Why Have You Disabled Experience Points?

[StreamOfTheSky]

Posts currently date back to Jan 2002. I thought the rollback happened in 2003. I could be mistaken, though.

I recall a rollback of posts myself, I'm pretty sure it affected me, though not much since I was fairly new when it happened.

Then again, I lurked on here for almost a full year before actually joining, so I could be remembering simply reading about it happening. Something in the 2005 range sounds about right to me, though.

 

[stonegod]

There may have been one in pre-2005, but I joined 2005 and there was a big board crash (DB-backup) and everything in the 2006-2007 timeframe. Lost a lot of PBP posts.

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

By "a few years ago" you mean about seven years ago"!

I'm not old, honest. Seven years ago sounds about right, actually. That's kind of scary.

 

[Mark]

I recall a rollback of posts myself, I'm pretty sure it affected me, though not much since I was fairly new when it happened.

There were several posters who were hit so hard they couldn't make the margin call. They are still posting in negative space to get out of the hole.

 

[TheYeti1775]

Posts currently date back to Jan 2002. I thought the rollback happened in 2003. I could be mistaken, though.

I think the rollback happened after I got here (seeing as how I'm pretty certain I was affected)... so, 2005 is more likely.

There have been a couple. The 2005 one was the one that affected myself.
02/03 was the changeover year from Noah to EnWorld.

I remember there was a huge uproar over the '05 one.

 

[Piratecat]

02/03 was the changeover year from Noah to EnWorld.

Nope. I buy the '05 date when we lost so many posts - good correction - but I believe Eric turned the site over to Morrus almost exactly one year after 3e launched. That would put it as summer of '01.

 

[LightPhoenix]

Nope. I buy the '05 date when we lost so many posts - good correction - but I believe Eric turned the site over to Morrus almost exactly one year after 3e launched. That would put it as summer of '01.

Indeed. 2002 was the year the site switched to vBulletin. That's why many of the posters who have been on the site since Eric's days have a join date of early 2002. I think the vB boards went live in late-January/early-February, if memory serves me correctly.

(EDIT: Changed for clarity that I was agreeing with PCat, not being contradictory)

 

[Jdvn1]

You geezers.

 

[Lanefan]

Question:

If someone has XP disabled and earns XP anyway, then later re-enables XP, do all the points earned while XP was disabled suddenly show up in a great big batch, or are they lost?

Lanefan

 

[Jdvn1]

Question:

If someone has XP disabled and earns XP anyway, then later re-enables XP, do all the points earned while XP was disabled suddenly show up in a great big batch, or are they lost?

Lanefan

I'm fairly certain the XP is always tallied--even for people who have disabled XP--but the system just doesn't show the results if it's disabled. So, when enabled again, it merely shows the total it's been tallying.