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[Svpernova09]

Wow, so this thread exploded. So here goes....

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?

I'm not saying you or anyone should or shouldn't be annoyed by this. I fully support anyone who wants to recover what they can from google cache. Other peoples posts getting deleted was my fault. Not anyone elses.

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

The deleting other people's posts was not intended, it was purely my fault.

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

Please stop crying about anything you possibly can. Whenever *anything* happens, you're the first to QQ. Please stop and please stop demanding things you have NO idea on whether they can be done or not. The function used was Prune threads. My understanding of this, was that The Prune Threads by user name function would prune threads in the forums I specified. So what I assumed I was doing was pruning all threads of Fursphere's posts. Not deleting threads that he started as well, this was completely unintentional. This was done on the backend, it's irreversible, the actual data was removed from the database. It was not until after this had happened, and I ran the update counters function that I realized that not only were Fur's posts gone, but anything he started was gone as well.

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

Read the paragraph above.

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.

He didn't delete your posts. I did inadvertently when I was trying to remove just his posts. I lost a number of posts as well.

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.

Exactly. The wiki is a very under-utilized feature we have here.



I really hope this clears up and sheds some light onto what happened. So, blame me I guess. I'm very sorry it turned out like this, so flame away if you feel the need.