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[violet]
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Postby [violet] » Mon Apr 28, 2014 7:35 pm

Here's the issue: The Jolt database has several different fields that look like they might control which posts were supposed to be visible to which users. I can't tell which ones were actually used (or how)--for example, there's a "visible" field on the posts table that can be one of four different values, so what's the difference between visible==1 and visible==2?

So what I did was throw up a fairly big piece of the forum and ask people to speak up if they noticed a post that looked like it shouldn't be there. Nobody has spoken up, probably because that's really hard to tell, too.

I haven't simply dumped the entire archive into public view, because it will surely contain some posts that shouldn't be visible. Posts from the mod-only forum aren't the issue, as those are simple to identify. The ones that concern me are the posts by users that were hidden by a moderator because they contain something bad (e.g. graphic content, personal details, death threats; the usual stuff that mods deal with).

I guess I need to just take my best guess and upload. But it's a concern because people do post the most atrocious stuff sometimes. You don't see it, because the mods are fast, but it happens.

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Andacantra
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Re: Jolt Archive

Postby Andacantra » Mon Apr 28, 2014 11:03 pm

Would I be making a very big assumption in thinking that the Jolt forum had a Moderation forum? What I would be inclined to do is to upload it privately so it could be explored and find some of the links to the posts in the mod forum that were then removed by mods. Could you then see what the difference is between those different "visible" fields if you can find a few which you know were removed? Or is it not feasible to get say the post id and then find the post in the database so that data checking can happen?

I might be overstepping here but that's what I'd be tempted to try.
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The greater Vakolicci Haven
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Postby The greater Vakolicci Haven » Thu Jul 10, 2014 4:11 pm

Re the post in the ns history thread, is it possible that you could convert the II section? It'd be nice to have all thos rps back out again.
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Postby Khandosia » Fri Dec 03, 2021 7:15 pm

Ermarian, is your archive still up? I keep getting a "DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN" message.
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Postby Ermarian » Sun Dec 05, 2021 10:56 am

Khandosia wrote:Ermarian, is your archive still up? I keep getting a "DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN" message.


Forgot to renew my domain name; should be fixed shortly.
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Khandosia
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Postby Khandosia » Mon Dec 06, 2021 3:41 am

Ermarian wrote:
Khandosia wrote:Ermarian, is your archive still up? I keep getting a "DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN" message.


Forgot to renew my domain name; should be fixed shortly.


Ah, I see. Yeah, that can happen. Thank you for keeping it available for us all.
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