Hello, I must be going

[whippoorwill]

Yay!!!

[Brock Beauchamp]

41 minutes ago, Benjamin Grimm said:

Are the lost posts recoverable?

With a lot of work, yes.

*groans audibly*

But we'll get it done, just might take a week or two.

[Frayed Knot]

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I thought I was banned because I was pushing it too far the other day. Then I saw all my posts were gone and was like, "man, they don't mess around."

Nah! We don't do that for mere disagreements. In fact 'We' (meaning us longtime CPF'ers) don't even run this show these days so couldn't even if we wanted to. I just figured you got mad and left but was wondering how you managed to take all your posts with you.

There was one guy who did that many moons ago: he's the Avi referred to in my opening post here. He arrived one day (on a forum that preceded the CPF) and managed to make himself very unpopular in a short time (which was more the fault of the haters than him IMO, but whatever). So he shortly just up and left but in doing so he first decided to manually erase every post he had written (far fewer than you) in an apparent effort to disguise the fact that he had ever been there. Didn't quite work though as, unlike in your case, the 'boxes' where his posts had been still existed and still listed 'Avi' as the author but with the contents all erased save for an ellipsis [...] in each which he put there only because the software required that there be something in each post.

To this day when some here change their mind on a post just written they'll place an 'Avi wuz here' note on an otherwise blank post (plus the ellipsis of course) or will refer to a deleted post as one that had been Avi'ed. And this all happened back during the latter days of the Clinton administration, but we tend to hang onto stuff around here.

 

[whippoorwill]

Yeah it was a long time ago. ;)

so glad this was just an error and Cowtipper is back 

[Brock Beauchamp]

Okay, I think all of @Cowtipper's posts are back. Please let me know if that is not the case.

[The Hot Corner]

Nice to have you back.