Original Signatures and Post Counters

[Tommy Boy]

This is another one of my irritating suggestions ;)

It would be nice if each post would retain its own signature and post count. That way, when we read old posts, we'll see the real post count for the poster at the time he posted, and same for his signature.

Right now, if I look at an old post and I see a high post count, I think, wow, this user is dedicated, and I read his post more carefully, even though at the time it was only his 2nd post, and he had no idea what he's talking about.

Makes sense?

[The Prohacker]

That would add alot more database overhead.. It would have to store every sig they make, and every post number for each user. When you have users who make thousands of posts, that table is gonna get big..

[Tommy Boy]

Not at all... Just store this information together with the post itself (in the POST table). It should not even add one single query.

[JamesUS]

It's a good idea - but it would make the post table much bigger, because of all the bbcode that signatures use.

[MattR]

It would certainly save a join from the user table to the post table for each post (assuming username was kept in there as well). Of course, if a user edits their signature then it wouldn't be reflected but as I understand it that is the SOP for UBB so perhaps users coming from UBB wouldn't notice (or care).

[FWC]

Originally posted by Tommy Boy
It would be nice if each post would retain its own signature and post count. That way, when we read old posts, we'll see the real post count for the poster at the time he posted, and same for his signature. This would need to be an option. My users would not like it at all. They want to see their current status reflected everywhere.

[tubedogg]

I wouldn't mind seeing something like 153/345 posts, 345 being the current total, 153 being the count at the time of that post.

[Tommy Boy]

tubedogg -- your wish is my command! :cool:

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