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Gus Question

#1 Post by TheConfessor » Wed Nov 28, 2007 11:52 am

What number was everyone chasing this morning? I just went to the home page and it shows about 14,640 for the main forum and a total of 14,494 for the total site (adding the four forums together). I surmise that BobJuch "won" the chase, but I don't get how he won, assuming that everyone was chasing after post #15,000. I've never chased a gus, so maybe I'm just confused about the objective.
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#2 Post by tlynn78 » Wed Nov 28, 2007 11:57 am

I also have a gus question.



never mind.


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#3 Post by TheConfessor » Wed Nov 28, 2007 12:09 pm

According to the counter on the home page, post #15000 was Marley's post in the thread about Timsterino's birthday.
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#4 Post by peacock2121 » Wed Nov 28, 2007 12:26 pm

Got me.

"They" said the post number was whatever showed up dwon there when you hovered over the quote thingie.

That is all I know.
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#5 Post by peacock2121 » Wed Nov 28, 2007 12:26 pm

Oh - it would also be very cool if marley got it in the end.

Really cool.
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#6 Post by silvercamaro » Wed Nov 28, 2007 12:28 pm

peacock2121 wrote:Oh - it would also be very cool if marley got it in the end.

Really cool.
No, it wouldn't! That would mean he got it on a response to my post, and I would have missed it by one.

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#7 Post by peacock2121 » Wed Nov 28, 2007 12:31 pm

silvercamaro wrote:
peacock2121 wrote:Oh - it would also be very cool if marley got it in the end.

Really cool.
No, it wouldn't! That would mean he got it on a response to my post, and I would have missed it by one.

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That would be horrible!
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#8 Post by silvercamaro » Wed Nov 28, 2007 12:45 pm

peacock2121 wrote:
That would be horrible!
Darn right. :mrgreen:
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#9 Post by MarleysGh0st » Wed Nov 28, 2007 12:47 pm

TheConfessor wrote:According to the counter on the home page, post #15000 was Marley's post in the thread about Timsterino's birthday.
I don't think the Bored Historian will give me credit for that.

PHP's post count, which we see in the "Quote" URLs when chasing a gus, counts messages that were posted and then deleted. I don't think those posts are included in the summary displayed on the Bored index; hence, the discrepancy.
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#10 Post by littlebeast13 » Wed Nov 28, 2007 9:12 pm

MarleysGh0st wrote:
TheConfessor wrote:According to the counter on the home page, post #15000 was Marley's post in the thread about Timsterino's birthday.
I don't think the Bored Historian will give me credit for that.

PHP's post count, which we see in the "Quote" URLs when chasing a gus, counts messages that were posted and then deleted. I don't think those posts are included in the summary displayed on the Bored index; hence, the discrepancy.

Marley is correct. The counter shown on the index does not count the deleted posts, therefore is inaccurate...

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