# Posts count and highest post number

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**Created:** [August 9, 2020, 6:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/posts-count-and-highest-post-number/160278 "2020-08-09T18:12:07Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 9, 2020, 6:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/posts-count-and-highest-post-number/160278/1 "2020-08-09T18:12:07Z")

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I had a small question about the `posts_count` and `highest_post_number` metadata for a topic. These aren’t always the same. For example, the topic

> **[Aditya Birla Capital - A complete Financial Inclusion](https://forum.valuepickr.com/t/aditya-birla-capital-a-complete-financial-inclusion/17973)**
>
> Overview It comes from a highly reputed business franchisee with stake of about 72%. V well diversified Product offerings, virtually offers all the financial products under the sun Poised to capture the immense growth potential available due to...

has

```
posts_count = 98
highest_post_number = 105

```

Is this because some posts have been deleted or hidden? That seems like the most likely possibility. Though 7 deleted or hidden posts in a thread of 105 posts seems like quite a high number.

For example the URL corresponding to post 55, i.e. ending with `/55`, namely

> **[Aditya Birla Capital - A complete Financial Inclusion](https://forum.valuepickr.com/t/aditya-birla-capital-a-complete-financial-inclusion/17973/55)**
>
> Agree on valuation but not on peanuts … There is nothing like peanut or cover … Cost of Capital for everyone remains same. I am sure people who invested in the business would have their own logic and rationale and so do premji. NBFC due to...

shows post 54. This seems to be the first point in the thread where there is a discrepancy. So it’s possible that the preceding post was deleted or hidden.

If I’m off base, please let me know.

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