Post Counts ...

An interesting observation since I managed to ruin my own post count a few days back (and many thanks to all the mods (specially Serge and Marty) who were prompt in setting it almost right :))...

I had posted in General VB, Database, API (a couple of posts I think), ActiveX (again a couple), Java and Communication (lots of them :D). Then there's Chit Chat and Forum Feedback.

Out of all these forums, posts in Chit Chat and Forum Feedback don't count towards the post count. So my post count should be my total posts minus the posts in Chit Chat and Forum Feedback.

After I got my Chit Chat posts zapped on request, I did a search on all my posts, using the link "Search for all posts by this user" on my profile page. It yielded a figure of 2731, just a few moments back. Then I used the Search page, and searched for all posts by the username "honeybee" in Forum Feedback which yielded 296 posts.

The net result is 2435, which should have been my post count. However my post count, before the "big bang" was actually 2482, as I had posted in the other thread. That means the post count was wrong much before the big bang.

That poses the question: "How exactly is the post count updated?" Surely there are flaws in the mechanism, so when I posted so much crap in Chit Chat it didn't increase my post count, but when posts were deleted from it my post count decreased. But is there a way by which the post count can be correctly asserted, using the member's posts in the various forums?

Please note: I am posting this just out of the curiousity about the entire matter. Although I am quite sensitive to my own post count, it has no bearing whatsoever on this thread.

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