Why have some threads been deleted?

[Mike Rotchtickles]

I was just about to post something in that video game thread we had (you know the one where we would post our thoughts on some games, and then I totally derailed it by posting a gazillion pictures of various console systems ) but it seems to be gone.
I've also noticed a fair amount of other threads missing as well.

Now I know Slicer had mentioned previously that a whole bunch of older threads had to be removed because they served no purpose and were just "dead weight". But I mean if you carry on doing that you risk losing some of the character and distinctiveness of this particular forum, in my opinion.

Anyway, if I may ask, what was the reason this time for the thread removals? They were taking up needed space, or what?

[Vieira151]

Damn! That was my most successful thread

[SlicerITST]

It looks like we lost a lot of threads that have not been posted in since the beginning of 2010 with the exception of threads containing a poll. No idea why yet...

[jayl0ve]

Yeah that's really weird and not cool... I agree with the man with the tickled crotch, it really makes this place lose a lot of flava

[JJ_DUBZ_87]

Yeah that's really weird and not cool... I agree with the man with the tickled crotch, it really makes this place lose a lot of flava

I JUST got that ...smh

[Cue Reese]

Its almost like somebody here doesnt have a sense of humor

[djarvik]

Rest assured, nothing was deleted intentionally from the stuff that is missing. We will get to the bottom of it. We got our best man on it. ....with dogs, and guns....and dogs!

[SlicerITST]

Ive sent a message to our webmaster asking if he knows why this happened cause i cant find anything. I do know that i cant revert it. I checked the database and there is no mention anymore of this thread. Although i might be able to fish it out of an old database dump... Ill see what i can do.

[GOA MASTER MDMA]

Its almost like somebody here doesnt have a sense of humor

OMG -we have a new member..
how funny is this ...


awesome

lets say a big welcome to our new member.
don´t know why ....i don´t know what it is , but i got remembered by something similar .

cue reese ,i have to say ,i like your gamertag

[mcfed]

As far as I know there is a setting in phpbb which deletes threads in which no one posted for a long time. Maybe that's the reason?

[SlicerITST]

Yeah but that wasnt the case here. Its was just a misscommunication. Our webmaster
deleted all the old threads to keep the database size down. And to be honest, 99 procent of those threads can be deleted. I have gotten an old database dump so i will try to extract the thread in question and bring it back.