Post count

XMENPorsche · Post by **XMENPorsche** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 12:16 am

Just curious why my post count is so low. I'm guessing that it's a conversion issue. On the old board I had a post count over 2,500, but here it's under 200.

Post by **XMEN Gambit** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 8:58 am

You'd be correct.

For one thing, the converter doesn't import stats. So for starters, any posts you made that ended up being deleted or purged for housecleaning wouldn't have been counted. Posts in forums that were not converted were also not counted. (Weep for our lost Humor forum!) I'm sure there are other issues involved, but frankly I'm just thankful that the converter worked as well as it did.

Gryphon · Post by **Gryphon** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 1:31 pm

Ezboard only save 20 pages worth of posts, anything older is automatically pushed off to never never land. Ezboard always just adds 1 to your postcount when you post and didn't verify against actuall posts. phpBB actually counts how many posts you have on the board within those 20 pages.

I think if you delete a Porsche post from ezboard it doesn't affect your post count on ezboard. On these boards, you delete one, it will reduce your post count by 1.

Jester · Post by **Jester** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 2:30 pm

how is everyone getting their post count and stuff from ezboard? can I log in as my ezboard User name and pw here?

Post by **XMEN Gambit** » Tue Jan 04, 2005 6:52 pm

The converter simply reads all of the posts in the old forum, and makes new posts in the new forum. These posts obviously count toward the posting total in the new board.

Yes, you can use your old EZBoard account name to log in here (the converter created it for you), but you need to log in with the password I sent to your thz email account.

XMENPorsche · Post by **XMENPorsche** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 1:47 pm

Your responses make sense, but going from >2,500 down to less than 200 still seems odd.

Gryphon · Post by **Gryphon** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 6:28 pm

Of all of the posts imported to these boards from ezboard (11930 of 39160 because 27230 were deleted by ezboard), only 175 of them are your posts. These are all the board can calculate for, it can't guess how many of your posts have been pushed off ezboards 20 page limit.

The post count doesn't just increment a number in your profile, it checks against actual posts existing in the database.

I would guess that most of your 2000+ posts were in the general forum, which currently only goes back about 1 year.

Whereas Gambit with his high post count probably had a lot of his posts in the private forum which goes back about 5 years.

I am glad Gambit finally set up these boards, they are so much faster and you wont lose any more archives.

Post by **XMEN Gambit** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 7:18 pm

Yup, losing the Humor forum really tore it for me.

One reason my post count is so high relative to Porsche's is that he's not been posting a lot at the XMEN boards lately. Whereas I've continued to do so. There was a lot of traffic for the MegaLAN stuff, too.

Spinning Hat · Post by **Spinning Hat** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 12:48 pm

Yeah, I don't think I ever posted in the Humor forum, so mine is still OK.

Post by **XMEN Gambit** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 1:48 pm

I meant that losing the Humor forum was a prime factor in the decision to dump EZBoard, but come to think of it, Porsche did post an awful lot in Humor, didn't he?

Let's see: "The Laughing Lamborgini," "Hysterical Honda," "Chuckling Chevy," "Funny Ferrari"...

How can we also allow Porsche an appropriately alliterative alias? "Boisterous Boxter?" "Crazy Carrera?"

?

Jester · Post by **Jester** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 12:25 am

Gambit, I can't check my thz email regulary over here, can you send the pw to robert.tutor@us.army.mil ? Thanks buddy

Post by **XMEN Gambit** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 9:02 am

Soon's I get home, you bet.

Post by **XMEN Gambit** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 9:02 am

Soon's I get home, you bet.

Gryphon · Post by **Gryphon** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 12:02 pm

You can say that again.

Post by **XMEN Gambit** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 6:46 pm

I thought I did?

Anyway, Jester, I copied the encrypted password on your "Jester" account into your "Jester DTM" account. Enjoy.