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The Silent Assassin
05-01-2002, 03:03 AM
I've checked this neat little "top posters" in each forum...and I only get about 3000 posts...and only 1694 are in GD...

This doesn't add up. Well...my theory is when my old account got deleted, so did my tally of posts. Therefore...my 5000 other posts on the other account are not showing...cuz I know I have more than 1694 posts in GD.
Menokh
05-01-2002, 03:04 AM
I think you're right.
It's the only thing I can think of that would make any sense.
Brasel
05-01-2002, 03:11 AM
its cause you're profile was deleted in the move to vb
MottZilla
05-01-2002, 03:13 AM
Yup, mine too TSA. Lots of our posts aren't registering to us because we have new profiles.
The Silent Assassin
05-01-2002, 03:33 AM
Heh...cool.
MottZilla
05-01-2002, 03:47 AM
Our old profiles still exsist though I think, but they were corrupted. If you look you could find posts by like "unregistered" and then are "banned" or something..
Drunken Tiger
05-01-2002, 03:49 AM
How come I wasnt affected by the move???
MottZilla
05-01-2002, 03:51 AM
Very few members were. TSA and I were some of the lucky few...
inori
05-01-2002, 03:57 AM
TSA crashed the system; the old UBB only used 12 bits to keep the post count, so when his rose above 4096, other data in his profile got corrupted.

:laughing:

No, that's not true. I'm just making it up out of my rear end. But it might be plausible, had someone besides me posted it... :kawaii:
MottZilla
05-01-2002, 03:59 AM
If that were so his post count would have reset to 0 not crashed the program.
inori
05-01-2002, 04:04 AM
Not necessarily ... it might have silently overwritten the next-higher bit in his profile, thereby causing a change that didn't matter as long as we were on UBB (because UBB not only ignored that bit, but also included it in his post count), but that caused his profile to get squishied in the transfer to vBulletin. Okay, it's pretty unlikely, I admit. :D

But the most annoying programming bug I ever debugged involved writing 10 bytes to a variable A whose size was 8 bytes ... and then trying to figure out why variable B was spontaneously changing to a random value.
MottZilla
05-01-2002, 04:09 AM
Sounds fun. ;)
theplustwo
05-01-2002, 04:13 AM
ahh, debugging, what joys it can bring,,,,
MottZilla
05-01-2002, 04:14 AM
I think you meant insanity.
The Silent Assassin
05-01-2002, 04:40 AM
Or I could have posted when I wasn't suppose to when the UBB was being converted to vBulletin, thus corrupting my old account's data, and War Lord had to custom create a new account for me, and manually set my post count to = what it was when I last posted.