Explanation needed

I’ve noticed a few spots where people have "Patient" listed under their username and "n/a" for their post count... what’s the deal with that?

For instance,

IMPA
Patient

Posts: n/a

So basically, he ran into some ex-admin who wouldn't just hand out bans or slap them with warnings, but would just wipe them from the database entirely and tag them as "patient." 😁

There's still others showing up as n/a, probably because they got lost during the site migration or some server upgrade.

Anyway, n/a means:

N/A, or n/a, is just the standard shorthand for "not applicable." It’s used when info in a table isn't there, maybe because it doesn't fit the situation or it's just missing.

So, yeah... where regular users have a post count, those deleted accounts show n/a. The system can't calculate a number because the user isn't actually in the database anymore. The software still keeps the username there, I guess, but it's not real data to the system—it's just a leftover note saying user x wrote it.