"mysterious" threads disappearance

mvl

so ... did people notice couple of threads gone in a day ? or does this happen all the time ?
was wondering if there is a database issue, or human interference?
- for example there was one here in AH, discussing about a media story on Dublin begging/homelessness and associated tourists complaints, and another somewhere in Society and Culture.

D3V!L

mvl wrote: »

so ... did people notice couple of threads gone in a day ? or does this happen all the time ?
was wondering if there is a database issue, or human interference?
- for example there was one here in AH, discussing about a media story on Dublin begging/homelessness and associated tourists complaints, and another somewhere in Society and Culture.

Regular occurrence

Pac1Man

Not left enough.

mvl

and is there a known reason associated with it ?

Charlie19

Nanny state strikes again.

mvl

ah, well.
I find AH can be educative about urban aspects of our life - so was wondering if one thread could be restored from backup - guess not a chance

MadDog76

Any Mods/Cmods around to answer the Op's question??

I contributed to the thread about Dublin City Centre being "overrun" with junkies.... . why was it deleted without explanation??

mvl

MadDog76 wrote: »

Any Mods/Cmods around to answer the Op's question??

I contributed to the thread about Dublin City Centre being "overrun" with junkies.... . why was it deleted without explanation??

i know

seriously - didn't see anything offensive in it (unless maybe i missed the last posts); it also had some junk in it, but not more than other threads, and defo had more interesting info than many threads here that are still still up ...

ArchXStanton

Some mod barged in yesterday,closed a few and probably relegated a few to the graveyard that is the politics cafe were threads go to die..

Mrs OBumble

There's a mod gone rogue. Randomly deleting threads for the craic.

Hector Bellend

Skylinehead

"Do other first world countries suffer from "junkie/scumbag" problem that Ireland does"?

This one? OP was a banned re-reg, admins deleted their stuff as usual.

Beasty

Nixonbot wrote: »

"Do other first world countries suffer from "junkie/scumbag" problem that Ireland does"?

This one? OP was a banned re-reg, admins deleted their stuff as usual.

Just re-instated that one having seen it was mentioned in the "Slow Death" thread

Skylinehead

Hector Bellend wrote: »

You think Ireland is the only with a drug problem?

I take it you didnt watch Louis Theroux on Friday

What? I was quoting the thread title

Wibbs

I've reopened threads started by trolls when the subject matter itself wasn't trolling and was inviting and getting discussion. Did so this morning. Will do so again. I'm generally against closing threads, unless it's gone completely rogue. If there's a mess, then janitor the problems and leave the thread open. Thread closure is lazy modding IMHO and gives off the vibe of too much interference and over moderation, reinforcing the charge regularly levelled at Boards.ie. I prefer to let them fade out of their own accord. It's a discussion site, my "job" as a moderator should be to facilitate that by cleaning up when things go wrong, not by closing discussion entirely. Doubly so in still active threads.

mvl

thanks. guess this thread can be closed now

freshpopcorn

ArchXStanton wrote: »

Some mod barged in yesterday,closed a few and probably relegated a few to the graveyard that is the politics cafe were threads go to die..

I closed all the threads for a few minutes. I didn't delete or lock anything tough.

Donald Trump

MadDog76 wrote: »

Any Mods/Cmods around to answer the Op's question??

I contributed to the thread about Dublin City Centre being "overrun" with junkies.... . why was it deleted without explanation??

I'm not surprised. As I am sure you are aware, most of the Mods and CMods are junkies.






Sure who else could you get to do such a shite job for nothing only a few grams of smack a year




We just have to wait for Celtic Tiger II to come along so that they can start paying mods in coke again. Then we'll get a better class of people running the shop :pac:

Beasty

Donald Trump wrote: »

Sure who else could you get to do such a shite job for nothing only a few grams of smack a year

Admins is where it's at - both quality and quantity improve

r93kaey5p2izun

It's been happening constantly lately due to rereg troll starting threads. I get why they're banned but unfortunately everyone else's contributions are binned without a second thought too. Personally I think the constant deletions are more disruptive and annoying than the troll. I posted in one last week then came across a good article related to the topic so thought I'd share it. Spent ages trying to find the thread only to realise it's been dumped. It's a real turn off for AH at the moment.

biko

Maybe some of the disappearing threads should have been in Feedback or Helpdesk?

TheValeyard

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I closed all the threads for a few minutes. I didn't delete or lock anything tough.

Wrong click of a button or was it some house cleaning?

corner of hells

Murray TheDemonic TalkingSkull wrote: »

Wrong click of a button or was it some house cleaning?

No , nothing like that , just a Ronald Reagan moment , dropped a few jelly beans on the keyboard and that was that.

Skylinehead

Murray TheDemonic TalkingSkull wrote: »

Wrong click of a button or was it some house cleaning?

Mischief I say -_-