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Top Stats gone weird

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  • 04-03-2009 12:44am
    #1
    Hermy
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    I've just noticed that the users with most posts all have strange names and 4294967295 posts each.:p What's going on there?:confused:
    It's funny looking but hopefully it's nothing sinister.

    Genealogy Forum Mod

    Post edited by Shield on


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    #2
    Terry
    Registered Users Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    I should be up there. I have 12 posts.

    You are not your post count.


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    #3
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,079 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    It's just Victor's alternate accounts.


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    #4
    hullaballoo
    Administrators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 18,727 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭hullaballoo


    4294967295 is the highest number you can get using 32 bits. 11111111111111111111111111111111 = 4294967295 and in hexidecimal: FFFFFFFF.

    This is the bit I don't really get, but for some reason when the integer becomes <0, 4294967295 is what comes up in the database query. For some reason, there's a database corruption that's giving those users a postcount of <0 which is showing us that number.

    tl;dr? The db is still b0rked.


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    #5
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    So internal affairs were in on it all along?


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    #6
    stevenmu
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,689 Mod ✭✭✭✭stevenmu


    hullaballoo wrote: »
    4294967295 is the highest number you can get using 32 bits. 11111111111111111111111111111111 = 4294967295 and in hexidecimal: FFFFFFFF.

    This is the bit I don't really get, but for some reason when the integer becomes <0, 4294967295 is what comes up in the database query. For some reason, there's a database corruption that's giving those users a postcount of <0 which is showing us that number.

    tl;dr? The db is still b0rked.
    I might have posted this before, but I suspect that the tools used for nuking a user's posts, subtract 1 for every post it nukes. If a users has posts in a forum that doesn't have post count enabled, when their posts are nuked they get subtracted from the post count anyway leading to a <0 number.


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    #7
    5starpool
    Subscribers Posts: 32,855 ✭✭✭✭5starpool


    The US government has not ruled out the possibility of terrorist involvement in this sinister development.

    State department spokesman John TinFoil said: "Those Al Queda guys come up with new ways to terrorise Americans ever day. Who knows if they did this just to confuse the 14 Americans who use this site regularly. It is a test run I thinks, and google is next. God help us all".


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    #8
    Hermy
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    Well so long as it's only terrorists...

    Genealogy Forum Mod



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    #9
    Esel
    Registered Users Posts: 22,317 ✭✭✭✭Esel


    The stats are in bits! :D

    Not your ornery onager



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