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Old Tue Nov 25, 2008, 04:35pm
mick mick is offline
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Originally Posted by JugglingReferee View Post
Here's what I think happened:

A user was created with a certain username that reflected on someone that use to post in the baseball section.

Someone with admin powers manually altered that user's record to show a whole mountain of posts. Why that number happened to be eerily similar to 2^32, I dunno. Possibly it was to test what happens on a variable overflow.

That user was deleted when my thread showed up.
Two for his heels.
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