# What happened????

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened/49670>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [January 12, 2001, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened/49670 "2001-01-12T08:30:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![warmgun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecccb3/32.png) [@warmgun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/warmgun)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened/49670/1 "2001-01-12T08:30:22Z")

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I was purusing Bear’s ‘Lolita’ post and was very surprised to see a post I did not make. How is this possible? Is there another warmgun?

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**Author:** ![jb\_farley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9d8465/32.png) [@jb\_farley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jb_farley)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened/49670/2 "2001-01-12T08:58:09Z")

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are you sure you made this one?

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**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened/49670/3 "2001-01-12T09:00:01Z")

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Could it have been an accident? Maybe you meant to post a reply to that thread, but changed your mind at the last minute?

Where do you post from-- work or home? Are you on a network at either location?

It could be a bug, but there are other possibilities to eliminate first.

This thread might be moved to ATMB soon, btw.

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**Author:** ![warmgun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecccb3/32.png) [@warmgun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/warmgun)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2001, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened/49670/4 "2001-01-12T09:55:47Z")

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Home computer. Didn’t think of posting so it couldn’t be changed mind. Spooky. Especially since I just read the Multiple Personality post.

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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:** [January 12, 2001, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened/49670/5 "2001-01-12T12:53:46Z")

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You may have noticed recently the board’s been a bit slow. I suspect some kind of indexing glitch. Anyway, here’s a link to the thread in question and I’m gonna ship this one off to ATMB. That’s the proper forum for technical questions about the SDMB. Maybe someone over there with greater technical knowledge than I, can explain more fully.

[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=54300](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=54300)

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**Author:** ![tshirts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@tshirts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tshirts)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2001, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened/49670/6 "2001-01-13T05:52:42Z")

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Sounds like you just had more than one window open and then hit a couple of wrong keys. I’ve done that myself, quoting or posting on the wrong window, hence the wrong thread.

Since the first post appeared only five minutes before your denial, and it was a quote with no other text, it had to be related to you, rather than someone else.

If you care a lot, you could ask at the vB site. They may know if it’s happened elsewhere.\*\* [http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/](http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/) \*\*
