# Do new posts work or is the hamster asleep
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-new-posts-work-or-is-the-hamster-asleep/392007
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [February 13, 2007, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-new-posts-work-or-is-the-hamster-asleep/392007 "2007-02-13T13:03:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@FRDE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FRDE)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2007, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-new-posts-work-or-is-the-hamster-asleep/392007/1 "2007-02-13T13:03:34Z")
While I have a great deal of sympathy for the hamster, I can’t help noticing that something peculiar is happening to new posts.
Call this a test post - because it is … or maybe it is not.
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### Author:  [@FRDE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FRDE)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2007, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-new-posts-work-or-is-the-hamster-asleep/392007/2 "2007-02-13T13:05:00Z")
Now this might or might not be a test reply.
If it gets a ‘duplicate post’ respnse then technically it is a failed reply.
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### Author:  [@FRDE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FRDE)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2007, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-new-posts-work-or-is-the-hamster-asleep/392007/3 "2007-02-13T13:06:42Z")
Hmm … all working well
Please delete my tests and prognosis, but I suggest leaving them for an hour or so.
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### Author:  [@According\_to\_Pliny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/According_to_Pliny)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2007, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-new-posts-work-or-is-the-hamster-asleep/392007/4 "2007-02-13T18:58:29Z")
This is a great debate. I’ll be [tosses coin] _Pro_ posts working 😉
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### Author:  [@sunacres](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunacres)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2007, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-new-posts-work-or-is-the-hamster-asleep/392007/5 "2007-02-14T00:28:03Z")
I notice the post counts aren’t incrementing, and a thread I was contributing to seems to have vanished. Odd.
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### Author:  [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2007, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-new-posts-work-or-is-the-hamster-asleep/392007/6 "2007-02-14T01:36:41Z")
[QUOTE=sunacres]
I notice the post counts aren’t incrementing, and a thread I was contributing to seems to have vanished. Odd.
[/QUOTE]
How recently have you noticed the lack of post count increments?
We have had to disappear a couple of threads by spammers and socks in the last day or so.
The board did have a technical problem regarding a refusal to accept new posts, for which the board was dropped for maintenance, earlier today.
This thread is a board question, not a debate, and you will next find it sitting comfortably in the **About This Message Board** Forum.
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### Author:  [@sunacres](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunacres)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2007, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-new-posts-work-or-is-the-hamster-asleep/392007/7 "2007-02-14T06:47:27Z")
About noon PST today, Tuesday 2/13, I was contributing to a GD thread having to do with marriage (sorry, can’t recall the title) and noticed that my post count was holding steady. There were only a handful of folks actively contributing to the thread, but each of their post counts were the same on each post in the thread.
I hope that helps.
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### Author:  [@FRDE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FRDE)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2007, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-new-posts-work-or-is-the-hamster-asleep/392007/8 "2007-02-14T10:43:04Z")
I found a number of BrainGlutton’s starter posts had zero counts **and no text in the initial post**. When I tried a followup I got as ‘system problem’ screen (I should have snapped it).
I started the thread to alert the Sysops and test what was going on.
Not meant to be critical or sarcastic - just highlighting what looked like a glitch.
Glad to see it is fixed.
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### Author:  [@sunacres](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunacres)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2007, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-new-posts-work-or-is-the-hamster-asleep/392007/9 "2007-02-14T14:31:25Z")
Now I notice that post counts aren’t incrementing in _this_ thread.
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### Author:  [@sunacres](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sunacres)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2007, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-new-posts-work-or-is-the-hamster-asleep/392007/10 "2007-02-14T14:34:02Z")
[QUOTE=sunacres]
Now I notice that post counts aren’t incrementing in _this_ thread.
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Whoops, now I notice that all posts reflect the latest thread count for a poster. Perhaps that’s the way it’s always worked and I’ve been smoking dope. Carry on.