Missing posts

[Hywyn]

Earlier on I found that I could look up my old posts. Seeing as I only post in Research etc I went to have a look at some of the early ones as I have far more info to hand now than 2-3 years ago and there might have been some updates that woul;d help people.

I'm shown as having 127 post but only 68 turned up.

I find there is a gap between 3/12/2007 and 11/5 2010.


Are there threads missing for any reason? I was thinking maybe that time when there were huge problems.

Hywyn

[chow]

Hywyn.

i just had a quick look at my previous posts and can't really understand why i only posted four items in the year 08?

maybe Bob will give us some help with this.

chow

[Baconwallah]

It's not as bad as it looks, gentlemen. When clicking 'view my posts' I could find only 179 out of 349 posts and, as you already suggested, Hywyn, beginning from the tech troubles caused by the unknown hacker about a year ago.

But in the research section I could easily find my first (and older) post and all the following.

It is therefore probably a matter of posts uncatalogued rather than posts disappeared.

John

[Hywyn]

Whatever it was has affected the search facility as well from around that date.

The Research Forum has 417 threads over 21 pages. Pages 15 and 16 straddle 2007/2008.

Have the the Forum opened in another tab as well and search some of the soldier numbers or some keywords from each year that you can see in the thread headers in your first tab.
2007 brings up a result. 2008 a nil return.

All this is academic as the Forum owners/board creators probably can't do anything about but it's worth knowing that stuff may be there that doesn't turn up on a search.

Hywyn

[Gwyn Nicholas]

My posts have gone down from 800+ to 649 no idea why perhaps there is a blip.

[Baconwallah]

Strange. Yesterday I had 349 posts, now 329.

John

[Bob Bacon]

The reason why your post counts have decreased since yesterday is due to the fact in order for me to try and find these missing posts I have had to update various counters and rebuild the search index

One of the effects of this is to recalculate all of your post counts based on your CURRENT posts in the database. This means that at some stage, someone, probably an administrator or moderator, has manually changed a post count or marked various posts for deletion or pruned them.

Once they decrease I cannot bring them back up without restoring our database or manually editing each user.

Gwilwil, I found a few of your 2008/2009 post using the Advance Search. I am still investigating, but I think it is only searching open forums.

Wait Out...

[ap1]

This means that at some stage, someone, probably an administrator or moderator, has manually changed a post count or marked various posts for deletion or pruned them.

Wait Out...

Not Guilty! :-/

[Baconwallah]

Not Guilty! :-/

Ditto! :no:

[Lofty-25]

Not Guilty

[Bob Bacon]

Sorry, perhaps I didn't explain that very well. I'm not saying it was wrong for some posts to be deleted or pruned. That would be done under the routine maintenance of the various forums.

However, it would have almost certainly have been such post from vBookie, Caption Competitions, Spot the Difference competition, Horse Racing competition and other items like that.

A couple of Gwillwil's post regarding the sinking of ... were removed because the content was incorporated into the said Article.

[nasher546]

My posts have also gone down from 520 odd to 465. I have now been busted from CSM to C/SGT. Hey Ho, onwards and upwards.

[Bob Bacon]

Paul,

This falls under the category of manually changed post counts. That is to say that in the past some of your posts previously fell into those forums that routinely get pruned or deleted, but we manually adjusted the figure to restore your previous rank. However, because I rebuilt the indexes, your post count decreased and as a consequence, your rank was changed accordingly.

Hopefully, in the future, we will not need to recalculate users' post counts unless we believe we really need to.

[Bob Bacon]

Further analysis regarding differences in the number of posts shown in a user’s profile against the actual number found in a search, shows that Photo uploads increment the user post count.

This, of course, doesn’t help some of you, but it is one of the reasons for the inconsistency