Rank change anomaly.

[Aragorn1]

When your forum rank changes, it changes on all the posts you make right, at least i think it has for me in the past. But this time it hasn't, on one thread i am a drow the other a zhentarim guard. Weird.

[ 02-06-2005, 11:19 AM: Message edited by: Aragorn1 ]

[Hivetyrant]

Nah that hapens to everyone, you may notice that your post count is different in some older posts aswell.
Congrats on the big 300

[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.

[Vaskez]

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.

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 ]

[Bungleau]

Actually, since the pages are dynamic, everything's pulled from the database. What's probably happening is that you're getting a cached copy of the page with your old post count. After the cache is cleaned, it will show the new one.

Don't worry... it's only temporary...

[Aragorn1]

Yeah, i was looking at one with no new poest since i changed, so that'll be it. I was really worried, just curious.