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Good Golly Miss Molly, a whole 100+ post thread....puff...gone :-) Seems

Nov 25, 2003 7:32AM PST

like David Williams finally suggested the whole thread
be deleted as it was apparent that DaveK's thread "Whoever is flooding the Modalert system, STOP IT!" turned into a big muck and mud slingling thread with most posts deleted anyway. Somehow, either the Ops Dept came up with how to delete a whole thread at once, or one of our fine programmer members suggested how to do.

Congrats.

JR

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So that's why we dropped back to 6th place
Nov 25, 2003 7:36AM PST

in the popularity ranking at the bottom of the main page. "We wuz robbed!" Now we know how Al Gore felt...

Happy

dw

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NT - The forum on top - Windows XP only has 2830 posts
Nov 25, 2003 9:16AM PST

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Being a database administrator, my first suspicion...
Nov 25, 2003 8:00AM PST

is that someone (in Ops) found out how to issue a delete command directly against the database (assuming a true delete function was not developed for the software).

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Re:Being a database administrator, my first suspicion...
Nov 25, 2003 9:17AM PST

Shouldn't be that hard since the threads ARE distinguished by numberic IDs and the sub-posts are children of the main thread. There is no need for a placeholder then, whereas keeping the thread as an entity itself, would require it to be kept as a numeric placeholder {aka "parent").

If it is like other typical forum software, it will reassign an entire new set of numbers for parent and child[ren] amd then log THAT as the result of the deletion command.

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numberic IDs...
Nov 26, 2003 12:23AM PST

Is that regional or part of some new ebonics... Wink

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Re:numberic IDs...
Nov 26, 2003 4:32AM PST

I challenge you to do better with acrylic nails on to fit the regional "professional image.!" ;-P