# Selecting posts+replies miscounts the number of posts

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/selecting-posts-replies-miscounts-the-number-of-posts/229242>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [June 6, 2022, 7:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/selecting-posts-replies-miscounts-the-number-of-posts/229242 "2022-06-06T19:18:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![mbauman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mbauman/32/139835_2.png) [@mbauman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mbauman)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2022, 7:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/selecting-posts-replies-miscounts-the-number-of-posts/229242/1 "2022-06-06T19:18:34Z")

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I have a topic with 53 replies. If I go through the topic and individually **select** each individual post in the topic, I get 53 posts selected. 👍

If, however, I go through the topic and use the **select +replies** button (where available, just a plain **select** otherwise), I end up with a count of 60 posts:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/a/d/9/ad9afc80ebf36c3f5b81dd68f1cd821547f94a7e.png)

And in fact, if I **deselect** a post that has a reply to it, the count goes down by one. But when I do a **select +replies** again, the count goes back up by **two**!

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/c/d/d/cdd151e1942bf75dc0d6e8bb41c6f2ad0bd3b1b1.png)

Why does this matter? Well, for one, if the system thinks you’ve selected as many posts as there are in the topic (or more), you lose the ability to create a new topic from the selected posts! This is how I noticed the bug in the first place:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/f/c/4/fc40a16068d2b663874abca2fa1f4ec71fefa1cf.png)

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