Cazador Mod Unit Posted September 15, 2011 Share Posted September 15, 2011 So all the posting pre-2008 is gone forever? Correct me if I'm wrong but this forum seems to have existed since the 80's. It would be awesome to read historic threads ie. People starting riots when Autechre's Confield first appeared, 9/11 during 9/11, the tsunami, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
encey Posted September 15, 2011 Share Posted September 15, 2011 ... troon posting every Flock of Seagulls remix cassingle in the New Releases Forum Jedy's afro & porn 'stache essines' mom registering his account and posting his birthing video on the day he was born Screenshots of WARP's first paper newsletter Richard James in Generra Hypercolor and Ray Bans Awepittance's theory about the Korg Triton Workstation's circuit diagram encoding a map of Gorbachev's strategic operations base user Marcus_CA's endless YouTube threads about the best and rarest nature documentaries Tom Jenkinson's shitty 4-track uploads to YLC (always voted 1.5 stars) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rambo Posted September 15, 2011 Share Posted September 15, 2011 essines' mom registering his account and posting his birthing video on the day he was born lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joyrex Posted September 15, 2011 Share Posted September 15, 2011 So all the posting pre-2008 is gone forever? Correct me if I'm wrong but this forum seems to have existed since the 80's. It would be awesome to read historic threads ie. People starting riots when Autechre's Confield first appeared, 9/11 during 9/11, the tsunami, etc. I hope you didn't take the tongue-in-cheek tagline on the main page to heart (first of all, there was no internet (at least the public kind) in 1982, and I was only 9 at the time, so my HTML skills were a bit lacking then But yes, that's right - they are gone, and even if they still existed, trying to shoehorn the data back into the forums wouldn't be worth the effort. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hahathhat Posted September 15, 2011 Share Posted September 15, 2011 imho, the following threads should not have been locked: -brother/sister in-lift sex -this morning i woke up cumming -nude rugby -how to poop at work thx, --hhathathahthath But yes, that's right - they are gone, and even if they still existed, trying to shoehorn the data back into the forums wouldn't be worth the effort. how big is it? would be interested in just having the text to dig through, if the sql design isn't too much of a clusterfuck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
encey Posted September 15, 2011 Share Posted September 15, 2011 Oh man, if only you could have seen Joyrex's scans of the 'Nice Pubes' thread on the '79 BBS edition before WATMM joined ARPANET. He'd have some 'splainin to do then! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velazquez Posted September 15, 2011 Share Posted September 15, 2011 ... troon posting every Flock of Seagulls remix cassingle in the New Releases Forum Jedy's afro & porn 'stache essines' mom registering his account and posting his birthing video on the day he was born Screenshots of WARP's first paper newsletter Richard James in Generra Hypercolor and Ray Bans Awepittance's theory about the Korg Triton Workstation's circuit diagram encoding a map of Gorbachev's strategic operations base user Marcus_CA's endless YouTube threads about the best and rarest nature documentaries Tom Jenkinson's shitty 4-track uploads to YLC (always voted 1.5 stars) lol re:Korg Triton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MortstoX Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 Ok, I know complaining about closed topics probably puts me on some mods shitlist, but if you think that a topic is too crappy to be in the general banter section, why not move it to nosense/crap thread forum? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bitroast Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 oh my lol. 'this morning i woke up cumming' is a hilarious thread. it's on par with some of joyrexs horror poop stories from public cubicles. why was it locked?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Member Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 soccer moms are complaining edit: I just remembered troon posting in gay fonts and triangles. thank god he stopped with that business. edit 2: Not that there's anything negative about being a homosexual. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keltoi Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 oh my lol. 'this morning i woke up cumming' is a hilarious thread. it's on par with some of joyrexs horror poop stories from public cubicles. why was it locked?? joyrex lost his sense of poomour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perunamuusi Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 Awepittance's theory about the Korg Triton Workstation's circuit diagram encoding a map of Gorbachev's strategic operations base lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eugene Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 But yes, that's right - they are gone, and even if they still existed, trying to shoehorn the data back into the forums wouldn't be worth the effort. it's actually horrible, i've always thought they are archived somewhere, it's like deleting hundreds of people's diaries. why wasn't it ever up for discussion ? there are better solutions than just "shit+delete" years of history of the community. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cazador Mod Unit Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 Exactly, this is awful - at least give hahahatthahaht the database so he can make his computer magic / recreate it for us, otherwise watmm would not be too far from a bizarre PG 4chan for soccer IDM moms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Coalbucket PI Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 I'm reminded of the phrase 'standing on the shoulders of giants' and also 'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it' *wolfs out* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
encey Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 ... back when Rick Rolling only happened in the New Releases Forum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
impakt Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 I'm reminded of the phrase 'standing on the shoulders of giants' and also 'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it' *wolfs out* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hahathhat Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 i think we're just howling at the moon here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joyrex Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 But yes, that's right - they are gone, and even if they still existed, trying to shoehorn the data back into the forums wouldn't be worth the effort. it's actually horrible, i've always thought they are archived somewhere, it's like deleting hundreds of people's diaries. why wasn't it ever up for discussion ? there are better solutions than just "shit+delete" years of history of the community. Horrible? It's a FUCKING MESSAGEBOARD, not some great literary work worthy of preservation - you lot take all this WAY too seriously. Sure, WATMM's a great resource for music, but General Banter could be nuked tomorrow and the world would be none the worse for wear. I also heartily laugh at the "up for discussion" bit - we had to move hosts ASAP because the CPU on the old hosts' SQL server was being pegged and the host turned off the site for violating their threshold one too many times. Chaosmachine and I decided this host would be the best and most stable for the site's needs, but the problem was there wasn't enough room for the Downloads section HDD space wise, and we didn't want to peg out this SQL server's CPU and create the same sort of situation, so we (I say we, it was mostly Chaosmachine) decided it was best to remove posts from General Banter from 2008 backwards as NO ONE was even pulling those threads up, and 90% of it was nonsense anyways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke viia Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 you really are the flashbulb, aren't you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Coalbucket PI Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 You've got a perfectly good excuse Joyrex, no need to be defensive about it. It doesn't mean people can't wish it hadn't happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
impakt Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 General banter is the soul of watmm, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chassis Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 Whoa! are we locking poop threads now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hahathhat Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 are we locking poop threads now? this is a much more serious issue than losing 2008-era posts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joyrex Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 Whoa! are we locking poop threads now? I will lock, delete, remove to Nonsense/Crap or unapprove any thread, post, or comment I feel does not belong on WATMM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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