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Title: Flying poodle thread disappeared
Post by: runlola on July 19, 2004, 17:16:54
 :-P



Title: Flying poodle thread disappeared
Post by: cube on July 19, 2004, 17:55:10
[?]

Could you clue me in?
Title: Flying poodle thread disappeared
Post by: no_leaf_clover on July 19, 2004, 19:08:11
The only time topics have ever sent me back to the default page is when they were deleted. Your topic must've been 'moderated'. What was on it that would have been offensive?
Title: Flying poodle thread disappeared
Post by: Kodemaster on July 20, 2004, 13:20:28
That is weird. I, too, would like to check out the flying poodle thread.

Databases have a weird way of doing things sometimes. I was on an old forum and posts used to disappear, and then reappear several days later. Weird...
Title: Flying poodle thread disappeared
Post by: James S on July 20, 2004, 17:12:02
"Your topic must've been 'moderated'"
I don't think this was the case. I don't think any of us have deliberately deleted the topic, at least not that I know of!

It's not the first time a topic has vanished. It's very very rare, but possibly every now and then the forum database glitches when someone's accessing the topic, and the topic ends up getting screwed up.

Don't really know if that's the case, but just a though.

James.
Title: Flying poodle thread disappeared
Post by: no_leaf_clover on July 20, 2004, 18:05:15
That came off a little assholic, I know. [xx(] I can be easily irritated by censorship.
Title: Flying poodle thread disappeared
Post by: Rastus on July 20, 2004, 18:48:45
There wasn't anything out of line in that thread.  It was actually pretty funny, especially the Wierd Al Yankovich comment with his current Poodle Hat tour [;)]
Title: Flying poodle thread disappeared
Post by: James S on July 20, 2004, 18:57:50
That's ok No_leaf, I didn't read it as assholic (good word - I think that needs to be put into the dicionaries [;)]) it was a fair comment.[:)]
Indeed most deletions are due to mod/admin intervention.

Cube,
Usually if a topic is deleted and it's not obvious why, you'd get a PM explaining the situation. If that hasn't happened, I think it might have just fallen into one of those data black holes.

Is it worth resubmitting the topic and starting it over again?

- James.
Title: Flying poodle thread disappeared
Post by: Sygmoral on July 21, 2004, 15:49:53
Hmm.. if nobody deleted it, clearly it is a bug in this forum. I'd think that the 'rare' event means that two people are doing something on the thread at the same time, which can screw up things -if- there is no protection built in. Usually, a forum would 'lock' a database entry while it's writing or reading to/from it - although this takes very short - but perhaps this forum doesn't do that... and when it happens that two people write to the same spot in the database at the same time, bad things can happen.

Sygmoral
Title: Flying poodle thread disappeared
Post by: upstream on July 23, 2004, 14:38:50
there must have been a reason...
my people are already on it

Title: Flying poodle thread disappeared
Post by: cube on July 19, 2004, 15:48:46
I got some notifications that people replied to my flying poodle thread but when I click the links it takes me to the forum homepage. Why does that happen?

The thread was at http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=13434