[Jack Simth]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
um...i must be missing something here. my link in my sig works fine, it brings me right to the first post. are you saying that when it gets another page it'll go to page two?

No, I'm talking about when you link to a page in the middle of a thread with a post you want to view. The link doesn't change; however, the page numbering on the Boards runs a little oddly. Page 1 always contains the 15 most recent Posts, unless there are less then 15 Posts. Page 2 always contains the next 15 most recent Posts, unless there are less than 30 Posts, and so on. The higest numbered page (3 for this thread as I type, 8 for the one we are doing the roleplay in) has the post that started the thread. Linking to the section of The Misadventures of the Missed Adventurers where we were going over how to summon a griffin, for example, requires changing the link every so often so that it continues to point to the intended post. If that doesn't happen, it ceases to point to the post after several more Posts have occured.

The link in your signiture actually brings you to the most recent post, which is the Last post, not the first, as do my bookmarks. Try bookmarking, say, the post that started the nonsense thread, wait a week, and then load the page from the bookmark. Chances are the post won't be attached to the bookmark anymore; it will point a few pages after that post.