[Boofo]

I understand what you are saying. I just never knew how it worked until now. I guess I didn't think about the posts being tied to the userid like that. But you would think there would be a way to have the gaps removed and have all of the messages re-tied to the new user ids. I know it would be a real intense operation, but it could be done, couldn't it?

By the way, KuraFire, on your quote hack, is there a way to take the gaps out of the database when quotes are removed? I have a 4 quote difference in it. I have added more and it doesn't fill in the spaces left by the deletion of the other quotes. Or does this work the same way as the userid thing?

Originally posted by KuraFire
*nods*

boofo, what's important here is this:

try picturing the structure of your forum - a post is defined by someone's user id - after all, you can easily change their usernames in your admin panel, and that doesn't affect their posts or anything.

Now try picturing what would happen if suddenly their user ID would be changed. How else would the system, vBulletin, know which post belonged to them, and which didn't?

Do you see the conflict there?