All youse guys who see the soft-deleted posts, a question about numbering: How are those posts numbered? Do you see all subsequent posts having a different number than the number that we peons see? And when you soft-delete a post, do subsequent posts thereafter have different numbers than they did previously?
I would think this would raise havoc with any links. Links that point to a specific post sometimes contain the particular post number in their URL query string. EXAMPLE: A few posts up, Digital is the new Analog posted this remark:
Apparently, Chronos used to be a mod. Maybe he has some super vision left over?
Examining that link, we see it includes the post number of the linked post:
[noparse]http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=15071718&[/noparse]postcount=44
Note, the link contains the actual post number (p=15071718) as well. How does vBulletin use that postcount=44 parameter then? What if a post gets deleted and that post is no longer #44? Does the link still get you to the right post because of the p=15071718 parameter? What happens if the p parameter is correct but the postcount parameter seems to indicate a different post? Is the link broken?
NOT making it up (I think). And NOT deliberately casting aspersions. Just trying to be a little light-hearted. Sheesh. Youse guys are getting waaaaaaaaay to thin-skinned around here. And you know I’m not the only one around here who’s been saying that lately.