# Odd thing about the "Wishing death on someone..." sticky.

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**Created:** [October 26, 2003, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-thing-about-the-wishing-death-on-someone-sticky/209654 "2003-10-26T13:53:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2003, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-thing-about-the-wishing-death-on-someone-sticky/209654/1 "2003-10-26T13:53:41Z")

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When I go to the Pit, the last poster to **Lynn’s** “Wishing death on someone…” sticky shows up as being **Gyrate**. When I open the thread up, however, the last poster is actually **vanilla**.

Huh?

Is the server having an episode or summut?

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**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2003, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-thing-about-the-wishing-death-on-someone-sticky/209654/2 "2003-10-26T13:57:50Z")

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WAG – at the time **vanilla** posted, the hamsters decided to take a break, slowed the server down, and the “last poster” thingie wasn’t updated automatically.

There are _always_ server “episodes”. This wouldn’t be an isolated case, if that is what happened.