Why is the "Posts" counter not going up? Within the last few hours i've written atleast 10 new posts and the counter thing is still staying at 641 ... why??

hmm ... now it seems to be working again ... :nuts:

probably posting in the skybars, which do not count.

Post whores :D

the north american skybar counts posts

probably posting in the skybars, which do not count.
i see ... why do they not count?

mine went from 66 to 65, what's up with that?

I guess I'll make up for that right now:)

/\ ive had the same problems before ... Whats going on? is it server problems or something else?

^ I believe that sometimes threads that are fairly old get deleted, so I believe that you lose the posts that are in those threads. Thus, your post count decreases.

It's okay :pet:

so u people look at your post count each and every time you post your comment? interesting.
its not like post counts give you money

lol.
I post alot :|

Post counts should be scrapped IMO. It's not a fair representation of people's contribution to the forum, especialy since it goes down every so often. It may as well read "posts since last clean-out". Isn't there any other system that could be used instead?

when i left for about a year, i was at 6000 or something (or was it 5000 ? )
but when i came back it was 1400
its because they dont have any space, and that slows the SSC forum. so they scrap the old threads :)

right?

Right, SUNNI! :) The only problem is that some of the old threads are not necessarily scrap material--far from it! :(

I havent been here for too long ... only since Jan 2005 .. so my first posts arent really that old, so it cant be that reason ... ?

Ellatur> I dont really care about the "posts counter" that much.. but i do find it interesting to see how much people have participated since they've joined SSC .. thats it.. I dont think people with a higher post amount is better than anyone else or anything like that.

When old posts are removed from the forums, your post count is not affected. It's only when every post is recounted and statistics updated when your post count will drop.

That's happened several times in the time this forum has been around, I'd be closer to about 2000 posts if there weren't any prunes.