bystander with 0 posts?

[anarres]

OK, WTH is this about?

bystander has 1 post, shown here, but their post count is 0?

I hope PC isn't turned off for the MP forum!

http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads4/WTH.jpg

 

[Knight-Dragon]

Just to see for myself, I actually went looking for that thread in MP. Gosh, you're right.

The PC in MP hasn't been disabled; didn't notice any drop in my own PC (I have some 100s posts there).

 

[anarres]

Well, if you didn't notice them go on your PC you wouldn't notice them come off.

I have posts in there too, but since when does anyone check their PC before and after posting?

Edit: I just did a search on someone with 7 posts, they have 3 in MP and 4 in GD, so the PC is working fine...

 

[Chieftess]

I think it's a little bug in the forums that doesn't register your first post until your 2nd. I noticed it with mine when I first joined.. So, your true post cound is your post count + 1.

 

[anarres]

I don't think so CT, I did a search on someone with a PC of 7, and doing a search gave me links to 7 posts, in GD and MP only.

Maybe it takes the 2nd post before it realises, or maybe there is a lag for the first one...

Edit: Just checked a couple more, and it appears that PC is normally a true count of posts.

 

[Darkness]

Maybe it's just a fluke?

 

[Padma]

FWIW, I have noticed, on occasion, when I delete a duplicate post, the user's post count will go down by 2.

I don't know if that happened here, though. Still, it does show that the post count algorithm is a little messed up.

 

[Bamspeedy]

I just saw a new poster make a duplicate post in the strategy and tips forums, and it says he has 1 post total.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=51933

 

[Chieftess]

Rats! you beat me to it! I blame it on the server busy errors and two IE crashes.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=51933

But, I also have a screenshot!!

 

[Hygro]

I was gonna show that same picture! What's up with that?

 

[china444]

Hygro, I think you should change that avatar!

I thought that was Sultan!!!

 

[WillJ]

Originally posted by Bamspeedy
I just saw a new poster make a duplicate post in the strategy and tips forums, and it says he has 1 post total.

Hmm, could it be that there's a feature that doesn't count duplicate posts?

 

[spycatcher34]

Why do you people care!? :s

 

[naervod]

We care because some people (me included) just need to know why things happen the way they do and why things go wrong.

 

[WillJ]

Originally posted by spycatcher34
Why do you people care!? :s

Why do you care why we care?!

And what does :s represent?

 

[anarres]

Originally posted by spycatcher34
Why do you people care!? :s

One could just as easily ask, "If you don't care, why did you bother posting here?"

Curiosity is human nature, we like to understand things...

 

[Chieftess]

Originally posted by WillJ
Why do you care why we care?!

And what does :s represent?

:s =

 

[WillJ]

Originally posted by Chieftess
:s =

Hmm, at first I didn't see the smiley (it took a while to load), and I thought you were saying it represents invisibility. But now I see.

 

[Grille]

I don't want to thread-jack that smiley discussion... :s
but:
There might be postcount problems when you hit that "interrupt" (or whatever it's called) button on your browser while transmitting replies. Once I did that *by accident* (didn't use that feature "click here, if your browser...") because I couldn't wait any longer as the server seemed to be very busy. My reply was posted in the thread, but I wasn't *automatically* subscribed there. I didn't observe my postcount, but based on the missing subscription, I'm guessing it didn't go up by one then.

 

[Shabbaman]

Hmm, do pbem forum posts count toward pc? In the demogame rpg we had a character that would post a lot, but those posts didn't count towards his pc... so he was stuck at 0 posts ever since pc was disabled. If you'd do a search on his posts, you'd find all his posts.

So, if you can find posts it doesn't mean they count But this does sound more like some bug.