A mix of both really. While I make periodic backups of databases, I make them once or twice a week. It's essentially impossible for me to make a backup after everyone makes a post and such. I'm going to be working on some code to recover posts if anyone else decides to do this, however this does nothing for the current posts.Gamer8585 wrote:Do you have any backups that you could use to find the text to his posts and copy and paste them back in? Or is it one of those things thats: 1) not possible or 2) just too much work to be worth it?
"N/A" posts.
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On some forums, if someone wants to delete their account they can, and all posts stay in, but there's just no avatar, signature, basic info, and their username is no longer clickable, and no one can ever take that name again. How about putting in that option?
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"Zebras can bite."
"Snakes say sss."
"Lions chase people."
And of course…”Tigers bite you.”
--From Tiffu’s Pre-K students. =D
And one from me...Leopards are gorgeous.
I think that all that would end up doing is promoting the making of multiple accounts, which this board has a rule against. That would just end up creating a problem for the moderators. The mods could get rid of dead or inactive accounts if they want them gone.
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I think that is a good rule to add. Nice thinking SeiUsa!SeiUsa wrote:On some forums, if someone wants to delete their account they can, and all posts stay in, but there's just no avatar, signature, basic info, and their username is no longer clickable, and no one can ever take that name again. How about putting in that option?
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Unfortunately, that doesn't necessarily prevent the "N/A" incidents from happening, as someone could just get rid of all their posts, then delete their account anyways. We don't want to remove the edit feature, either, because sometimes people do make honest mistakes that they later want to edit.SeiUsa wrote:On some forums, if someone wants to delete their account they can, and all posts stay in, but there's just no avatar, signature, basic info, and their username is no longer clickable, and no one can ever take that name again. How about putting in that option?
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Fry: "I refuse to testify on the grounds that my organs will be chopped up into a patty."
Judge: "Ah, the 67th Amendment."
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