Post count changed

I’m not complaining really, I’m actually just curious. Earlier today I noticed my post count was 506, and just now after my latest post I noticed it is showing up as 501. I’ve reloaded Netscape, cleared cache, etc. No change.

What could cause my post count to suddenly drop? Would deleting a thread do this? Or did I imagine this? The only reason I’ve even looked at it lately was having just passed 500, I was aware of it.

Thanks all.

I keep forgetting, is that the one kind of coal or the other?

Not that I could ever see any difference in coal, and it’s been a while since I’ve had to shovel the stuff into a boiler. Remember that routine? I guess they still do it in W.Va. towns.

So, do you have a regular party thread, or did you stop counting at 39, like Jack Benny?

I noticed that too–I posted and went from 495 to 487. I thought that maybe it was a deleted thread, but I can’t think of anything I would have posted to that would have snipped nine posts.

I note that the board has been awfully slow since I got on–I wonder if there’s some sort of tech problem.

By the way, Anthracite, happy 500. (For the moment, that is–we seem to be going backwards.)

<MysterEcks, son of a former coal company executive, throws lump at Fanny May for not knowing what anthracite is>

Jerry the Tech Guy did some system maintenance this afternoon, I suspect in the process of that cleanup some counts changed.

Sorry for any inconvenience you may have had.

your humble TubaDiva
Administrator

I noticed that. About 5:30, for about 5 minutes, right?

–Tim

But they only seemed to go down. Were the counts incorrect?

All I know is that I get to cross the 1000-post threshold TWICE! Not many get to do that… :smiley:

Yes, Anthracite is a type of coal - one of the best types. West VA still has a bit of Anthracite as a matter of fact.

Thanks for the congrats’ guys - I just forgot all about a 500th post count party, so I made no notice of it in MPSIMS.

Thanks TubaDiva, no inconvenience or bother at all, I was just curious.

Said Pheobe Snow
About to go
Upon the train to Buffalo
“My gown stays white
From morn till night
Upon the Road of Anthracite!”

– Thanx and a tip of the hat to Cecil and the Erie-Lackawanna line

I dunno about “incorrect.”

In the course of everyday life we do sometimes need to remove posts or even entire threads from the board . . . when we do that the post counts don’t change.

We had a spot of system maintenance yesterday and my guess is when Jerry did do that voodoo that he does so well, all those deleted posts and/or threads were zeroed out and the post counts now reflect actual posts in existence on the board.

Just a WAG on my part.

your humble TubaDiva
Administrator
who finds the quality of a post a much more important consideration than the quantity.

I was wondering about this too, since 2 days ago I had 942 posts, and yesterday I had 922. 20 posts sheesh.

But, hey, for some of us, quantity is all we have! :smiley: