Vanished post count

Have I been born again? All those terribly important posts, unaccounted for.

I don't really care- heck, it's kinda nice being a newbie again- but it does make me wonder if some virtual monkey wrench hasn't been thrown into the virtual machinery.

No, I stoled your posts, and sold the whole lot on eBay for $.50 a pop.

James Lee wrote: Most of them were worth much less...I just hope you hung on to the ones that were in their original packaging.

I even have some NRFB (never removed from box) posts autographed by Rodney James Dio!

Who is this new guy "James Lee" who thinks we already know him?

Yeah, but each of those posts is a gem...

...as if children, I could hardly bear to part with each one. Loving phrases and letters that sprung forth from my keyboard like the veritable Aphrodite from the foam...every word delicately chosen like the choicest grapes from the ripe vine, every punctuation mark dotted with Polyhymnia's own pencil. Bitter tears were wept and keen sorrows suffered as I uttered those heartbreaking words: "Post Reply".

Take heed of me, good men and women of Prog; just as you are, so once was I...as a god among men I walked, fearing no man alive whilst I proudly bore the glittering herald of my post count. Now all is ashes and ruin, and I creep along the scorched earth of my fallen glory, amongst trolls and n00bz and other such unclean spirits.

Oh cruel fortune! Oh wicked fate! Should not the very html tags themselves not rise to mourn? Where are the black-garbed women to tear their hair and rend their garments asunder? Naked of posts unto this world I came, and naked shall I vanish into the respite of oblivion.