SL Forum Recovery Update

[Mercator]

Is the restoration of the Hints, Tips & Guides subforum also on that schedule of early August?

[Mercator]

*cough* Is it?

[MarkG]

most probably next week

[Mercator]

Ok then

[Boco]

It'll be good to have the tips back. Keeps me up on obscure scenario alchemy.

[Mercator]

So I guess that deadline wasn't quite as hard-set as you made it out to be, eh?

[DrSpike]

You need to keep posting gentle reminders.

[Mercator]

That's what I'm doing now...

[Boco]

Yeah, I miss those tips, too! Any new estimate?

[Mercator]

*bump*

1 month overdue and counting...

[MarkG]

Our apologies, but we wont be able to fix post counts

The Tips subforum should be recovered by the end of the month

[Mercator]

[Q=MarkG]Our apologies, but we wont be able to fix post counts
[/q]

Ah Oh well...

[q=MarkG]The Tips subforum should be recovered by the end of the month [/Q]



*cough* We will have to try and repeat what St Leo was trying to do before though. Move the threads into the main forum and remove that subforum again once that's done. Are you sure you won't repeat the mistake and delete everything again?

[MarkG]

i'm pretty sure

[Skanky Burns]

But we are starting a wager...

[AGRICOLA]

Originally poster by MarkG
Our apologies, but we wont be able to fix post counts

I think that you may be a bit too pessimistic . . . . . what is impossible to you may not be impossible to some of the affected members who want to restore their post counts and think it worthwhile to invest a bit of time.

Let's try thinking outside the box and see what is required.

In any of my posts, if I click on PROFILE, I apparently have 261 posts. If, instead, I click on SEARCH, I get a list of 569 of my posts. Clearly, I lost most of my posts in March when the system got screwed up and, evidently, you are unable change 261 to 569.

From a somewhat cursory look there appear to be a number of individuals who have joined since '02 who also have two valid post counts. Unfortunately, for many members who joined earlier, the SEARCH count is smaller than the PROFILE number and, consequently of no help. However, IIRC, Mercator has post count numbers for some of these individuals as of early '05.

I have a possible solution that will not involve months and months of work on your part.

1. I assume that Mercator, as moderator of the SL forum, can lock threads and delete posts or arrange to have it done as needed.
2. Let those who were affected by the accidental deletion start their own threads in the SL forum and post as many spam posts as needed to bring their totals up to the number listed under SEARCH. Doing this should require Mercator's prior approval.
3. Have Mercator lock the threads after the spamming.
4. Of course, this will mess up up the SEARCH totals, but that is no great loss . . . . many of them are already meaningless.