Number of post

[Elisa]

When I delete the topics, the number of the post of forum members diminish. I want that the number of post does not diminish.
Help!
(Sorry, I speak least English!)

[Meriadoc]

this isn't solving your problem, sorry, but if you speak one of the languages that we have in our multi-lingual support board you may find it both more comfortable and easier We have a very international support base. Just a thought, might be helpful
Merry

[Chris Cromer]

To do this you will have to modify the source code.

Open RemoveTopic.php and search for:

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// Decrease the post counts.
if ($decreasePostCount)
{
$requestMembers = db_query("
SELECT m.ID_MEMBER, COUNT(m.ID_MSG) AS posts
FROM {$db_prefix}messages AS m, {$db_prefix}boards AS b
WHERE m.ID_TOPIC $condition
AND b.ID_BOARD = m.ID_BOARD
AND m.icon != 'recycled'
AND b.countPosts = 0
GROUP BY m.ID_MEMBER", __FILE__, __LINE__);

and replace that with:

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// Decrease the post counts.
$decreasePostCount = false;
if ($decreasePostCount)
{
$requestMembers = db_query("
SELECT m.ID_MEMBER, COUNT(m.ID_MSG) AS posts
FROM {$db_prefix}messages AS m, {$db_prefix}boards AS b
WHERE m.ID_TOPIC $condition
AND b.ID_BOARD = m.ID_BOARD
AND m.icon != 'recycled'
AND b.countPosts = 0
GROUP BY m.ID_MEMBER", __FILE__, __LINE__);

That will stop post counts from going down when you delete topics.

[Elisa]

Thank you

[Alexandre P.]

That's not of my business, but why ?  Why don't you want the post count to decrease ?

[Cypher7]

I suppose, if you were deleting posts from a good few months ago that were old, and you were doing it to keep the size down or something, then it wouldn't be fair on the posters who got their count up for those posts... but I dont think you really need to delete posts...

IMO, if you delete a post cos it's inappropriate or whatever, then the count should go down with it...

[Chris Cromer]

He wasn't deleting posts, he was deleting topics. When you delete topics it lowers the post count of every member that posted in that topic. He didn't want that to happen. Basically he wanted it to act the same way when deleting topics that YaBBSE did.

[Anguz]

didn't YaBB SE lower the post count when removing topics? I'm almost sure it did (^^;)

[Chris Cromer]

No, it only lowered it when deleteing posts. Members post counts remained the same when topics where deleted.

[Oldiesmann]

There's an easier way to do it:

In Sources/Removetopic.php

For topics:
Find

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function removeTopics($topics, $decreasePostCount = true, $ignoreRecycling = false)

Replace

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function removeTopics($topics, $decreasePostCount = false, $ignoreRecycling = false)

For posts:
Find

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function removeMessage($message, $decreasePostCount = true)

Replace

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function removeMessage($message, $decreasePostCount = false)

[Alexandre P.]

Is it possible to have the topics / posts deletion to decrease by default the post count except on certain topics / posts (manually selected by the admins or the (global) moderators when deleting) ?  Like having a selection box next to every post title that when it is selected won't lower the poster's post count ?

As a mod, maybe ?

[Oldiesmann]

Probably wouldn't be too difficult to add as a mod.