Wait just a ******* second.....
Frank, you know the respect and admiration I have for you, right? You know I love ya more than my Rick Bayliss Chef's knife, right????
You mean to tell me you're breaking balls over ONE ****ING POST?!?!?!?!?
Meine Gott en Himmel, sir....tear yourself down from the Cross, take down the wood, build a bridge AND GET OVER IT!!!!
Actually, I am more concerned about the accuracy of the numbers than I am for any other reason.
To me, it suggests there
might be some fluke in the software, and perhaps the error's occurring on other items too. We'll see, which is why I don't want the correction made; I don't want anything tampered with.
I dunno what the administrators use the numbers for, but I myself use them to assess how conservativecave's doing, and where conservativecave's going; speculative stuff based upon good numbers.
I'm not going to muddy the waters any more, but actually I have more than 5804 "topics started;" perhaps about 6000, but that shows the integrity of the counting system here (which is why my upsetness over this issue); I've started topics which were duplicates of topics started by others, and in fact am perhaps the most duplicitous topic starter on conservativecave.
Usually it was Freeper who beat me to posting something by 5-10 seconds or something, and the two threads had to be merged, his being earlier than mine taking precedence, and so one "topic started" would be subtracted from my own total. I figured this has happened a couple of hundred times, since January 2008.
(Freeper and I are usually of the same mind, and if we're on Skins's island at the same time, this happens.)