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The Ides of March 2007

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The Ides of March 2007

Postby TheBookPolice » Tue Nov 20, 2007 8:50 pm

What happened in mid-March 2007 that resulted in every non-poll thread prior to that date getting deleted?

The sociological insight is still valuable, but what is it about poll threads that spared them from the Forocalypse?
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Postby white_rabbit » Tue Nov 20, 2007 9:00 pm

Huh!?! I actually didn't notice that in my recent thread resurrection project, but I did think it odd that the dates of the threads would jump around wildly. Ya know, the oldest thread would be from 2003 and then there would be a six month gap, then another thread would only have an old post back to 2005. And now that I think about it, I'm surprised that the boredom I had to resurrect old posts didn't lead me to notice that only old posts with polls existed. Weird.
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Postby TheBookPolice » Tue Nov 20, 2007 9:07 pm

The oldest non-poll post I can find so far is from March 12, around 11 in the morning.
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Postby jjoyce » Tue Nov 20, 2007 10:35 pm

Not long ago we did a sweep where we deleted all threads that hadn't been active in 240 days or something... not that I have any idea how to operate this goofy-ass software.
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Postby mrak » Tue Nov 20, 2007 10:38 pm

There is something about threads with polls, though, that seems to make them immune to the purging process.

So today's lesson is: If you post a thread to the DPF, and you want it to last forever, just add a poll to it.
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Postby blunt » Wed Nov 21, 2007 6:29 pm

So that's how we create the archive................
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Postby jhain » Wed Nov 21, 2007 6:39 pm

There is also a kinda-sorta archive at the wayback machine. More of a snapshot at various moments in history. It seems to have much less information today than it did a couple weeks ago... Also, it used to go back to 1999 and included a very illuminating post by jjoyce about his feelings regarding alt-country. Wish I'd saved that..
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Re: The Ides of March 2007

Postby bdog » Thu Mar 15, 2012 8:47 pm

bump for Ides of March '12.
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