- Harlow
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- Fabled Legendary Member
While looking back on some old posts in a group of mine, something came to my attention.
I'm sure you all recall this stats sheet posted when the Halo stats were moved from Bungie.net. May I direct your attention to the red section about 3/4 of the way down the page, archiving Bungie.net related stats. The post count at this time (end of March) is just over 49 million. Obviously this is two months later, so that number has no doubt gone up slightly.
But check my post screen out. This number gives a numerical tag to each post you make, allowing you to link to specific posts, as I'm sure you all know. Some posts are deleted, obviously, meaning if you typed the url with the ID number for that specific deleted post, you would go to an error screen and not be able to read said post (it's gone, after all). Other posts are in groups, meaning that unless you were in the group itself, you couldn't go directly to the post. All public and private forums have counted towards this number. There was actually a thread about us reaching 70,000,000 posts (based on the post ID tags in the url) on the Septagon a few weeks back.
That number in the url of my create post page is 72,278,151, not the 49,000,000 on the stats page linked a minute ago. And while this site is still respectively active, we've lost a significant amount of activity in the last year or so due to the darkness. There hasn't been more than 20 million posts in 6 weeks, people.
Where did these "ghost posts" go? Did whoever construct the stat sheet just not include deleted posts, leaving old forums like Optimatch entirely uncounted? Did he not include private groups? If that's the case, then how in the hell has the private group community amassed more than 20 million posts when even the most massive of private communities have yet to reach 1 million posts? (I have a private group post count script, in case you're wondering how I know that.) Help me out here.