From 003e6d0775ba48ffdb5bd76a0e8eb380aedc4fa8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Bar=C4=B1=C5=9F=20Soner=20U=C5=9Fakl=C4=B1?=
 <barisusakli@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2026 10:21:52 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] fix: closes #14010

---
 src/posts/delete.js | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/posts/delete.js b/src/posts/delete.js
index ba637ccff5..aa76bc5f5f 100644
--- a/src/posts/delete.js
+++ b/src/posts/delete.js
@@ -122,7 +122,10 @@ module.exports = function (Posts) {
 			if (posts.length && posts[0]) {
 				const topicData = posts[0].topic;
 				const newPostCount = topicData.postcount - posts.length;
-				topicPostCountTasks.push(['topics:posts', newPostCount, tid]);
+				const isRemoteCid = !utils.isNumber(topicData.cid) || topicData.cid === -1;
+				if (!isRemoteCid) {
+					topicPostCountTasks.push(['topics:posts', newPostCount, tid]);
+				}
 				if (!topicData.pinned) {
 					zsetIncrBulk.push([`cid:${topicData.cid}:tids:posts`, -posts.length, tid]);
 				}