# Are post read counts per user accurate?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/are-post-read-counts-per-user-accurate/54096
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 11, 2016, 5:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/are-post-read-counts-per-user-accurate/54096 "2016-12-11T17:47:16Z")
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### Author: ![neil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/neil/32/102150_2.png) [@neil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/neil)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2017, 6:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/are-post-read-counts-per-user-accurate/54096/22 "2017-11-27T18:50:14Z")

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> [@neil](#):
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> - includes posts that you can’t see (hidden, deleted)
> - includes posts that have been moved in the topic they don’t belong to anymore, and in their new topic (double counting them)
> - skipping to the end of topic counts all posts as read

I fixed these issues recently ([see here](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bug-or-bot-a-new-user-showing-as-read-a-lot-of-posts/40632/10)). So posts read counts should be accurate from now on.

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