I'm just wondering.
Why did my post count reset to 0? O_O
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I'm just wondering.
Why did my post count reset to 0? O_O
I have no idea so I ran the post-counter thing again. It should be back to normal.
-Dee
It was 23,300+ before it reset, now it's at 19,000. I don't really care, though, I was just wondering.
Oh man, Boomboom's gonna be a little unhappy methinks.:D
i noticed mine went from 15 grand to 10
wow... what happened?
I lost 20 and then got all of them back. I wonder if someone deleted a thread and then reinstated it?
Well, it wasn't me this time...
It was Bobby!
And I lost like 200.
Lost about 700 but it doesn't matter.
I went down to 0 and then Dee re-ran the post count counter...so theoretically the current totals should be accurate...although I'm down 400 from where I was before I somehow went to 0. *shrug*
Well, it wouldn't just do that without something going on... Maybe Dee or Ian was workingon changing something. *shrug*
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Originally Posted by HoustonGM
Well, you'll be back above 23,000 within a few days anyway.
Lol
We should all reset to zero. ;)
What??? I lost 10,000 posts????? :eek:
BTW, what is the Tags on the bottom of every post?
Here:
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Originally Posted by SirKodiak
Got it thanks.Quote:
Originally Posted by ohms_law
Pardon my ignorance, Guys, but are deleted posts lost to the originator, also?...that is, in the event of a "spring-cleaning" of my posts, could I, by clicking on my signature, still "Find all posts by Rongar"?
Nope. If your posts are deleted, then their gone. Of course, 99% of the time deleted posts are "soft deleted", meaning that moderators and administrators can still see them. If that's the case then those posts can be restored.
However, what's been going on here is that the posts are being "physically deleted" when Dee deletes a sub-forum. There's no turning back those deletions (aside from doing a forum restoration from backup). I wouldn't worry about it though, since 99.9% of those posts are a year old or more (and those that aren't are just post padding posts anyway...).
Wouldn't auto pruning have this type of effect. When posts are auto deleted your post count would go back down. It would make more sense if this were the case because of how many people were effected by this.
yea, but there's no auto-pruning going on. Dee has reacently been going in and deleting some old BMO forums. What caused this particular thread is that there was a bad PHP script that was aparently running in an infinate loop (or something like it) and the forums crashed.
Why does everyone keep complaining about post counts and then, say not that I care or shrug? If you truly didn't care, you wouldnt post in the first place :-)
Because deep down, everyone has an emotional connection with their post count and tries to hide it.Quote:
Originally Posted by nuzzy62
bingoQuote:
Originally Posted by asianinvasion
I was just asking, as my post count was set to...0. I honestly don't care whether my number says 0 or 18000, but I was just wondering if something had gone awry behind the scenes.
Personally, the only reason that I care about post counts is because everyone else seems to. It's like this on just about every forum that I've been a member of, although it seems to be a bit more out of control here then in other places that I've been. Equating knowledge with post counts is a real concern in my view, since the amount of times that I or anyone else posts really says nothing about the level of knowledge behind the post (content does, duh!).
The idea that post count denotes activity level in the BMO forums is a huge factor in all of this, as well. The problem with that is, if you stop to think about it in a reasonable manner, post count can't actually indicate BMO activity. How does posting in the forum indicate activity in game?
Regardless, the widespread thinking behind post counts on this forum is wrongheaded and out of control in my opinion. The competitive atmosphere that's generated by post padding creates problems in and of itself. Then, When something happens which requires board maintenance and post counts are messed up there's always a huge uproar about it too. Instead of Dee, Ian, or Clay being able to correct the problem when they have the time to do so they are then required to take time away from their normal (and far more important) tasks in order to address the problem in an emergency atmosphere.
Anyway, there are several good web pages out there about successful community building. The danger of allowing post counts to dominate a scene is a common problem that is addressed all of the time. Type "post count" in Google and you'll receive a billion hits.
:)
Just seen your reply, Ohms, ...thanks for the info...guess some of your posts and mine are in jeopardy, then -we both started contributing to these forums in June '06Quote:
Originally Posted by ohms_law
We're all statsheads, is why...
I agree with what ohms said for the most part. However, I do think that post count can have some advantages. It does tell you whose more active, and generally, the most active numbers are more knowledgable and credible than less active/new members. That's obviously not always the case, but it's a good general rule of thumb. However, of course, that all becomes null when post-padding is allowed, as post counts than tell you nothing.
Nah, not really.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rongar
What Dee has been (mostly) doing is to remove the sub-forum, and the posts those sub-forums contain, for BMO leagues that are no longer running. See, the forums are linked to the BMO server. There were several old leagues sitting around with 1-5 members in them, abandoned, and a few new members would join BMO and then join one of those leagues. Since those leagues don't actually have anyone running them, they would never simulate, and the new users would often simply quit after a couple of weeks of seemingly no activity. After several members brought this problem up Dee and Clay started going in and removing those leagues. Since the league is linked to the forum though, the league sub-forum has to be deleted as well.
It seems as though Dee has taken the opportunity to prune some of the post padding threads as well, which is where the vast majority of the complaints about large drops in post count are coming from.
Anyway, one nice side benefit to all of this is that the forums seem to be much more responsive now, which is certainly nice!
:)
There are better ways to indicate activity though... once everything calms down I can recommend some light (and possibly even heavy) mods to Dee.Quote:
Originally Posted by HoustonGM
I care, I admit I care :-)
Well at least with all these post padding threads no one is ripping on Clay to fix things in BM! Kind of distracted a lot of activity in the bugs thread.
or BMO who is the read heades step hild beaten and left for dead :(Quote:
Originally Posted by RickD
See though, that's A Bad Thing™
:)
oh please lol like we are detracting from bmo work... they havent even thought about bmo in a long timeQuote:
Originally Posted by ohms_law
*shrug*
Who knows...
:rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by ohms_law