Winter World Cup WINNER - poweewee (Philippines)

[GreatGonzales]

(02-28-2013 06:32 AM)awpertunity Wrote:  

(02-26-2013 02:44 AM)Gfich Wrote:  So... I'm gonna do another clean-up sweep to counter the long-thread-lag-thing. Can I clean up everything up to page 36, since the group play has started already?

Deleting old posts won't help with the thread lag, that has nothing to do with the length of the thread. Each time someone tries to submit a post and gets the "bad_directive_error" (or something like that), the post gets posted to the thread but the forum doesn't recognize the post was added. The number of pages shown in the thread is based on how many posts the forum thinks are in the thread versus how many there actually are.

Right now the forum thinks we just got to 401 posts, and thus opened up the 41st (or 9th with 50 posts/page) page of the thread, however the thread actually has 416 posts now, causing a 15 post lag at this point. Deleting the first 360 posts won't solve anything because the 15 post difference will still be there.

The more posts there are in a thread the higher the chance of the error occurring and so it may look like the cause is just a long thread, but it is not.

What a cogent explanation! How do you know this?