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Victor · 2005-11-22 01:40:36

I've noticed recently that thread / post ID numbers have been numbered very high. Whats the story? http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054852662

22-11-2005 1:40am

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Victor

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I've noticed recently that thread / post ID numbers have been numbered very high. Whats the story?

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054852662

Post edited by Shield on December 2021

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#2 22-11-2005 1:43am

Laguna

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Wotcha mean?, that more threads exist nowadays?... maybe there's replication going on due to Boards.ie being spread across two servers?..

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#3 22-11-2005 1:54am

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Sorry, what do you mean exactly?

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#4 22-11-2005 2:03am

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See the '2054852662' in the URL... i presume that's what Victor means!

To clarify, the actual post / thread ID's are high!

This thread's ID being http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=50418161

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#5 22-11-2005 2:06am

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This thread is http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054852943

4.5 month old thread http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=274473

2054852943 is an awful lot bigger than 274473. I don't spam that much. Even between us we don't.

Its also much bigger than http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/index.php
boards.ie/vbulletin Statistics
Threads: 309,883,
Posts: 3,544,076,
Members: 51,486

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#6 22-11-2005 8:52am

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Yeah, bit of DB corruption a while back caused that. Its no big deal, and we can fix it.

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#7 22-11-2005 9:19am

GoneShootin

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Regi wrote:

and we can fix it.

we have the technology, we have the power!!

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#8 22-11-2005 9:25am

steveland?

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But we don't want to spend a lot of money...

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#9 23-11-2005 12:05pm

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steveland? wrote:

But we don't want to spend a lot of money...

Ah the eternal motto of boards.ie

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#10 24-11-2005 5:54pm

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i notice this happened on my forum when i duplicated forums and threads and users by accident.

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#11 24-11-2005 6:15pm

D

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Victor wrote:

Even between us we don't.

Wait, you mean there is more than one person using that account? No wonder your post count is so high!

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#12 24-11-2005 6:19pm

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D wrote:

Wait, you mean there is more than one person using that account? No wonder your post count is so high!

Tar.Aldarion
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#13 24-11-2005 6:24pm

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Every now and then I look at victors post count and go, bah scary.

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#14 24-11-2005 6:28pm

Victor

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But if you merged all you accounts.....

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#15 24-11-2005 7:07pm

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I think we should turn this into a thread about Victors ridiculously high postcount.

So Victor, whats the deal, eh?

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#16 24-11-2005 7:16pm

D

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Victor wrote:

Tar.Aldarion
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Yeah but everyone knows that Tar has no life outside of boards (jk).

BUt seriously is it you and the missus and also Tar is it you and the missus?

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#17 24-11-2005 7:46pm

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CuLT wrote:

I think we should turn this into a thread about Victors ridiculously high postcount.

So Victor, whats the deal, eh?

Victor has been a member for 59 months. that works out at 364 posts a month
Tar has been a member for 12 months. that works out at 611 posts a month...

how about we turn it into a "STFU! Tar" thread:)

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#18 24-11-2005 7:55pm

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CuLT wrote:

I think we should turn this into a thread about Victors ridiculously high postcount.

Off topic. Banned.

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#19 24-11-2005 7:57pm

D

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No if ever there needed to be a stfu thread it would need to be about shrimp or maybe pighead, but for different reasons.

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