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(2019-07-26, 01:16 AM)tim Wrote: Post 24 where?
I'm guessing:
https://psiencequest.net/forums/thread-l...9#pid30499

Note: one of the quirks of the MyBB software used for this forum is that posts get renumbered sometimes.

It is best to use the full link to the post instead, I think we've found.
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Typoz Wrote:I'm guessing:
https://psiencequest.net/forums/thread-l...9#pid30499

Note: one of the quirks of the MyBB software used for this forum is that posts get renumbered sometimes.

It is best to use the full link to the post instead, I think we've found.

Hi, Typoz

That link just returns me to this thread
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(2019-07-26, 09:03 AM)tim Wrote: Hi, Typoz

That link just returns me to this thread

Yes, that's right. It is a link to a specific post in this thread. Of course if you scroll up or scroll down you may not be sure which post is intended. When you first click the link, it should start with one of your own posts at the top of the window.

Perhaps quoting from that thread may help:
(2019-07-25, 10:43 PM)tim Wrote: What was wrong with the original Skeptiko forum ?

However. I don't know whether this is the one referenced by the earlier comment, I am guessing, as I already said
Typoz Wrote:Yes, that's right. It is a link to a specific post in this thread. Of course if you scroll up or scroll down you may not be sure which post is intended. When you first click the link, it should start with one of your own posts at the top of the window.

Perhaps quoting from that thread may help:

However. I don't know whether this is the one referenced by the earlier comment, I am guessing, as I already said

That's Post 19. Wonder why did Steve 001 said post 24.
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(2019-07-26, 09:49 AM)tim Wrote: That's Post 19. Wonder why did Steve 001 said post 24.

Again, yes. As I said, it is one of the quirks of the forum software. Posts can be re-numbered under some circumstances. Usually somewhere earlier in the thread one or several posts have been deleted and this means the deleted post(s) may or may not be included in the post number.

I wish there was a simple solution, but it seems best to consider post numbers as unreliable and not use them as a means of identification.

(Laird may understand this more clearly than I do).
(2019-07-26, 09:57 AM)Typoz Wrote: Laird may understand this more clearly than I do

No, my understanding is the same as yours. There are five deleted posts in this thread. 19 plus 5 is 24.

Edit: What I don't understand though is why Steve001 is seeing 24 given that he's not an admin and thus that deleted posts shouldn't be part of his count.
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(2019-07-26, 10:09 AM)Laird Wrote: No, my understanding is the same as yours. There are five deleted posts in this thread. 19 plus 5 is 24.

Edit: What I don't understand though is why Steve001 is seeing 24 given that he's not an admin and thus that deleted posts shouldn't be part of his count.

You mean Steve001 hasn't been made a forum moderator? Wink

We don't know for certain which post Steve001 intended, it may not be 19/24. Perhaps he made a note of the number and then the posts were deleted afterwards.
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(2019-07-26, 10:17 AM)Typoz Wrote: We don't know for certain which post Steve001 intended, it may not be 19/24.

I suppose that's possible, but the post in question certainly fits his intent.

(2019-07-26, 10:17 AM)Typoz Wrote: Perhaps he made a note of the number and then the posts were deleted afterwards.

That doesn't seem possible: at least one of the posts was deleted before he tim's post (19/24) was even posted (I know because it was mine).

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(2019-07-26, 10:17 AM)Typoz Wrote: You mean Steve001 hasn't been made a forum moderator?

He moderates us in his own way.
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