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[unconvinced]

Originally Posted by YellowRose

I have the cloaking device but I know that 'they' can still see me

Try wearing a tin foil hat

[anabel]

To browse the forums without being seen, just don't log in.

[Vig]

Why isn't the quick reply to a thread, considered as a post? Since I don't have access to Wi-Fi connectivity in the area, I tend to use this way of posting since it takes lesser time. My posts are seldom small. The number of posts would have easily surpassed hundred if these are considered. Can you rectify this?

[8m57w6]

Originally Posted by vigneshnimbus

Why isn't the quick reply to a thread, considered as a post? Since I don't have access to Wi-Fi connectivity in the area, I tend to use this way of posting since it takes lesser time. My posts are seldom small. The number of posts would have easily surpassed hundred if these are considered. Can you rectify this?

Quick Reply is considered a post, however, it's not whether you use quick reply versus advanced, it's where you post that matters. Post count is only on in certain areas, The Cloak, Wand, Stone, Muggle Studies, and The Leaky Cauldron for the time being. If you are posting out of these areas, then it won't add to your post count, no matter how long your post may be. Once all the new forums get settled, and the admins figure out what's staying, what's going, what's moving, etc., post count may be turned on in some of those areas as well. Hope this helps!!

[Kitunen]

I don't really know if this is the right thread to post this in, but I don't know where else it could go and I didn't think that it would merit its own thread.

I typed cosforums.com into a search engine and I found a link to this page: (edit).
I don't know if anyone knew about it or not, but I has statistics and demographics of the visitors to this forum. They even have charts of site traffic and stuff...you can even see the huge spike in the middle of the summer :P Apparently, "Addicts", or people with more than 30 page views here per month (30 page views, puh-lease :P), account for 55% of the total page hits. Out of the 20,267,997 sites that they have data on, CoS is ranked 162,157...not bad. :P There's a bunch of random statistics about the site there, I just thought it was interesting.

Edit: I took the link out because I realized that the rankings on the site have some...err..."tasteless" sites listed. I don't know if that means that I can't link to the site or not, since I didn't link to the rankings page, but I figured it'd be better to be safe than sorry :P The stats are still interseting anyways.

[8m57w6]

I found that site, too!! My favorite part is where it says

The typical visitor shops at Scholastic and frequents babynames.com.

All those fanfic writers trying to find names for their characters, I suppose!

The keywords are pretty great, too:

mugglenet
harry potter
severus snape
alan rickman
baby names

[Fawkesfan1]

Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but a friend of mine just joined the forums, but he still hasn't gotten his confirmation e-mail. What can he do to get one?

He's checked both his regular e-mail box and his spam one as well, and still no luck.

[Jessica]

Originally Posted by Fawkesfan1

Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but a friend of mine just joined the forums, but he still hasn't gotten his confirmation e-mail. What can he do to get one?

He's checked both his regular e-mail box and his spam one as well, and still no luck.

Owl me his user name and I'll look into it.

[Fawkesfan1]

Originally Posted by Jessica

Owl me his user name and I'll look into it.

Ok. Thanks .

[Grymmditch]

Why is my post count going down?
I had 201 posts yesterday. I noticed that, posting in the "Ask Snape" thread last night and this morning did not add to the post count. (So I just figured for some reason posts didn't count there.)
Then I made a post in a different area (Cloak, I think) a few minutes ago, and now my post count says 200..?
I've received no owls or anything, and made no objectionable posts.

[gertiekeddle]

It's probably not your fault. Sometimes we prun older threads that went inactive for some months. On such occasions many posts get lost.

Also closed threads get deleted after 24 hours, if they're for instance duplicate threads of a topic and so don't get into the archives. If you posted in one of those, your posts probably is gone. Hope that explains it.

[Grymmditch]

Aww poo. I didn't know I could lose posts that way.
Thanks.

BTW, the "ask so and so" area (Quibbler) counts for posts, doesn't it?

[Hes]

No they don't count. The Quibbler is a fun/games area.

You can see at the Hogsmeade Review Guidelines which areas do count

[Texan_Harry]

Hey, so, can you mod types take a look at what we have goin on in the Gryffindor Common Room and come up with some stuff re: prefects for houses?

[Jessica]

If houses want to elect internal head boys and girls that's fine but as far as staff are concerned they'll remain normal members. We don't want non-staff modding the forums at large.

[Grymmditch]

Originally Posted by Hes

No they don't count. The Quibbler is a fun/games area.

You can see at the Hogsmeade Review Guidelines which areas do count

The Quibbler says:
"A place for all members to discuss individual characters. New characters will be added every month so check back often!"
It didn't say "Post Count Off" there like it does for Flourish and Blotts and Magical Masterpieces - that threw me.
Also, it's not under the "Games" section - it's it's own section. (?)

If post count is off for a forum or subforum or whatever you call it, it'd really help if it was clearly labeled as such, but thanks for the link! I'll check that out again.

[Texan_Harry]

I agree with this guy. I've been on for a while and have been really active (apart from that one time where I- shall we say- took a sabbatical?), yet I've only got about 25 posts that count.

[Grymmditch]

Weeell, I'm not asking them to change their rules, per se, only, label things a little plainer, maybe.
(Although personally I think the Quibbler section should count... )

[Montse]

My little girl is quite pleased to be part of all this. You have been very nice to allow her to do so. Not only is she motivated to keep reading, she is practicing her English and she is using the computer.
How can this combo get any better?

Thanks a bunch!!