Forum post counts bug?

[silentbrown]

One for the coding squirrels...
Byker28i's post count on the thread shows a "last reply date" of 22nd May. He's posted numerous times since then...


Does this mean the post count is also inaccurate?

Thread in question.. https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

User:. https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/profile.asp?me...

(Grr thumbsnap!)

[eharding]

silentbrown said:

One for the coding squirrels...
Byker28i's post count on the thread shows a "last reply date" of 22nd May. He's posted numerous times since then...


Does this mean the post count is also inaccurate?

Thread in question.. https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

User:. https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/profile.asp?me...

(Grr thumbsnap!)

I suspect the date issue implies the stats might be borked, or at least delayed, and taking a closer look seem to related to the period in question i.e. 0 - 30days, 30 - 60 days etc. I did think the total for Byker was low - in reality, it's 1527 out of 5488, but interestingly he was quoted 604 times (far more than any other poster) - so you could argue his posts were generating discussion. I certainly miss them.

[Matt Dell]

silentbrown said:

One for the coding squirrels...

I'll just say our forums post count isn't highly normalized as we prioritize performance slightly over data integrity.

It works well enough most of the time but you might find some oddities when factoring in things like moderation, deleted posts, combining threads, etc.

[sunbeam alpine]

Given the user mentioned - could this be influencing the results?

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...