Civ 2 Scenario League

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100 Warlord
300 Prince
1000 King
3000 Emperor
10000 Deity

[Panda]

When the old threads are restored, is it going to be possible to resurrect the old forum section id number rather than append to the new forumid=248? If not then won't all the links will be redundant, unless you could help with that?

[AGRICOLA]

This is a bit of an academic exercise on my part to try to figure out some of the apparent discrepancies in the number of lost posts (i.e. I was bored last night). There is a possibility that what follows is pure BS, thought up by a SF deprived mind, so please do not take a hypothesis as gospel truth.


1. This exercise was started by the following e-mail from Apolyton in response to my e-mail to the “ticket” office.

……………In essence, as backups are put in place your post count will rise but it will not return to its exact former level. At the same, follow-up with us on this -- you can just send a quick reply to this particular trouble ticket.

Thank you for your continued patience.

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Daniel Quick

Aside from wondering about the meaning? of the second sentence, I concluded that we will get get credit only for posts that can be recovered.

2. Although no one at Poly has said this, it seems logical that the post counting algorithm must be able to keep track of posts that exist at the present and posts which existed a few years ago but have now been removed. For simplicity, let’s call these “live” and “dead” posts, respectively. Members’ post counts consist of the sum of their live and their dead posts (if any).

3. The dead posts were in threads that have been removed from Poly in order to keep the site to a manageable size. The removal process appears to be selective, so that there are a few live threads that date back to 2000. However, I would guesstimate that the majority of live threads are not much older than two years.

It is immaterial whether the removed threads are cached somewhere or deleted. When threads are removed, a member’s posts in the removed threads must be counted and added to his existing count of dead posts.

Posts which cannot be recovered after the accidental deletion of the SL forum fall within neither the dead nor the live category. As far as the algorithm is concerned, these lost posts are neither dead (they did not exist 2 or more years ago), nor are they live (they do not exist now). This may explain why

as backups are put in place your post count will rise but it will not return to its exact former level

3. If my reasoning is correct, no one has lost more posts than they have accumulated by posting in the SL forum since the most recent removal of threads. This would account for why SL veterans did not lose thousands of posts when the forum went down and why some have kept their their rank while others have been demoted. For example, if their dead post count plus live posts on forums other than SL warrants King, they have stayed at that rank. If, however they have gained King rank in the last years mainly through posting on SL, they have suffered a temporary demotion.

4. The bottom line appears to be that any SL posts after the date to which the forum can be restored are not going to be credited unless the powers that be are prepared to alter members’ dead post counts.

[MarkG]

i'm kind of lost by your post

[MarkG]

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=132298