# Are the numbers correct? Does CS really have 1.2 million posts? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 28, 2006, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-the-numbers-correct-does-cs-really-have-1-2-million-posts/385909 "2006-12-28T21:34:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2006, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-the-numbers-correct-does-cs-really-have-1-2-million-posts/385909/1 "2006-12-28T21:34:51Z")
I thought that Cafe Society had one of the least post counts (of the 6 major forumns) but the front page just said that it had over 1.233 million posts, right behind MPSIMS at 1.281 million. Zat right? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2006, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-the-numbers-correct-does-cs-really-have-1-2-million-posts/385909/2 "2006-12-28T22:37:56Z")
Heck, there’s probably been 100,000 posts on _Lost_ alone. ---
**Author:** ![According\_to\_Pliny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@According\_to\_Pliny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/According_to_Pliny)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2006, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-the-numbers-correct-does-cs-really-have-1-2-million-posts/385909/3 "2006-12-30T15:38:57Z")
Perhaps the mothballing of old threads to save space has distorted the posting ratio. There were years of MPSIMS before the start of Cafe Society, so they would be most likely to be latent.