Posts dissappearing

[la5er]

I have started 3 or so threads here in the last month or two and they all seem to be gone. Is this a database issue or an "I think as an administrator it is spam" issue? Either case, if its a database issue. You guys should check the logs or call the service providers up. Some ppl might be having similar issues.

There was one in the game forums about me wanting to start up an IRC channel for Kametsu gamers.

Another about industrial music in the entertainment section

And a few replies to other posts that didnt resemble quetin tarentino one-liners and were thoroughly thought out. This should help the powers at be track them down in the database backups that occur regularly via MYSQL server standards.

[shyguysteve]

Some of my posts have been deleted and some threads. With reason.

This shouldn't happen for no reason, I know why my threads were deleted; is because they were about nothing or there was one thread already about the same topic. Sometimes your threads will be merged with the other already existing thread.

As for posts, I think they will get deleted if they are one worded with no conclusion to why we made those posts.

[la5er]

Ah, maybe its something I am not accustomed to as far as forum-browsing/posting is concerned. All the forums that I have been on up to this point have either put "MOVED: forum section --" or "Merged: thread name" appended at the beginning of the thread title IF it is a thread. If a post or thread has been deleted its from my understanding best practice by the forum software to at least send the user whos post was deleted an automated PM stating as such.

As far as posting goes. From the other forums I frequent(tranceaddict, wow-guild oriented forums, and game manufacturer sanctioned forums) I only usually create a new thread or post in a post if something jumps out at me somewhere in life that I feel would be beneficial to the community I post on. Its just my "posting personality"

However, IF this is an occasion that there might be some database issues happening then bringing it to the forefront of the community and for members to post about similar situations would be advantageous to the admin-crew here to look into it.

[Koby]

I don't think it would be an issue with the database.

I mistaked your industrial post as spam earlier, but I don't know about your post about IRC. We already have a ghost town of an IRC as it is. Our IRC has anyone from absolutely no one on it up to four people at that's it. So creating a second IRC for simply gaming would be utterly pointless IMO. Use our main IRC, maybe it'll breath life into it. I think most people don't use it for the simple fact that we all have the forum chatbox, the forum, and instant messengers. About the only real reason I log into other groups IRC is to download on occasion and well.. we don't offer downloads through our IRC (mostly cause I'm a complete n00b with IRC and wouldn't know the first thing about how to set up such a thing).

[la5er]

Then I am glad I came here I made a whole MP3 Script with IRC and program with it fluently. The whole thing is setting up a box with enough band-width to do dcc's efficiently under a fairly stressful load.

Queuing is another option but might be too long of a wait for people that could get them from FS/SF/MU/(insert other flavor here) in the time the queue takes.

For example the following script has parameters denoted by $n and the "?" in the first line denotes a private message that takes !mp3 as the first parameter with $nick being the person who sent the message. It runs the alias sendit that takes the currently playing mp3 file on my client and dcc's(direct client connect) sends it to them. This is IF they havent specified the exact mp3 file that I played earlier(usually from text I broadcast to the channel for ppl to know I am listening to a song)

on *:TEXT:!mp3*:?:/sendIt $nick $2-

alias sendIt {

if ($2 == get) {

dcc send $1 $findfile($mircdirsounds,* $+ $3 $+ *,1)

}

if ($2- == $null) {

dcc send $nick $inmp3.fname

}

}

You could modify it to instead of $inmp3.fname do a list.txt instead that contains all the filenames of files you have stored in the file-database and then they can just look for the one they want. Modifying the above script and changing the !mp3 to !anime they could go "!anime get Ai_Yori_Aoshi_S1_E3.mkv" in a private message to the bot and itll dcc them the file they specified. This is what the whole "$2-" thing is about where it assigns $2- the value of Ai_Yori_Aoshi_S1_E3.mkv. The !anime get (episode name) would have to be done AFTER they do !anime to obtain the textfile list of the anime files the bot has.

If you would like for me to be the Kametsu IRC-coder whore Ill be glad to do so. Just write me up what you require/desire. But keep in mind every concurrent dcc session the bot has the less bandwidth the current downloaders will get. So you need a fairly fat internet connection on the bots client.