Posting for one of our most valued members

[IRonMaN]

Thanks for the bail money.  If you ever end up in the slammer, I’ll do the same for you!

[IRonMaN]

Not that it really matters, but you know my curiosity sometimes gets the best of me.  At one point there were well over 100 plus thumbs up for this post, now there are 75 showing.  Is there a thumb stealer lurking out there?  Is someone building another Frankenstein and they need extra thumbs in case some of them start falling off due to poor quality control procedures?

[IRonMaN]

Actually another handful of thumbs disappeared between the time I started to post and finished.

[Camp1040]

You may have to reboot and repair your software, you've been infiltrated!

[PATAX]

@IRonMaN I believe that is a technical procedure that happens when a thread goes beyond one page. I noticed this before on another thread that was multiple pages. I think it's just something that happens automatically, a technical procedure.

[IRonMaN]

So are you saying that if there are too many numbers Intuit can't add? 😜

[IRonMaN]

It looks like when you get to page 2, the thumb calculator starts subtracting thumbs in the order posted for each new post that is added.

[PATAX]

@IRonMaN I tried to figure it out on that other thread, but I couldn't. That was the thread on the EFTPS multi-factor authentication about a year ago.

[IRonMaN]

Yeah, evidently the thumb scorer is only capable of handling one page at a time so it just keeps track of the equivalent of the last "page" of posts and starts dropping off older posts in FIFO order.

[abctax55]

I would have guessed 'my' posts were the ones losing the votes (since I'm sure I have the most on this thread and wouldn't have been surprised if some were deleted by the PTB) but my overall total for the week is the same.   This is good; I can buy a lot more lumps of coal for certain folks.

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I've noticed the getting to page 2 etc on long threads "sometimes" doesn't work & has been an issue for a while.  Progress?

[Skylane]

WARNING!!!!!     

BEWARE OF THUMB STEALING TECHNO-BOTS!

[qbteachmt]

"getting to page 2 etc on long threads doesn't work"

But you got here!

[abctax55]

@qbteachmt 

Page 2, etc is the earliest posts, not the current posts.  At least the way I have mine set up to sort.

So yes, I can see your post - often I can't get to the original post if the thread is long.

YMMV

[sjrcpa]

expect US to handle the vast majority of the questions, maybe they need to reconsider their dictatorial actions.

Do you feel that it is really an expectation on their part?

@Strongsilence-CPA  Yes.

Numerous posters here say that Support told them to come here.

[abctax55]

And, when we point out we are volunteers, fellow software users without any powers to 'fix' issues we get push back.

   "They" told me to post my question/problem/issue here !  

[Taxes-by-Rocky]

IRonMaN,

Good to see your back from vacation, hope it was a pleasant stay!

We knew they couldn't live without you!!

[IRonMaN]

Actually, I prefer trips to the principal’s office, but I survived 😁