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Feathers · Nov 11, 2004, 04:24 PM

Howdy folks!

Hey Think! if you're out there in your illustrious position of moderator, I used to have 934 posts but when I came back after being away, my posts had dropped back to zero! I emailed MacNN but got no reply. Now I should have the magic 1000!!! Hell, I annoyed enough people to get that many, I think I deserve them!

I WANT MY POSTS BACK!!!!!! WAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!

Kenneth · Nov 11, 2004, 04:28 PM

well.. I don't think it can be done. May be some +1 threads will help ya.

badidea · Nov 11, 2004, 04:41 PM

Do you want mine? I think there are more important things in life!

Eug Wanker · Nov 11, 2004, 04:50 PM

I'd give you 3333 of my posts if the moderators were willing.

drive-thru · Nov 11, 2004, 04:57 PM

Originally posted by Feathers:
I WANT MY POSTS BACK!!!!!!

why?

nredman · Nov 11, 2004, 05:06 PM

Originally posted by Feathers:

I WANT MY POSTS BACK!!!!!! WAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!

after reading your post, I WANT THE LAST FIVE SECONDS OF MY LIFE BACK!!!!!

Skip Breakfast · Nov 11, 2004, 05:14 PM

Who cares? It's not as though it increases your hit points or mana or intelligence or anything.

rozwado1 · Nov 11, 2004, 06:00 PM

Start your own thread and create an AppleScript to automatically +1 it until you're happy with your count.

Come to think of it, I think some people on here may already do this. PM them.

d4nth3m4n · Nov 11, 2004, 06:03 PM

you can have mine if you want them.

i don't know that i like showing off how bored i am most days.

turtle777 · Nov 11, 2004, 06:17 PM

Stop whinning. I just recently lost 1000 posts, compliments of DH

C'est la vie !

-t

ort888 · Nov 11, 2004, 06:29 PM

Go away newbie. Maybe if you had more posts I would care what you had to say, but as it is... FORGET IT.

turtle777 · Nov 11, 2004, 06:35 PM

Originally posted by ort888:
Go away newbie. Maybe if you had more posts I would care what you had to say, but as it is... FORGET IT.

Haha, that's funny.
PC wise, you're a n00b, too !

-t

andi*pandi · Nov 11, 2004, 06:41 PM

I remember Feathers, I think... hey!

No respect paid to their elders by these bunch. ::tsk tsk::

Xeo · Nov 11, 2004, 06:54 PM

Who did you e-mail? Wait for a reply and one of the admins might be able to help you if they so choose.

The thing is, you've been a member for long time. At some point during an upgrade, the posts were lost and no longer associated with the member that posted them. If you go back into the archives, you can see that many (if not all) threads pre-June 2001 have all posts in them by "guests". There was talk at one time of writing some sort of a script to go through all these old threads and reassocated the posts with the user that posted them, but this wasn't done to my knowledge.

Some people lost many thousands of posts. I think I only lost about 400.

TheBadgerHunter · Nov 11, 2004, 06:57 PM

Why not just message demonhood? He can give them I believe.. not that its of any importance.

Kilbey · Nov 11, 2004, 07:11 PM

You can have mine, I'me getting ready to start a new alias anyway.

Doc Juansinn · Nov 11, 2004, 08:12 PM

Don't worry so much about it. You still have an Oct., 1999 registration date and I'm sure there are a lot of users here that would just love to have been registered so long.

PurpleGiant · Nov 11, 2004, 09:15 PM

It's cool man, my posts all went kaboom one day also. All them early ones. They're still around, and my post count makes me look like less of a geek now

Gankdawg · Nov 11, 2004, 10:04 PM

Seems like I'm continually stuck at the mid 1550s.

MacGorilla · Nov 11, 2004, 10:21 PM

Originally posted by Kilbey:
You can have mine, I'me getting ready to start a new alias anyway.

Me too. I was going to wait until 10,000 but I'll probably stop at 7,000.

d4nth3m4n · Nov 11, 2004, 10:25 PM

Originally posted by PurpleGiant:
It's cool man, my posts all went kaboom one day also. All them early ones. They're still around, and my post count makes me look like less of a geek now

i figured you had finally remembered the password for "purple giant" instead of THE purple giant" and that PG had only like 15 posts. TPG is where the post count was at [sic].

ThinkInsane · Nov 11, 2004, 11:18 PM

Originally posted by Feathers:
Howdy folks!

Hey Think! if you're out there in your illustrious position of moderator, I used to have 934 posts but when I came back after being away, my posts had dropped back to zero! I emailed MacNN but got no reply. Now I should have the magic 1000!!! Hell, I annoyed enough people to get that many, I think I deserve them!

I WANT MY POSTS BACK!!!!!! WAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!

Muhahahahaha you get nothing my fine-feathered Biatch! Yet another old-timer turns up to realize he has become a victim of the great MacNN Post Purge. Silly penguin, your posts would still be there if they were worth a damn. But hey, if it makes you feel better, when disectacat and Anthony the K-G popped back up, they're posts were conspicuously absent also.

SamuraiDL · Nov 11, 2004, 11:26 PM

thats kinda ****ed up, he is has been around these forums longer than some of the mods... ****ed up I say...

ThinkInsane · Nov 11, 2004, 11:52 PM

Originally posted by SamuraiDL:
thats kinda ****ed up, he is has been around these forums longer than some of the mods... ****ed up I say...

If I remember, it was something to do with the new board software and archived posts. The result was that everything in the achieve was deducted from your post count. I think I lost about 500 posts when it happened.

macaddict0001 · Nov 11, 2004, 11:54 PM

Originally posted by Kilbey:
You can have mine, I'me getting ready to start a new alias anyway.

alias? I thought kilbey was your real name.

Originally posted by Purple Giant:
It's cool man, my posts all went kaboom one day also. All them early ones. They're still around, and my post count makes me look like less of a geek now

Yeah but I still remember your post count lets see ThePurpleGiant was around 2400 and PurpleGiant was around 1000. Ohh and everyone feels their old posts are stupid because their views have changed.

ThinkInsane · Nov 12, 2004, 12:03 AM

Well, when it comes right down to it, Feather's post, although mildly amusing, weren't really worth much in the grand scheme of things anyway. So yeah, there's that....

Eug Wanker · Nov 12, 2004, 12:28 AM

Seriously, I'd love it if I were reset to zero.

ManOfSteal · Nov 12, 2004, 01:45 AM

Originally posted by Eug Wanker:
Seriously, I'd love it if I were reset to zero.

I asked that to happen for gorickey and was declined.

Kilbey · Nov 12, 2004, 01:51 AM

Originally posted by macaddict0001:
alias? I thought kilbey was your real name. .

You won't get me to admit that.

MindFad · Nov 12, 2004, 02:16 AM

MacNN's database wants this thread ID back.

I'll give you double the posts you lost for $50 via PayPal. PM me thx.

I also want this post back.

brapper · Nov 12, 2004, 02:18 AM

poo.

hhahaha i win.

alphasubzero949 · Nov 12, 2004, 02:20 AM

Originally posted by Feathers:
Howdy folks!

Hey Think! if you're out there in your illustrious position of moderator, I used to have 934 posts but when I came back after being away, my posts had dropped back to zero! I emailed MacNN but got no reply. Now I should have the magic 1000!!! Hell, I annoyed enough people to get that many, I think I deserve them!

I WANT MY POSTS BACK!!!!!! WAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!

Randman · Nov 12, 2004, 02:20 AM

Originally posted by ThinkInsane:
Muhahahahaha you get nothing my fine-feathered Biatch! Yet another old-timer turns up to realize he has become a victim of the great MacNN Post Purge. Silly penguin, your posts would still be there if they were worth a damn. But hey, if it makes you feel better, when disectacat and Anthony the K-G popped back up, they're posts were conspicuously absent also.

Best comment I've ever read from a mod in this, or any other, forum.

Feathers · Nov 12, 2004, 06:37 AM

Originally posted by ThinkInsane:
Well, when it comes right down to it, Feather's post, although mildly amusing, weren't really worth much in the grand scheme of things anyway. So yeah, there's that....

Ah Think! My evil Nemesis...nice to see that some things haven't changed although your spelling does appear to have improved. Great also to see that there appears to be an abundance of wit on MacNN at the moment, pity some people only got half of it!

And I got called a newbie, makes me feel like my virginity's grown back...hey, I think I feel an old Madonna song coming on

Feathers · Nov 12, 2004, 06:46 AM

Originally posted by ort888:
Go away newbie. Maybe if you had more posts I would care what you had to say, but as it is... FORGET IT.

Well, I think the fact that you have "anus" in your location requires no further comment!

PurpleGiant · Nov 12, 2004, 06:47 AM

Originally posted by d4nth3m4n:
i figured you had finally remembered the password for "purple giant" instead of THE purple giant" and that PG had only like 15 posts. TPG is where the post count was at [sic].

Actually I had a few hundred posts under PurpleGiant from memory, and yeah, then I forgot my password and changed email addresses

The hooder helped me regain control of this account not so long ago now, yet when I returned expecting at least a veteran status, I was shocked to find my post count at 0

Feels kinda sexy having so few posts now. I bet the chicks dig it.

cold_reality · Nov 12, 2004, 11:45 AM

Originally posted by Feathers:

I WANT MY POSTS BACK!!!!!! WAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!

This sounds like someone else I (and everyone else) knew...

wdlove · Nov 12, 2004, 11:58 AM

Gremlins seem to be at work.

d4nth3m4n · Nov 12, 2004, 12:45 PM

Originally posted by Feathers:
Well, I think the fact that you have "anus" in your location requires no further comment!

o dip

bradoesch · Nov 12, 2004, 06:57 PM

Originally posted by manofsteal:
I asked that to happen for gorickey and was declined.

Kenneth · Nov 12, 2004, 07:07 PM

The problem hasn't been solved?

DeathMan · Nov 12, 2004, 07:46 PM

I hate your sig so bad, but for some dark reason, I can't get myself to ad block it. Why????!

SafariX · Nov 12, 2004, 08:26 PM

i can make you some #s if youre hungry.

ManOfSteal · Nov 12, 2004, 09:47 PM

Originally posted by bradoesch:
REQUEST DENIED

Damn, that image is so good!

ThinkInsane · Nov 12, 2004, 10:20 PM

Originally posted by Feathers:
Ah Think! My evil Nemesis...nice to see that some things haven't changed although your spelling does appear to have improved. Great also to see that there appears to be an abundance of wit on MacNN at the moment, pity some people only got half of it!

And I got called a newbie, makes me feel like my virginity's grown back...hey, I think I feel an old Madonna song coming on

Just some points of clarification:

1. I'm the good nemesis, you are the evil nemesis.

2. OSX has a nifty built in spell checking gizmo.

3. We do indeed have wits, half-wits, and a few no-wits these days.

4. By 'newbie' he meant 'tool'.

5. Silly rabbit, you're virginity can't grow back until you lose it.

6. You penchant for Madonna songs is only slightly less disturbing than your habit of wearing circa 1987 Madonna outfits.

Oh, and welcome back ****er!

MacGorilla · Nov 12, 2004, 10:53 PM

Originally posted by ThinkInsane:
Just some points of clarification:

1. I'm the good nemesis, you are the evil nemesis.

2. OSX has a nifty built in spell checking gizmo.

3. We do indeed have wits, half-wits, and a few no-wits these days.

4. By 'newbie' he meant 'tool'.

5. Silly rabbit, you're virginity can't grow back until you lose it.

6. You penchant for Madonna songs is only slightly less disturbing than your habit of wearing circa 1987 Madonna outfits.

Oh, and welcome back ****er!

And all your base r belong to us

Oneota · Nov 12, 2004, 11:29 PM

Originally posted by MacGorilla:
And all your base r belong to us

find / -name "*base*" -user your -print | xargs 'chown us'

turtle777 · Nov 13, 2004, 10:29 AM

Still not locked ?

+1

-t

Feathers · Nov 13, 2004, 01:03 PM

Originally posted by ThinkInsane:
Just some points of clarification:

1. I'm the good nemesis, you are the evil nemesis.

nem�e�sis __ _P___Pronunciation Key__(nm-ss)
n. pl. nem�e�ses (-sz)
A source of harm or ruin: Uncritical trust is my nemesis.

An opponent that cannot be beaten or overcome.

One that inflicts retribution or vengeance.

Nemesis Greek Mythology. The goddess of retributive justice or vengeance.

[Greek, retribution, the goddess Nemesis, from nemein, to allot. See nem- in Indo-European Roots.]

Hey, good or evil, I'm happy with any of the above definitions. Of course, I particularly like the bit "...that cannot be beaten or overcome"! Ha! Ha! Ha! You have been warned, oh slave to the spell-checker!

2. OSX has a nifty built in spell checking gizmo.
All you have to do now is find it!

3. We do indeed have wits, half-wits, and a few no-wits these days.
No argument there!

4. By 'newbie' he meant 'tool'.
Well at least a "tool" is generally useful.

5. Silly rabbit, you're virginity can't grow back until you lose it.
You're right, but I didn't lose mine, I generously gave it away!!!

6. You penchant for Madonna songs is only slightly less disturbing than your habit of wearing circa 1987 Madonna outfits.
Sh1t! I was certain I'd removed every one of those cameras you hid!

Oh, and welcome back ****er!

You say the nicest things, shidpit!

Link · Nov 13, 2004, 07:14 PM

On a related note, is it my imagination or has my post count been ~3200 for the past 6 months? I'm DAMN sure I've gotten to 3300 several times now and every now and then, whatdayaknow it drops back to 3200 again.

WTF?