Wuggles on 19/7/2003 at 20:00
There are approximately 4600 registered users that haven't posted even once. What a waste of...something...
TF on 19/7/2003 at 20:40
Probably joined so they'd get special lurking privileges, such as searching.
mopgoblin on 20/7/2003 at 01:19
Or their postcounts were reduced to zero when the forum switched from UBB to vBulletin, and they haven't posted in the past few years.
Rogue Keeper on 21/7/2003 at 13:47
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Originally posted by mopgoblin when the forum switched from UBB to vBulletin, and they haven't posted in the past few years. AFAIR the switch to vBulletin has occured somewhere in the first half of 2002, so they are not quiet so long.;)
And the reduction of postcount happened as a sideeffect of some kind of database error in 2001 if I remember correctly, before the forums have switched to VBulletin.
I wasn't around here at that time, just from what I've heard later...
Can anybody with a better memory confirm or correct that, please?
Gingerbread Man on 21/7/2003 at 14:11
I seem to recall it being halfway between both things you just said.
iirc, an invisible / unforseen problem in the mechanics of the vB switch-over last year resulted in a reversion to a database backup made in the spring of 2001. Only seemed to affect actual post counts, though. No posts were lost (afaik).
I *think* that's right.
Unless the goblins have been scribbling lies in my notebook...
Alexius on 21/7/2003 at 23:00
people get assasinated... [SPOILER](by real life)[/SPOILER] Gota remember that.
... or maybe they can't write- just reading stuff and thinking about it.
deadman on 22/7/2003 at 00:37
Stalkers of the rest of us ;) That, or all Eidos/Ion Storm employees making sure we don't try anything shifty-eyed and sweaty-palmed :sly: :sweat:.
deadman.
Valkyre on 22/7/2003 at 03:06
It's many of the woodsie lord's minions, keeping a watchful eye on all of us.
Rogue Keeper on 22/7/2003 at 07:05
Nope, they are just few of many of Helios' avatars spying on us... or the invisible, omnipresent hand of the Illuminati.
:thumb:
MsLedd on 22/7/2003 at 08:10
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Originally posted by Gingerbread Man I *think* that's right. Mostly right :)
The culprit was actually faulty coding in a [bi]UBB[/bi] upgrade that we did in April of 2001, this posed no problem until sometime after we switched over to vBulletin in February of 2002 (during database maintenance/optimization). At that time the portion of the database that was affected by the faulty code in the UBB upgrade was what was lost (user info/posts made before April 2001). The vBulletin team identified this issue and created a workaround for it, integrating it into their UBB>vB forum import instructions, however this was not until after we had already converted our forums... ohhwell.
