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[Cmagic]

Hello  Nikolay,

It looks like the number of posts is stuck since the interact crash we experienced 2 days ago or so.

Does it means folks will never get promoted anymore ?  

My mother would be so proud if I should become MJ Citizen Kane one day !

[Cmagic]

Sorry Nikolay, please don't mind this thread  as the post counters really work actually.
When you look at it statically it is obviously the same in every post  !

It's getting late, I better get some sleep !

[John Gateley]

that one confused me too  

j

[DocLotus]

I've seen this on my posts & KingSparta's posts.

Seems like Interact gets stuck after so many post.  When it happen to me, I logged out then logged back in & has been fine ever since.

I suspect it will happen again.

[John Gateley]

Are you sure? When you make a new post,  the count is updated everywhere, not just in that post. If  you look at this post and my reply above, they both (correctly) have the same number.

j

[KingSparta]

Buffy The Vampire Slayer Been In The Forum?

BTW: I have never noticed any problems if i hit the refresh button.

[Cmagic]

Hi Doc,

John & King are right. There is no problems with posts counters.

I made this silly observation the other day (well night) but it was late and it was after my second glass of Jack D. !!!!!  :-/

[DocLotus]

Testing ?

[DocLotus]

Testing again ?

[DocLotus]

Why do all my posts now say 261 ?

They just all said 260 a minute ago.

I simply logged out & back in & all the posts jumped one!  How come?

Also should not EVERY posts have a new number... the last number plus one? ?

As I am entering new information each time, it seems only logical that every post should have a new number otherwise if I only made posts to this thread they would all have the same exact number.  If I made 100 posts why would they all have the same number.  This is not right & needs to be corrected.

[DocLotus]

Why are all my previous posts being updated with the current number?  I don't understand this.  Once I make a post, it should stay at the old number for reference purposes.

The method that Interact uses is just plain confusing to many of us.  It is like I payed $1.00 for an item last year, $1.10 for the same item last month, & $1.20 for it this month & suddendly all my old receipts now show $1.20 payed for each... utter nonsence!

[JimH]

Hey Doc,
Have you seen any good movies lately?

Jim

[DocLotus]

Yes... Just saw the old H.G. Wells' The Time Machine (original version with Rod Taylor).

Still a great Sci-Fi movie after all these years (1960).

[NoCodeUK]

Doc this is not a bug this is how the forum works.  The number of posts is a cumalative field telling you how many complete posts that person has made.  It is not related to the current post in any way hence it is the same on every post on the forum.  This is what is used to give u a rating i.e tenderfoot, senior citizen etc.

Hope this helps!!

Adam

[KingSparta]

Now It's 264 posts

why does mine say 5435 posts?

oops now its 5436

it just keeps changing every time i post, hummm

[DocLotus]

Hi Adam;

Thanks for the info,  I finally figured that out a while ago but it still seems odd to me (and apparently to a few other users as while).

When I first ran accross it I was as confused as Cmagic was.

I now understand it, but it still seems like a weird way to track number of posts per user.

As long as the posts are handled this way, the question will continue to come up from new & casual users alike as it is not a very standard way of doing things.

This makes at least the fourth time this question has come up on as many new threads & it will come up several more times in the next few months as it is very confusing.

It is like having a database of users with a record number for each user's posts except the old records keep getting changed with each new posts.

I don't know about you, but I was trained that a database record is never to be changed for security & tracking reasons.

Anyway, so be it (weird as it is).

[Chico]

Buffy The Vampire Slayer Been In The Forum?

Nope!  Just dancing peanuts and Pooh Bears!


Doc,
Actually, this is a very common way of post counting.  Most forums that I frequent that keeps a post count uses this method.  The advantage is that you can see just how much the user has posted to the forum.  If his first post was read a year later, the reader may assume that this is a new poster as the number would be "1" and his status on that post would remain a Tenderfoot.
It would be confusing to see him as a Tenderfoot on one post, and a Citizen Kane on another.  You wouldn't know where he/she stands.

[DocLotus]

Yeh... but you can see your growth over time as you raise in rank.

Also, this issue will be brought up by others as it is just plain confusing. ? ? ?

I have no problem with it (now that I understand it) but new & casual users will not.

Thanks for the update.