# More replies than views?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-replies-than-views/184932
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**Created:** [June 28, 2003, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-replies-than-views/184932 "2003-06-28T05:27:53Z")
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2003, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-replies-than-views/184932/1 "2003-06-28T05:27:53Z")
I just went the the ‘back’ of the pit (posts from 1999) and saw that a lot of the threads have more replies than views.
Were people replying with their eyes closed? what’s the story?
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### Author:  [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2003, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-replies-than-views/184932/2 "2003-06-28T05:45:35Z")
From this [earlier ATMB thread.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=24744)
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> _Orig. by whitetho_
> …what you see is a side effect of the switchover to the new board software. The old software didn’t count the number of views, so, at the time of the switchover, all threads–even those with a zillion messages posted to them–at the start were listed as having zero views. Most of these old threads that had been started before the new board software was installed have since fallen off the board, but the Great Dabate threads tend to last a long time.