« previous next »
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: how come  (Read 5026 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline franksolich

  • Scourge of the Primitives
  • Global Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 58696
  • Reputation: +3070/-173
how come
« on: April 21, 2011, 12:18:40 PM »
How come when I got up this morning, I was shown with 5800 "topics started" in the "more stats" section here--and then after posting three threads in the DUmpster, I am shown with 5802 "topics started"?

None of the threads were merged with another thread, subtracting from the total.

Top Topic Starters
   
franksolich               5802
bijou                       3230
thundley4               3095
chris_               1896
SGT Snuggle Bunny    1687
Freeper               1476
Wretched Excess       1396
asdf2231                 926
TheSarge                 774
GOBUCKS                 748

Thanks.
Logged
apres moi, le deluge

Offline dutch508

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 12522
  • Reputation: +1647/-1068
  • Remember
Re: how come
« Reply #1 on: April 21, 2011, 12:35:12 PM »
Quote from: franksolich on April 21, 2011, 12:18:40 PM
How come when I got up this morning, I was shown with 5800 "topics started" in the "more stats" section here--and then after posting three threads in the DUmpster, I am shown with 5802 "topics started"?

None of the threads were merged with another thread, subtracting from the total.

Top Topic Starters
   
franksolich               5802
bijou                       3230
thundley4               3095
chris_               1896
SGT Snuggle Bunny    1687
Freeper               1476
Wretched Excess       1396
asdf2231                 926
TheSarge                 774
GOBUCKS                 748

Thanks.

Maybe they grade on merit?
Logged
The torch of moral clarity since 12/18/07

2016 DOTY: 06 Omaha Steve - Is dying for ****'s face! How could you not vote for him, you heartless bastards!?!

Offline franksolich

  • Scourge of the Primitives
  • Global Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 58696
  • Reputation: +3070/-173
Re: how come
« Reply #2 on: April 21, 2011, 01:21:24 PM »
Quote from: dutch508 on April 21, 2011, 12:35:12 PM
Maybe they grade on merit?

You got me, but there must be a quirk somewhere.

I feel as if the Cook County election commissioner's counting the "topics started" now.

This is NOT a request for correction; I want to watch it for a while, to see if it happens again.
Logged
apres moi, le deluge

Offline Chris_

  • Little Lebowski Urban Achiever
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 46845
  • Reputation: +2028/-266
Re: how come
« Reply #3 on: April 21, 2011, 01:27:39 PM »
Check it again.  Is it correct now?
Logged
If you want to worship an orange pile of garbage with a reckless disregard for everything, get on down to Arbys & try our loaded curly fries.

Offline franksolich

  • Scourge of the Primitives
  • Global Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 58696
  • Reputation: +3070/-173
Re: how come
« Reply #4 on: April 21, 2011, 01:32:05 PM »
Quote from: chris_ on April 21, 2011, 01:27:39 PM
Check it again.  Is it correct now?

Nope.  Still one short, should be 5804.

(It went from 5802 to 5803 when I posted this question, by the way.)

But please don't anybody correct it.  I want to see if it happens again.

We being conservatives and Republicans, as opposed to Democrats, liberals, and primitives, take the honesty and accuracy of numbers seriously, sometimes to the point (in my case) of being anal about it.
Logged
apres moi, le deluge

Offline formerlurker

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 9692
  • Reputation: +801/-833
Re: how come
« Reply #5 on: April 21, 2011, 01:39:32 PM »
Do threads get deleted after a certain amount of time?
Logged

Offline franksolich

  • Scourge of the Primitives
  • Global Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 58696
  • Reputation: +3070/-173
Re: how come
« Reply #6 on: April 21, 2011, 01:40:48 PM »
Quote from: formerlurker on April 21, 2011, 01:39:32 PM
Do threads get deleted after a certain amount of time?

I don't think so.  I think they're permanent unless Thor gets a wild hair in his ass.
Logged
apres moi, le deluge

Offline The Hollywood NeoCon

  • Visionary, Sage, Drunkard, Screenwriter
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1363
  • Reputation: +317/-290
  • "For God & Country: Geronimo, Geronimo, Geronimo"
Re: how come
« Reply #7 on: April 21, 2011, 01:46:32 PM »
Quote from: franksolich on April 21, 2011, 12:18:40 PM
How come when I got up this morning, I was shown with 5800 "topics started" in the "more stats" section here--and then after posting three threads in the DUmpster, I am shown with 5802 "topics started"?

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!!!!  :tongue:
Logged

Offline franksolich

  • Scourge of the Primitives
  • Global Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 58696
  • Reputation: +3070/-173
Re: how come
« Reply #8 on: April 21, 2011, 01:55:22 PM »
Quote from: The Hollywood NeoCon on April 21, 2011, 01:46:32 PM
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!!!!  :tongue:

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.)
Logged
apres moi, le deluge

Offline The Hollywood NeoCon

  • Visionary, Sage, Drunkard, Screenwriter
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1363
  • Reputation: +317/-290
  • "For God & Country: Geronimo, Geronimo, Geronimo"
Re: how come
« Reply #9 on: April 21, 2011, 01:57:41 PM »
Quote from: franksolich on April 21, 2011, 01:55:22 PM
Actually, I am more concerned about the accuracy of the numbers than I am for any other reason.


Please tell me you understand that I was simply trying lamely to be comical!!!
Logged

Offline franksolich

  • Scourge of the Primitives
  • Global Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 58696
  • Reputation: +3070/-173
Re: how come
« Reply #10 on: April 21, 2011, 02:13:19 PM »
Quote from: The Hollywood NeoCon on April 21, 2011, 01:57:41 PM
Please tell me you understand that I was simply trying lamely to be comical!!!

Yeah, I understand, or understood.

But there's a certain phenomenon in real life that I do on the internet too.  I dunno why I do it, but I do it.

I was answering you, sir, but actually I was directing my comment at someone else (in this case subtly cussing out Thor).

In real life a lot of times, I might be with persons A and B.  Person A says something that needs a response from me, and so I duly respond.....but aiming the reply at Person B.

I dunno how this evolved, why it evolved, but I've done it all my life, and am too old to change now.

Habitues of the DUmpster are familiar with this, easily seeing when my comments are directed to the choir here, or directed to the lurking primitives.
Logged
apres moi, le deluge

Offline Eupher

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 24894
  • Reputation: +2828/-1828
  • U.S. Army, Retired
Re: how come
« Reply #11 on: April 21, 2011, 02:13:55 PM »
Quote from: The Hollywood NeoCon on April 21, 2011, 01:57:41 PM
Please tell me you understand that I was simply trying lamely to be comical!!!

Uh....speaking of "comical", your usage of German is funny as hell.

It's "mein Gott im Himmel..." meaning the possessive pronoun "mein" takes the masculine form due to its object "der Gott" which is, of course, masculine.

And the preposition "in" takes the dative case, which, when linked up to its object "Himmel" (which is also masculine), changes to the dative form "im".

It's complicated.

But it's funny as hell.

 :-)

Logged
Adams E2 Euphonium, built in 2017
Boosey & Co. Imperial Euphonium, built in 1941
Edwards B454 bass trombone, built 2012
Bach Stradivarius 42OG tenor trombone, built 1992
Kanstul 33-T BBb tuba, built 2011
Fender Precision Bass Guitar, built ?
Mouthpiece data provided on request.

Offline Thor

  • General Ne'er Do Well, Troublemaker & All Around Meanie!!
  • In Memoriam
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 13103
  • Reputation: +362/-297
  • Native Texan & US Navy (ret)
Re: how come
« Reply #12 on: April 21, 2011, 03:49:56 PM »
Quote from: Eupher on April 21, 2011, 02:13:55 PM
Uh....speaking of "comical", your usage of German is funny as hell.

It's "mein Gott im Himmel..." meaning the possessive pronoun "mein" takes the masculine form due to its object "der Gott" which is, of course, masculine.

And the preposition "in" takes the dative case, which, when linked up to its object "Himmel" (which is also masculine), changes to the dative form "im".

It's complicated.

But it's funny as hell.

 :-)



He's Danish, what would you expect??  :fuelfire:
Logged
"The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation."- IBID

I AM your General Ne'er Do Well, Troublemaker & All Around Meanie!!

"Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated."-Thomas Jefferson

Offline Rebel

  • Stick a fork in us. We're done.
  • Administrator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 16771
  • Reputation: +1240/-215
Re: how come
« Reply #13 on: April 21, 2011, 03:51:47 PM »
It's the man trying to hold you down, Frank.
Logged
NAMBLA is a left-wing organization.

Quote
There's a reason why patriotism is considered a conservative value. Watch a Tea Party rally and you'll see people proudly raising the American flag and showing pride in U.S. heroes such as Thomas Jefferson. Watch an OWS rally and you'll see people burning the American flag while showing pride in communist heroes such as Che Guevera. --Bob, from some news site

Offline franksolich

  • Scourge of the Primitives
  • Global Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 58696
  • Reputation: +3070/-173
Re: how come
« Reply #14 on: April 21, 2011, 05:29:50 PM »
Quote from: Rebel on April 21, 2011, 03:51:47 PM
It's the man trying to hold you down, Frank.

Well, I wondered.

I wondered if perhaps there's a Democrat in the administration here, who might've thought, "Well, franksolich already has more than enough, so I'm going to redistribute some of his numbers to someone who has less."
Logged
apres moi, le deluge

Offline Chris

  • Administrator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1476
  • Reputation: +522/-16
Re: how come
« Reply #15 on: April 21, 2011, 06:29:40 PM »
I've run a maintenance script that recalculates the forum statistics but if you say your numbers haven't changed, it beats me.  There's a chance an old thread was merged with a newer one that you may not be aware of.  I will do that occasionally if I come across multiple threads that discuss the same topic that are no longer on the front page(s).  There's a possibility I could have done that at some point... I would have to go back and check.
Logged
This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate.

Offline franksolich

  • Scourge of the Primitives
  • Global Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 58696
  • Reputation: +3070/-173
Re: how come
« Reply #16 on: April 21, 2011, 06:37:27 PM »
Quote from: Chris on April 21, 2011, 06:29:40 PM
I've run a maintenance script that recalculates the forum statistics but if you say your numbers haven't changed, it beats me.  There's a chance an old thread was merged with a newer one that you may not be aware of.  I will do that occasionally if I come across multiple threads that discuss the same topic that are no longer on the front page(s).  There's a possibility I could have done that at some point... I would have to go back and check.

But don't worry about it, sir.

I'll just keep watching, and if the quirk happens again, I'll holler so we'll know we have to look for it.

But until then, no problem.
Logged
apres moi, le deluge
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »