You're welcome
There is one other thing I can offer. If any of the original members of the Olly forum want, I can associate all of their former posts with their current user name and update their post count to reflect that. Then they can carry on posting as if nothing happened. The original posts and usernames from the olly forums will then be totally incorporated into our own existing database.
I did not import ANY of the user info from the original olly DB because there were 2386 members dating back to 2002, most were inactive or didn't match our existing user info database, it made no sense to do so and would have been a mess.
I can do this for those who wish, but I would like to do this as a
one time offer only, because of the work involved. I have to first do an SQL query to get the current userid for each member already registered with us, then I have to execute an SQL command to associate that userid with the old Olly forum member name. Then, and this is the main reason I want to do this only once, I have to update a bunch of counters on the entire database - threads, posts, post count, similar threads and search/word indexes at the minimum. This is a server intensive operation and I don't want to be repeating it piecemeal for everyone.
All I require is a request to do so by PM, or a "Yo" in this thread, and reasonable proof/assurance you are who you say you are. If your "Olly" username was different from the nickname you are now using on our forums, that is OK, I can associate the two, but I better have proof of that fact (i.e. your original email address under which you registered at the Olly forums). You ain't going to be able to fool me
To that end, here are the top posters from the original olly forums and their post count. If you see your name here and wish to update those posts with your current name, let me know. I will let this go for at least a week or two to get everybody's answer and maybe copy this thread to the olly forum itself so everyone can see it. If you know anyone who might be interested in this, let them know.
Offers of beer will be considered suitable payment for this service
Sound like a plan?
Ricardo Narvaja 445
oh me anon 368
psyCK0 319
Teerayoot 170
... 130 focht
... 122 1bitshort
... 113 ricnar456
... 105 Epsylon3
... 90 nick_name
... 78 Lord_Looser
... 65 yaa
... 62 joe
... 61 shERis
... 60 loveboom
... 52 mr haggar
... 50 xcracx
... 49 hosiminh
... 46 arjuns
... 45 JDog45
... 41 Bob
... 41 Gigapede
... 38 Wayne
... 37 comrade
... 37 5aLIVE
... 35 sgdt
... 35 helloword
... 32 kittmaster
... 30 homunculus
... 29 rama711
... 28 Pompeyfan
... 27 EsseEmme
... 26 decoded
... 26 TQN
... 25 yahia
... 22 luucorp
... 21 garryw
... 21 casterle
... 20 Tacman
... 20 mcnorth
... 20 j_petrucci
Kayaker
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After all, how would we know it REALLY was your mom???