# How many posts did you lose? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 11, 2002, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-posts-did-you-lose/97585 "2002-03-11T15:12:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![beckwall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b487fb/32.png) [@beckwall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beckwall)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2002, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-posts-did-you-lose/97585/101 "2002-03-13T01:21:02Z")
It was a highly creative time for me. I think it came out to about 300 posts. Now I go to **Post Traumatic Stress Disorder** group therapy, and we try to pick up the pieces of our shattered dreams. ---
**Author:** ![Lateralus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@Lateralus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lateralus)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2002, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-posts-did-you-lose/97585/102 "2002-03-13T02:06:05Z")
How about we find out. ---
**Author:** ![Lateralus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@Lateralus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lateralus)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2002, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-posts-did-you-lose/97585/103 "2002-03-13T02:07:27Z")
About 30. But nearly a third of my total šŸ˜› ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2002, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-posts-did-you-lose/97585/104 "2002-03-13T02:54:55Z")
I was at about 2200 or something. Iā€™m really only posting in this thread for the colour. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2002, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-posts-did-you-lose/97585/105 "2002-03-13T03:08:32Z")
About 750. Combined with 150 or so posts previously munched by board maintenance, thatā€™s approximately 900 posts worth of electrons released for further duty to the universe. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2002, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-posts-did-you-lose/97585/106 "2002-03-13T03:17:35Z")
I think maybe 400, but the post where I mentioned my post count is one of the missing ones šŸ™‚ Iā€™m thinking I was around 1400 when the boards went down. But Iā€™m so confused because I rarely look at my post count (which is how I missed all my ā€œbigā€ posts, like 500, 1000, etc) ---
**Author:** ![Genseric](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Genseric](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Genseric)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2002, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-posts-did-you-lose/97585/107 "2002-03-13T05:38:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Marley \* > \*\*100%. Over 400 posts, as I recall. > > I donā€™t think the world is poorer for the loss of my words, but I do miss many of the replies I got. And all those thread hijacks with Genseric, and the 42nd post partyā€¦ alas. > > There have been a few times when Iā€™ve spent hours or days working on some code, then lost it all. Every time, the rewritten code was much better than the first try. Hope the same is true here. > > * * * > > Hi Genseric! šŸ˜ƒ \*\* Hi! Well, at least youā€™ll get to do another 42nd post party. Unfortunately, all my posts that were lost were incredibly witty and well written and really made the board a much better place. If only they had been preserved for all time youā€™d be able to read them and see, but such is life, youā€™ll just have to take my word for it. šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![Marley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Marley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2002, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-posts-did-you-lose/97585/108 "2002-03-13T05:50:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Genseric \* > **Unfortunately, all my posts that were lost were incredibly witty and well written and really made the board a much better place. If only they had been preserved for all time youā€™d be able to read them and see, but such is life, youā€™ll just have to take my word for it.** Oh yeah, I remember that one! I saved it, sweetie. \ šŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![Wastrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f17d59/32.png) [@Wastrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wastrel)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2002, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-posts-did-you-lose/97585/109 "2002-03-13T06:31:46Z")
Hmmmā€¦Probably a goodly amount, but Iā€™ll find out soon enoughā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![Wastrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f17d59/32.png) [@Wastrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wastrel)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2002, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-posts-did-you-lose/97585/110 "2002-03-13T06:33:12Z")
Wow. All of 20 or so posts. I am such a freakinā€™ loser. ---
**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2002, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-posts-did-you-lose/97585/111 "2002-03-13T06:33:14Z")
I think that I lost over one hundred. I was close to 1000 before the boards went down, because I remember debating about what number 1000 should be. ---
**Author:** ![Muad\_Dib](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2002, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-posts-did-you-lose/97585/112 "2002-03-13T07:18:06Z")
Well letā€™s seeā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![Living\_Dead\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecb155/32.png) [@Living\_Dead\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Living_Dead_Girl)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2002, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-posts-did-you-lose/97585/113 "2002-03-13T11:05:43Z")
Around 40, because I was nearing 200 before the boards went down. Although itā€™s not really the number of posts that annoys me - more the content. Now I gotta repost a whole bunch of stuff! ā˜¹ Goddamn crackersā€¦ screwing up the Straight Dope should be a 10 year minumum sentence, at least. ---
**Author:** ![Kloudes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/edb3f5/32.png) [@Kloudes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kloudes)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2002, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-posts-did-you-lose/97585/114 "2002-03-13T16:01:55Z")
1. Unfortunately, I only ended my lurking in mid-January, so now Iā€™m back down to _this_ many posts. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-posts-did-you-lose/97585.md?page=5)