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    星の声 starseeker's Avatar
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    Vanishing threads

    Is it posible for an entire thread to be deleted with no trace if it's so bad that locking it isn't enough? I saw and posted on a thread yesterday and was staking it out to see how the mods would react because someone was advertising a major scam. I stopped paying attention for 5 minutes and it vanished without a trace. My post wasn't recorded in my profile either.
    "Reality is that which,
    when you stop believing in it,
    doesn't go away".
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    <3 Recognized Member Jess's Avatar
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    Threads can be entirely deleted, yeah.

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    Aliens!

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    It's good that they have a system like that. Some threads are just not meant to be viewed or read by the public.
    "Feed me."

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    *laughs*

    Maybe its true that some threads disappear into the alternate dimension. You have just witnessed this happen before your own eyes.

    Apparently, I have been declared banished.

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    they just get moved to the staff's secret pr0n forum!

    LET THE HAMMER FALL

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    We have a "Garbage Forum" with a whole lot of the crap that has been posted at EoFF. It's also possible to completely wipe a thread from the database if we really want to, but we try to avoid that sort of thing for security reasons.
    Bow before the mighty Javoo!

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    Yeah xD That's one way to put it. "Physically Remove" is the thing that vB calls it when you wipe it from the database.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Agent Proto
    *laughs*

    Maybe its true that some threads disappear into the alternate dimension. You have just witnessed this happen before your own eyes.

    And in this dimension there are hundreds of fat litle dwarves running about, writing in their ledger books how long the thread survived, if there were any posts on it, and who wrote it. It's their endless job... it continues into eternity... it was their reason for creation.
    Christ figure declares crisis averted! Creativity restored!

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    HACKERS!

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    So basically the thread went to the same place my socks go to.
    "Reality is that which,
    when you stop believing in it,
    doesn't go away".
    Philip K. Dick

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