# Question about the Profiles **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [March 12, 1999, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-profiles/351 "1999-03-12T05:23:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 1999, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-profiles/351/1 "1999-03-12T05:23:00Z")
Ok, this is a REALLY stupid question, but it’s got me wondering… I was looking at some of the people’s profiles on this board, and I happened to notice something… One of the lines says “Number of Posts”, and for some of the people it gives really big numbers, there was one that even said “66”. This message board only has a little over 100 posts on it, so how did these certain few people get such high post counts? Is this including all the “beta posting” before the board was officially put out or is it a glitch of sorts? * * * ~Trig~ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 1999, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-profiles/351/2 "1999-03-12T06:23:00Z")
Not sure how to explain this. We did some beta testing on an in-house version of the software, and we just copied over all the files to a new location when we went into production. Maybe the beta posting numbers got tranferred in the process. No big deal, in any case. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 1999, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-profiles/351/3 "1999-03-14T17:31:00Z")
Okay, I have a silly question: How do you search the profiles of the folks on this board? It’s probably so obvious, I can’t see it now. Thanks in advance. Cheers! -Chip ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 1999, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-profiles/351/4 "1999-03-14T20:35:00Z")
Chip, at the top of each post, next to “posted 03-14-99 11:31 AM”, there are two icons, one to e-mail the poster, one to get their profile. ---
**Author:** ![\_SILENT-BOB\_NOT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/e19adc/32.png) [@\_SILENT-BOB\_NOT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_SILENT-BOB_NOT)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2000, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-profiles/351/5 "2000-06-29T02:09:17Z")
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