ATTN: Triple Zero

[Nephew Twiddleton]

I still love my friend freaking out over me having over 400,000 posts here.  He was all "HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE???"

[EK WAFFLR]

You could also just click on the "show stats" button, and the post total's there.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

You could also just click on the "show stats" button, and the post total's there.

But my method is slightly more time consuming and therefore better!

[AFK]

Never mind, I figured it out. What you do is click on profile, and go to show posts. The posts are numbered. Click on the last page and you'll get an accurate number. This will be post 10155 for me. So if I were to look for my 10000th post, I'd find post number 156.

Unfortunately that one won't work for me because I've been around since early 05 and a lot of my posts have gone by-by in the various board/Apple Talk prunings. 

Though, the bright side of that is no one can ever, ever read my first post ever again. 

This is a good thing. 

[AFK]

You could also just click on the "show stats" button, and the post total's there.

Ah, yes, that one does work for me.  Thanks!

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Never mind, I figured it out. What you do is click on profile, and go to show posts. The posts are numbered. Click on the last page and you'll get an accurate number. This will be post 10155 for me. So if I were to look for my 10000th post, I'd find post number 156.

Unfortunately that one won't work for me because I've been around since early 05 and a lot of my posts have gone by-by in the various board/Apple Talk prunings. 

Though, the bright side of that is no one can ever, ever read my first post ever again. 

This is a good thing.

Oh man, can we get the gist of it?

Mine seems to be about belly button lint.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Damn! I forgot about pruning!

I'm actually at 10885 posts with this one.

Stupid Belgians messing with my internets!

[AFK]

Never mind, I figured it out. What you do is click on profile, and go to show posts. The posts are numbered. Click on the last page and you'll get an accurate number. This will be post 10155 for me. So if I were to look for my 10000th post, I'd find post number 156.

Unfortunately that one won't work for me because I've been around since early 05 and a lot of my posts have gone by-by in the various board/Apple Talk prunings. 

Though, the bright side of that is no one can ever, ever read my first post ever again. 

This is a good thing.

Oh man, can we get the gist of it?

Mine seems to be about belly button lint.

I'm pretty sure it included the phrase "five tons of flax" and, also, I briefly started out with a different user name.  But, after about two posts I realized it was really lame and changed it to RWHN.  But there were no puns.  I saved that for later posts. 

[Salty]

The first username I was going to use was Poleris.


GETTIT?

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Clever!

[Triple Zero]

I think Zip "fixed" the loophole where you could just go to your profile for an accurate postcount. 

Actually SMF2.0 fixed that. When I modified the postcounts on the old SMF 1.x board, there were two separate pieces of code for calculating the postcount, one for thread/message view and one for the profile view (there may even have been more, I dunno). I didn't realize this until someone mentioned the correct postcount still showed up in the profiles.

SMF2.0 fixed that, by having the postcount code just in one place. Which is technically better from a DRY programming point of view (Don't Repeat Yourself). Implementing the same functionality at two points in your code is bad practice because it means you can make a bug twice, and if you need to update the functionality (say, change in DB structure) you need to remember all the places where to change it.

That said, I kind of liked the loophole, and being able to view the true postcounts with an extra click. I kind of thought I had discovered a new way today, like Twid said, by doing "show posts" in the profile and checking the last number. But as RWHN said, that probably doesn't take pruned posts into account.

I'm fairly sure that the real post counts are somewhere in the database, still, though.

Still it doesn't quite matter, when I check the real postcount it is because basically I want to know how long someone has been around, and if their posts have been affected much by prunings, the answer probably is "quite a while"

I think Zip "fixed" the loophole where you could just go to your profile for an accurate postcount. 

It's too late. 10000 is not my lucky number. I intended to celebrate my 10000th day too, and realized with annoyance at work 2 and a half years ago that it had passed three days prior. There's just something about the number 10000 that I like, and it always comes by so rarely. And I always bloody miss it! 100000 days would be cool too, but I don't expect to live into my 270s. I'll just have to post like a motherfucker to get to that number.

You're a bit younger than me, right? In about two weeks I'll be exactly ONE BILLION SECONDS OLD! Also there were a few nice round numbers (or repeated numbers like 11111) of weeks last year that I completely missed. But I got one billion seconds and I don't intend to forget it!

You can use Wolfram|Alpha to calculate these kinds of things, just query for (2 sept 1980, 20:35 CET) + one billion seconds

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Ooh, nifty! Thanks Trip!

April 14, 2013 at 12:40pm for my billionth second.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Damn. My 11111th day was in January....

[EK WAFFLR]

Damn. My 11111th day was in January....

Mine's in September. YAY

[Triple Zero]

I'm just glad I found a use for Wolfram|Alpha