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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 5,734 |
| | Posted: | | | | Good evening, Sirs.
Forgive my curiosity, but... I just visited a User Profile.
The number of the user's "Forum Posts" was: 1478.
But the following link "Forum posts by hp..." always leads to an empty page.
Why?
Love, bbbbb | | | | Don't confuse while the film is playing with when the film is played. [Ken Cole, DVD Profiler Architect] |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 5,917 |
| | Posted: | | | | Which user? Whenever I clicked that link, it displayed posts. Works on your profile. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 13,201 |
| | Posted: | | | | I have seen this happen. Can't remember, off the top of my head, which users...but it has happened. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom.
Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
The Centauri learned this lesson once.
We will teach it to them again.
Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,917 |
| | Posted: | | | | Well, it's not based on the number of posts, whatever it is. I was able to pull up Skip's history just fine. |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 17,804 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Unicus69: Quote:
I have seen this happen. Can't remember, off the top of my head, which users...but it has happened. I can confirm this! But I can't remember the user(s) as well.  Maybe the posts will be deleted after some time of (posting-) inactivity? | | | | Thorsten |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 585 |
| | Posted: | | | | When the new site was first launched didn't it count contributions as forum posts? So when the DB started off empty and the mass updates ensued, it counted everyone's submissions to repopulate the DB as forum posts? | | | "Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men" - Douglas Bader
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." - Douglas Adams |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: |  Posts: 820 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Vega: Quote:
When the new site was first launched didn't it count contributions as forum posts? So when the DB started off empty and the mass updates ensued, it counted everyone's submissions to repopulate the DB as forum posts? I don't think that this occurred myself. There are a few users around that have a high post count with few if any posts. We had a look at it a while back and couldn't work out how it would have occurred. I put it down to some sort of glitch in the post count code. They may have received other peoples contribution counts when they weren't being counted for a while there or something like that. |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 5,734 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Dr. Killpatient: Quote:
Which user? Sorry, as much as I would like... because of data protection regulations I cannot unveil ..opp's full alias name here. Quote:
Works on your profile. Really? No kidding? | | | | Don't confuse while the film is playing with when the film is played. [Ken Cole, DVD Profiler Architect] |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,917 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting bbbbb: Quote:
Sorry, as much as I would like... because of data protection regulations I cannot unveil ..opp's full alias name here. You're kidding, right? If you're not kidding, any further discussion is pointless. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 2,692 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting bbbbb: Quote:
Quoting Dr. Killpatient:
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Works on your profile.
Really? No kidding? Why did you think it wouldn't work? Just because it didn't work for 1 person doesn't mean it's broken. | | | | Paul |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,394 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Dr. Killpatient: Quote:
Quoting bbbbb:
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Sorry, as much as I would like... because of data protection regulations I cannot unveil ..opp's full alias name here.
You're kidding, right? If you're not kidding, any further discussion is pointless. Yeah, Doctor. Something smells a little fishy about bbbbb's question. What is he trying to hide by not telling whose profile he visited? There's something as I say fishy about what he's doing (or trying to do). IMHO, of course. | | | Another Ken (not Ken Cole)
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,005 |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,917 |
| | Posted: | | | | I don't recall ever seeing a post by hpopp. It's probably counting contributions as part of the post count. If that is the case, the all posts by link is working correctly. |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 6,730 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Dr. Killpatient: Quote:
I don't recall ever seeing a post by hpopp. (...) And with 1478 postings he should be one of the usual suspects. | | | It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up!
But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid?
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 5,917 |
| | Posted: | | | | 1478 postings and 1499 profile contributions. That number is very close. |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 5,734 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Dr. Killpatient: Good evening Sir. Quote:
1478 postings and 1499 profile contributions. That number is very close. Yes. For this is a Technical Support Forum: the result of the subtraction is actually 1. I can't help, something about your answers is 'fishy', IMHO of course. How is it, that your chit-chat-posts got frequently rated positive? Perhaps there is a miscalculation in the reputation system as well. | | | | Don't confuse while the film is playing with when the film is played. [Ken Cole, DVD Profiler Architect] |
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