Interests shared by suspended users should be treated as unique

[mithgol]

Title
Interests shared by suspended users should be treated as unique

Short, concise description of the idea
If an interest is shared by suspended users only, it should not become a hyperlink on userinfo.bml -- it should be in plain text, as if it were unique.

Full description of the idea

There is a section of interests on userinfo.bml page, and some

Comments

Repeating list of interests (now with correct linebreaks)

[mithgol]

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[noweb4u]

This has to be one of the most trivial requests I've seen to date.

This should be plain text rather than hyperlinked because only one person thinks it has merit.

[cmshaw]

Of course unique interests should not be hyperlinked; are you sure that this caused by suspended users and not some other bug? At any rate, it should certainly be fixed.

[ruakh]

[cowsandmilk]

I highly doubt there's a counter, there probably is a script that checks the status of an interest when you add it. If the interest doesn't already exist, its created with status unique, if it does already exist and its current status is unique, it changes to shared. If it already exists and its status is shared, it stays as shared.

If my idea is the way it happens, implementing what you want would be a pain in the ass.

[imc]

There is a counter. As crschmidt said in a comment below, the method by which it works - or doesn't, as the case may be - is black magic. An old Zilla entry suggests there may be some bugs in this area.

Whatever, it's highly unlikely that the code will be changed to subtract suspended or deleted users from the counter. After all, these users could be undeleted or unsuspended at any time and it just isn't worth the database hits to fix a silly counter.

[mithgol]

I've heard that interest counts are decremented on journal deletion. Then the suspended aren't less worthy, are they? Suspended are rare cases, so the database hits are overall even cheaper.