One specific user on my site keeps dropping in points and I’m completely stumped. A couple days ago he said he lost 200 points and showed me a cached screenshot and that was true, none of the 10 or so other people in the screenshot were inconsistent. Now again today he’s down another 200, again no change for anyone else.
None of the point values have been adjusted (which you would think should affect others as well), no topics or posts are being deleted or moved into untracked categories. No users have been deleted.
The only thing this specific user does that no one else is is Thank hundreds of posts a day presumably spamming for points, which I don’t care about, but this is the only action he does that’s different then the average user. I can’t imagine how that would possibly make his points drop but something is doing it…any ideas? Also is there any plan to allow admins to arbitrary change individual users points, that would also solve this.
I can’t say for certainty if it’s affected anyone else since I nor most people actually care that much to ever notice, but this user is in the top 20 and the others around him that I can directly see the change from his screenshot have definitely not been affected. This is apparently deeply upsetting to him and something he’s monitoring
Edit: for reference I ran the rake command when I first installed it (which was shortly after the plugin was available). I just ran it again now, and EVERY user went up, a completely inconsistent amount. I went up 10k points. That user went up 1000. The #2 user went up 2k. The number #6 user went up 50. (not 50k, 50). EVERY user went up by something (everyone in the top 200 or so, people actively changing points those below that with 2-300 points didn’t change at all), but it’s WILDLY inconsistent how much. But the fact that points returned means it has nothing to do with anything being deleted/removed. Also if adjusting the point calculations adjusts the totals automatically without running the rake then users would go up/down when it was changed, not months later (I haven’t changed any of them for many months). If it only changed the points acquired after that point, then again no points should drop. If the only thing the rake does is readjust the points then it has to be a bug somehow because it wouldn’t pull back points lost to deleted topics right (which, I don’t have any, but theoretically)