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A few minutes ago it was showing my post count and suddenly now showing "leet" instead of post counts.
Is this an error or something else?


https://i.imgur.com/UXcFaSu.png


edit: haha, its normal now after creating this topic.

It means "elite", I think it's one of the ancient memes on the internet. I remember ages ago when I played videogames online, saying that you were "1337" meant that you were really good, and it is in ASCII code, "1337" = "leet" = "elite". It's just a really geeky homage to that by theymos as far as I know, or maybe it came like that by default in forum software.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet

Cool! upon reaching 1337 posts you'd be branded as "leet", and you got a screenshot for it. I bet most high rank did not see this (not that it's important), hope i wont forget this when the time comes.

It's a kind of joke from SMF forum script the dev. added, when a user made 1337 posts instead to display 1337 you will see leet or l33t
it came like that by default. And @BillyBobZorton is right, it's a meme at least 30 years old

That's a nice thing by Theymos.
If I knew it then I would not have posted the op to make my post count to 1338 for at least 1 day.  :D

It was awesome to stay at 1337 = leet for 1 day  ::) crap big mistake I made.  :(

But at least I kept a screenshot of this awesome thing.

It's not something done by Theymos it's from Simple Machines Forum simplemachines.org

Delete 3 posts, never post again and keep being leet forever 8)

I didn't notice this 'feature' when I hit 1337 posts and now I'm already at the 2270+ posts mark :(

Good idea...

let me delete 4 of my posts now and stay leet for 1 day... Forever is impossible I think...

edit: done  :D

LOL. WOW this is awesome. I hope I get to 1337 posts so I can get leet!
Congrats on so many posts 😅

This is not something that need to be concern about, and also it's not impact good or bad your account, yeah hope someday some people who get this would not be panic. This is something unique that need to be captured.

The history
https://www.google.co.id/amp/s/amp.kaskus.co.id/thread/51b9839038cb174c2a000007/sejarah-1337

Years later, the impact of The Dead Cow Cul has already changed into a subculture of jargon and language. People that claim as now is no longer a bad hacker but shows about their cleverness in technological industry.

Thanks for this post, because of which I knew beforehand why my post count became 1337 to leet !
Screenshot here :
https://i.imgur.com/fZ9IdsO.png https://i.imgur.com/pCPQeY1.png

At least I didn't forget it.

btw, my post count would not remain leet because of this post 👿 !

@apoorvlathey

Welcome to the ELITE / LEET club for a minute or so..  :D

@apoorvlathey
Just delete some old posts and you gonna enjoy it again :D

Of course that should be it then. And then remain stagnated for life.  ;D


In my life here I have noticed that twice on my profile. I thought it was a browser lag issue. But how come I got it twice in less than a month? Does it mean I made 1337 posts twice within that period?

leet = elite?

Aww! This should give Theymos an idea what rank to create next after Legendary.

It means your total post count was 1337 twice, so you must have had some posts lost when a thread got deleted.

Sorry for bumping this old topic but this is EPIC what I just found, double "leet"...
How cool is that ? :D
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=205277

image loading... (https://i.imgur.com/oVPViya.png)
https://i.imgur.com/oVPViya.png

Welcome me to the Team lol  8)

https://i.imgur.com/5TTmVRg.png

Sorry for bump "1337"

I've met my "leet"
https://i.ibb.co/F32PSRJ/99.png (https://ibb.co/PjKS7q4)


Thanks LoyceV (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=459836) :v

Grats on the status! I wonder if theymos would have reserved 31337 for eleet, provided anyone managed to reach that far!

Thanks to user Vod (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=30747) You can see the users with the most posts. Just check out BPiP (https://bpip.org/report.aspx?r=mostposts)

You'll see there are a couple users that have less that 10000 posts to go.

User philipma1957 may reach that eleet position at first followed by the people who were on the list,but it may take a while. :)
https://talkimg.com/images/2023/09/02/mue9N.png

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Our forum also has Statistics Center (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=stats) I hope which is up to date on most number of posts.

Wait till they see this thread, then they'll start scrambling to be the first :D

Or they just won't realize it if they don't check their stats after every post, if they post in several topics, they can easily miss it.
I have nearly missed it, but was really surprised when I had that 'leet' appear at my stats...

Don't forget to capture your "leet" status :D

Delete several posts until match to 1337 :v

Will do, still a long way to go though!

Check the numbers in Vitalik's profile.
I think it is interesting, so I thought to share with you guys.

https://i.imgur.com/wWKh67K.png

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Off-Topic Post - I'm posting in this thread "leet capture club" instead of creating a new thread.

Since you bumped up it today , so I think it is perfectly fine to post my "leet" status.

https://i.imgur.com/ap0dBNV.png?1


Hope, one day I become "leet"  IRL.

It looks like the "leet" status effect will only be seen on the post count, is it true?

I think ibminer (https://bpip.org/profile.aspx?p=ibminer) is the first one who has that kind of statistics on their profile. Though it's kinda weird but it's quite interesting, and not to mention it was already been trampled with 1 merit as of now.

Out of the profile data, "leet" is only shown on the post count (not on merits, nor activity).
As a curiosity, on each week’s merited profiles I download (consider it a snapshot), there are on average 2 o 3 "leets" on the post count field (maximum I’ve encountered is 9 and minimum 1). That is only considering merited profiles though.

congrats, I was also one of the victim before lol.


You should not know it cause it's a trap by theymos lol. I was wondering how many research you have done after seeing that one.

You should have done that before lol  :P

Apologize for bringing back this post alive. I think am "leet" now(Although it will disappear as I am made to understand in this post).
I was worried and confused as you were then when you got "leet'' but after reading this post and the explanation given makes me feel good that am not leet forever. hahaha

I'm still alive and I visit this forum sometimes but don't make any posts anymore - it's because I got discouraged heavily by the politics, biases, fighting, and so on...  :-X

I am not sure why I'm making this post but it could be that I remembered those old days and I created this thread. I was smiling thinking that how noob I was back then when I got the notification of your reply earlier.

I had 1 merit to spend, so it's yours mate...

Have a great time in the crypto-verse.  8)