# Just out of curiosity... **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 7, 2001, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-out-of-curiosity/67892 "2001-06-07T04:35:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2001, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-out-of-curiosity/67892/1 "2001-06-07T04:35:24Z")
Why does **andros** ’s post count read 0 in this [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=73386)? ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2001, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-out-of-curiosity/67892/2 "2001-06-07T06:08:52Z")
My guess? The Board software had a case of indigestion. ---
**Author:** ![Arden\_Ranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b487fb/32.png) [@Arden\_Ranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arden_Ranger)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2001, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-out-of-curiosity/67892/3 "2001-06-07T06:44:14Z")
Well, that’s what it gets for eating poor **andros**! ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2001, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-out-of-curiosity/67892/4 "2001-06-07T07:10:31Z")
From what I’ve seen, it isn’t just that thread. Apparently, it ate andros completely! ---
**Author:** ![Starbury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Starbury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starbury)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2001, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-out-of-curiosity/67892/5 "2001-06-07T13:05:41Z")
Maybe **No Bones** really did have proof of his alphabet sock theory. Or maybe not. ---
**Author:** ![Mars\_Horizon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mars_horizon/32/2804_2.png) [@Mars\_Horizon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mars_Horizon)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2001, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-out-of-curiosity/67892/6 "2001-06-07T14:37:00Z")
Bye bye andros! :eek: Mars, who is glad he looked at the threads in ATMB before opening a duplicate one on the same thing… ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2001, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-out-of-curiosity/67892/7 "2001-06-07T23:28:15Z")
Nope, I’m still here. I asked TPTB[sup]\*[/sup] to see if a post count could be reset to zero without screwing things up. It can. It’s nice to be a newbie . . . everything’s so _clear_. The grass is so green, the sky is so blue . . . [sub]The Powers That Be[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Gaudere](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Gaudere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gaudere)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2001, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-out-of-curiosity/67892/8 "2001-06-08T00:06:14Z")
You’re testing out to see if newbies really _do_ get treated differently, aren’t you? Then you’ll come back to your regular post count and everyone will be so embarrassed that they were so mean to you before when they thought you were low-class, like in all the sitcoms. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2001, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-out-of-curiosity/67892/9 "2001-06-08T02:34:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Gaudere \* > \*\*You’re testing out to see if newbies really _do_ get treated differently, aren’t you? Then you’ll come back to your regular post count and everyone will be so embarrassed that they were so mean to you before when they thought you were low-class, like in all the sitcoms. 😃 \*\* How can he get back to his regular post count? Can you just manually make it whatever you want (you, not me)? Do you know what it was before he was reset? Do these pants make me look fat? ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2001, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-out-of-curiosity/67892/10 "2001-06-08T03:18:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by andros \* > \*\*Nope, I’m still here. > > I asked TPTB[sup]\*[/sup] to see if a post count could be reset to zero without screwing things up. It can. > \*\* :: tears up andros’s Official SDMB Clique Club membership card :: Get to “Comments on Cecil’s Column” or to “GQ”, newbie. ATMB’s for _experienced_ dopers! Note: I expect a newbie like you to run crying to the pit and start a thread about this response which opens with the phrase “This is my very firstist pit thread”. Well let me tell you, newbie: it’s been done before! And let me tell you, newbie: you’re not gettin’ into the Secret Clique until you’ve achieved “Beloved old timer” status, somewhere around post 1500 or so. Fenris ---
**Author:** ![messiah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3e96dc/32.png) [@messiah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/messiah)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2001, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-out-of-curiosity/67892/11 "2001-06-08T03:49:44Z")
I had a post count of over 4500 before I tried this trick, now they wont give them back. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2001, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-out-of-curiosity/67892/12 "2001-06-08T04:05:49Z")
Jeez, why’d you guys take **andros** ’ post count? Why not take **handy** ’s and REALLY make an impact? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2001, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-out-of-curiosity/67892/13 "2001-06-08T16:18:11Z")
If they can set it to zero, I would imagine they can set it to anything. Whats about assigning a random newbie the job of “Piss Handy Off”, and get them up to post 10k before handy does? Munch - who thinks that might be funny ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2001, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-out-of-curiosity/67892/14 "2001-06-08T22:14:07Z")
Yup, **Gaudere** , I really the heir to a huge fortune, and you’ll all be sorry you were mean to me. Oh, and **Fenris**? It’s “first **e** st.” Get it right next time. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2001, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-out-of-curiosity/67892/15 "2001-06-08T22:38:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by andros \* > Yup, Gaudere, I really the heir to a huge fortune, and you’ll all be sorry you were mean to me. \*\* I believe the word you’re grasping for is **I’m**. If you’d bothered to lurk a bit before posting, newbie, you’d realize the irony of your misspelling in a post to Gaudere. It’s made all the more ironic, given your typical newbie spelling flame below. > [@](#): > > Oh, and **Fenris**? It’s “first **e** st.” Get it right next time. \*\* Oooh. A spelling flame from a newbie! How original! :rolleyes: When you have a decent post-count under your belt and prove that you can write posts of substance, _THEN_ feel free to critique my spelling, newbie. I notice that of your whopping 10 posts, you haven’t started a single thread. Here’s a quarter, newbie, go buy yourself a clue. [sub]Although I **will** give you some credit for mastering the VB code rather more quickly then the average newbie does, so perhaps there’s some slight hope for you, newbie.[/sub] 😃 Fenris ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2001, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-out-of-curiosity/67892/16 "2001-06-09T00:22:29Z")
Oh yeah? Well . . . well . . . so’s your mom! Or something. (actually, you’ll find that I haven’t started many threads at all since I registered. I’d much rather hijack other people’s threads.) So, how about them Mariners? ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2001, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-out-of-curiosity/67892/17 "2001-06-09T03:10:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by andros \* > \*\*Yup, **Gaudere** , I really the heir to a huge fortune, and you’ll all be sorry you were mean to me. > > Oh, and **Fenris**? It’s “first **e** st.” Get it right next time. \*\* But, wait, I thought you really were gaudere. Someone had proof. Real proof that would hold up in a court of law. Never did say what sort of proof it was, but he argued before the Supreme Court. And ran multi-million dollar corporations. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2001, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-out-of-curiosity/67892/18 "2001-06-09T15:05:34Z")
Envious, SPOOFE? Why pick on me? I never had a post party. I don’t even notice my post count most of the time. Even if they reset it, it would probably soon eclipse the highest poster; so no need to reset it 🙂 I type fast & so does andros, soon he be right back where he was unless that nasty post pruning idea cuts the posts counts back. ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2001, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-out-of-curiosity/67892/19 "2001-06-09T18:41:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by andros \* > \*\*So, how about them Mariners? \*\* Losing Alex Rodriguez didn’t hurt them much, did it? How about Barry Bonds? You think he’ll hit more than 70 home runs this year? Guy already has 32, can you believe it? > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by waterj2_ > **I thought you really were gaudere. Someone had proof. Real proof that would hold up in a court of law. Never did say what sort of proof it was, but he argued before the Supreme Court. And ran multi-million dollar corporations.** A word of warning to the REAL newbies: Don’t ask. You’re better off not knowing. **handy** , when you hit 10,000 we’ll know if you care or not. ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2001, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-out-of-curiosity/67892/20 "2001-06-10T06:28:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jab1 \* > \*\*How about Barry Bonds? You think he’ll hit more than 70 home runs this year? Guy already has 32, can you believe it? > \*\* Possible, but not likely. I suspect he’ll eclipse 50, maybe 60, but he’ll fall short of 70. I think his walk rate will shoot up. Hard to believe the guy’s never even hit 50. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-out-of-curiosity/67892.md?page=2)