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Background:
I had designed it to hold off counting the new post until it was validated. This is because the post count raising is iterative, rather than doing a full recalculation. (For performance reasons)

However, possibly a member post count cleanup caused it to be refreshed. Or moving from a forum with no post counts to one with them.

I have now changed it so also it will not count unvalidated posts when it does a full recalculation.

Ah, also validation-respecting checks were needed for move-posts/move-topics/delete-posts/delete-topic, as these are working iteratively too. I have now done that.

Hi Chris,
Had a guy today report that he cannot post in our Classified section.
To do that you have to be in the Regular Group which requires 100 points. He is still in the Newbie group even though he has passed the 100 point mark with 165 points.
It looks like the auto promotion failed.
He has only done one post and one of the mods gave him points to get him promoted.
Do you think that this fix could of broken the promotion ?
His username is bubbadubba.
I will probably manually add him to the Regular group now so that he can post in the Classifieds.
Cheers
Ade

Hi,

I don't think I broke anything, no. But I think I know what happened. I think it is a lagginess. The code was running promotion checks before updating the run-time cache of the member's points. So I think that bumped it back one further action before it would go through.
I have corrected that. I also noticed a potential where it would not bump up multiple rank spots in one go (i.e. leapfrogging), depending on database record order - that should be fixed now too.