What do "purple blocked-out" posts in one's history mean?

[Wayfare]

I saw them on Ray Zee's and Fossilman's history, so I assumed they were for poobah's or vip's, but then I saw them in siriusradio's posts, and I know from reading just a couple that he is neither of those.

Example: Example! (http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/dosearch.php?Cat=&Forum=All_Forums&Name=20583&Sear chpage=0&Limit=25&)

I am very curious.

[daryn]

you could be shot for asking these questions.

shhhhh.

[mmbt0ne]

Banination and total memory sweep in t-minus 5 minutes.

[stabn]

It's trying to load an ad-bar and failing.

[daryn]

ok this is clearly wrong

[mmbt0ne]

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ok this is clearly wrong

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Definitely. I see plenty of people who don't have a 'banner' loading over their post histories.

[stabn]

Shrug, i'm bored.

[ThaSaltCracka]

[ QUOTE ]
I saw them on Ray Zee's and Fossilman's history, so I assumed they were for poobah's or vip's, but then I saw them in siriusradio's posts, and I know from reading just a couple that he is neither of those.

Example: Example! (http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/dosearch.php?Cat=&amp;Forum=All_Forums&amp;Name=20583&amp;Sear chpage=0&amp;Limit=25&amp;)

I am very curious.

[/ QUOTE ]

One you get more than 5k post, those become visible to you.

[Wayfare]

What? I doubt it...someone must have knowledge of this considering the copious amount of useless information swapped every minute on OOT!

[Wayfare]

So why does siriusradio have them?

[daryn]

i suspect they are the remnants of deleted posts, or posts before the archiving process.

[ThaSaltCracka]

[ QUOTE ]
So why does siriusradio have them?

[/ QUOTE ]you misunderstood what I said.

[stabn]

You might be right. It does look like some kind of DB corruption.

We see: &lt;{a} href="http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/postlist.php?Cat=&amp;amp;Board="{}&gt;

In the source for these lines. Notice that there's no board name, user name, etc for the purple entries.