost messages posted prior to the change from their post counts.

No messages have been deleted if that's what you thought.

[Stormkeeper]

I never really noticed if I lost any posts. I actually couldn't care less.

[Snail]

Since my post count was zeroed recently it actually made mine go up by around 7,000

[Flipside]

You don't want to be pointing that out

[BlueFlames]

You don't want to be pointing that out

His post count was zeroed by his own request, and he never griped about it after the fact.  Whatever anyone says about not caring about their post count, I think Snail is one of the few whose behavior matches the message.

[tinfoil]

i could care less about post count aswell. it's not like it does anything. mine could be a permanent zero and i wouldent even notice.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

The only thing the post count does is to increase one's position by a power.

[Fury]

Oh, so you all would like us to hide post counts permanently.

[jr2]

Nah, actually, it does have a sort of experience ranking.. not an entirely accurate one, but still, better than nothing.  Some guy says "here, download this batch file to fix your FS2 problem" and he has 2 posts, hahahaha.  If it's 24,000, maybe... maybe.  Once I examine it myself, or several others do if I don't have the knowledge.  xD

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Actually, that position thingie is an incentive for people to post (constructively, of course).

And while it increases through post count, it never decreases when the post counts are zeroed.

Nah, actually, it does have a sort of experience ranking.. not an entirely accurate one, but still, better than nothing.  Some guy says "here, download this batch file to fix your FS2 problem" and he has 2 posts, hahahaha.  If it's 24,000, maybe... maybe.  Once I examine it myself, or several others do if I don't have the knowledge.  xD

If you kept multiplying 2 by 2 by 2...

Oh, so you all would like us to hide post counts permanently.

I didn't say that.

[jr2]

If you kept multiplying 2 by 2 by 2...

You would get a multiple of 2.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

If you kept multiplying 2 by 2 by 2...

You would get a multiple of 2.

That's how position is calculated, isn't it?

[jr2]

Yup.  2 to the power of whatever.