# The cornfield and post numbering

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**Created:** [February 20, 2019, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cornfield-and-post-numbering/829904 "2019-02-20T17:28:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2019, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cornfield-and-post-numbering/829904/1 "2019-02-20T17:28:39Z")

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[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=21498073#post21498073](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=21498073#post21498073)

reference was made to what looked to be a banned poster creating a new name and getting several posts in. By the time I hit the links it looks like said sock and posts were off to the cornfield. But then another person referenced it all and I checked again looking at the post numbers wondering if I was missing something.

Which brought up the question in my brain: when a Mod sends a post off to the cornfield do the numbers adjust accordingly? If said post is #10 does #11 become the new visible #10?

Yeah ---- no great rift in the universe or anything but I’m just curious how that works.

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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2019, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cornfield-and-post-numbering/829904/2 "2019-02-20T17:39:06Z")

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> [@kopek](#):
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> Which brought up the question in my brain: when a Mod sends a post off to the cornfield do the numbers adjust accordingly? If said post is #10 does #11 become the new visible #10?

When posts are deleted, the numbering of posts within the thread is adjusted.

On the other hand, when a post is deleted the post count of the poster decreases, even though the post still exists in an alternate dimension.

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> [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=21498073#post21498073](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=21498073#post21498073)
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> reference was made to what looked to be a banned poster creating a new name and getting several posts in. By the time I hit the links it looks like said sock and posts were off to the cornfield. But then another person referenced it all and I checked again looking at the post numbers wondering if I was missing something.

To clarify, it was determined that the similarity in names was apparently coincidental and the posts have been restored.

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**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2019, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-cornfield-and-post-numbering/829904/3 "2019-02-20T20:10:25Z")

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> [@Colibri](#):
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> To clarify, it was determined that the similarity in names was apparently coincidental and the posts have been restored.

No problem; I figure the cornfield is something I would rather think of in mythical terms than know the details of: I was just curious about the numbers aspect. I know it isn’t the first time something like this happened but it is the first time it crossed my radar and I figured to ask in a new thread since it was a general question and not linked to this instance per se.