Post #262920 by hanford_lemoore on Thu, Oct 26, 2006 2:42 PM

Everyone: take a deep breath. Hold it. Now exhale. Relax. So, since the question was first asked in 2004 a few things have changed. One is that I'm a bit better with programming than I was back then, so if I wanted to do this, I would not have to do it by hand anymore.

But to answer Tom Slick's question:

So, would it be a good idea to "trim the unused" or leave it the way it is?

No. Here's why. Tiki Central is stored in a database, and I can now write some code that would render out reports for us, like "how many accounts with one post or more", or a "ratio of Beyond/bilge posts to Tiki forum posts" for each user. In short, I could generate numbers for any probably any definition we want, all without permanently changing any of the data stored in Tiki Central.

But at the end of the day, that would just be different views on the same data, and I would never label any of those statistics as a "true" count; they're just different counts. But frankly there's a lot more higher-priority things I want to get done on Tiki Central, like announce our latest moderator ....

Now, I don't think Tom Slick's original post warranted the drama that has appeared on this topic. At the same time, when ever terms like "true TCers" appear, it seems commotion is never too far behind.

Okay, back to Tiki!