if you're interested, the main reason for this is that likes were implemented with the new forum software introduced in december 2015, and many (most?) of sodabuoy's posts were before then
Actually, that's not true. All my posts are accounted for here. I wiped the forum a long time ago, but my post count did not come along. It was clean. You can find all 2000+ posts from me here.
The search is obviously not retrieving all my posts. The earliest one on page 9 is August 2016. We know this forum was around longer than that. Cmon now... USE YOUR HEAD. Also, it only shows 161 posts when searching for me, I've definitely posted more than that here... pressing the show older messages button seems broken too. Something to look into... someday...