Sometimes the hamsters get a little tired from running on the wheel, and forget to bump up the counter a notch every time someone drops some knowledge on the SDMB.
Post counts aren’t really that big of a deal. At least, I don’t consider them to be a big deal.
Wait, are you expecting each post to have its place in the history of your posts recorded? Or are you noticing that the post count listed by your name wasn’t reflecting your total number of posts?
Just out of curiosity were you looking at several different posts of your own when you noticed this? The reason I ask is because the number under your user name lists the total number of posts you’ve ever made on the board. Every time you post this number goes up on every post you’ve ever done. So in other words, if you were to look at your first post ever right now it would list 41 posts under your name.
YAYYYYYY I just made another post and I’m now at 41. I take back my whingeing. It’s not like I said anything worth saying I just wanted to be counted …sob sob, boo hoo. I just lurked for a very long time and when I finally plucked up the brave I want it Godamned counted…yeah yeah I know I should learn grammar first.
O.K …I admit it, I’m daft…but I was looking at the thread and thinking “how come it still says 38, 4 posts later”. 38 posts! This would indicate I don’t know my arse from my elbow. I fully acknowledge this.
No, I’m serene Mr Kumquat…but please just let me count! If I was calling myself Calm-Kiwifruit-Export-Quality…then maybe, just maybe you would have a point. But I’m not unruffled yet and never have been a fruit (Kumquats are yummmmmmm btw) I was just curious. Ok so I was curious and miffed. Some of us find posting hard!..when we do it should count! (even if it is shit)
Still Calm, still smiling, still loving SDMB, Kiwi
Why thank you. Now where is the forum for “ooooooops my complaint is no longer valid”. I have been validated as a human (ohhhhhh I’m like the elephant man …“I am a man”…cept I’m a female)
I know this was a dumb rant . But it bothered me that 4 posts in a row were “38” . I felt fruit discrimination. That’s just wrong, wrong, wrong.
I am now a happy newbie again knowing my “fruitiness” didn’t stop my post count from growing. I promise to wither on the vine after that . Maybe.
Who said it was in the wrong forum? I just said it’s gutsy posting a bleat about postcount and such, is all.
It wasn’t a “dumb rant”, calm kiwi. And you’d better not do any "withering on th’ vine – there ain’t enough of us Kiwis on this here board as it is! Good on you!
Firstly, post counts are a big deal, so big in fact that…
…Secondly, the hamsters have nothing to do with it - I have devised a cunning scheme exploiting processor rounding errors that credits other people’s posts to my post count, it’s true - I confess. In my defence I come from a broken home.
Gee, calm kiwi, I do admire you for starting a thread about your post count. I havent’… oh wait… but those weren’t Pit threads. one or two might have led to Pit threads, but that’s another story altogether
Would certainly like to see you around the G’Dope board sometime. (We know the diff between the people and the commercially-marketed fruit product there.)