Reduced post counts

ghost_user_nameghost_user_name
Posted:
in Feedback edited January 2014
General FYI:



In case anyone is wondering why your post count may have dropped by a few (or maybe more depending on who you are), it is because I just deleted a few very long threads that were causing the search indexing to choke. Unfortunately, there was no way to salvage them. Fortunately, they were just "spamming" threads anyway.



No cause for alarm. Continue about your business.
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  • Reply 1 of 24
    kecksykecksy Posts: 1,002member
    Ah, and I was so close to 1000 posts
  • Reply 2 of 24
    cosmonutcosmonut Posts: 4,872member
    No problem. After all, it's not the size of your post count that matters...it's how you use it.
  • Reply 3 of 24
    der kopfder kopf Posts: 2,275member
    May I inquire which threads in particular got the axe?
  • Reply 4 of 24
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    Two of the old "what are you listening to" threads.
  • Reply 5 of 24
    thegeldingthegelding Posts: 3,230member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Brad

    Two of the old "what are you listening to" threads.



    g'rat will be happy to hear that they were "spamming" threads...



    g
  • Reply 6 of 24
    kecksykecksy Posts: 1,002member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Brad

    Two of the old "what are you listening to" threads.



    That's odd. I don't remember posting anything is those. Oh, well.
  • Reply 7 of 24
    pensievepensieve Posts: 661member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Kecksy

    That's odd. I don't remember posting anything is those. Oh, well.



    I never posted in those threads with this username either.
  • Reply 8 of 24
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    Dammit brad... your like "the man".

    Trying to keep the little guy's post count down!



    J/K... You are doing a great job attending to AI.



    EDIT: Hey! I was at 426 before. Now this post puts me at 406... I did not post that much if at all in the "what are you listening to" threads. Something is odd here.
  • Reply 9 of 24
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    There was also some kind of bizarre bug in the server where everyone's post count had accidentally been increased by 20 a while ago. I remember clearly seeing the change as the counters were updated as then everyone's just dropped by exactly 20 again when I ran the recount script.



    I have run the script several times now that things are where they should be. It is consistently giving the same numbers now. These numbers should be correct for now.



    Note that, like in this case, the counters are not updated when whole threads are deleted. They only automatically update when deleting individual posts. Thus, any number of lost posts from deleted threads will "build up" until the next time I run the maintenance scripts.
  • Reply 10 of 24
    der kopfder kopf Posts: 2,275member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Brad

    I remember clearly seeing the change as the counters were updated as then everyone's just dropped by exactly 20 again when I ran the recount script.



    The servers don't reside in Florida, by any chance?
  • Reply 11 of 24
    pensievepensieve Posts: 661member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by der Kopf

    The servers don't reside in Florida, by any chance?



    whoa, that was your 2000th post, too. Freaky.
  • Reply 12 of 24
    curiousuburbcuriousuburb Posts: 3,325member
    Ba dum bump ching.



    Thanks for coming out to the AI open mike night... we'll be here all week.





    nice one, der Kopf
  • Reply 13 of 24
    mac's girlmac's girl Posts: 556member
    hey i lost my senior member status due to my post count getting cut! i want a recount!!!! (and not in FL.) a refund would be nice too...



  • Reply 14 of 24
    mac's girlmac's girl Posts: 556member
    gratuitous post
  • Reply 15 of 24
    brussellbrussell Posts: 9,812member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by CosmoNut

    No problem. After all, it's not the size of your post count that matters...it's how you use it.



    It's not the size of the post count per se, it's really the girth that's important.
  • Reply 16 of 24
    curiousuburbcuriousuburb Posts: 3,325member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by BRussell

    It's not the size of the post count per se, it's really the girth that's important.



    some wide posts stretch the page formatting...
  • Reply 17 of 24
    dmband0026dmband0026 Posts: 2,345member
    My count was dropped by about 30, I had only posted once in the "What are you listening to" threads. Grrrr...I was close to 400 than, but now I'm not worried about it. I'm shooting for the big 500 now.
  • Reply 18 of 24
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    Just a friendly reminder.







    We love you all equally.
  • Reply 19 of 24
    andersanders Posts: 6,523member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Brad

    Just a friendly reminder.







    We love you all equally.



    Then who am I then?
  • Reply 20 of 24
    defiantdefiant Posts: 4,876member
    You Define Who You Are.



    I think it's good that there's someone behind the curtains, watching, and looking that everything goes well.



    But I will miss those two 'Watcha Listening To?' threads. I always thought of them as a history. That I would come back sometime in the distant future, and see what I was listening to these days. "Look Son, when I was your age, I listened to Toto. You don't know who they are, eh?"



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