Automatic Periodic Archiving of All Topics
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It was not an impulsive or gratuitous comment. It's because of thinking twice before criticisms that I rarely regret them.
You know who else put a lot of effort into running a forum? The lion. Monumental dedication for a decade, and this is not sarcasm. We're dealing with different matters, that have to be separated.
I already expressed my gratitude for his effort in making this forum operational, but being demanding would be one more reason for him to take the project seriously.
Did Brad..
- ..give a damn about data loss in his trust? No.
- ..appear to value the time and effort of members? No.
- ..feel accountable for his negligence? No.
- ..show a remote concern for the inconvenient caused? No.
- ..reach out to everyone involved to communicate? No.
- ..try to recover the posts? No.
- ..bother to reply to a contact? No.
- ..properly correct to prevent recurrences? No.
- ..blame internal issues on an Internet Archive deficiency? Maybe.
But never mind, the lady already succeeded in her feat.
Mister @ThinPicking, I appreciate your support.
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@Amazoniac said in Automatic Periodic Archiving of All Topics:
Did Brad..
There's always context. And an environment like this very noisy. Read one, and probably compulsion to read all. Understand one, and probably compulsion to understand all. We're just running at different clock speeds right now. Us three, and the administrator.
A new little angel hath arrived in the world recently. The aforementioned their custodian, teacher and love. His heart is elsewhere and must be.
I suspect it would pain them to mention it. As they appear to aim to please, for what appears to be all the right reasons.
A little time. He'll come back. And maybe shorten that rule down to one post. Still leaving an OP with the ability to scrub their own speech. Or share his reasoning.
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Let's say that the admin had the most chaotic week of his life. If he could respond to a nearby comment and modify forum settings, how difficult it would have been to write:
"Hey, man. I can't look into any of this at the moment, but will do when possible."
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@Amazoniac not sure how long these links will work but I was able to find the thread here
Page 4
Page 5
For some reason I can’t get Page 2.
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How kind of you to go out of your way for this?!
Of all the pages that they could skip, they jump the one with the main responses.
Still, it's a remarkable save. Many thanks.
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As @ThinPicking alluded to, I welcomed a newborn into this world last week and along with my business and other personal matters have been pressed for time. In general, I try to be as non-authoritarian as possible in running this forum. I would hope in general we can find ways to work out our differences in an amicable way without trying to invoke my authority by proxy.
I do think the fairest solution to this particular matter would be to restore the thread and take out the author’s posts or any quoted posts that refer to them. When I have some free time, I can do so.
As a general rule, you shouldn’t trust anything on the internet will last. I could become evil or go insane (like the RPF admins before me, for reasons that I’m beginning to appreciate) at any time. If you want to ensure something is preserved, preserve it yourself.
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@brad, read my previous message where I pointed out a considerate thing to do, that would only take a few seconds of your time already here. Everyone will be going through something. You're in a position of a leader and now answers for a community. If for whatever reason you can't take care of the forum for a while, it's understandable, delegate it to someone of trust (the smoking duck, for example) or at least communicate to members the impossibility in advance.
ilovethesea recovered a good deal of the deleted thread. If you can return the rest, nice. But the issue is beyond an incident of mass content exclusion.
Forum owners have to take content preservation seriously because you're curators in essence. And there's no acceptable leeway to messing with a single post of another member. I'm surprised how you didn't perceive this gross vulnerability as a threat to a resource that you cherish, compelling you to lower the tolerance to null to prevent recurrences, until you can discuss with the group what's best to do.
My heart is into this forum and you can count on me to preserve its content. On the first signs of becoming evil or going insane, I would transfer the ownership to someone else that can carry our project on.
This is the kind of passion that inspires members to commit, not the casual, nonchalant attitude.
I don't create a forum for being unsure if I would be qualified to, before you tell me to create one.
Anyway, I'm not trying to test your limits. In fact, I've been putting all of our disagreements aside since joining to cooperate on this project. Observe that I continued to post elsewhere in spite of having my messages completely brushed off. Even now, you couldn't be direct about it. It's complicated.
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@Amazoniac no problem, it took me 2 minutes! I share your dislike for deleted/hidden content
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@brad As promised, I've restored the topic sans the posts of the OP.
