# A very odd thing. Admins look at this... **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [October 30, 2001, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-odd-thing-admins-look-at-this/90403 "2001-10-30T00:57:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mac\_Guffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2bfe46/32.png) [@Mac\_Guffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mac_Guffin)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-odd-thing-admins-look-at-this/90403/1 "2001-10-30T00:57:53Z")
I was in General questions, and this thread was on the front page… [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=11807](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=11807) But as near as I can tell, the last time anyone posted to this thread was last year. What is this old thing doing on the front page of GQ when it hain’t been posted to for so long? ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-odd-thing-admins-look-at-this/90403/2 "2001-10-30T01:08:43Z")
Hmm… a thread about Satan, rising to the top all by itself right before Halloween… Spooky ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-odd-thing-admins-look-at-this/90403/3 "2001-10-30T01:12:38Z")
I deleted a MPSIMS comment (someone having a post party). Unfortunately, the software doesn’t return the thread to it’s rightful place. So I guess that makes me the evil one this Halloween. Bwahahahahahaha. ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-odd-thing-admins-look-at-this/90403/4 "2001-10-30T01:39:07Z")
Oh, yeah. Like this Halloween should be different from the previous ones? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Mac\_Guffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2bfe46/32.png) [@Mac\_Guffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mac_Guffin)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-odd-thing-admins-look-at-this/90403/5 "2001-10-30T01:45:59Z")
Or any other day, for that matter. 🙂 Thanks manny. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-odd-thing-admins-look-at-this/90403/6 "2001-10-30T07:56:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by manhattan \* > I deleted a MPSIMS comment (someone having a post party). > > Unfortunately, the software doesn’t return the thread to it’s rightful place. Do I understand it correctly that you dug up a thread from Feb 2000 just to delete an inappropriate message? You moderators must have too much time on your hands. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-odd-thing-admins-look-at-this/90403/7 "2001-10-30T10:29:22Z")
Presumably, he means that someone _else_ bumped it with a pointless post, and that’s the post he deleted. Deleting a post does not, in itself, bump a thread. ---
**Author:** ![NotMrKnowItAll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/6bbea6/32.png) [@NotMrKnowItAll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotMrKnowItAll)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-odd-thing-admins-look-at-this/90403/8 "2001-10-30T12:36:44Z")
I was there, I saw the whole thing. A poster, whose name escapes me bumped the thread in honor of his **666[sup]th[/sup]** post. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-odd-thing-admins-look-at-this/90403/9 "2001-10-30T13:38:17Z")
Yeah, I was just thinking… If the moderators took it upon themselves to go back and delete all the pointless posts since the beginning of time we’d be at 10 threads and 200 posts! ---
**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2001, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-very-odd-thing-admins-look-at-this/90403/10 "2001-10-30T23:27:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by NotMrKnowItAll \* > \*\*I was there, I saw the whole thing. A poster, whose name escapes me bumped the thread in honor of his **666[sup]th[/sup]** post. \*\* A very likely story. You will probably be thrown in the hole until you decide to devulge the name of this evil poster.