# Changing ownership of posts leaves negative posts count

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-ownership-of-posts-leaves-negative-posts-count/51117
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [October 5, 2016, 1:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-ownership-of-posts-leaves-negative-posts-count/51117 "2016-10-05T13:48:52Z")
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### Author: ![precessor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/precessor/32/120664_2.png) [@precessor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/precessor)
#### Post date: [October 5, 2016, 1:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-ownership-of-posts-leaves-negative-posts-count/51117/1 "2016-10-05T13:48:52Z")

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I’ve changed the ownership of posts from an “old email address” related account login to a new email login as described [here](https://meta.discourse.org/t/merging-two-users/27136/2) (before I read the [howto](https://meta.discourse.org/t/change-ownership-of-all-the-posts-by-a-specific-user/48921), unfortunately…)

Anyway looking at the “old” user account I see the number of posts this account has is minus 7.  
How can this be?

![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/9/3/93cefe1709d4c95754a42a1154b1ea01dc871d1f.png)

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### Author: ![incapaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/incapaz/32/175057_2.png) [@incapaz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/incapaz)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2021, 9:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-ownership-of-posts-leaves-negative-posts-count/51117/2 "2021-02-23T21:59:11Z")

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Has anyone found a solution to this ?

I just registered my account to my Discourse instance after needing to install it again, and I made a representative account with admin so I can configure my forum through it. I forgot to log out of my main and into the rep account, and when I made a category, I changed the ownership to the representative account and made my post count negative. Is there a way for me to reset my topic and post count to be 0 again? I haven’t posted anything other than unlisting an automatically created topic.

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [February 24, 2021, 2:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-ownership-of-posts-leaves-negative-posts-count/51117/3 "2021-02-24T02:31:15Z")

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I am pretty sure it re-syncs at some point, may have to wait a whole week on it though.

Is the negative number there even after waiting 7 days?