I have two duplicate posted topics, each titled the same as the category they’re in, and each with a -1 reply count. If clicked, neither topic has content, and there isn’t a wrench to delete the topic.
Two questions: (1) how do I delete these topics? (2) how did this happen? I’d like to avoid this happening in the future.
Thank you in advance!
How did you create these two topics? By any chance, did they show up after a migration of some sort? Are you running any unofficial plugins?
Does this happen for all new topics you create or just these two?
$ rails c
> Topic.find(id).destroy
Where id is the topic_id in your browser url.
I have no idea how these were created, actually. No migration, and yes, (several) unofficial plugins.
Just these two.
I will try your method of destroying g the topics. Thank you!
You’re confident these are not the required “About {category}” category description topics? Deleting those will cause bad things to happen, so I want to make sure.
The “about” topic is there:
Can I simply destroy the category? I’m not invested in it, and it would be easy to set it back up.
I see -1 reply counts when a topic that was in the review queue gets deleted eg. “?status=deleted”
AFAIK non-staff members would not see any -1 counts so I’ve not considered it to be a high priority concern.
Related, "1"s can go to "0"s
