RationalBiker Posted February 27, 2006 Report Share Posted February 27, 2006 It's not posing a problem really, but my link (which still works fine) on the top right hand of my forum page reads "-1 New Messages". How does one get a New Messages deficit? Do I owe someone a new message now? j/k Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
softwareNerd Posted February 27, 2006 Report Share Posted February 27, 2006 That's funny. I've never seen that happen in the message-count, but I have seen it happen in other places: as in "this thread contains -1 posts"! The software keeps counters so that it does not have to re-count stuff. I figure they sometimes get out of synch. There are some admin options that tell the software to rebuild various counters. I'll give that a try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unconquered Posted February 27, 2006 Report Share Posted February 27, 2006 How does one get a New Messages deficit? Do I owe someone a new message now? j/k Haven't you heard? It's the result of the government's new message tax ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eternal Posted February 28, 2006 Report Share Posted February 28, 2006 I just saw the following happen at the bottom of one thread: 3 User(s) are reading this topic (2 Guests and 0 Anonymous Users) 1 Members: Eternal in other words: 3 = 2 + 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D'kian Posted February 28, 2006 Report Share Posted February 28, 2006 Wouldnt that be 2 guests and one member equals three users? Of course, the expression 2G+1M=3U is pure nonsense Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prometheus98876 Posted June 7, 2007 Report Share Posted June 7, 2007 I got the -1 New Message thing today, after deleting an old message. Then I deleted another one and it went to -2 New Messages..hmmm.. But now after I deleted a message its back to -1 again.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prometheus98876 Posted June 7, 2007 Report Share Posted June 7, 2007 Yeap, I tried deleting more messages from my inbox, it definetely seems to change when I delete messages... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidOdden Posted June 7, 2007 Report Share Posted June 7, 2007 I got the -1 New Message thing today, after deleting an old message. Then I deleted another one and it went to -2 New Messages.Have you tried deleting an infinite number of messages to find out if there is such a thing as negative infinity? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prometheus98876 Posted June 7, 2007 Report Share Posted June 7, 2007 Good idea, I will try sending myself huge amonts of messages and then delete them (I found out you can message yourself ) ! But seriously, it seems to have stopped now. But when it was still doing it, it wouldnt do it everytiem I deleted one of the messages in my Inbox. Im wondering if cookies could be at all to blame here.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
softwareNerd Posted June 7, 2007 Report Share Posted June 7, 2007 ... it seems to have stopped now.I reset the negatives to 0, in the database. It'll happen again. From what I've seen, it's related to "saved" messages. Deleting a message from the "Saved (Unsent)" folder appears to decrement the "new message count". It's a "feature" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prometheus98876 Posted June 7, 2007 Report Share Posted June 7, 2007 Ah, well that seems to be about in line with what was going on before. Thanks, though it was not as though it bothered me, it was more of a curious thing to happen. I got to say, it is an odd "feature" :-P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~Sophia~ Posted June 8, 2007 Report Share Posted June 8, 2007 I have the -1 in my new message folder. I don't remember deleting anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D'kian Posted June 8, 2007 Report Share Posted June 8, 2007 Have you tried deleting an infinite number of messages to find out if there is such a thing as negative infinity? I wouldn't bother. The existence of negative infinity has been proved already. It is the number of constructive proposals for Iraq by the Democratic Party. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prometheus98876 Posted June 8, 2007 Report Share Posted June 8, 2007 I have the -1 in my new message folder. I don't remember deleting anything. Damn, and just when I thought that theory was a good one. Hmm... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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