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My name got changed in the forum hiccup
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I was reading through an older thread and saw someone named 'zmcgill' say something really familiar. Then I checked his/her public profile and found my old sig picture and text, along with the exact number of posts I had before I had to re-register. I did quick search for the name and verified that those were all my posts. I can't log in with that name and my old password though. I was just wondering if that's what happened to any of the other lost user names.
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Apparently, it's happened with all the lost user names. Each user has an identifying number, and that's how their posts are associated with them. Each post has the user number of the poster embedded in it.
When the users were lost, the highest user number was suddenly lower. So once people started registering again, they got the user numbers that had previously been used. Whatever posts had that user number suddenly became associated with them, even though they weren't theirs.
Would I personally have allowed that to happen if it were under my control? No. I would have made sure that the old user numbers never got re-used by mistake.
Sorry.
tooki
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Originally Posted by tooki
Apparently, it's happened with all the lost user names. Each user has an identifying number, and that's how their posts are associated with them. Each post has the user number of the poster embedded in it.
When the users were lost, the highest user number was suddenly lower. So once people started registering again, they got the user numbers that had previously been used. Whatever posts had that user number suddenly became associated with them, even though they weren't theirs.
Would I personally have allowed that to happen if it were under my control? No. I would have made sure that the old user numbers never got re-used by mistake.
Sorry.
tooki
That's okay. I managed to beat the 550 posts I had in 5 years as lothar56 in less than a month. 
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Why are you such a crybaby concerning your post count? If we could vote i´d personally vote for disabling post count. It would probably stop some members to spam the fora by posting nonsense.
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Originally Posted by euphras
If we could vote i�d personally vote for disabling post count. It would probably stop some members to spam the fora by posting nonsense.
tooki
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Originally Posted by euphras
Why are you such a crybaby concerning your post count? If we could vote i�d personally vote for disabling post count. It would probably stop some members to spam the fora by posting nonsense.
agreed.
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Originally Posted by euphras
Why are you such a crybaby concerning your post count? If we could vote i�d personally vote for disabling post count. It would probably stop some members to spam the fora by posting nonsense.
Sorry, I missed the part where I was complaining about my post count. I mentioned that I didn't care that they were lost, and I in no way asked that my current post count be changed. Maybe we could stop the post count at like 500 to make it easier to spot spammers. Or I suppose if the ranks still existed but the post count didn't show, that could help too.
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