First post in thread not showing up

[Boofo]

Does anyone know where I would begin to look for a fix as to why the first post in a thread does not show the message, but only the thread title? If you make a reply to that invisible post, the reply shows up fine. What could cause something like that?

[Boofo]

Doesn't anybody have any idea how to fix this or what to look for? This poor guy's forums are down until we can get this fixed.

[Natch]

He might have implemented the tempalte mod to show the first post in a different format, but forgot to put the first format in ?

my Postbit template is setup as follows:

<if condition="$post['postcount'] == 1">

.... contents of postbit for first post only ... 

<else />

.... contents of postbit for all subsequent posts ... 

</if>

I use it to show the first post using the vB3 standard postbit, and the rest of the posts using the vB2 style postbit ...

[Xenon]

either what Natch said, or the user has maybe installed something like the lockdown hack, but made a mistake during the installation?

[Boofo]

I thought of both pf those possibilities. It turned out to be that he had turned off the minumum characters to post in the Admin CP. He had made it blank instead of putting a zero in there.