We've started a new forum... still cooking along in stealth mode until we make a public announcement. Once we do make the public announcement our page view and post numbers are going to be pretty low. I have toyed with the idea of hitting my pages several times a day to up the page view count, and creating multiple personalities to start a flame war with myself via forum posts.. but...

Is there any way, perhaps with XSL, to disable page view and post totals so that the low #'s aren't a barrier to readership and posting? Once we get a full head of steam by the fall, I would see turning these counts back on...

Best-

John Tariot
movingimagenews.com

On your Control Panel in Look and Feel => Display Options you will find these settings:

Show Total Topics/Posts/Both?
On the main OpenTopic page that lists all of your forums, you may display the total topics within each forum, the total posts within each forum, or both the total topics and total posts. Show Total Topics
Show Total Posts
Display Member Total?
You may add a counter to your OpenTopic intro page (the first page visitors see when they enter your OpenTopic) that displays the total number of registered users on OpenTopic.

Try switching those off first and then let's see if you would like to disable more than that.

Regards,

Brett Harris
Director of Technical Information,
Infopop Corporation

Hi-

Yep.. have the "Look and Feel" set to show total topics (want that) and hide total posts on the Forum intro page. I am also hiding the member count for now. When you get into a specific forum, it shows how many page views and posts each topic has had-- these are the low numbers that I would like to NOT display for the time being... do-able?

Thanks-
-John

Fortunately, I seem to have gotten a satisfactory answer from Steve Benitez in the ubb.x forum.

[This message was edited by Rich R. on June 17, 2003 at 10:09 PM.]