Missing posts

**Bob Bacon** · 14-02-2011, 20:40

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** · 15-02-2011, 18:19

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** · 15-02-2011, 23:05

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** · 16-02-2011, 20:10

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