Strange question perhaps, but is there any way to change the number of "views" for a thread.

For example if it is currently showing "243", can we say, for example, change it to be "4354" if we wanted to? And then once we have changed that number, any further views will be added as normal?

Thanks

it's stored in the database, so you'd have to update that

And how would we do that, if you don't mind? (The other way round too of course - ie. making a number smaller....)

you'd use phpmyadmin and locate the thread in question; i'm nto entirely sure what tables would need updated offhand as this isn't something I'd update myself so i've not looked into it.

I remember with the rating issue I had a while back we could change:

UPDATE ubbt_USER_PROFILE set USER_RATING='0' where USER_ID='###'

Again, just change ### to the userid in question.

That worked I was wondering if there was something similar.

Thanks gizmo, it's not something I would normally change either but I want a thread to look less busy than it is (long story....) and if there was a way to do this it would help.

that'd be a quick mysql command, and yes it'd work the same way, if i bothered to craft the query; as i wouldn't know where to look offhand I can't craft a simple query; not to mention I think that data is held in a memory resident table as well and am not sure how they work offhand.

Hence the recommendation to login to your SQL server wiht PHPMyAdmin and check.

Not exactly sure how to do that, but will look into it.

In the meantime if anyone knows what the command might be!

Well, it looks like "ubb7_TOPIC_VIEWS" only holds worthless temporary data, so "ubb7_TOPICS" is the key...

Something similar to:
UPDATE `ubb7_TOPICS` SET `TOPIC_VIEWS` = 'xxxxx' WHERE `ubb7_TOPICS`.`TOPIC_ID` =xx;

xxxxx would be the view ammount
xx would be the topic id
ubb7_ would be your mysql database prefix

I was just looking ... what exactly is the topic id? I couldn't see one, just an id for each post. Is the topic id the id number of the first post in a thread? (ie, for this thread, #184464)?