Ambiguity with number of replies

In a forum, if you read down the 'number of replies' column, the entries seem to be one more than they should be. For example, I have a post with 0 replies, so there is just 1 entry on the thread. The replies column should read 0 but instead reads 1. This pattern seems to continue of increasing numbers as well.

Can you post a screenshot?
The numbers appear fine to me.

Are you sure your looking at the replies column and not the views column?

This issue was brought up a couple days ago in DevShed. It seems that the updating routine for vBulletin is a nasty resource hog, so the numbers are updated on a weekly cron cycle rather than whenever a moderator or admin deletes or moves a post. The system will increment whenever a post or thread is added, it just doesn't decrement well, from what I understand.

If JC and the Fab five can come up with a better way to do things, be assured they will implement it posthaste.

Could the cron not run more often? Perhaps semi-weekly?
Not our decision, agreed... a suggestion nonetheless...

I still don't really notice the issue

Apparently it is really bad on the resources and they certainly don't want to shut the forums down on a regular basis, so I'm assuming that the cron is scheduled for the time of week when traffic is the slowest.

What DNG said

J

Actually, to me it seems the forum simply counts the post itself as a reply.

So the moment you start a new thread, it already has 1 'reply'.

I have one other forum with this behaviour, and quite frankly, I hate it.

Didn't use to be like this, so what's changed? DevH is still the old way...

We have setup a weekly cron job to calculate thread reply count. We found an error on that script which gave wrong reply count numbers. As a result last page on certain threads couldn’t view. All these are now fixed, we are sorry for the inconvenient cause by this.

As this is related to the subject, I'll bring it up here.
I noticed that a reputation (agree/disagree) is counted as a reply. Should it?

Second, if someone is subscribed to the thread, will they be notified when there's a reputation added? (I believe they shouldn't be notified)

We do not count reputation received as reply count, if you have notice this, can you please let us know where you saw this.



Subscribers do not receive any email notifications when some one gave reputation in that thread.

I did notice it, today even. I just can't find it for the life of me.
The situation... a post with no replies. I think B-Con left rep (to the original post) but didn't post a response.
My search results for Newest Posts displayed one reply.

When I clicked I saw the original post, with one agree, but no follow-ups.

Need a specific example in order for us to track this down

Thanks

J

FYI, we fixed the issue with the # of replies, and re-ran the cron so they should be good to go.