i am curious to know the pruning criteria you used the other day when you pruned the site. did you pick certain sections and just delete every post after XXX date or ????

which forums and what dates?

 

The other day we only pruned the posts from user eBayBot to get rid of old eBay listings that were no longer live. After that, we ran a utlity to rebuild posts counts. It only made it accurate. No member posts were pruned.

 

threxx ost somthing like 7000 posts in his count. and a bunch of others lost various amounts.

I am not complaining about what happened I am just wondering what yall did and how it works (must be the engineer in me)

 

Newer members won't notice much, if any.

When we changed it to posts not counting in the Lounge, it didn't make the post count number accurate. It just stopped adding to the post count going forward.

In addition, when we didn't have a big ol' power monster of a server like we do now, we did have to prune old messages away (edit: in ALL forums) to keep things running fast and error free. We haven't done that in many years, though. However, when pruning old posts, the post count wasn't updated to reflect the posts that were pruned away.

Basically, the number that is missing from the member post count is all Lounge posts or posts that were pruned away many years ago. When we ran the utility recently, it made it accurate.

 

I think I get it. So the pruned post that were pruned many years ago still counted up untill the other day. And lounge post from before the lounge post count lockdown still counted up untill the other day. That makes sence.

This really shows who the old school lounge post ****** are.

When did lounge post stop counting? 2001 right?

 

Thanks Jason, I was going to make a thread about this because I went from 3xxx posts to what I have now, and I didn't know if there was some issue.

 

This explains why I didn't lose any posts -- I joined after lounge posts stopped counting.