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Originally posted by dplax:
Not all threads are updated at the same time. Just imagine that for higher post count members this could mean updating more than a thousand threads at the same time. That would put quite a load on the servers.
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Nah it wouldn't. Member details are stored in a database and a simple SQL command such as UPDATE members SET postcount=newnum should do it. If the software is clever it reads the postcount from one single place for all posts. Similarly, it should be very easy to manipulate thousands of posts by a single user with a simple SQL statement.
I don't see any reason for forum rank not to change on all posts unless the board software was coded very inefficiently and stores the member details along with each post - it should read them from one central table as I said.
[ 02-06-2005, 12:09 PM: Message edited by: Vaskez ]