# why is my number of posts not increasing?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-my-number-of-posts-not-increasing/99985
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**Created:** [March 25, 2002, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-my-number-of-posts-not-increasing/99985 "2002-03-25T11:06:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@scm1001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scm1001)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2002, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-my-number-of-posts-not-increasing/99985/1 "2002-03-25T11:06:59Z")
I have been stuck on 58 for almost a month, despite making lots of posts. Is this a common problem?
I feel cheated!!!
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### Author:  [@scm1001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scm1001)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2002, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-my-number-of-posts-not-increasing/99985/2 "2002-03-25T11:09:33Z")
hey. its just gone up to 59. Maybe its cured itself. Its always the way, make an appointment with the doctor/car mechanic and have to explain “well it made this funny noise YESTERDAY”
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### Author:  [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2002, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-my-number-of-posts-not-increasing/99985/3 "2002-03-25T15:37:13Z")
Did you read the FAQ thread in this forum?
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### Author:  [@scm1001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scm1001)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2002, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-my-number-of-posts-not-increasing/99985/4 "2002-03-25T16:14:50Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Arnold Winkelried \*
> \*\*Did you read the FAQ thread in this forum? \*\*
yes - I didn’t see anything covering my problem?
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### Author:  [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2002, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-my-number-of-posts-not-increasing/99985/5 "2002-03-25T16:21:55Z")
Did you see the part about all the posts from 7 December 2001 to 11 March 2002 having disappeared?
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### Author:  [@scm1001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scm1001)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2002, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-my-number-of-posts-not-increasing/99985/6 "2002-03-25T16:50:04Z")
I was only really counting from 11 march - I have made over 30 posts in the last two weeks, but my counter has not crept up by anywhere that much. Oh well, it seems to be behaving itself now.
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### Author:  [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2002, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-my-number-of-posts-not-increasing/99985/7 "2002-03-25T17:29:21Z")
I see. I was confused when you said “almost a month”. (Not to nitpick, but it was 14 days.) No one else has reported this problem. If it reoccurs, please let us know.
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### Author:  [@Sofis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofis)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2002, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-my-number-of-posts-not-increasing/99985/8 "2002-03-26T00:08:31Z")
At the time of writing, the poster Wackjob is listed in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=99471) as having 0 posts. Quite clearly, he’s posted at least once.
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### Author:  [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2002, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-my-number-of-posts-not-increasing/99985/9 "2002-03-26T16:11:41Z")
Actually we’ve seen a couple of other anomalies of that sort. I can only guess that the server burped, and some parts of the database were updated, but not others? I don’t know what the layout of the database is so can’t say for sure.
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### Author:  [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2002, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-my-number-of-posts-not-increasing/99985/10 "2002-03-26T16:16:50Z")
PS I’d have to go look up exactly how mySQL handles transactions in the database, but even then, without looking at the source code, it would be hard to tell why some data made it to the database and some didn’t. Perhaps the process of making a post is made in more than one database transaction.
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### Author:  [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2002, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-my-number-of-posts-not-increasing/99985/11 "2002-03-29T01:22:49Z")
Confirmed with jdavis, our IS support person - sometimes due to the large demands placed upon it, the database does not complete the full set of inserts/updates needed to create a thread/post.