Thanks: 4,294,967,295 wtf?
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SmileAtmyWins
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Hahaha nice smiley thing, whats up with the billions of thanks?
michaelnagy
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it's really not good...i hope this get fixed soon
voyevoda
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http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=(2+**+32)+-+1&aq=f&aqi=h1&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
The database column that holds a user's "thanks" count supports a number between 0 and 4,294,967,295. In computer science terms, it's a 32-bit unsigned integer. If you're at 0 and a "thanks" is removed for some reason, the number will go from 0 to 4,294,967,295 instead of -1.
What probably happened is that a certain condition occurred (e.g., a user deleted their own post, an entire thread was deleted, a user was banned, etc.) that caused his received "thanks" count to be decremented multiple times for a single post of his. Since I see this all over other VBulletin forums, too, I'm assuming it's a coding error in VBulletin or whichever plugin provides the "thanks" capability.
The database column that holds a user's "thanks" count supports a number between 0 and 4,294,967,295. In computer science terms, it's a 32-bit unsigned integer. If you're at 0 and a "thanks" is removed for some reason, the number will go from 0 to 4,294,967,295 instead of -1.
What probably happened is that a certain condition occurred (e.g., a user deleted their own post, an entire thread was deleted, a user was banned, etc.) that caused his received "thanks" count to be decremented multiple times for a single post of his. Since I see this all over other VBulletin forums, too, I'm assuming it's a coding error in VBulletin or whichever plugin provides the "thanks" capability.
tacopalypse
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so then if u thanked some more people, wouldn't that reset it back to 0?
voyevoda
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It should, yes, and he should probably do that to avoid undesirable situations like this.
TheMasterOfMoney
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hahahaha, this could be geek humor....
stackbread123
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Its a error from Vbulletin
voyevoda
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Maybe the integer underflow/overflow only works one way. Without access to the code that's doing the thanking, I can only speculate.
Atlusphere
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I won't lie, I feel kinda cool.
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