Profile ID does not make sense?

[Do Not Laugh At My Socks]

My profile ID says: profile;u=392830 when the amount of registered users is only: 376989.


That doesn't make any sense to me how come my ID is more than the current registered users I thought if your u=1 you are the first member to register. Do banned accounts not get counted on the total registrations?

[BadBear]

No, 392k is right. Some accounts have been deleted. There was also probably a wipe of inactive accounts at one point, since I remember hearing a couple of reports of people not being able to find or login to their old accounts, though that was before my time so I don't know.  

Example: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2183