Seemingly random reply counts?

I just looked at Nodes To Consider, and it told me that Use of uninitialized value in string eq had 9 replies. Now I can only find 6 replies there, and although my counting skills aren't usually very good, I can occasionally tell the difference between 6 and 9.

I also think I saw similar differences in SoPW, and the reply count is never lower than the visible replies, always the same or higher.

Is this a known bug, and going to be fixed? Or is it an unexpectedly large number of reaped nodes that causes this difference?

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Re: Seemingly random reply counts? by syphilis (Archbishop) on Sep 22, 2008 at 12:42 UTC
I can occasionally tell the difference between 6 and 9 Q: What's the difference between 6 and 9 ? A: 180 degrees. Cheers, Rob	[reply]
Re^2: Seemingly random reply counts? by moritz (Cardinal) on Sep 22, 2008 at 12:50 UTC
Uhm, on my clock that's only 90 degrees... ;-)	[reply]
Re^3: Seemingly random reply counts? by syphilis (Archbishop) on Sep 22, 2008 at 13:01 UTC
Uhm, on my clock that's only 90 degrees... ;-) Hmmmm ... probably depends upon whether we're talking Celsius or Fahrenheit :-) Cheers, Rob	[reply]
Re^2: Seemingly random reply counts? by jdporter (Paladin) on Sep 22, 2008 at 14:24 UTC
But if 6 was 9, there would be no difference.	[reply]
Re^3: Seemingly random reply counts? by ruzam (Curate) on Sep 23, 2008 at 02:29 UTC
A 6 dressed up as a 9? You're only wasting my time...	[reply]
Re^2: Seemingly random reply counts? by missingthepoint (Friar) on Sep 22, 2008 at 12:45 UTC
Or 3141 fathom-furlongs; it depends on the meaning of '6' and '9' :P email: perl -e 'print reverse map { chr( ord($_)-1 ) } split //, "\x0bufo/hojsfufqAofc";'	[reply]
Re: Seemingly random reply counts? by holli (Abbot) on Sep 22, 2008 at 12:57 UTC
See Discrepancies in the number of replies. holli, /regexed monk/	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Seemingly random reply counts? by missingthepoint (Friar) on Sep 22, 2008 at 12:17 UTC
... the reply count is never lower than the visible replies, always the same or higher. ... unless you're viewing as an anonymonk? I was viewing the front page and the thread about Net::FTPServer showed 3 replies (at that time there were 7). Weird. email: perl -e 'print reverse map { chr( ord($_)-1 ) } split //, "\x0bufo/hojsfufqAofc";'	[reply]
Re: Seemingly random reply counts? by jwkrahn (Abbot) on Sep 22, 2008 at 17:13 UTC
the difference between 6 and 9 Reminds me of one of my favourite songs.	[reply]