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notaspammerSame here. Lost 35 for "orphaned comments." Did you guys remove the banana points from comments on deleted threads or something?

I think they did. Needless to say, I'm very sad about this. I'll never make Senior Gorilla at this rate.

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notaspammerSame here. Lost 35 for "orphaned comments." Did you guys remove the banana points from comments on deleted threads or something?

I think they did. Needless to say, I'm very sad about this. I'll never make Senior Gorilla at this rate.

me too! I was five banana points away before =/

 

Lost 201...that's 10%......what is this the Cathedral of WSO?

"Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, for knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind. And greed, you mark my words, will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the USA."
 

And thats all I have to say about that.

“...all truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” - Schopenhauer
 

Down 50 :( This has been a sad day.

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happypantsmcgeeAll of you shut up.

Lost 761.

+/- 700 here

How do I get the exact count?

Click on UFOinsider in the upper right hand corner then click on your banana count. Will give you the detail.

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ha, hey guys...sorry I didn't give you a heads up. here is what I wrote to some of you who PM'd me:

we ran a script on the database that made sure any orphaned comments for threads that had been deleted were also removed. This was put in place so that when/if someone runs a script to artificially inflate their banana count, they are not left with those bananas. So a lot of people lost bananas today (some of the super users lost hundreds and TNA, for example lost over 1,000)....this is a function of them participating in threads that got deleted (controversial), but the main point wasnt to punish anybody but to close this loophole.

Thanks, Patrick

Don't worry, we expect QE x infinity to continue over here on WSO as well...WSO Credits are being injected into the system daily and I'm sure most of you will recover very quickly. also, if you have been around for a while you likely lost more as well since more threads in the past were deleted whereas now we just unpublish them for our records.

Thanks, Patrick

 

i put a lot of time into my banana points..and now it all feels wasted. i feel used and empty

I eat success for breakfast...with skim milk
 

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