Re: Forum backup, and a plea to the mods
Moderation!
Firstly methinks this belongs in site and forum feedback.
Secondly, Brad and Turtlepower are correct. It is quite within the admin rights of this forum to disable ordinary users ability to delete posts or topics, but I've not wished to do so sinse my feeling has always been if someone posts something she/he always has the right to retract later. I do know one forum where people do not have this ability and what happens instead is users will need to manually edit their own posts and replace with "content removed" or the like which is not only clunky to do for users, but annoying to read for other forum members sinse you open a topic about a given subject and see "content deleted" instead of a person's message.
Cae however is also correct. And I will admit the idea of someone upping sticks and removing all their posts including long running topics with lots of info is not something that occurred to me sinse it just has not come up before, indeed had I been aware of Bladestorm's desire I'd have asked him to refrain from deletions for that reason. I'll also add that sinse lots of db pages linked to that japanese game guide of his he's also now created quite a tonne of work for myself which I am not too pleased about.
To the immediate situation, I would please ask Cae or someone else to post both of Bladestorm's guides in the articles section, as I have done with several others, and that way I can begin fixing the db links.
For the future however, I am sincerely not sure what to do to avoid this sort of situation, though hopefully it will not turn up again. I suspect Bladestorm removed his posts due to his religious feelings and his desire to break his life away from gaming, which is fare enough for him, but probably not a regular desire that would occur too often to quite as much an extent with others.
Unfortunately, I don't think there is a way f or me to restore all his posts, not without rolling the forum from an earlier backup which would of course delete lots of other people's posts in the process. Plus, I'm not even sure I should! restore his postssinse they are fundamentally his, ---- though I will make an exception for his articles on the basis that articles are intended as published works anyway.
So botom line, I'm not sure if anything can be done to stop this happening again, but I'm not sure if anything should! be done to stop this happening again, and I'm not entirely convinced this is so likely to happen again either .
It's just a painus in the anus that it has happened at all, however one unfortunate consequence of libertarianism is that you have to allow others their liberty as well as yours even when they use that liberty in perhaps an annoying fashion .
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