Well nothing has been changed with nuke in years. The issues as I remember come from things being a little different that a normal nuke which is when I found out this was not nuke but a clone and I informed you at that time we really do not support ravenuke.
The include post thing has not changed I think since the softwate came out. That is one of those things that is the same as it was since day one the software was released. You can see the query right there in that function. The only thing that controls whether or not we include or subtract posts is the setting in admin settings to update users post count.
Here is an example right from image-inc.php when an ad is posted
Code:
Content visible to verified customers only.
That states if the admin setting is yes then inc_user_posts function is ran and the necessary post count would be updated by one.
Now reversely when an ad is deleted you have this code
Code:
Content visible to verified customers only.
That code minus's the count by one in the user forum posts when there ad is deleted.