[RESOLVED] Last post by "Byssanilka", but post is not in thread???

[opus]

Hi,
there are at least two threads in the VB.Net Forum which show a last post from "Byssanilka" in the list, however there is no post in the thread of this member. When trying to show all post by this member I get "Sorry, no matches".
What is wrong here?
Threads are:
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...-is-1-not-zero
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...nother-columns

[techgnome]

It's a spammer account... the posts (and possibly the user) are being removed.

-tg

[opus]

Thanks for the quick info.

[brad jones]

Yep - He (or his bot) managed to post well over 50 times before we stopped it. As such, we used the system to blow out the posts. Rather than hammer the servers with rebuilding all the threads right now, I'm going to let things ride for a while.

He is gone, but his dirty footprints remain....

[techgnome]

Yeah, I've got this thread here - http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...-defined-issue that won't go away from my notifications because it thinks there is still an unread posting in it... but the unread post is the one deleted! So it shall forever remain (hopefully that is until someone else replies to it). Meantime, as long as it shows that particular user's name as the last post, I shall ignore it.

-tg

[FunkyDexter]

This phenomenon isn't strictly limited to spam blasting though. I've noticed on several occasiona that I can post to a thread and I'll appear as the last poster but my post won't actually display in th thread or my post will display but it doesn't update the last poster. It does update correctly eventually but there is sometimes a substantial delay and this seems, anecdotally, to coincide with those occassions where I get other odd behavious while posting (e.g. the You are navigating away message or having it just churn).