# An observation

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-observation/105096>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [April 23, 2002, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-observation/105096 "2002-04-23T02:42:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-observation/105096/1 "2002-04-23T02:42:33Z")

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I truly don’t care about my post count - I’ve lost almost 1000 to board maintenance and the recent hiatus, and I’m not really sure still being over 5000 says anything positive about me. That being said, I just noticed something that may be of interest to our data base _artistes_, of whom I know we have a few.

I made a post tonight that timed out when posted. I knew better than to try again, experience telling me that it might show up in 10 to 20 minutes. Sure enough, it did.

So the post is there, on the [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=110980) in question, which a refreshed GQ page shows as having two replies, while mine is the third. And the notable item here is that it did not reflect its presence in my post count.

Perhaps in an hour or so? We’ll see.

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**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-observation/105096/2 "2002-04-23T03:38:16Z")

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Yep. Thread data is updated before user data.

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**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-observation/105096/3 "2002-04-23T05:30:19Z")

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Without having access to the source code of the application, I can’t tell you if your post count will get updated later or not at all.