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The Help Desk => Suggestions and Feedback => Topic started by: franksolich on April 21, 2011, 12:18:40 PM
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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.
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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?
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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.
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Check it again. Is it correct now?
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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.
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Do threads get deleted after a certain amount of time?
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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.
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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:
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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.)
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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!!!
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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.
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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.
:-)
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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:
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It's the man trying to hold you down, Frank.
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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."
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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.
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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.