# for those of us who lost 25% or more of our post count **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 22, 2002, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-lost-25-or-more-of-our-post-count/99590 "2002-03-22T19:45:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-lost-25-or-more-of-our-post-count/99590/21 "2002-03-22T23:26:55Z")
I think I was around 120-130 at the time, when we came back, 37. Not to mention about 50 at the temp board. Oh well, it’s not you can trade them in for valuable cash and prizes, or can you? ---
**Author:** ![Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violet)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-lost-25-or-more-of-our-post-count/99590/22 "2002-03-22T23:40:19Z")
I can’t recall my pre count, but want to know why they were lost! 😕 ---
**Author:** ![\_your\_name\_here](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/919ad9/32.png) [@\_your\_name\_here](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_your_name_here)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-lost-25-or-more-of-our-post-count/99590/23 "2002-03-22T23:51:50Z")
I went from about 200 to about 40. Poo. ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2002, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-lost-25-or-more-of-our-post-count/99590/24 "2002-03-23T00:22:18Z")
all that wisdom lost… adrift somewhere in that great bitbucket in the sky… I weep for humanity’s loss… ---
**Author:** ![Finnie\_the\_Pooh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@Finnie\_the\_Pooh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finnie_the_Pooh)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2002, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-lost-25-or-more-of-our-post-count/99590/25 "2002-03-23T02:48:01Z")
I was closing in on 90, and came back to 7. What hurts is that I’m a shitty typer. That 80 posts must have been worth dozens of hours of wasted time. Just like working for a living. ---
**Author:** ![Daoloth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/82dd89/32.png) [@Daoloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daoloth)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2002, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-lost-25-or-more-of-our-post-count/99590/26 "2002-03-23T03:51:48Z")
I went from roughly 140 to 55. Pretty nasty loss, proportionally at least. I’m steadily rebuilding my foundations, though. ---
**Author:** ![whatmove](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecc23a/32.png) [@whatmove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whatmove)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2002, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-lost-25-or-more-of-our-post-count/99590/27 "2002-03-23T05:40:29Z")
okay, the game is you have to guess what game I’m playing and if you get it right you have to start a new game and we all have to guess what it is is. Here goes: jy6ygy7ynfefcy, game (bottom won) ---
**Author:** ![Kathleen\_de\_Trelare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4bbf92/32.png) [@Kathleen\_de\_Trelare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kathleen_de_Trelare)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2002, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-lost-25-or-more-of-our-post-count/99590/28 "2002-03-23T05:46:06Z")
I lost half of mine. ---
**Author:** ![Denis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5e9695/32.png) [@Denis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Denis)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2002, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-lost-25-or-more-of-our-post-count/99590/29 "2002-03-23T06:35:26Z")
I was registered after Dec. 7, so I lost all my posts! And I was approaching the magical 100 mark! (Besides job hunting, there’s not much else to do when you’re unemployed. Just landed a job yesterday, though.😃 ) I had also started a lovely little thread in this forum entitled, “My family is obsessed with farts,” or somesuch. I felt so validated that others responded! I was real! Then the Hacking Weasels™ apparently attacked.:mad: When the board came back up, I tried to log on. The system refused my username, “DennisMoore” and my password, “none of your business.” So I tried to re-register using my old info. No soap. OK, I thought, I’ll re-register using a different name. The system would not allow “Phineas T. Smegma” but “P.T. Smegma” was OK. Lovely. Then I thought, "What if someone, particularly a mod or admin, thinks I’m being a sock?:eek: " I mean, sometimes I may _smell_ a little “socky,” but who doesn’t? So I emailed Tuba explaining my situation. She said all was cool. All hail Tuba! Now, damnit, I am unashamedly trying to pad my post count. I hope I have been sufficiently mundane and pointless. **whatmove** , I have no idea. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2002, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-lost-25-or-more-of-our-post-count/99590/30 "2002-03-23T06:41:28Z")
Well I had around 1200 back before the boards went away, and then about 750 or so when they came back. ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2002, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-lost-25-or-more-of-our-post-count/99590/31 "2002-03-23T06:45:02Z")
I lost 400 of my 850 posts. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![TomSwift\_sElectricGrandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@TomSwift\_sElectricGrandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TomSwift_sElectricGrandmother)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2002, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-lost-25-or-more-of-our-post-count/99590/32 "2002-03-23T06:47:45Z")
You’re counting your posts? Why? ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2002, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-lost-25-or-more-of-our-post-count/99590/33 "2002-03-23T06:49:56Z")
Hmm… maybe it is basketball… ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2002, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-lost-25-or-more-of-our-post-count/99590/34 "2002-03-23T10:37:44Z")
You know what I miss? All those really fun threads about why people like post counts and what they get out of it. I mean some of those were explicitly started for raising your post count. /^/^/^/^/^/^/^/^/^/^/^/\ ---
**Author:** ![darksight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3da27b/32.png) [@darksight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/darksight)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2002, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-lost-25-or-more-of-our-post-count/99590/35 "2002-03-23T10:52:29Z")
Hell, I lost all of mine. But in my opinion that little number under folks user name is meaningless. Some people who post in this forum are obsessed with post counts. I simply do not understand this fixation. Here I made another post, ooooooh, what am I up to now? I must be smart I’ve made more post than you have. Is that the logic on this message board? ---
**Author:** ![Cougarfang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@Cougarfang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cougarfang)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2002, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-lost-25-or-more-of-our-post-count/99590/36 "2002-03-23T11:21:49Z")
_Sniffle_ I had a thousand-something-hundred posts (something \> 1, of course)… Whatmove, is there something about those Ys and Fs that I’m just not getting? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Denis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5e9695/32.png) [@Denis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Denis)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2002, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-lost-25-or-more-of-our-post-count/99590/37 "2002-03-23T11:43:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by darksight \* > \*\*Hell, I lost all of mine. > But in my opinion that little number under folks user name is meaningless. > > Some people who post in this forum are obsessed with post counts. > I simply do not understand this fixation. > Here I made another post, ooooooh, what am I up to now? I must be smart I’ve made more post than you have. > Is that the logic on this message board? \*\* **darksight** , in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=105077) I posted this: > [@](#): > > Post count to me, since I lost my entire post count in the Hacking Weasels™ episode, has several different meanings. > [ul] > [li]The poster actually has something relevant to add to lot of discussions. [/li][li]The poster loves to jump into threads and add[/li]something somewhat relevant but inane (mea culpa) > [li]The poster loves to participate in silly hijacks (again, mea culpa) [/li][li]The poster views a high count somewhat like picking a large and interestingly shaped booger: not necessarily something you want to show off, but if others see it and wonder, the picker does have bragging rights (what I aspire to).[/li][/ul] Anyway, most of what I see about post counting is related to the fourth point. It’s meant as something humorous, not as a badge of authority. After all, I could have a ridiculously high count eventually and still post crap like this! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![darksight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3da27b/32.png) [@darksight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/darksight)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2002, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-lost-25-or-more-of-our-post-count/99590/38 "2002-03-23T11:55:34Z")
I read your post and got a giggle out of it. I posted in that thread as well. The strange thing is I don’t think I would have ever noticed the post count number. I have been reading these boards for about a year. It just seems strange how often the matter of post counts comes up on this board. I truly wish mine would stay at one so everyone would think THAT crap was his first post to this board ~ :rolleyes: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-those-of-us-who-lost-25-or-more-of-our-post-count/99590.md?page=1)