# Phantom Posts? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 23, 2007, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phantom-posts/389022 "2007-01-23T00:40:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phantom-posts/389022/1 "2007-01-23T00:40:53Z")
I started [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=405117) about two or three hours ago. Later, I saw it had received one reply, so I reopened it to find two replies. I just assumed that the second one had just slid in there seconds earlier, but it had actually been there twenty minutes (this is the one by **threnodyangelfire** at 5:34pm Chicago time). Even now, as the thread grows, the number of replies the MPSIMS main page tell me my thread has is consistently one lower than the actual number of them when I open the thread. Not a big deal, just weird. ---
**Author:** ![That\_creates\_more\_Q\_s\_than\_A\_s](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/54ee81/32.png) [@That\_creates\_more\_Q\_s\_than\_A\_s](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_creates_more_Q_s_than_A_s)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phantom-posts/389022/2 "2007-01-23T00:43:55Z")
You’re stuck thinking in binary, but the board has upgraded to tertiary. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2007, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/phantom-posts/389022/3 "2007-01-23T00:45:46Z")
Curious… I checked out MPSIMS and clicked on the post number link (which gives a breakdown of everyone who posted and the total number of replies) for a variety of threads and they are all one short- of course taking into account the OP not counting as a reply. Yours, on the other hand, is indeed two short- very wierd!!!