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[Timon the great]

I noticed I'm missing a post because I do remember the last one I made ended me up at 310 on my post count and then I came here last week, saw one of my posts, and noticed the count was at 309 ?? *Before posting this topic*


Not that I'm really concerned about this, given it's just 1 down. I haven't found out which of my posts it is that went missing or if it's a count error. But did anyone in the last two weeks notice the difference or has seen this happen before?

[TheRoguePrince]

I think only certain posts get added to your total count, but I will admit it's very confusing as to what get counted and doesn't. For example. it says that I have 8624 posts (at the left) but going here, it says I have over 17000?

It's been a while since Moka officially said what is counted, and it could have changed. Maybe he could clear this up...

[WildSimba]

Maybe one of the mods deleted the post.

[FlipMode]

I think only certain posts get added to your total count, but I will admit it's very confusing as to what get counted and doesn't. For example. it says that I have 8624 posts (at the left) but going here, it says I have over 17000?

It's been a while since Moka officially said what is counted, and it could have changed. Maybe he could clear this up...

That's not what happened though; the post was added to his count successfully and then was taken away. I can only assume that an old thread was deleted and the post was lost that way or a staff member deleted it for one reason or another...

[Moka]

No one has deleted a post by Timon the great, I looked in the logs for the past month. There is no recent log messages for deleted topics, unless he posted in one of the topics during that gruesome spam attack a few days ago.

Post counts increment everywhere in the forum. We announced that when we got rid of the arcade, I believe.

Members who have a higher post count when you search for their posts have made a considerable amount of off-topic posts when post count was not incremented for off-topic posts.

[FlipMode]

No one has deleted a post by Timon the great, I looked in the logs for the past month. There is no recent log messages for deleted topics, unless he posted in one of the topics during that gruesome spam attack a few days ago.

Maybe. Which is why we say people; don't reply to spam / trolling... It makes matters worse. The point of trolling is to provoke a response from you, the moment you make a post about it, you are giving them exactly what they came here for.
I was surprised the other day that people were replying to them; if you can't figure out why you shouldn't reply to them then you probably shouldn't be handling this kind of machinery in the first place.

[wolfishgirl]

when was this spam attack and where? because I really missed it...

[Moka]

^ That's a good thing.