Member Since.... Date

[OneFinger]

This isn't an earth-shattering question but I'm curious. My "Member Since" date now shows as "Aug 23rd 2005" even though I've been around for much longer.

 

I recently had another member ask what my other screen name was since I told him I had been around for a while. Since this is my original name, how did the date change?

 

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"We need to have more respect for each other. Things have just gone really crazy, out of control. ... We're on a very weird kind of cycle." Stevie Wonder

[+ deej]

Probably just a goof-up (that's the techie term) in the database. It does that sometimes.

 

Also, the DCForum software does screwy things sometimes. This could be a bug in the current release that may correct itself with a later release.

 

Out of curiosity, do you remember the actual date it used to display? Might make reporting the bug easier to have specifics.

[Steven_Draker]

>Probably just a goof-up (that's the techie term) in the database.

 

Or probably his "membership" has been reset on Aug 24th 2005.

[OneFinger]

>Out of curiosity, do you remember the actual date it used to display? Might make reporting the bug easier to have specifics.

 

Can't recall what date it showed before. But, the date on my registration e-mail from HooBoy was July 23, 2001 and my first post was August 21, 2001.

 

But, Steven may also have stumbled on a possible explanation. Around August of last year I believe there was quite a pissing contest going on in the MC. Perhaps my membership was reset during that period. I know I wrote some messages around that time that probably shouldn't have been posted. Thank goodness that period is behind us.

 

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"We need to have more respect for each other. Things have just gone really crazy, out of control. ... We're on a very weird kind of cycle." Stevie Wonder

[+ deej]

>But, Steven may also have stumbled on a possible explanation.

 

Maybe. Maybe not. I don't remember your name in any particular kerfuffle. But there HAVE been a couple of database burps in that timeframe. Databases can do the most amazing things when they burp, none of them pleasant.

 

>Thank goodness that period is behind us.

 

You'll get no disagreement here.

[Bilbo]

Take heart. There are those of us who don't have that date right on our stats because we were here before the software in question was. Just look on it as giving you an ice breaker in conversations?

[jackhammer91406]

My date is also off by three years but that is due to my leaving and returning. No fault of the software or admin.