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Started by Xai Jun 3, 2004 at 3:08 PM 22 replies 4k views
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Xai
Xai
A few questions, and maybe complaints and suggestions. Do threads get deleted or simply closed? If threads are ever deleted, how would I find out if that has happened? I posted to a thread yesterday and today, and now it is not on my lists anymore? First I dug deeper looking, then thought I was going crazy, then got really upset that my posts have been destroyed, then realized that maybe they haven''t? It was a simple thread about C++ OOP constructs and their costs, and I have no idea which forum it was in or what it''s title was - but I posted to it today for sure. Please contact me or respond about it here. If it HAS been deleted, I would make the suggestion that such things should not happen ... period. The post was not a flame war (or not comletely) and had no inappropriate content in it, so I cannot understand why it would be killed. Please help, cause I really want my posts back.
Ranger50000
Ranger50000
The topic was called invalid redirection (c++) in the General Programming section. If you run into this problem again, just click on your profile and find the "Recent Replies" section. You may have to drop down several pages. Then click on whichever topic you need to find you''re post. By the way, these go away on the Recent Replies, after a short time. I think about two weeks.
Hope this helps!
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Xai
Xai
thanks for that, but that''s not the thread i want ...

I use the RecentReplies every time I visit GameDev, to track responses and keep up with my conversations .. but one thread I posted to TWICE is not on my list anymore, not even ONCE .. and I can''t find it using search or anything ...

In it, the OP had asked if the standard OO constructs of classes and member functions had any run-time cost compared to not using classes in C ... many posters posted useless drivel about why their system was best, but few answered the OP .. I however did (along with one other I recall), and then he thanked us, and asked another question ... then I responded, and an hour later I came back to see if anything had happened, and the thread has now vanished ... completely without a trace to me.
Myopic Rhino
Myopic Rhino
I''m guessing that the OP deleted it. It doesn''t sound like something a moderator would delete (we prefer to close threads anyway unless they''re total crap).

And before anyone mentions it, in the new forums, the OP won''t be able to delete a thread once other people have replied to it.
Doc
Doc
IIRC, threads are never really deleted anyway, but are moved to a private "Deleted Threads" forum. I suppose it makes for good study material for mods, as well as evidence.

Is this the case when the poster deletes the thread?
clum
clum
I once posted something that got deleted from everything - including my Recent Threads list. That was understandable, though, considering what I posted. It good be that its sitting in "Deleted Threads" somewhere.

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Myopic Rhino
Myopic Rhino
No, we actually delete some threads, as in, they''re purged from the database. Threads moved to Deleted Threads are so that the staff and moderators can review them, or perhaps to keep them as evidence.
SiCrane
SiCrane
I''m pretty sure the thread in question was a C vs. C++ thread that sprouted in the NeHe forum. I can''t find it all, so I''m assuming the original poster deleted it. I was following it loosely, and I can''t imagine any mod deleting it.
Xai
Xai
ok, its sounding more and more like a simple mistake on a moderators part ...

thanks for the help everyone.

P.S. It would be nice if it took a second moderator to approve a delete or something, so that this kinda mistake would be much harder to make. But since the forums code might be tricky to add that to, from one programmer to another, I''ll understand if it never happens .
Agony
Agony
If I remember correctly, the OP noticed that some people were bickering about stuff, and someone else had asked a moderator to close the thread. So the OP took it upon himself to delete the thread, not realizing that some people might still want to discuss it, or at least use it for reference of some sort or another. He said that he had gotten his answer, so he was gonna delete it.
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frostburn
frostburn
The normal profile page only shows the last 20 replies you made.. To see all your replies look at this. You might find them there. Unless of course they really were deleted.. Worth a try anyway.

EDIT: fixed broken link

[edited by - frostburn on June 4, 2004 1:02:36 PM]
Michalson
Michalson
quote:
Original post by frostburn
The normal profile page only shows the last 20 replies you made.. To see all your replies look at this. You might find them there. Unless of course they really were deleted.. Worth a try anyway.

EDIT: fixed broken link

[edited by - frostburn on June 4, 2004 1:02:36 PM]


ew ew ew. I didn''t realize that had been put up. That page is a major hit to the database, and totally insane for the people with several thousand posts (since it attempts to show every single post they have every made on one page). I''ve imported the paging library over from the new forums, if you go to your profile there is now a "view all topics" and "view all replies" link to use now.
frostburn
frostburn
quote:
Original post by Michalson
ew ew ew. I didn''t realize that had been put up. That page is a major hit to the database, and totally insane for the people with several thousand posts (since it attempts to show every single post they have every made on one page). I''ve imported the paging library over from the new forums, if you go to your profile there is now a "view all topics" and "view all replies" link to use now.


Jeez! You scared me.. I tried to use the showall page (bookmarked) and it didn''t work so I thought you had removed it alltogether. Then I found this thread again and saw your post
The new way is better for the user (in this case me) as well as the database.. Good thing you didn''t remove it entirely though - before I found it I''ve often lost track of posts because they went off the list.

Any chance we''ll get a working search soon too?
Myopic Rhino
Myopic Rhino
quote:
Original post by frostburn
Any chance we''ll get a working search soon too?
Yes.
Kylotan
Kylotan
quote:
Original post by Xai
ok, its sounding more and more like a simple mistake on a moderators part ...


I''m pretty sure the post right before this one implied that it wasn''t a moderator who did this. As far as I know moderator deletions are logged, whereas deletions by the original poster may not be.



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Xai
Xai
how does a poster even delete their threads? Cause I don''t see any way to do it from the standard profile interface ...

and it''s a very weird thing to do once a dozen replies are in ... cause then they are deleting our conversations ???
SiCrane
SiCrane
If the original poster edits the first post in the thread, there''s a checkbox up top, where if you check it and make modifications, it deletes the thread. It doesn''t happen through the profile page.
clum
clum
Wow! I never realized the search was fixed. It used to come up with an error if you used a really common term, but now its working! I''m very impressed.

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PouyaCatnip
PouyaCatnip
quote:
Original post by Michael Tanczos
What about the search isn''t working?

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Anything over two or three search words breaks the search. Its been broken like that for many months now, how can you possibly not know that...?

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