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I wasn't good enough at encouraging people to be kinder, and removing people who refuse to be kind. Encouraging people is hard, and removing people creates conflict, and I hate conflict... so that's why I wasn't better at it.

I was a very, very sensitive teen. The atmosphere of this forum as it is now, if it had existed in 1996, would probably have upset me far more than it would have helped.

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Basically, someone deleted all their posts (over 4000 of them).. that's why I restored a forum backup. Losing that many posts affects a lot of discussions and kinda makes them not make so much sense anymore. So, that's why we can't let people delete all of their posts. So don't post anything you might want to get rid of again, K? Razz

The past 12 hours of posts were lost because of the backup restore (well, not completely - they're just in a different database and will have to be manually restored by hand). So if you posted anything really important... I hope you have a backup of it XD

I can set up a copy of the 'newer' forum so you can see the newer posts. Or something.

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I have set up a copy of the "newer" version of the forums here:
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Use it to read & retrieve anything you need to... but try not to actually post or reply there 'cause it's just temporary. If you wanna respond to something, copy & paste it onto this copy of the forums and then reply to that.

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Huh, kinda doesn't make sense but whatever.

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SoulRiser Wrote:Basically, someone deleted all their posts (over 9000 of them).. that's why I restored a forum backup. Losing that many posts affects a lot of discussions and kinda makes them not make so much sense anymore. So, that's why we can't let people delete all of their posts. So don't post anything you might want to get rid of again, K? Razz

The past 12 hours of posts were lost because of the backup restore (well, not completely - they're just in a different database and will have to be manually restored by hand). So if you posted anything really important... I hope you have a backup of it XD

I can set up a copy of the 'newer' forum so you can see the newer posts. Or something.

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Well, I don't understand how someone could delete so many of their posts, because you can't delete your post after someone posted after it, unless you have mod powahs. But I checked the post whores list and nobody has less posts than the last time I went over it.

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Twas Wolfeh.

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I was wondering what the fuck happened. who was it that deleted their posts?
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Hanny Wrote:Twas Wolfeh.
He's still got 4000 something posts, same as usual.

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thought criminal Wrote:I was wondering what the fuck happened. who was it that deleted their posts?
Hanny Wrote:Twas Wolfeh.

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oh oops. why did he do that? if anyone knows.
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I doubt it was him.
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Hanny Wrote:Twas Wolfeh.
He's still got 4000 something posts, same as usual.

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I think that was the point of the forum restoration, so that the posts would come back.

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Oh, kk.

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>.< I lost a really long post in one of vatman's thread
09-14-2009 06:03 AM
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Wolfeh is now officially Jesus.

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Only did it because the forum is a shitbin. And the backup brought them back =D

I doubt i posted anything important.

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huh?
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thought criminal Wrote:huh?

Nevermind. ignore me. im unimportant and babbling =]

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okay if you say so.
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=D

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Some threads confuse me now, but it's all good.
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Oh, that is why some of my posts have gone. I nearly raged.

I used to be "The circus" as I forgot my login, but then hey-ho I remembered it.
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I did rage. lol, I'm making up by posting double what I did before.
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So that's what happened. My Freeman toaster porn thread was lost. Now someone put one more up.

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I put one up
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I would really love it if you could get back the whole topic in voices in your head, Soul. I really don't feel like typing that out again.

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Yeah that really bit. I had a really long response for you too.
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It sucks that Happy Camper's thread also got lost. :/

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damn. I didnt even realize that.
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I have set up a copy of the "newer" version of the forums here:
http://www.school-survival.net/forumstemp/
Use it to read & retrieve anything you need to... but try not to actually post or reply there 'cause it's just temporary. If you wanna respond to something, copy & paste it onto this copy of the forums and then reply to that.

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thanks soul

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