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Interesting Glitch--Moderators?
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Posted by: arjay

I posted to the "Bit on the butt by Tivo" thread, and my name is indicated on the Coffee House thread listing for that thread.

However the thread was moved to the Help Forum, and subsequently closed. But my post is nowhere on the thread.

Can you resurrect it, and add it to the thread before reclosing it or is the post in electronic limbo forever. The post had to do with reliability issues in general.

I'm more curious than anything else about what happened.

Posted by: ybrew

The thread was probably moved about the time you posted your reply.

I'm guessing it's lost forever.

http://www.avsforum.com/ubb/frown.gif

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ybrew,
Colonel, USS TiVo
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Posted by: Dan203

OK I found it and fixed it for you.

Dan

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Moderator: TiVo Coffee House, Help Center & Happy Hour
3 Philips TiVos Running 2.0.1

Posted by: arjay

Wow! Thanks.

Posted by: Dan203

quote:
Originally posted by arjay:
Wow! Thanks.

No problem! Posts are never lost, they're simply not linked to anymore.

Dan

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Moderator: TiVo Coffee House, Help Center & Happy Hour
3 Philips TiVos Running 2.0.1

Posted by: Randy Given

Sounds like that one is fixed, but I have noticed that a number of times. There will be several posts in the old thread, but when it moves, the old stuff is "gone" -- no one else sees it again.

>Posts are never lost, they're
>simply not linked to anymore.

I never forget anything -- there are just some things I cannot remember. http://www.avsforum.com/ubb/smile.gif

Posted by: Dan203

quote:
Originally posted by Randy Given:
Sounds like that one is fixed, but I have noticed that a number of times. There will be several posts in the old thread, but when it moves, the old stuff is "gone" -- no one else sees it again.

When a moderator moves a thread the most recent version of that thread is copied to the new forum, the old one is closed, and the link is changed to point to the new thread. Sometime this process takes a while when the server is being stressed so people can sneak posts through after the old thread is copied but before it's closed. When that happens the post is written to the old HTML file, but not to the new copied one. That's how I found arjays post! I found the old HTML file and then copied the text from it.

Dan

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Moderator: TiVo Coffee House, Help Center & Happy Hour
3 Philips TiVos Running 2.0.1

Posted by: David Bolling

The order of operation should be changed to:

Lock old thread
Copy thread to new forum
Relink old thread to new thread

Posted by: Dan203

quote:
Originally posted by David Bolling:
The order of operation should be changed to:

Lock old thread

Copy thread to new forum

Relink old thread to new thread

If they did it that way then they would be coping a locked thread, thus making the new one locked! Of course they probably could get around that, but programmers are always looking for an easy way to reuse code. Especially for features like this which are not heavily used.

Dan

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Moderator: TiVo Coffee House, Help Center & Happy Hour