Deleting posts updates thread.dateline column?

[tombr]

Hello,

I noticed that upon deleting a post, the thread.dateline column is updated with the current timestamp. How can I avoid this? I tried to find where the delete function is but I couldn't find it. Also why does this happen? I'm not sure why the script needs to update the thread's start date when you delete a post.

Also, are there any side effects to have another script update the thread.dateline column? The reason for this is that I wanted to have the ability to manually "bump" some specific threads.

thanks a lot

Tom