Postcount decreases...........

[QuadMedic]

Everytime I delete a post or thread in my forum the users post count decreases............i want to avoid this since my users postscount is depedant on there level.........

[kows]

uhh, if you're posting here for help, tell what type of forum you're using, and if it's a custom forum, try posting some code.. no one can even begin to help you if you give us nothing to work with.

also; if you are deleting their post/their thread, shouldn't their post count decrease anyway, since then the forum would say he posted a post that does not exist anymore? did that make sense? if you delete the post they shouldn't have a post credited to themselves.. it's like anti-spam.

[The Hobo]

The forum might not store a user post count and may just run a query to count them when it needs it. If that's the case, you're out of luck.

If the software actually stores the post count in a database, you should be able to easily modify the code to not decrease the post count on delete.

Like kows said, tell us what forum software you're using, and we'll be able to help.

[mendhak]

Go into the db and manually edit their post count.

[morrowasted]

Originally posted by mendhak
Go into the db and manually edit their post count.

great idea

[QuadMedic]

manually edit nahhhh...........i figured it out. Create a trash post section>then move posts don't delete>every week you mass prune the section>then you update forum counter but not members thread counter...............

[mendhak]

My guess: you use phpBB!

[QuadMedic]

no VBB 2.3.3 ............

[kows]

Originally posted by QuadMedic
manually edit nahhhh...........i figured it out. Create a trash post section>then move posts don't delete>every week you mass prune the section>then you update forum counter but not members thread counter...............

that seems like a pretty messy way to do it.. i guess it would work though..

[The Hobo]

What's the purpose of this mass deleting?