Remember that any datastore item key that ends with '_count' can be charted, so you could also force 'engagement' by showing daily/weekly charts of the number of likes or comments an item gets.
Bear in mind though that if all pending followers are approved by this 'back-end' method, no emails about it will be sent. New followers will just 'appear' to your users. You might want to notify them before doing this?
The above database queries Michael suggested are pretty simple and straightforward but yes, the database admin tool can be a dangerous place to be if you're not sure what you're doing
Say the word and we'll do it for you. We can also run another simple query to 'approve' all pending followers if you like?
As a rule, yes. Whenever a datastore item is updated, its '_updated' key value is set to the time of the update. (Its '_created' key value stays static as the time of creation).
So, if an item is 'liked'. say, or has a comment made on it, or whatever, the relative 'count' key gets incremented, hence the item's '_updated' value is set.
Hope that makes sense.
Put it in a folder inside the module. Various Jamrom module put third party code in module subfolders, for instance, take a look at the jrCore/contrib or jtSystemTools/tools folders
Hope that helps
You shouldn't have removed any of the modules 'by hand'. There are tools in the marketplace to revert modules to older versions. I'm guessing that now your database tables that track installed modules do not line up with what is actually there.
Your best course of action might be to get your host to revert you to the last backup made before you did this upgrade and module removal. We can then do the upgrade again and resolve any issues properly.
Hope that helps