Welcome Back!

[Sarsstock]

Well, I for one am a little disapointed that it will take some time again to build up a rank high enough to gain my very own avatar. I have a great one lined up but unfortunatly now I can't post it as my understanding is it will require 500 to 600 posts and I am now listed as contributing a mere 11!

Oh well, c'est la vie I suppose. A solution to this dilemma could be to start up the two threads I was a major contributor on (flags and Jules Verne development) and build up my post total through countless yet insightfull and intelligent contributions.

Does it really take 500 posts to get your own avatar? I see quite afew forum members around who seem to be new members but have there own avatars. Maybe I'm just not looking in the right place or not setting it up right. Any thoughts?

[ravagon]

Re: Welcome Back!

Originally posted by curtsibling


Good to have the place back!

Though, it could use some furniture!

No frilly drapes though, right?

Yikes, What a nasty surprise. Just noticed. Would've though backups ran a bit more frequently?

I must say I heartily approve of returning to the old forum name though - that Civ2 creation bit stuck on the end just didn't look right ...

[curtsibling]

I don't see how the admin cannot reboost post counts back to what they used to be?

Every other forum in the Western world can remove or add posts, why poly any different?

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[Locutus]

Originallly posted by MarkG about a day and a half ago
The recovery should be finished in 2 days time.

After the recovery, post counts will be recalculated to include the re-added posts. After that, anyone wanting to further correct his post count should use the support system

Patience, grasshopper

[AGRICOLA]

@Sarsstock

Does it really take 500 posts to get your own avatar? I see quite afew forum members around who seem to be new members but have there own avatars. Maybe I'm just not looking in the right place or not setting it up right. Any thoughts?

Select

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You will see some familiar avatars as well as avatar rules.

[Mercator]

Originally posted by curtsibling
I don't see how the admin cannot reboost post counts back to what they used to be?

The problem is that plenty of posts were lost and will remain lost. Without those posts there's no way to find out what our postcount was before the crash, so they can't know what to reboost it back to.

[curtsibling]

Can't we all get a compensation 1000 post boost?

[Leonidas]

I lost 400 posts in the crash.

So perhaps a 300-400 boost in posts across the board for everyone might not be too far off...

Cheers!

[Sarsstock]

I personally had just crossed the threashold of 500 posts and was promptly dropped down to 11. I would be in favor of Curt's proposal of a 1000 posts credit, but I would be more than happy with a boost of 300 to 400 posts.

[Mercator]

I lost 484 posts.

[Broken_Erika]

i lost over 500
i lost count after i got my first custom avatar, and after the crash i had 15 posts, , so i might have been closer to 550-600 posts but, i'll just stick to 500, i at least need to be able to upload a new avatar from time to time, plus i would like the title of princess, mainly i was to lazy to ask for it before, (actually i want the title of athenia, destroyer of men)
i guess i need like 250,000 posts to get a title like that,

[CapTVK]

Well, my post count wasn't totally concentrated in SL. (see why it is important to not put all your eggs in one basket kids! ) Only lost between 200-300 posts. I got that figure based on my daily posting average, which was around 1.07 post a day but is now at 0.96.

I won't be making emperor at this rate soon...

[Sarsstock]

Well, judging by the feedback so far I would say that a 300-500 post compensation would be fare and generally well accepted by the forum.

What does the forum say to this suggestion? I am only one voice and it will take many united to make this idea become a reality.

[Art of War]

i hate to ask, but what exactly happened? this place looks barren.

[St Leo]

Accidental deletion of old forum.

Currently being restored from backup.