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Originally Posted by Ted S

There's no best practice I'm aware of to avoid editing tables. Counts are stored with the post table because that's what's already being called.

It's certainly possible to do just about any mod without altering existing tables but I chose to alter the ones that made sense to alter as opposed to increasing queries and load by adding new ones which have to joined in.

Thanks for the reply. I'm of the feeling that it's probably not a good idea to alter the core tables of vBulletin even though so many hacks do it - including the immensely popular Post Thanks mod.
If the post table is absolutely huge like ours then it could possibly be argued that adding a couple of fields may have more detrimental effect than adding a new table and join element to the sql.

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