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Post by si-ghan-bi » Fri Nov 30, 2012 5:21 am

I was browsing the list of threads in General to find something the search was considering "too common" and I saw many spam threads listed at the end but they cannot be open. I think it's better to remove them (they are not only in the last pages) to simply the manual search by topic title.
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Re: Inexistent topics

Post by jhartley » Fri Nov 30, 2012 12:10 pm

I've been pruning the spam topics (of which I haven't seen any new ones lately!) and I've re-indexed the forum, so with luck the search results are much more relevant now.
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pruning

Post by grahamperrin » Fri Nov 30, 2012 1:30 pm

Joe, many thanks.

Happy pruning! Related (private, to admin): ucp.php?i=pm&mode=view&p=59

Postscript: the message to admin is probably negligible. viewtopic.php?t=102 still exists (and is well placed).
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topic 1524 (Suggestions concerning this forum)

Post by grahamperrin » Fri Nov 30, 2012 1:43 pm

No longer found: viewtopic.php?t=1524 (Suggestions concerning this forum) … pruned intentionally, or by accident?
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Re: topic 1524 (Suggestions concerning this forum)

Post by jhartley » Tue Dec 04, 2012 9:38 am

grahamperrin wrote:No longer found: viewtopic.php?t=1524 (Suggestions concerning this forum) … pruned intentionally, or by accident?


Definitely by accident, the reasons to delete a topic are very few - basically spam and insulting/abusive posts (of which there have been none).

I was doing a mass migration of topics and it's certainly possible that I hit the wrong item in the pulldown menu. I'll see if I can pull it out of a backup.
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Re: topic 1524 (Suggestions concerning this forum)

Post by jhartley » Tue Dec 04, 2012 12:21 pm

jhartley wrote:
grahamperrin wrote:No longer found: viewtopic.php?t=1524 (Suggestions concerning this forum) … pruned intentionally, or by accident?


Definitely by accident, the reasons to delete a topic are very few - basically spam and insulting/abusive posts (of which there have been none).

I was doing a mass migration of topics and it's certainly possible that I hit the wrong item in the pulldown menu. I'll see if I can pull it out of a backup.


Apparently I could, thanks to some familiarity with the underlying database. This topic is back! Please let me know if anything else is noticed as having gone missing.
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topic 123

Post by grahamperrin » Tue Dec 04, 2012 3:57 pm

No longer found: viewtopic.php?t=123 was General advice for newcomers to this phpBB-powered forum

Some posts by me in that topic are/were probably redundant since improvements have been made. But I can't recall everything in that topic, and I don't know whether it included posts by other people.
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topic 1524

Post by grahamperrin » Tue Dec 04, 2012 4:02 pm

jhartley wrote:… This topic is back! …


Thanks for restoration of topic 1524. A minor point, geeky: where previously there were ellipsis … and nonbreaking space characters, now there are question marks. At a glance I see no need for correction, just a curiosity.
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topic 90

Post by grahamperrin » Tue Dec 04, 2012 4:07 pm

viewtopic.php?p=2751#p2751 refers to
viewtopic.php?p=1362#p1362 – no longer found.

Cached by Google, http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/s ... nbytes.com shows that viewtopic.php?t=90 was OT: key phrases that can not be sought by phpBB

Probably no need to restore that topic. One of the few in which I vented some frustration :)

It did contain an important question, which I'll repeat as a new topic …
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topic 2

Post by grahamperrin » Tue Dec 04, 2012 4:19 pm

viewtopic.php?t=2 was Thanks!

Page one of two is cached by Google, http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/s ... D4%26t%3D2

Restoration is not essential, but it was a nice collection of thanks …
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