[RESOLVED] Post Count Bug?

[RobDog888]

I have made 7 valid posts this morning and my post count has actually gone down by 1 since my last visit last night. No threads have been moved to CC or other non-post counted forums. Nor have any posts been deleted. I had 18,167 posts last night and I made 8 including this one and I should now have 18,175.

Anyone else notice any issues?

Edit: With this post it did move up 1 to 18,167

[MartinLiss]

It's possible that a moderator physically deleted one or more threads in which you had previously posted.

[RobDog888]

I found this thread over at CodeGuru (another Internet.com site) where they had a post count bug too. Seemed that the counting for a forum was turned off.

Martin, can you verify this?

http://www.codeguru.com/forum/showpo...14&postcount=6

Edit: Yes, thats a possibility, but I didnt see anything deleted. Also, it was accurate this morning when I first logged on. I checked the member list and it was 18,167. So it must have happeded in the past hour.

[Harsh Gupta]

i think thats been one issue for the long time!!!

there's one user (pardon i can't recall its name/login name).........s/he joined the forum during mid or late 2002 (i 'spose), n recently s/he posted one comment in the CC forum having post count "1"............n i m sure that i saw that person's post few months back in the CC forum n that time too someone commented on this issue.

WIERD!!!

[RobDog888]

Chit Chat, Forum Test Area, and Jobs are Forums that dont count Post Counts.

[MartinLiss]

I found this thread over at CodeGuru (another Internet.com site) where they had a post count bug too. Seemed that the counting for a forum was turned off.

Martin, can you verify this?

http://www.codeguru.com/forum/showpo...14&postcount=6

Edit: Yes, thats a possibility, but I didnt see anything deleted. Also, it was accurate this morning when I first logged on. I checked the member list and it was 18,167. So it must have happeded in the past hour.

You wouldn't see any evidence of the deletion if it were physically deleted. Why don't you ask the other moderators if they deleted any?

[MartinLiss]

Actually I think I can check on that. Be back in a few minutes.

[MartinLiss]

Have you ever done any posting in the DoomSharp forum? A couple of threads were deleted today in that forum.

[RobDog888]

Yes, but only a couple. I'll see if I can see them?

[RobDog888]

Nope, nothing related there as I can still see my 8 posts and 2 deleted (10 total) ones. So the numbers dont add up to the 7 lost posts?

[NoteMe]

Nope, nothing related there as I can still see my 8 posts and 2 deleted (10 total) ones. So the numbers dont add up to the 7 lost posts?

Did you see that we had two D# threads? Brad duplicated the thread, and today we deleted one of them. The whole thing that is.


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[RobDog888]

Yes, I saw that but I had 7 valid posts when I noticed it and I have 8 posts in the D# thread, but I mostly wanted to make sure it wasnt a bug, as I saw the CG bug, and have it affect others. Perhaps tomorrow the effects may be seen if it is realted somehow to D#?

Do you know how many posts by me the deleted thread had? Thanks.

[NoteMe]

No sorry, and I am not sure if I want to go though the 1100posts to check either.....I just know that I lost around 400posts.....I was 5posts from 10k when wossy deleted it.



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[szlamany]

Maybe try a test - post a thread...

Make sure someone replies to it - reply yourself...

Post another thread...

Make sure someone replies to it - reply yourself...

Now delete the first thread.

See if the post count drops by 2 or drops by 4 (although this doesn't make sense why post count would do that, the bug sounds something like this...)

[MartinLiss]

Maybe try a test - post a thread...

Make sure someone replies to it - reply yourself...

Post another thread...

Make sure someone replies to it - reply yourself...

Now delete the first thread.

See if the post count drops by 2 or drops by 4 (although this doesn't make sense why post count would do that, the bug sounds something like this...)

You can't delete your own threads. Besides I'm certain that there isn't a bug, at least not here.

[RobDog888]

More then likely what happened is that when the D# thread was duplicated and moved to its new location, the post increase was not noticed by me or anyone? Then when wossname deleted it, the postcounts got reduced. I guess I was the first to notice it or didnt any other D# participants notice anything at all?

[NoteMe]

As I said. I had 9995 posts before we deleted it. Now look at my post count...



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[Valleysboy1978]

Ouch, that had to hurt Note?

[NoteMe]

As I have said before. Postcount doesn't say much more then how much "spare time" you have. It would be much worse if my skills dropped like that...



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[Hack]

As I have said before. Postcount doesn't say much more then how much "spare time" you have. It would be much worse if my skills dropped like that...



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I couldn't agree more NoteMe!!!!!

When the forums were converted, a whole lot of us lost post counts. Megtron lost everything (although Martin put it back). I lost nearly 3,000 posts and I could go on with others who also lost big chunks.

We survived to post another day.

[Valleysboy1978]

I don't think I'd be too concerned, although if I lost 3,000 posts I'd only be on -2,818

[NoteMe]

Since I'm now a leader in the D# section, I found a neeth (Spelling please) method to find out how many posts you had in that thread using Split and Firefox. The total number is 10.. Sorry for the inconvenience.



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[Hack]

Since I'm now a leader in the D# section, I found a neeth (Spelling please)

Neat?

[NoteMe]

Dictionary.com
neat = "A cow or other domestic bovine animal."


Except from that, yeah, guess that was it...

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[szlamany]

When you click on the "REPLY" count value of a thread, you see all the posters who have replied with a count of replies in that thread - don't you?

[NoteMe]

That is an other neat way to do it..


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[NoteMe]

And then everything adds up. Becuase it said 8 that way. And when I tested it, I saw that my method returned all posts posted by RobDog in that thread, INCLUDING deleted posts. He had apparently deleted 2 posts him self "because wossy told him to do it". So then everything is as it should. No post count bug after all..



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[Harsh Gupta]

Chit Chat, Forum Test Area, and Jobs are Forums that dont count Post Counts.

oh, i never knew that
but yes u r right............there is some kind of bug, even my post count also reduced by 3-5 posts................i mean what if i m not such a power-poster but it matters

[Harsh Gupta]

and i never removed any thread........... (if i m sure)

[Hack]

When you click on the "REPLY" count value of a thread, you see all the posters who have replied with a count of replies in that thread - don't you?

Color me *thick*, but where do you see this?

[szlamany]

Color me *thick*, but where do you see this?

When you are in a forum - looking at a list of threads - last post, replies and views are columns on the right side. Hover over REPLIES and it's a link that will pop-up a window with a "who posted how many" count.

Also, if you hover of the little envelope picture on the left side, you see how many times you posted in a thread.

[Hack]

When you are in a forum - looking at a list of threads - last post, replies and views are columns on the right side. Hover over REPLIES and it's a link that will pop-up a window with a "who posted how many" count.

Also, if you hover of the little envelope picture on the left side, you see how many times you posted in a thread.

*shakes head* I spend way too much time answering questions and not nearly enough time investigating my own environment.

Thanks.

[szlamany]

*shakes head* I spend way too much time answering questions and not nearly enough time investigating my own environment.

Thanks.

Actually it's intense moments of boredom that allow me the luxury of finding out minute details like that

[MartinLiss]

When you are in a forum - looking at a list of threads - last post, replies and views are columns on the right side. Hover over REPLIES and it's a link that will pop-up a window with a "who posted how many" count....

Not for me.

Here's another one. For some strange reason if you hover over the name of the Last Poster, you will see the same information as in the Replies and Views columns.

[RobDog888]

Seems this thread got a life of its own.

The "Replies and Views " never was accurate as some threads showed several Replies and 0 Views?

Anyways, I'll repost from post #12 -

but I mostly wanted to make sure it wasnt a bug, as I saw the CG bug, and have it affect others.

Since this is not the case, then I suppose we can resolve this thread.

[brad jones]

Test - post 2177 again...


Note that the 'bug' at Codeguru was not a 'bug' but a setting that was set wrong. A forum was marked to not count posts when it should have been counting votes.

Also note that if a bunch of people's post counts change all at once, then it is probably a result of a maintenance routine running that updates post counts to actual posts in the system.

Brad!

[Valleysboy1978]

Note that the 'bug' at Codeguru was not a 'bug' but a setting that was set wrong. A forum was marked to not count posts when it should have been counting votes.

Perhaps it was an "undocumented feature"?