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.
I think you're right.
It's the only thing I can think of that would make any sense.
its cause you're profile was deleted in the move to vb
Yup, mine too TSA. Lots of our posts aren't registering to us because we have new profiles.
Heh...cool.
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..
How come I wasnt affected by the move???
Very few members were. TSA and I were some of the lucky few...
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:
If that were so his post count would have reset to 0 not crashed the program.
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. 😃
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.
Sounds fun. 😉
ahh, debugging, what joys it can bring,,,,
I think you meant insanity.
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.