Originally Posted by
SanDiego1K
Yes, I have. I do my best to not make statements here without having obtained backup information first.
There have been periods of time when certain forums have counted and certain times they have not. For example, Omni used to count. When the decision was made to stop counting it, it was as of that day going forward. There was no backward sweep to delete all Omni posts. Further, there was thread corruption from early years on prior platforms. Those threads simply aren't available to be recounted. If TB approves this measure, the count for the specific forums not currently counted will be as of the day that IB throws the controls for them to count. In order to count from inception, IB would have to recount the entire board. I have been told it would be a considerable task. IB understandably has little appetite for this. My personal perspective is that it would have minimal benefit.
I didn't know the answer to this, but I did do some research earlier today (vBulletin administration stuff is easy to search) and the only way to "rebuild" post counts for old posts (or to eliminate them from old posts) is to essentially have vBulletin sweep through the massive database to rebuild the post count. That's not a viable option, IMO. Many people would lose post count as very old threads that ended up corrupted or no longer in place would fall from post counts.