Post Count

[asianinvasion]

Um... my post count somehow resetted to zero. I dont know whats going on, did someone delete all of my posts?

[Reade]

mine didn't reset, but lost 700 or so

[Coach Owens]

Uh oh.

[Coach Owens]

I lost 30 or so.

[HoustonGM]

Yeah, I'm down a couple thousand.

Heh, I say just get rid of the post count at this point, honestly. It keeps screwing up.

[ohms_law]

Heh, I say just get rid of the post count at this point, honestly. It keeps screwing up.
That would be nice...

[boomboom]

I don't care anymore...happy now ohms.

[ohms_law]

Yes
;)

[boomboom]

Yes
;)

good for you

[ohms_law]

um... I didn't have anything to do with this... the whole forum (including BMO) crashed yesterday afternoon. Clay mentioned something about an errant php script.

[TheNamelessPoet]

um... I didn't have anything to do with this... the whole forum (including BMO) crashed yesterday afternoon. Clay mentioned something about an errant php script.

it was catastrophic and i wanted to cry!!!

[Dee Dreslough]

I'll run the post count recaculator, but just so you know...
we're deleting old BMO forums from dead leagues so the counts will be constantly changing.

I'll see if I can get rid of the post count thing too. The upside of the post count is that when it breaks (like it did before the board crazyness), it's like a head's up that something's wrong. But, if its making people fight, it's not worth it...unless we can somehow turn that fighting into a popular game and sell it.

(flash forward 1 year...)
POST COUNT MOGUL 2010!
Do you have what it takes to post a single word again and again and build your post count into a dynasty?

Oh..wait. Where was I? Yes yes. Postcounts. They're broken. I'll try to make them go away... (until 2010!)

-Dee

[Reade]

We know who the funny one in this family is

[ohms_law]

:D

Dee is back!

[TheNamelessPoet]

I'll run the post count recaculator, but just so you know...
we're deleting old BMO forums from dead leagues so the counts will be constantly changing.

I'll see if I can get rid of the post count thing too. The upside of the post count is that when it breaks (like it did before the board crazyness), it's like a head's up that something's wrong. But, if its making people fight, it's not worth it...unless we can somehow turn that fighting into a popular game and sell it.

(flash forward 1 year...)
POST COUNT MOGUL 2010!
Do you have what it takes to post a single word again and again and build your post count into a dynasty?

Oh..wait. Where was I? Yes yes. Postcounts. They're broken. I'll try to make them go away... (until 2010!)

-Dee

:(

[ohms_law]

ah, you'll live...
;)

[FRENCHREDSOX]

(flash forward 1 year...)
POST COUNT MOGUL 2010!
Do you have what it takes to post a single word again and again and build your post count into a dynasty?



-Dee

Be careful because this guy own the copyright (http://forum.sportsmogul.com/showthread.php?t=173736) to PCM10 (AS He was the 1st poster....) *joke*

[TheNamelessPoet]

dee is in the hizzy... or should i say flibbidy blobbdy floo.. (southpark refference)

[TheNamelessPoet]

They're not broken, and could we have a poll before they magically go away?

yea :)

[Dee Dreslough]

A POLL? You mean, to find out what customers think before I just willy-nilly destroy the universe here? Who do I look like? Clay? BWAHAHAAH!

But, it turns out it doesn't matter anyway: They're staying.

My copious 5 minutes of research shows that pulling them would involve actually editing templates, which is more than just mashing a button, so the question is moot anyway.

I can't easily, safely make them go away, so, I won't.

BUT -- That being said: Post counts are going to be funky for a long time. We're cleaning the board up quite a bit...we may even split the board into BMO leagues on one board, and then everything else on another. We're still looking into that to prevent server freakouts like happened yesterday. So, what you have for post counts may not be accurate, and will be changing. If you go down to 0 or whatever, feel free to drop me an email to re-run the postcounter.

But, please try not to use up a lot of my time and emotional manna points with "so and so is cheating on the post counts!" kind of stuff. It makes me sad. I need all my happy power for the ultimate challenge: The Hello Kitty Online MMORPG (http://www.hellokittyonline.com/us/). It's about to open, and we'll all be absorbed by the massive marshmallowy wonder that is HELLO KITTY! We can all fight over who has the highest love-points count!

Just listen to that theme! I'm going to record it and just play it in a loop over and over while chain-drinking Red Bulls.

-Chibi-Dee >0-0<

[Reade]

Who do I look like? Clay?

I hope not, nobody needs to be punished like that. I'm kidding, but the image their kids are now haunting me

[TheNamelessPoet]

And red bulls are yummytastic

especial with a shot and half of jager :p

[HoustonGM]

Maybe it's just me, but why would somebody's post count who hasn't even posted in any BMO league forums be affected by that?

[Dee Dreslough]

Maybe it's just me, but why would somebody's post count who hasn't even posted in any BMO league forums be affected by that?

================================
Professor Dee breaks out the chalkboard:
The Internet is a series of tubes, all twisted together. Thusly, like a fractal pattern, code is like a series of noodles, all twisted together. Thus the term, "Spaghetti Code". Discount code is referred to as "Ramen Code". (There's a DaVinci Code joke in here, but it hasn't found me yet...Maybe code written by Tom Hanks?) If you pull one noodle, all the other noodles are affected...
================================

Honestly -- I have no idea. But the data is in huge MYSQL tables, and when post counts get changed, I have a feeling that one huge table column for the Users -- all users -- gets written to. It probably has a total postcount for each user, including ones who don't need to be recalculated because they had no changes, but when the system makes alterations to the table, it can get overwritten incorrectly with zeros.

The program probably defaults to making that value zero just to be sure /something/ is in the table to fill the space. After I do any maintenance, I do re-run the post counter thing, though, so no one should have a zero who posts.

-Dee

[OldFatGuy]

I don't care anymore...happy now ohms.


:eek: No more PP Days ???? Oh man, I used to always look for those ole ROT days.:D

Key: PP=Post Padding, ROT=Resurrect Old Threads

[DarthJaker]

i had 405 now i have 248!!!

[asianinvasion]

I got 700 of them back but am still off by 2,000. Its not like I care about them, but it just looks weird.

[boomboom]

this is a waste of time...

[TheNamelessPoet]

this is a waste of time...

as is shaving my entire body... yet i still do it .... many things matter so some that do not matter to others


:p

[boomboom]

I was at 17k at one time, and with all the threads deleted My guess would be 21000k now...

[HoustonGM]

I was at 17k at one time, and with all the threads deleted My guess would be 21000k now...
I was at 23,000 almost and now lost 5,000 and none of the threads I posted on have been deleted...:p

[boomboom]

I have lost 1/3 of my post by these post (nazis*).






* Joke

[boomboom]

This kind of stuff makes people inactive. Mikey has had more than 1/2 of his post deleted. He lost maybe around 15k post so far...he now sits at 11k, which he was there 2 years ago.

The worst part, is since stieny, he barely post, except for those interesting post he post once in a while. Mikey was one of the biggest influenences to BMO, he got me to join BMO...and Mikey and post counts don't matter, he gave me a reason to come to the forums...and spend $15 bucks a month on BMO.

[HoustonGM]

If post counts make somebody stop posting...then ...uh...I don't know what to say to that...:confused:

[TheNamelessPoet]

If post counts make somebody stop posting...then ...uh...I don't know what to say to that...:confused:

i kinda have to agree on that one

[FRENCHREDSOX]

SO who stole DA POSTS (btw I dont really care about WHAT my post count is....DID I LOSE some most probably BUT they werent that important)

[ohms_law]

No one "stole" anything, Dee is just doing some spring cleaning:

Post counts are going to be funky for a long time. We're cleaning the board up quite a bit...we may even split the board into BMO leagues on one board, and then everything else on another. We're still looking into that to prevent server freakouts like happened yesterday. So, what you have for post counts may not be accurate, and will be changing. If you go down to 0 or whatever, feel free to drop me an email to re-run the postcounter.

[boomboom]

It is stupid and idotic to think that a program like vbullentin can't support a number of post. I thought that vbullentin was the best of the forum software. There are many other forums that handle 100x this volume of posting. Cleaning out the old is a waste of your time. Maybe it is time to upgrade the server.

[FRENCHREDSOX]

No one "stole" anything, Dee is just doing some spring cleaning:

It was HUMOUR Ohms :p;)

[ohms_law]

It is stupid and idotic to think that a program like vbullentin can't support a number of post. I thought that vbullentin was the best of the forum software. There are many other forums that handle 100x this volume of posting. Cleaning out the old is a waste of your time. Maybe it is time to upgrade the server.
As both Clay and Dee have mentioned numerous times, the posts are not the problem at all. It's the number of sub-forums that seems to be causing problems. The BMO connection itself probably adds quite a bit of "stress" as well.

Personally, I'm 100% behind moving the BMO forums lock stock and barrel to a separate board. I'm fairly certain that things will be much more stable all the way around that way.


It was HUMOUR Ohms :p;)

Yes, I know. For you and me it's humor at least. For Bobby, on the other hand...

[HoustonGM]

It is stupid and idotic to think that a program like vbullentin can't support a number of post. I thought that vbullentin was the best of the forum software. There are many other forums that handle 100x this volume of posting. Cleaning out the old is a waste of your time. Maybe it is time to upgrade the server.
If I'm not mistaken, this was caused by a number of BMO players asking for dead leagues to be cleaned...

[ohms_law]

True...

[robinhoodnik]

Oh jeez. Now my post count's lowered. :(
Oh well, back at it then. :)

[boomboom]

Oh jeez. Now my post count's lowered. :(
Oh well, back at it then. :)
Good for you. I am still missing a lot.

[boomboom]

BMO itself is played on a different server.

[ohms_law]

Yes, yes it is...

[HoustonGM]

But the posts from the old dead leagues are on this ;)

[Coach Owens]

Ah, good times, good times.

[robinhoodnik]

Good for you. I am still missing a lot.

Me too! Don't care. ;)

[Red Sox Fan 734]

I lost a couple hundred posts as well :(

[BINGLEBOP]

You crybabies. Who would want to have the most posts on an internet message board? I'd see that more negatively myself, but that's just me.

Lives... get them. And don't say "I'm only online during the day at work and have some time to post." :cool:

[robinhoodnik]

Kinda like the Bill Murray flick "Groundhog Day". Except, not like it at all. We do have the opportunity to correct our past posting transgressions now though. So it's like being a born again Christian, kinda, but not really. :confused: Where's my beer gone to now?:confused:

[dabruinss]

good to see dee back in action i missed her.

[dabruinss]

wow i just noticed i'm down to 10,000 from 19,000. guess i took a hit

[ohms_law]

You crybabies. Who would want to have the most posts on an internet message board? I'd see that more negatively myself, but that's just me.

Lives... get them. And don't say "I'm only online during the day at work and have some time to post." :cool:

Yea, that's pretty much the way I feel too. These conversations always bug me, mostly because it reminds me that I've got the 2nd or 3rd most posts here in less time than everyone else has been around...
:o

[BINGLEBOP]

Well, as long as you're not complaining about how you lost internet message board posts, you're OK. :cool:

This other forum I post on has a "posts per day" calculation in the user profile. Seeing some of those numbers is absolutely insane.

[BINGLEBOP]

wow i just noticed i'm down to 10,000 from 19,000. guess i took a hit



Just pretend your peak dropped. You were once an 85/93 player, and now you're a 77/80 player.

[nuzzy62]

I lost over 6,000!

Not the record though..dabruins has me beat!

[HoustonGM]

Well, as long as you're not complaining about how you lost internet message board posts, you're OK. :cool:

This other forum I post on has a "posts per day" calculation in the user profile. Seeing some of those numbers is absolutely insane.
So does this one. On the right hand side, in the Mini Statistics box, click "Show All Statistics.

[TheNamelessPoet]

Just pretend your peak dropped. You were once an 85/93 player, and now you're a 77/80 player.

lol You are andruw jones

[boomboom]

We spend a lot of time padding, that is why I am mad...If I counted how many hours Mikey, Dabs and I padded, it might be weeks ;)

That is why this sucks, how much does a single thread have in terms of memory (1 kilabite?)

[FRENCHREDSOX]

I lost over 6,000!

Not the record though..dabruins has me beat!

It seems that they were transfered to an offshore post account ;) (look at his Address for the others)

[BINGLEBOP]

lol You are andruw jones



That means it's time to go on the disabled list (stop posting for awhile). :D

[RickD]

Yankees....oh sorry......post count!

[RickD]

I love all these threads and posts about post counts.....ok I was kidding....YANKEES!

[BINGLEBOP]

Wow, I can't believe nobody has bumped this thread yet!

Oops.

[boomboom]

Lets see how much of the BMO members post counts goes down.... with this board maintenance....

Post counts in BMO also mean activity, translation (how active are you)

[HoustonGM]

Lets see how much of the BMO members post counts goes down.... with this board maintenance....

Post counts in BMO also mean activity, translation (how active are you)
Again, though, this was because of what the BMO players were asking for....

[TheNamelessPoet]

*rollseyes*

*rollseyes in oposite direction of yankee hater*

[nuzzy62]

wow. I've lost another 500 posts over the last week. Keep cutting a man when he's down

[TheNamelessPoet]

wow. I've lost another 500 posts over the last week. Keep cutting a man when he's down

:( im sorry

[FRENCHREDSOX]

wow. I've lost another 500 posts over the last week. Keep cutting a man when he's down

Post more in BMO Winter League forums (Robinhoodnik will keep an eye on them LOL) :D

[TheNamelessPoet]

Post more in BMO Winter League forums (Robinhoodnik will keep an eye on them LOL) :D

:p

[TheNamelessPoet]

:p

i wish my schedule for winter league... i LOVED that league :p

[FRENCHREDSOX]

i wish my schedule for winter league... i LOVED that league :p

You would love it EVEN more now (the Braves are like the NL dominant force) & Ive left Boston (lol) after 45 straight playoffs & playing the *shudder* clueless Indians ;)

but here (http://forum.sportsmogul.com/showthread.php?t=179130) TNP have some fun ;)

[robinhoodnik]

Lemme see, I'm down to... :eek: :D

[robinhoodnik]

That clunk I heard must have been the LXGM's forum hitting the bottom of the trash can. ;)

[nuzzy62]

I thought French did the right thing and make it more challenging in Winter. A monkey could run Boston for the next 10 years and still make the play-offs.

[TheNamelessPoet]

I thought French did the right thing and make it more challenging in Winter. A monkey could run Boston for the next 10 years and still make the play-offs.

like nblechman is in beer and whiskey :p

[nuzzy62]

I don't understand that

[TheNamelessPoet]

I don't understand that

we have a guy nblechman who is totaly dominating the league in seattle :p... i understand your pain in having a GREAT GM in the league