@MadPoet (MadPoet) posted a new topic, subject "What a strange thing...". It read:

   I was at 497 posts a bit before I left work.  
    I posted twice then posted a message that basicly said yay me, 500 posts, blah blah blah.  
    I came home, played Pyroto, came on here… and was at 497 posts. My 3 posts were missing.  
    Now I'm at 500 again, but the posts still exhibit total existance failure, and I haven't posted.  
    Odd… odd…  
    Better luck at 1000 I guess.
    
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    http://www.madpoet.com  
    I am human, and I need to be loved  
    Just like anybody else does

To which @ultress (ultress) replied

    Congrats on your 500th…
    
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    ** _Sigh_. So many men, so few who can afford me ** _Original by Wally_
    
    _I've learned that if someone says something unkind about me, I must live so that no one will believe it._

@UncleBeer (UncleBeer) replied

    MadPoet, the explanation for your missing posts is in this thread. Read the message from [urel=http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum2/HTML/000957.html]TubaDiva. Some of the older threads are being archived and apparently posts in archived threads don't show in your total.
    
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    I'm _still_ on Wally's shitlist.

To which @UncleBeer (UncleBeer) replied

    Ugh. Click here. Crap.

So @MadPoet (MadPoet) replied

    Bummer… so they deleted my 500th post celebration post. Sniff.

Then @SmoothOperator (SmoothOperator) said

    There, there :pats MadPoet on the back sympathetically: you still have 500 posts. Cheer up we still love you!  You'll have 1000 in no time.


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