Major Weirdness

[DarkseidX]

This is probably the weirdest thing!!!

I used to have 10111 posts, and now I have 9985. Now this isn't that much of a difference, but this happened to me also when I barely registered.

What's even weirder, I still have the custom title from when I reached the 10000.

Anybody else have this problem?

Mods any help?:)

[Ruby Red]

Yep, me. I lost almost 300 posts. Not that i place any importance on that, i'm just curious as to why i lost them. :confused:

[Jellie]

I lost 41 posts not that many in theory but still very weird

[Smallvillenews]

I have lost almost 1300 posts... that's no small figure. I know have less posts than some people who have been here a shorter time than me. What's happened to my post count???

[Disco]

A certain member was completely removed from the board which included all posts and threads made. Therefore if you had posted in any of the threads they created then your posts were lost as well.

There also could have been other purgings last night.

[Smallvillenews]

Awww, that's so unfair, because I've lost my right to change my custom text now and I was so chuffed to get it. :( Shucks :(

[TMLS' BROTHER]

I've lost around 20.Is this the first time it's happened?

[Disco]

Originally posted by Smallvillenews
Awww, that's so unfair, because I've lost my right to change my custom text now and I was so chuffed to get it. :( Shucks :(
I would let them know... it's not your fault... you deserve to have the custom text. They might be kind enough to let you change it if you're tired of what you've got already.


I lost a lot too... pretty sure I had over 17,000 posts.

[TMLS' BROTHER]

I lost a lot too... pretty sure I had over 17,000 posts.

:eek:

[Smallvillenews]

Originally posted by Disco
I lost a lot too... pretty sure I had over 17,000 posts.

Wow, yeah I think you are right!!! :eek:

[Disco]

Check out Sharkie... he's down to 32,211.

[TMLS' BROTHER]

What was he on before?

[Disco]

Not sure... he was closing in on 40,000. Maybe he had around 38,000 or so. I don't remember the exact number.

[TMLS' BROTHER]

:eek:

I thought you lost alot

[Smallvillenews]

Sharkie will be cheesed too :eek:

Thanks for your advice Disco :)

[axel]

I can't remember my post count from last night :lol:

[Disco]

why... too drunk... hehe.. just kidding...it's probably a good thing you don't remember.

:D

[axel]

:rotfl:

Nah not drunk :lol:

It's just that I don't care for my post count at all, so I never look at it ;)

[Disco]

That's good.

And since they took away the member list nobody can see who's left on the top 10.

And to think I was going to throw Sharkie a party when he reached 50,000.

[yeshuamyking7]

I don't mean to be rude, but why didn't somebody think about this eventuality before you all decided to completely remove "Mr. X" or whoever he/she is from the board? I'm not upset about this, but it does seem pretty unfair, especially for people that lost hundreds or even a thousand or more on their post count.

Is there any way to reverse what you all did?

[Disco]

I don't think they knew it could affect other members.

There is no way to reverse it. If it matters that much to someone they can contact an Administrator with the post count they last had and maybe it will be put back.

[LanaandPete]

I had almost 2500, but now Im back to 2102, I had no I posted that many in that person's threads

[smallville_girlie]

I lost about 150 posts

[yeshuamyking7]

Originally posted by Disco
I don't think they knew it could affect other members.

I thought maybe that was the reason.


Originally posted by Disco
There is no way to reverse it. If it matters that much to someone they can contact an Administrator with the post count they last had and maybe it will be put back.

Can I just guess? I can't remember exactly how many I had, but it was close to 2500.

Also, who exactly should I contact? I don't want to be a nuisance, and since you've posted this publicly, it seems like the Administrators might get flooded with PMs.

[MBCorp]

Man, I never even notice my post count so I have no idea if I've lost any or not. But it's still saying I'm a Postaholic so I guess I didn't lose too many if I did lose any at all.

[Disco]

Originally posted by yeshuamyking7
Also, who exactly should I contact? I don't want to be a nuisance, and since you've posted this publicly, it seems like the Administrators might get flooded with PMs.

Maybe an administrator will venture into this forum and check out the thread. If they are willing... maybe they will contact you. If not.... who cares if they get flooded with PM's... they broke it... they should fix it.

An estimated guess is all they need.

[Shinzon2004]

Hey!I also lost some posts....I think I lost most of them because I was a "Kryptonsite Pro" and I returned to be a
"Kryptonsite Whiz". Is there any way to get those posts back?

I had around 1302 posts or something like that.....

Now I have 968.....where are the rest of my posts??

[yeshuamyking7]

Originally posted by Disco
Maybe an administrator will venture into this forum and check out the thread. If they are willing... maybe they will contact you. If not.... who cares if they get flooded with PM's... they broke it... they should fix it.

An estimated guess is all they need.

Thanks Disco. I guess I'll find an Admin then. I'm not that concerned about it right now, but I would like my thread count back.

[Disco]

An Administrator and some Mods were on yesterday. You'd think at least one of them would check this forum.

:rolleyes:

[DarkseidX]

Originally posted by Disco
An Administrator and some Mods were on yesterday. You'd think at least one of them would check this forum.

:rolleyes: Well I sure wish these people that lost thousands get there post count back. I mean jeesh that's a lot of posts. You lost like 5000, Smallvillenews lost like 1000. I really wish a mod could help you guys.

Well at least I know I'm not the only one with this problem.

[i luv tom welling]

I'm as out in the cold as you guys are. I lost 5000 posts :(

[Disco]

Now that REALY suxs.

5000 is a lot for you :(

[Kal-L, The Original]

Thanks for making this noticeable, Disco. I lost 500 or 600 or so and was deregistered-- I thought, turned out all right, though-- but I thought it was because of Arlene knocking the power out a few times.

Now I see it was just something that happened here. I've seen this kind of thing before in other places, never did know why. Does anyone?

[mario masta]

Wow, I don't think I lost any posts. :D

I'm curious though, if this "Mr. X"'s banning had an effect on people's post count, ranging from as little as 100 to 1000's, how in the heck did that happen? He/she/it must have been a VERY frequent member or something. :lol:

[MBCorp]

I don't understand how banning a member could cause other people's posts to go away. :confused: I'm just really confused by that. Were all of the posts that member made deleted or something?

[Sharkie]

If they just banned the member then nothing would effect post counts. They must have completely removed that member name from the database. And I have a pretty good idea who it is.

That's 6000 posts down the drain.

[Ali3n]

Originally posted by i luv tom welling
I'm as out in the cold as you guys are. I lost 5000 posts :(

Aren't you an admin? You can change yours back. :lol:

[IVISupermanIVI]

I lost at least 900 posts. I might as well be a newbie again if this keeps happening. I'm making no progress at all. Infact I think an entire thread of mine was deleted because I can't find it anywhere.

[i luv tom welling]

Originally posted by Ali3n
Aren't you an admin? You can change yours back. :lol:

No, I'm just a mod. Don't have that power.

[the panther]

Wow, I'd like to know who the member was (though I DO have a few ideas, but can't check... thank you for disabling the Members List).

I'm not sure how many posts I had, or how many I have now. I guess I will check after I've posted this... er, post.

ETA: HOLY ****! I used to have nearly 13,000! That's, like, 4000 posts! :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: And now I can't change my title for over 1000 more posts! :mad:

[mario masta]

Jebus, 4,000 posts?! :eek:

If you mods don't mind me asking, who was this member? :confused:

[nexgod]

I'd like to know as well.

[the panther]

Okay, I have calmed down now.

And I would like to know also.

[i luv tom welling]

I'd help you guys out if I could, but it's still a mystery to several of the mods including myself.

[Disco]

My only guess is that the person who was completely removed from the board must have started threads in which a lot of us posted in. By removing the member totally it removes their posts. Any threads they've created are removed as well. But being that this member only registered here back in March I don't see how it can affect so many posts.

I don't think it matters who the person is but won't say anyway.

[SheBangs]

It was Alice Perrin. She made a thread saying F- Proud Penny, Craig, and K-site. She was also trying to promote another site. Yea she wasnt very mature.

[Sharkie]

That doesn't make any sense though. I might have posted in a few threads of hers. How could I have lost 6,000 posts because of that?

[MBCorp]

Originally posted by SheBangs
It was Alice Perrin. She made a thread saying F- Proud Penny, Craig, and K-site. She was also trying to promote another site. Yea she wasnt very mature.

Yeah, I was thinking that was who it probably was. I was online and saw those posts and then shortly after she got banned people started complaining about losing posts.

[the panther]

Originally posted by Sharkie
That doesn't make any sense though. I might have posted in a few threads of hers. How could I have lost 6,000 posts because of that?
Yeah, same here, Sharks. I don't even know who that person is/was, and never posted in their threads. :confused:

[DarkseidX]

Originally posted by SheBangs
It was Alice Perrin. She made a thread saying F- Proud Penny, Craig, and K-site. She was also trying to promote another site. Yea she wasnt very mature. I cant believe it!!!

Alice did that?

She was so cool!

Oh well, I guess nobody is responsible for her actions exept herself. But I guess there was a lot of consequeces.

I wonder though, you guys said they closed every thread she was a part of of, lemme check the FF thread....

[rumpuso]

I've probably lost several hundred posts myself. I was in the 3000+ range and now I'm not.

Post counts I suppose don't matter in the big picture, but I cannot understand how anger over one poster has caused all the rest of us who follow the rules to suffer. Doesn't seem fair as a whole.

[Sharkie]

The thing that troubles me is we have gotten no info about what happened.

[DarkseidX]

Originally posted by Sharkie
The thing that troubles me is we have gotten no info about what happened. And yet admins have logged on. I really wish they'd check out this thread.

[sstray72]

I saw the thread that Alice made and it was aweful and it did nothing to that other board that she was pimping exept make it look bad. I too think that it had something to do with her banning, most banned users' posts remain, maybe edited, but remain, she was completely erased, posts and all, probably because she spouted off that thread in like EVERY FORUM on this site. I too think that her erasure had the unexpected effect of altering everyone's post count, and will probably not be able to be corrected unless they have some sort of backup where they can delete her posts one by one or something, doubt it though.

[MBCorp]

Has anybody who lost posts pm'd an administrator about it?

[rumpuso]

Not that it matters much in the whole scheme of things, but it occurred to me that my previous post count was 4000 something not 3000 something. I think I lost a great deal more than I originally thought.

Irritating! And irritating that we haven't received an official word in here about it.

[F-Stop Blues]

This is bizzare. How could one persons demise affect almost all of us. I bet she's laughing at us from afar. :(

[rumpuso]

That's just it F-Stop, we have no way of really knowing if it was only one poster who was deleted since admin hasn't responded to our thread. At this point, I would think we are talking about much more than one person, because personally, I have no idea who this Alice Perrin person is. If that many of my posts were deleted due to her, I would assume her name would at least be vaguely familiar. I'm guessing there were several posters deleted.

[F-Stop Blues]

yeah thats true. I've never heard of this person either. And i cant remember being in a thread that was completely deleted. Just completly bizzare.

I guess in the scheme of things it doesn matter. But getting hosed on your custom text is pretty crappy.

[rumpuso]

I've pm'd Proud Penny. She has been helpful to me over the years; hopefully she'll pop in here and give us an idea what happened or send someone in the know here to respond.

[F-Stop Blues]

its probably unfixable though. Did this happen recently?

[chlark fan]

Yeah i've lost some posts and i have no Idea who this Alice person is. I don't think I lost many, but I do know that I was excited about finally hitting the 1000 mark and when I noticed I had lost probably about 50 or 60 posts.

Did the admins. maybe delete all threads from former banned posters?

[Sharkie]

Originally posted by rumpuso
That's just it F-Stop, we have no way of really knowing if it was only one poster who was deleted since admin hasn't responded to our thread. At this point, I would think we are talking about much more than one person, because personally, I have no idea who this Alice Perrin person is. If that many of my posts were deleted due to her, I would assume her name would at least be vaguely familiar. I'm guessing there were several posters deleted. It HAD to be more than one. If I remember correctly Alice only had 100 or so posts, she was very new. There is NO WAY her removal would have cost people thousands of posts. I'm kinda ticked cause I was almost at 40,000.

[Jellie]

Charlotte was removed yea but i dont remember posting in any thread of hers i maybe talked to her once or twice, i only lost 41 posts but i dont think its down to her

[F-Stop Blues]

But its strange becuase i didnt lose any but ive been around since october. Very strange.

[chlark fan]

Hey! I was demoted from a Pro back to a Whiz. :(

But I only need 2 more posts to regain my title, fortunately. :lol:

I know posts are no big deal but I always try to get my posts up because I don't post here as often as alot of people.

I feel really bad for the ppl who lost thousands :eek:

[Disco]

I highly doubt all of this was due to one member being removed. There must have been some thread purging as well.

[LanaandPete]

I didnt post much in alice thread or any in charlotte threads, so I dont know why I lost that much.

[Disco]

This is getting weirder.

I check a thread that was posted here when Craig needed to purge old threads to make more room back in February. It seems that the individual post count was not affected... just the board's overall post counter.

I guess it could depend on how the threads were purged. Through the boards Administrative system or by someone just using the Delete button.

It could be this is something nobody has an answer for.

:(

[DarkseidX]

Okay it's a sure thing. I've been scowering the forums searching for the old FF thread in which she posted in, and I couldn't find her.

This means one thing, they deleted the threads and all her posts. In other words, all traces of her.

[Smallvillenews]

It isn't just this Alice, or Charlotte, whatever her name is, because I never posted in any of her threads.

I do know who it is now though, but I can't say, but it's still unfair and I'm still cheesed off.

I did PM a mod, but got no response, never mind. I will just have to celebrate twice for reaching 10,000 :lol:

[Mr Boejangles]

well, thats 2000 hours of my life i will never get back. POSTS !!! POST!!! not hours sorry.

[Disco]

Originally posted by Smallvillenews
It isn't just this Alice, or Charlotte, whatever her name is, because I never posted in any of her threads.

I do know who it is now though, but I can't say, but it's still unfair and I'm still cheesed off.

So your saying other members were recently removed from the board as well?

:\

Hey Boe.. how ya been?

[Smallvillenews]

Originally posted by Disco
So your saying other members were recently removed from the board as well?

:\

Seems like it. Sharkie and Alan said someone called Alice and Charlotte had been removed (on previous posts ^^) And I don't know anyone by that name who I posted over 1300 posts in. So if they have been removed too as Sharkie and Jellie said, then they must have removed several member's, because that isn't the person I know who's threads it was I lost some of mine from.

[Disco]

Nah.. Alice Perrin and Charlotte are one and the same. Charlotte is her real name. She was only here for 2 months and I don't remember posting in any of her threads.

[MBCorp]

I can't see how getting rid of one member who was only here for 2 months could have affected post counts so drastically. There must be some other reason. This thread is 4 pages long and there's still been no official word on what happened or any administrator replying to it.:\

[Jellie]

Yea funny isnt it

[LanaandPete]

if this alice person could take out that many posts, think about if someone who has posts counts like sharkie, disco, and summers was erased, it would be a huge drop

[DarkseidX]

Originally posted by Jellie
Yea funny isnt it Dissapointing is more like it.


Originally posted by LanaandPete
if this alice person could take out that many posts, think about if someone who has posts counts like sharkie, disco, and summers was erased, it would be a huge drop It would be drastic.

[Disco]

Originally posted by MBCorp
thread is 4 pages long and there's still been no official word on what happened or any administrator replying to it.:\
Unfortunately the only way to get their attention these days is to report a post/thread.

[DarkseidX]

Originally posted by Disco
Unfortunately the only way to get their attention these days is to report a post/thread. Well we got get some answers. I'm wondering what this is all about.

[Sharkie]

It can't be just Alice. Either it was multiple people, or some threads went away as well.

Well, I ran a search, and the original KGI thread is gone, so I am guessign they got rid of a lot of old threads, which killed our posts counts.

[Disco]

Not sure if it was deleted. It could have just been moved to the Mod archive. ILTW can confirm it it's there or not.

Wow... SMLVLFAN89 is down to 9,000.

[Sharkie]

Well, that would explain how a lot of us lost so many posts.

[SMLVLFAN89]

Originally posted by Disco
Not sure if it was deleted. It could have just been moved to the Mod archive. ILTW can confirm it it's there or not.

Wow... SMLVLFAN89 is down to 9,000.

I'M A SEMI-NEWB AGAIN!!!!!!! http://www.fadzter.com/smilies/swear.gif

[rumpuso]

The absence of the original KGI thread wouldn't explain the quantity of missing posts for me though. I was not part of that thread. It must be something more than that. Perhaps even human error??

[LanaandPete]

^thats goes for me as well

[Jellie]

Originally posted by rumpuso
The absence of the original KGI thread wouldn't explain the quantity of missing posts for me though. I was not part of that thread. It must be something more than that. Perhaps even human error??


Thats what i said to somebody, human error, i thought so from the start and still do now

[Disco]

dunno what the heck it could be http://www.discodelic.netfirms.com/confused-scratchhead6.gif

[Jellie]

I think somebody in power made a mistake

[Sharkie]

Originally posted by rumpuso
The absence of the original KGI thread wouldn't explain the quantity of missing posts for me though. I was not part of that thread. It must be something more than that. Perhaps even human error?? Obviously, but if that is gone I assume other threads are also gone. It's just the easiest thread to do a search on.

[Disco]

Page 7... and still no answer.

:\

[SMLVLFAN89]

Originally posted by Disco
dunno what the heck it could be http://www.discodelic.netfirms.com/confused-scratchhead6.gif

http://www.fadzter.com/smilies/stupid.gif

[Disco]

Most users ever online was 1598 on 06-07-2005 at 10:38 PM

????

Something definitely strange going on... no way did we have this many legitimate members on the board at that time.

Could this be connected to the 5000 missing posts some of us have?


Originally posted by SMLVLFAN89
http://www.fadzter.com/smilies/stupid.gif

:p :p :p

[smallvillerox05]

If I remember correctly, the original KGI thread has been missing from the text archive for a VERY long time (probably taken from it after it was closed).

Then again, what do I know? :lol:

Um, I specifically remember having 23,482 posts. Can someone set that for me please? :p

[the panther]

There are actually threads that are long-closed, but still there: they sometimes DON'T show up when you search for them. If you know you posted in them, you can find them by going through your post history.

HOWEVER, THE ORIGINAL KGI HAS BEEN DELETED COMPLETELY. It's not in my post history at all. Gimp's Island, OOC, and Sleepover threads, etc. are all intact, but the original KGI was deleted.

DISCO brings up a good point, though. The date and time of the most users active is the DAY BEFORE DarkseidX posted this thread. I wouldn't be surprised if the board was hacked or infected.

[smallvillerox05]

Yep, GI and the sleepover threads are still there. I read a little. :rotfl:

People were insane with your third person talk: "The smallvillerox05 is getting tired and he may have to go to bed soon." :rotfl:

[the panther]

OMG, it was SO effing hilarious!! I need to sit down and just read those threads one of these days. :rotfl:

For Gimpy and me, it was easy, since our sns already have "the" in them. :rotfl:

Good times, MAN! Good times!

[smallvillerox05]

Makes me really sad that I wasn't around back then. :(

Oh well, life goes on... :)

[Disco]

I'm almost possitive the original Wah/KGI thread is still on the board. It's just not in a place where you guys can see ;). Even if it was removed... I know for sure I didn't post 5000 times in it.

I really think we had some sort of attack on the board.

[Jellie]

It actually makes sense if we had an attack on the board. Its the best theory I have heard so far Disco

[Disco]

It's the only thing that makes sense.

[DarkseidX]

This sounds reasonable.

If on that day, of 06-07-2005 at 10:38 PM there was 1598, there was bound to have been some kind of attack on the site.

[Disco]

deleted

[Sharkie]

I don't see how the most users online being that high could make us lose posts...

[KJK]

*finds a missing posts thread*
Ah. Hacked. Explains it. *goes on his way*

[SMLVLFAN89]

Originally posted by the panther
OMG, it was SO effing hilarious!! I need to sit down and just read those threads one of these days. :rotfl:

For Gimpy and me, it was easy, since our sns already have "the" in them. :rotfl:

Good times, MAN! Good times!

I remember back when those thread were hoppin! I even had a summer home in the botomless pit......

[DarkseidX]

Originally posted by Disco
Something definitely wrong with this board. I logged out... came back to the board as a guest (not logged in) but my screen name still showed up on the Who's Online list.... for over 10 minutes. It just kept my name there even though I wasn't logged into the board.


You know... if it weren't for us regular members nobody would have even known something happened. Who's running this board?

Do the Administrators... whichever ones bother to even show up care about their members anymore?

:confused:

Wow... JC is actually on the board. Last time he posted here was 11-21-2004.

And Sully.... last time she was here was 10-15-2004.

Clari Clyde... last time here was 05-25-2004.

Chiri is around but only bothers with the Chlois thread.

Why are they staff members if they're not here or don't do anything?! Well we need someone to control this place.

[the panther]

Originally posted by Sharkie
I don't see how the most users online being that high could make us lose posts... All the "users" are actually bots or something that flood message boards when message boards are hacked/attacked.


Originally posted by DarkseidX
Well we need someone to control this place. I vote Disco. Disco, you are the best... it's a bummer you're not part of the staff anymore. :(

[KJK]

Did these "bots" eat all my posts? :lol:

[Jellie]

It certainly looks like it

[i luv tom welling]

I'm upset about losing posts too, guys, but there is not much that I, as a moderator, can do to help in this situation. Awareness has been raised among the other moderators, and it seems here we've all come to the same conclusion that there was possible technical error/hacking involved. If any other information was found, I'd be the first to tell you here. If you are that devastated about a low post count and remember something in the vicinity of your old number, I'm sure Craig (KryptonSite) will help you out if you politely PM him. But for now... Can we just let it go? :\

[Jellie]

Sure thing ILTW i guess there is no point going on and on about the same thing.

[SMLVLFAN89]

But I like to complain......

[Disco]

Thanks ILTW :)

You're the only staff member that bothered to respond personally to this thread. It's just too bad that the "others" don't feel that their members are important enough. I'm not complaining about the lost posts. I could care less. My only complaint is the Administrations lack of concern for it's very own members. The least any of them could have done was make a simple comment in this thread.

[DarkseidX]

Originally posted by i luv tom welling
I'm upset about losing posts too, guys, but there is not much that I, as a moderator, can do to help in this situation. Awareness has been raised among the other moderators, and it seems here we've all come to the same conclusion that there was possible technical error/hacking involved. If any other information was found, I'd be the first to tell you here. If you are that devastated about a low post count and remember something in the vicinity of your old number, I'm sure Craig (KryptonSite) will help you out if you politely PM him. But for now... Can we just let it go? :\ Yeah I'm with Disco. Thank you very much for your support ILTW.:)

Well now I feel like crud, I started this thread thinking to myself, "What the heck??? I lost about 200 posts!!!"

Then I find out some of you guys lost from 5000-7000 posts!! Hope you can regain those posts back guys.:)

[the panther]

Ditto on that. ILTW, I really appreciate that you checked out the thread even though you had no idea what was going on! :)

And don't feel like crud, Darkseid. Either way, it doesn't really matter. Post count, shmost count. Just as long as we can still have fun... :)

Sigh. I'm with Mark here. I do like to complain (especially since I can't change my user text any more unless I PM someone, and I honestly don't feel like I should bother). I guess I'll just have to post a lot, huh? ;)

[DarkseidX]

Originally posted by the panther
Ditto on that. ILTW, I really appreciate that you checked out the thread even though you had no idea what was going on! :)

And don't feel like crud, Darkseid. Either way, it doesn't really matter. Post count, shmost count. Just as long as we can still have fun... :)

Sigh. I'm with Mark here. I do like to complain (especially since I can't change my user text any more unless I PM someone, and I honestly don't feel like I should bother). I guess I'll just have to post a lot, huh? ;) All over again.:p

[Disco]

I still hold my complaint against the board administrators. The only ones who seem to actively be doing their jobs on the message board is ILTW and Big Al. It seems as if the only way to get a response from the Admins is if we make a big stink about something.

This board might be smelling bad pretty soon.... http://www.boomspeed.com/discodelic/shithitsthefan.gif

[Jellie]

Big Al is a star