Well if thats true then the problem is even worse!

If you look at Perl Monks Discussion I posted something that you replied to, under the title A PerlMonks 'Community' section? at the very instant the replies counter says 9. There are only 7 (grand)-children, only 4 of which are direct children. Unfortunately neither of these numbers is 9. :-)

Have a look around and you will see the counts are consistantly inaccurate for more than 1 reply.

Yves
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