# Total number of posts?

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**Created:** [June 21, 2000, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/total-number-of-posts/23072 "2000-06-21T05:23:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2000, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/total-number-of-posts/23072/1 "2000-06-21T05:23:38Z")

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A comment in UncleBeer’s [A large number](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=26914) thread got me wondering… On the page listing the fora, there’s a number listed for total number of posts-- I won’t bother mentioning it here because by the time anyone reads this it’ll be out-of-date. The funny part is, though, if you add up the listed numbers for all of the fora, you get a result that’s about 10% less. Which is correct, and why the discrepancy? I suppose that things like moved, closed, and archived threads, or deleted posts, might cause some weirdness, but I find it hard to believe that such situations would account for one post in ten. So, what’s the straight dope?

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**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2000, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/total-number-of-posts/23072/2 "2000-06-21T11:39:06Z")

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There were some threads archived on the UBB board that are to this date unavailable in vB. I suspect they are included in the grand total, but not in the forum totals.