23-07-2005 22:12									#121
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Is the restoration of the Hints, Tips & Guides subforum also on that schedule of early August?

	26-07-2005 11:28									#122
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*cough* Is it?

	26-07-2005 12:56									#123
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most probably next week

	26-07-2005 13:40									#124
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Ok then

	29-07-2005 05:22									#125
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It'll be good to have the tips back. Keeps me up on obscure scenario alchemy.

	20-08-2005 05:21									#126
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So I guess that deadline wasn't quite as hard-set as you made it out to be, eh?

	20-08-2005 13:58									#127
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You need to keep posting gentle reminders.

	21-08-2005 01:46									#128
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That's what I'm doing now...

	22-08-2005 20:52									#129
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Yeah, I miss those tips, too! Any new estimate?

	08-09-2005 02:05									#130
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*bump*

1 month overdue and counting...

	12-09-2005 17:26									#131
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Our apologies, but we wont be able to fix post counts

The Tips subforum should be recovered by the end of the month

	12-09-2005 20:32									#132
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quote: originally posted by MarkG Our apologies, but we wont be able to fix post counts

Ah Oh well...

quote: originally posted by MarkG The Tips subforum should be recovered by the end of the month

*cough* We will have to try and repeat what St Leo was trying to do before though. Move the threads into the main forum and remove that subforum again once that's done. Are you sure you won't repeat the mistake and delete everything again?

	12-09-2005 21:20									#133
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i'm pretty sure

	13-09-2005 07:28									#134
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But we are starting a wager...

	14-09-2005 08:41									#135
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quote: Originally poster by MarkG Our apologies, but we wont be able to fix post counts

I think that you may be a bit too pessimistic . . . . . what is impossible to you may not be impossible to some of the affected members who want to restore their post counts and think it worthwhile to invest a bit of time.

Let's try thinking outside the box and see what is required.

In any of my posts, if I click on PROFILE, I apparently have 261 posts. If, instead, I click on SEARCH, I get a list of 569 of my posts. Clearly, I lost most of my posts in March when the system got screwed up and, evidently, you are unable change 261 to 569.

From a somewhat cursory look there appear to be a number of individuals who have joined since '02 who also have two valid post counts. Unfortunately, for many members who joined earlier, the SEARCH count is smaller than the PROFILE number and, consequently of no help. However, IIRC, Mercator has post count numbers for some of these individuals as of early '05.

I have a possible solution that will not involve months and months of work on your part.

1. I assume that Mercator, as moderator of the SL forum, can lock threads and delete posts or arrange to have it done as needed.
2. Let those who were affected by the accidental deletion start their own threads in the SL forum and post as many spam posts as needed to bring their totals up to the number listed under SEARCH. Doing this should require Mercator's prior approval.
3. Have Mercator lock the threads after the spamming.
4. Of course, this will mess up up the SEARCH totals, but that is no great loss . . . . many of them are already meaningless.

	14-09-2005 10:09									#136
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no, we are definately not going have people post spam to increase their post count.

however, i'm willing to by hand correct the post counts of people who have lost their avatar rights (e.g. went below 500 posts). interested people can post here

	14-09-2005 15:51									#137
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Thanks.

Could you please increase my post count by

308 posts (569 - 261 = 308).

	14-09-2005 16:49									#138
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done

	14-09-2005 17:09									#139
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Thank you. That was quick.

	15-09-2005 00:04									#140
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quote: Originally posted by AGRICOLA I think that you may be a bit too pessimistic . . . . . what is impossible to you may not be impossible to some of the affected members who want to restore their post counts and think it worthwhile to invest a bit of time.

I'm pretty sure it's possible. I don't know much about databases, but the crash date, restore date and backup date must be known, so it should be possible to search for all posts made in the "lost" period, keep a tally of all the posts and add them to the profiles. But the question is if that's really worth the effort.

quote: Originally posted by AGRICOLA However, IIRC, Mercator has post count numbers for some of these individuals as of early '05.

I'm afraid that's not gonna be of much use. I just happened to have had a look at the members list (looking for my own, so only other posters with post counts near me are on that list too)and 2 profiles (including mine) several days before the crash.

So the only SL regulars I know pre-crash post counts of are well past the 500 post mark.

For the curious:
:) smiley (2689)
CapTVK (2665)
jim panse (1855)
Mercator (2513)
N35t0r (2446)
techumseh (2656)
The ANZAC (2380)

(And not that it matters anymore now, but I'd be against the spamming method as well.)

	15-09-2005 09:21									#141
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quote: Originally posted by Mercator Move the threads into the main forum and remove that subforum again once that's done.

As sticky threads they never got archived, right? Doesn't this present a problem for future updates?

	15-09-2005 23:13									#142
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quote: Originally posted by Catfish As sticky threads they never got archived, right? Doesn't this present a problem for future updates?

They didn't get archived, but they were on the backup (two different things). They're being restored later, as Markos mentioned.

(Or did you mean something else?)

I believe I checked this back when the crash was still recent: Only the posts made in the period between the backup and the crash were lost. But most of the tips threads were pretty old already. I believe there's just one thread that may be lost, and that's the latest hex-edit doc thread. But I got that latest version, so nothing's lost there.


Welcome back!

	16-09-2005 13:44									#143
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quote: Originally posted by Mercator (Or did you mean something else?)

I guess I was a little unclear. The threads in the Hints, Tips and Guides subforum were always 'live', regardless of the date of last post, because they never got archived. Many have been updated years after they were created. If they are transferred to the main forum there will be nothing to distinguish them from 'normal' threads. I can't see MarkG trawling through the SL Great Library to determine what should or shouldn't be archived. Do you intend to bump some of these threads (eg, the hex-editing ones) before each round of archiving?

	16-09-2005 20:53									#144
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Ah I see... Markos?

I suppose the ideal solution would be to move them off the forum altogether and put them up on the SLeague wiki.