history of posts...

[Firmpete]

So lemme see if I have part of this right. Fur creates some /click (and a bunch of other) threads. Folks post in those threads with new ideas, then Fur edits the original post with the updated info as a consolidation post to make things easy to find. And now those consolidated posts that just happened to be under Fur's name but that others had contributed to, including the ENTIRE rest of the thread, are now gone?

Just in case I'm wrong, lemme go check google's cache...

• Yep, macro compendium thingy gone. [Thanks Jafula for reposting from google cache or wherever.] 12 pages of updates by other people besides fur. Gone.
• Elemental shaman DPS macro thread. 13 pages of updates and discussion by other people than Fur. Gone.

Is there a reason I shouldn't be rather annoyed by this? Am I missing something? Should I STFU and GTFO?

This.

And yeah, he could have deleted his own posts. Not other peoples stuff.

[Brocher]

So lemme see if I have part of this right. Fur creates some /click (and a bunch of other) threads. Folks post in those threads with new ideas, then Fur edits the original post with the updated info as a consolidation post to make things easy to find. And now those consolidated posts that just happened to be under Fur's name but that others had contributed to, including the ENTIRE rest of the thread, are now gone?

Just in case I'm wrong, lemme go check google's cache...

• Yep, macro compendium thingy gone. [Thanks Jafula for reposting from google cache or wherever.] 12 pages of updates by other people besides fur. Gone.
• Elemental shaman DPS macro thread. 13 pages of updates and discussion by other people than Fur. Gone.

Is there a reason I shouldn't be rather annoyed by this? Am I missing something? Should I STFU and GTFO?

If you do GTFO could you please not ask for your posts to be deleted? Many of the deleted threadsI have trawled (and hoped to mine more) in the hope of outgrowing my noobness.

I'm new here but I really can't see why you would delete whole threads rather than just make individual posts disappear. Nerd raaaaaaaage, good for a laugh but sad to see the stereotype reinforced (yet) again.

[Fat Tire]

So lemme see if I have part of this right. Fur creates some /click (and a bunch of other) threads. Folks post in those threads with new ideas, then Fur edits the original post with the updated info as a consolidation post to make things easy to find. And now those consolidated posts that just happened to be under Fur's name but that others had contributed to, including the ENTIRE rest of the thread, are now gone?

Just in case I'm wrong, lemme go check google's cache...

• Yep, macro compendium thingy gone. [Thanks Jafula for reposting from google cache or wherever.] 12 pages of updates by other people besides fur. Gone.
• Elemental shaman DPS macro thread. 13 pages of updates and discussion by other people than Fur. Gone.

Is there a reason I shouldn't be rather annoyed by this? Am I missing something? Should I STFU and GTFO?

Your absolutely right and should be annoyed. I think we are missing something here.

[Jafula]

The point was no drama.

What part of deleting other peoples posts (which don't violate any rules) constitute no drama?

[Khatovar]

but for the sake of making things easier on himself.

And why, exactly, do the rest of the people in the community have to suffer for what makes things easy on the drama-scale? I submitted posts to any number of threads, I've posted macros, I've participated in discussions. Does that mean I should go back through everything and back it up in case the OP decides to conniption out and blow up all my opinions, theories and submissions?

The drama's here, why is it necessary to make it a dozen times worse by basically allowing someone else to go in and delete the work of everyone else on the site just because he started said post. That's absurd. I didn't violate the rules, so why does he have the right to delete my posts? That's just childish and petty.

[Moorea]

You should have let him - maybe somewhere midway he'd realize it's not good... Plus he wouldn't have wiped out other people's replies - please undo this screwup

[Bettysue]

The good thing about a collaborative effort is the majority of the knowledge still exists in the community. Sure some time is lost putting the information back into an easy to find location, but it can be done.

This is also a reason the wiki on this site should be utilized more, then the efforts of many are actually a part of the site and not a part of one individuals history.

Ya 100's of pages of history may be gone, but knowing what we know now it won't take that many reiterations to get things right. If there was something you really liked and miss ask the questions and help the effort to get the information back out there. There is no reason to give up because it became a touch more difficult.

[Moorea]

It's about time moderation bs here comes to a change - again, plz undo this

[Oswyn]

I was annoyed as well. I would've been fine with deleting his posts. At least we'd still have posts of others that contributed.

Going forward, we really should capture such useful information in the wiki so it's there for good and not rely on stickies.

[Sam DeathWalker]

Well frankily I think he has a right to his own intellectual property (i.e. words that he made). I had an argument with Steel Warrior when they took away my signature and told them; fine if others get a full sig and I don't get a link to my forum in my sig then delete all my posts (not complete threads). They gave me my sig back ( with posting restrictions).

I think fur has every right to delete his own posts, or ask that they be deleted (on the other hand why should the mods have to do his work for him?).

Nonetheless no one has the right to delete any other persons posts. So removing whole threads should never be done.


I don't think that simply because you post on a public forum your work/ideas/comments are no longer your own property. He should have made his own forum / site and linked to there from his many posts here, kinda hurt himself more then anyone else removing all his posts here.


I doubt anyone else is going to do the same; they will leave and not care if their posts are up or not so at this time backing up the forum for whatever reasons dosnt seem needed.