improvstone wrote:
Let me get even more subtle on thread necromancy.

Take user: grem

acaeum.com/forum/profile.php?mode=viewp ... &u=923

He supposedly has three posts from 2006.  Yet if you click on find all posts by grem none are found?

Take user: Robert Mammone

acaeum.com/forum/profile.php?mode=viewp ... &u=835

He supposedly has 3 posts from 2006.  Yet if you click on find all posts then only 2 are found.

Mike those disappearing posts most likely are from the Claasifeids.  Foul deletes those threads after I think 2 or 3 months, but it does not subtract from your post total.

bclarkie wrote:
Mike those disappearing posts most likely are from the Claasifeids.  Foul deletes those threads after I think 2 or 3 months, but it does not subtract from your post total.

Ahh that would make sense.  Although it leads to some interesting conclusions about how phpBB calculates posts.  Obviously the count is stored rather than being dynamically generated....

bclarkie is correct.  The "missing" posts are from the Classifieds forum, which auto-prunes messages older than 90 days.  For whatever reason, phpBB doesn't adjust your post count for pruned messages.

Dynamically calculating the post count would slow page generation down dramatically.  I.e., not a good idea.

Foul

hi faro, assuming that i was the william you were referring to, it wasn`t that i was trying to keep under the radar, it was that i didn`t know the acaeum existed until 2 years ago. moreover i wasn`t an ebay fan, as i didn`t want to buy things i couldn`t see personally. so i was just going about my collecting business going to the gencon auctions for 27 years until i found out about this great assemblage. to answer your other question, i do have my collection on an excel spreadsheet. there are about 5000 different frp items listed (just paper products no minis )and about 1900 different magazines. i have a few thousand doubles all told (i`m sorting through them now). my wife and i just bought a house and we had 30 ft by 9 ft bookshelves built so everything can come out of the 230 legal boxes where everything has been stored. as soon as we are a little more organized i`ll send some pictures in. (as cool as it looks to me it`s still not half as cool as i.o.`s lair).

stratochamp wrote:hi faro, assuming that i was the william you were referring to, it wasn`t that i was trying to keep under the radar, it was that i didn`t know the acaeum existed until 2 years ago. moreover i wasn`t an ebay fan, as i didn`t want to buy things i couldn`t see personally. so i was just going about my collecting business going to the gencon auctions for 27 years until i found out about this great assemblage. to answer your other question, i do have my collection on an excel spreadsheet. there are about 5000 different frp items listed (just paper products no minis )and about 1900 different magazines. i have a few thousand doubles all told (i`m sorting through them now). my wife and i just bought a house and we had 30 ft by 9 ft bookshelves built so everything can come out of the 230 legal boxes where everything has been stored. as soon as we are a little more organized i`ll send some pictures in. (as cool as it looks to me it`s still not half as cool as i.o.`s lair).

Hi Bill

I imagine you will be at Gencon this year again, I look forward to the long friday night in about 6 or so months!!  See you there!!

thanks david (for multiple things). i`m very much looking forward to gencon, to meet you, to see the many mikes, blackmoor, gus, the burntwire brothers (hoping adrian makes it too) and any and all others from the acaeum including foul so that we could thank him face to face for the great site he has provided us. moreover tim kask was gracious enough to spend a goodly amount of time with mike (i.o. ) and i last year and he was a font of information (giving us amazing details about the copy of the dmg manuscript that mike outbid blackmoor and i on). and not to shortchange THE auctioneer, frank mentzer who has probably forgotten more about gaming than i know. it`s a great time, everybody should come....

improvstone wrote:

stratochamp wrote: it`s a great time, everybody should come....

Now if I can convince Rob to run a session who would like to join in ....?

Maybe its time to get organized.  Maybe a new "Gencon, It's about time?" thread is in order.

bclarkie wrote:
Maybe its time to get organized.  Maybe a new "Gencon, It's about time?" thread is in order.

I'll go this year if KingofPain will carry me piggyback from Dallas....

Mike B.

Badmike wrote:
I'll go this year if KingofPain will carry me piggyback from Dallas....

Mike B.

I won't carry you but I will give you a swift, kick-in-the-ass every mile or so.