Wtf???

[hammerfan]

All of the threads - in every category - have a "last used" date of 5-11-11. Please, someone explain this to me. I know it's not my computer because it's showing up like this on both my computer at home and my computer at work.

[_____V_____]

Maybe some sort of a server reset or something on Horror's end. All posts and threads of the past 9 days have been removed or resetted.

This is bad...damnit.

[hammerfan]

This is very bad, especially for your contests! Who the hell did this? Do the mods have this power? :mad:

[hammerfan]

More good news: it also reset private messages. Now I'm really pissed off!! :mad:

[TheWickerFan]

Hopefully this is temporary. I saw a current home page this morning, but couldn't access the categories.

There have been a lot of problems recently.

[hammerfan]

Avi, can you post that link to the other forums?

[_____V_____]

This is very bad, especially for your contests! Who the hell did this? Do the mods have this power? :mad:

It is, but oh well...

Server reset. Maybe they upgraded the servers and the shifting of all data from one to another did this. Most likely by the people who were involved.

No Mod has this sort of power. All we can do is edit/delete stuff, remove Spam and ban Users. Nothing else. This was done by someone with Administrative privileges.


More good news: it also reset private messages. Now I'm really pissed off!! :mad:

Hmm...it's like the history of this place for the past 9 days has been totally obliterated. As if they didn't exist.

Definitely a tech involved. Maybe they'll notice this.

Hopefully this is temporary. I saw a current home page this morning, but couldn't access the categories.

There have been a lot of problems recently.

I have emailed two people who are directly concerned with this particular happening. Anxiously waiting for a reply. As soon as I have one, I ll post it here.

Avi, can you post that link to the other forums?

http://horrordotcom.freeforums.org/index.php

[hammerfan]

Thank you, my darling. I want to keep it handy...just in case.

[Rayne]

Every time we have had problems the past 2 weeks, the screen says "Apache server testing"...So, either Horror is switching servers, or he is "upgrading" this one again...Remember how well all of the other past "upgrades" have gone?...One wiped out our ability to view IPs...Another made it impossible to upload images, so we all had to get photobucket accounts, and ALL of our previously uploaded images were just lost...The first upgrade made it impossible to access our albums from our posts, and we are no longer able to post 'invisible' because of it, too (every member had the 'invisibility' option before the upgrades)...*ugh*...Looks like this one won't be any better...

I emailed Horror...But...I'm not expecting anything to be accomplished by it...Based on past experience

[bloodrayne]

Even the mod forums have been wiped...That's just beautiful...Better start looking for previously removed spam again...

[hammerfan]

I'm wondering if this also wipes out people that joined after 5-11? Because I don't see anything written by The Villain. Will he have to join again?

[TheWickerFan]

Every time we have had problems the past 2 weeks, the screen says "Apache server testing"...So, either Horror is switching servers, or he is "upgrading" this one again...Remember how well all of the other past "upgrades" have gone?...One wiped out our ability to view IPs...Another made it impossible to upload images, so we all had to get photobucket accounts, and ALL of our previously uploaded images were just lost...The first upgrade made it impossible to access our albums from our posts, and we are no longer able to post 'invisible' because of it, too (every member had the 'invisibility' option before the upgrades)...*ugh*...Looks like this one won't be any better...

I emailed Horror...But...I'm not expecting anything to be accomplished by it...Based on past experience

Is that what happened with the IPs? It definitely hinders the ability to moderate.

I'm going to hope against hope that improvements are being made.

[hammerfan]

I got my answer: The Villain is no longer listed as a member.

[Rayne]

I'm wondering if this also wipes out people that joined after 5-11? Because I don't see anything written by The Villain. Will he have to join again?

It's possible, Sweetheart...A rollback is just as if nothing happened past the point of the time and date that the rollback stopped at...It happens sometimes on gaming servers...We lose our levels, equipment, money and all progress that had been made during the 'erased' time...It sucks pretty bad...Of course, in gaming our GMs give us things to make up for our loss...We will get nothing but aggravation here...

[hammerfan]

I really hate when Horror does this. A little heads-up would be nice. I know I shouldn't bitch - it's a free site after all - but still.....would it kill Horror to let us know? I feel very bad for Avi with all his contests and The Apocalypment.....damn :mad:

[Angra]

Hmm...it's like the history of this place for the past 9 days has been totally obliterated. As if they didn't exist.




That's very... Twilight Zone.

[hammerfan]

Heh, this also means that people that were banned are no longer banned and can get on site.

[Straker]

I'm thinking the community went on a trolling and spamming spree and before undergoing a radical mindwipe technique, to forget our attrocities, we collectively decided to delete all evidence of the past days.... Probably best not to dig too deep on this one.

[newb]

It's the beginning of Judgment Day, The Rapture and the last day on Earth.


I plan on drinking a lot of beer tonight and having mad sex with the wife.


now if only I can get her to believe it.

[neverending]

This is very bad, especially for your contests! Who the hell did this? Do the mods have this power? :mad:



Thanks for being so willing and quick to point the finger at the people who try and keep this place running smoothly.

[TheWickerFan]

I'm thinking the community went on a trolling and spamming spree and before undergoing a radical mindwipe technique, to forget our attrocities, we collectively decided to delete all evidence of the past days.... Probably best not to dig too deep on this one.

Where's my shovel?:D

[_____V_____]

Someone would think Horror or one of his Admins didn't like everyone raking up the "Elvis-banning" issue in the past few days.

Swish! All is gone.



As regards the Apocalypment, I still have the Excel sheet saved so I can pick up from there, no worries. A brief re-cap should do fine.

Tournaments will progress from where they were left off.

[Rayne]

As regards the Apocalypment, I still have the Excel sheet saved so I can pick up from there, no worries. A brief re-cap should do fine.


*WHEW*...I had a feeling you had a copy saved...Mr. 'All Is dotted and Ts crossed' :)

[neverending]

When I logged on in the wee hours this morning I was getting a lot of "server errors" ... this is different from what usually happens- it usually just says "page unavailable." My bet is that there was a server crash and the database had to be restored from a backup.

I'd say we're lucky thre WAS a backup. Thank goddess the place still exists! It's a shame some data was lost but at least we're still here.

And if you're looking for something in particular from the last 10 days... try Googling it, and see if it turns up in a cached version of the page, or even use the wayback machine on archive.org.

[TheWickerFan]

Someone would think Horror or one of his Admins didn't like everyone raking up the "Elvis-banning" issue in the past few days.

Swish! All is gone.


Whether it was an admistrator or a moderator who did this doesn't matter. The fact that it was done at all is really pathetic. Proud of yourself?:rolleyes:



http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8UYCuLzpiBs/TLigf_8Ve5I/AAAAAAAABGI/dH0GplAUHiA/s1600/blofeld-cat.JPG

[neverending]

Whether it was an admistrator or a moderator who did this doesn't matter. The fact that it was done at all is really pathetic. Proud of yourself?:rolleyes:





And just who are you pointing your conspiratorial little finger at?


Good grief... a server crashes and everyone puts on their tinfoil hats.

[TheWickerFan]

And just who are you pointing your conspiratorial little finger at?


Good grief... a server crashes and everyone puts on their tinfoil hats.

It was V that suggested the admins deleted everything because there'd been too much talk about Elvis.

[newb]

It was V that suggested the admins deleted everything because there'd been too much talk about Elvis.

He was joking

[neverending]

Some day I will learn... but I guess I still haven't. There will always be people in the world who will cast everything in the world in the worst possible light.

They can take an innocent occurance like a dog looking at them as they pass by it into a message from demons telling them the end time is coming...

Or they can turn a server crash into some grand conspiracy against whatever they can cook up in their brains.

Anyone who has been here long enough and has a clear enough head knows that the site owner has exactly ZERO interest in the forum- it's been demonstrated over and over again- and who never step in and delete anything for any reason whatsoever. He just doesn't give a flying fuck about the forum at all.

So, if anyone is still trying to present this hardware failure as some kind of a "pathetic" attemp at censorship... you need to have a reality check. Seriously.

[TheWickerFan]

He was joking

It sounded perfectly plausible to me.

[neverending]

And I rest my case.....

[_____V_____]

It was V that suggested the admins deleted everything because there'd been too much talk about Elvis.

Geez I was just kidding, like newb said.

Read the first three words of my post up there - "Someone would think..."

Oh boy...

Let's just drop this.

[hammerfan]

Thanks for being so willing and quick to point the finger at the people who try and keep this place running smoothly.

Did I point a finger? No. I asked a question. Get your knickers untwisted, babe.

[newb]

or


maybe....just maybe...Flayed has more power than we think!













jk

[_____V_____]

Could it be...

Horror is Flayed?!

or Flayed is really Horror in disguise?!

:eek:

[TheWickerFan]

Some day I will learn... but I guess I still haven't. There will always be people in the world who will cast everything in the world in the worst possible light.

They can take an innocent occurance like a dog looking at them as they pass by it into a message from demons telling them the end time is coming...

Or they can turn a server crash into some grand conspiracy against whatever they can cook up in their brains.

Anyone who has been here long enough and has a clear enough head knows that the site owner has exactly ZERO interest in the forum- it's been demonstrated over and over again- and who never step in and delete anything for any reason whatsoever. He just doesn't give a flying fuck about the forum at all.

So, if anyone is still trying to present this hardware failure as some kind of a "pathetic" attemp at censorship... you need to have a reality check. Seriously.

Uh huh. So you've resorted to calling me a lunatic on a level with Son Of Sam, have you?:p

[TheWickerFan]

Did I point a finger? No. I asked a question. Get your knickers untwisted, babe.

He definitely got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning.

[newb]

wow.....you can cut the tension in here with a knife.

So anyway....does this mean I have to get all pissed off again about "The Package" and dig up the thread?

[TheWickerFan]

wow.....you can cut the tension in here with a knife.

So anyway....does this mean I have to get all pissed off again about "The Package" and dig up the thread?

I guess so. I wasn't sure if there was going to be another official HDC package or if Rayne was just going to send books to people who requested them. Or both?

[newb]

I guess so. I wasn't sure if there was going to be another official HDC package or if Rayne was just going to send books to people who requested them. Or both?

V mentioned this morning that he was willing to start "The Package v.4"

personally I think if he starts it it should make its way around that side of the pond to all who want to participate....then ship it over here for us to go around with it.

[neverending]

Yep- I'm the one saying thank goodness we're still here and posting tips on how to retrieve any lost content you may want, while others moan and groan about conspiracies and wilfull misconduct... and I'M the one who got up on the wrong side of the bed.

Same old same old....

[hammerfan]

V mentioned this morning that he was willing to start "The Package v.4"

personally I think if he starts it it should make its way around that side of the pond to all who want to participate....then ship it over here for us to go around with it.

That sounds like an ideal plan.

[Ferox13]

Well its not the first time I've i've lost 7 days of my life:-)

[Rayne]

Yep- I'm the one saying thank goodness we're still here and posting tips on how to retrieve any lost content you may want, while others moan and groan about conspiracies and wilfull misconduct... and I'M the one who got up on the wrong side of the bed.

Same old same old....

Actually, I was blaming Horror's incompetence...And I still do :p

I had already tried cache and wayback (first things I did, actually), but it didn't help...

After I finished addressing the first 2 boxes, I saw that the addresses were back...So, I finished taping the other 2 boxes, and now the addresses are gone again...That's not frustrating or anything [/sarcasm]

There...I got in all of my bitching :D

I will be leaving for the post office in a few minutes...I guess I'll just send the other boxes when I can retrieve the other addresses...

[ferretchucker]

Could it be...

Horror is Flayed?!

or Flayed is really Horror in disguise?!

:eek:

Given the amount of time it's taken for Flayed to send the package (still hasn't) I wouldn't be surprised.

[friday13thfan]

I thought the same thing when I saw that my recent post were gone and that besides today it says my last post date was 3-14-11.

[AMICUS HORROR]

Its a shame, the Mods take the blame when things go wrong.:( They are over worked and underpaid, its just not right.:rolleyes: I'm going to be a Mod when I leave school.:o

http://www.horror.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=46&pictureid=1040

[TheWickerFan]

Its a shame, the Mods take the blame when things go wrong.:( They are over worked and underpaid, its just not right.:rolleyes: I'm going to be a Mod when I leave school.:o

http://www.horror.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=46&pictureid=1040

Oh man....:D

[Fearonsarms]

Goodness I really don't know what to say when you've lost the last nine days of your life. I apologise if I was in any way responsible for this by digging up old topics etc. I had absolutely NO idea this would be the outcome-harsh!

[ferretchucker]

It's times like this that I'm happy I have so many of you on Facebook.

[Fearonsarms]

I'm thinking the community went on a trolling and spamming spree and before undergoing a radical mindwipe technique, to forget our attrocities, we collectively decided to delete all evidence of the past days.... Probably best not to dig too deep on this one.

Just in case anyone was in any doubt-straker has hit the nail on the head on this issue.

[_____V_____]

Every time we have had problems the past 2 weeks, the screen says "Apache server testing"...So, either Horror is switching servers, or he is "upgrading" this one again...Remember how well all of the other past "upgrades" have gone?...One wiped out our ability to view IPs...Another made it impossible to upload images, so we all had to get photobucket accounts, and ALL of our previously uploaded images were just lost...The first upgrade made it impossible to access our albums from our posts, and we are no longer able to post 'invisible' because of it, too (every member had the 'invisibility' option before the upgrades)...*ugh*...Looks like this one won't be any better...

I emailed Horror...But...I'm not expecting anything to be accomplished by it...Based on past experience

I have some update news on this, but it isn't very encouraging...

Remember I said I had emailed Horror? Here we go -

My email -

to [email protected]
date Fri, May 20, 2011 at 4:35 PM
subject Posts have disappeared
mailed-by gmail.com

hide details May 20 (1 day ago)


Hello,

Did the horror forum servers just crash, or got rebooted, a few minutes ago?

Because all the new posts made within the past week (since May 12th) have completely disappeared.

The last posts showing in the forum are a week old.

Is it a server crash? Please check at your end.

Thank you.


And this is the mail I received back -

from Mail Delivery Subsystem [email protected]
date Sat, May 21, 2011 at 6:18 PM
subject Delivery Status Notification (Delay)

hide details 6:18 PM (2 hours ago)


This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification

Delivery to the following recipient has been delayed:

[email protected]

Message will be retried for 2 more day(s)

Technical details of temporary failure:
The recipient server did not accept our requests to connect. Learn more at http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=7720

[mail.horror.com. (10): Connection refused]


Sorry, guys.

[Fearonsarms]

You tried!No one can expect any more from you.

[roshiq]

Or they can turn a server crash into some grand conspiracy against whatever they can cook up in their brains.

Anyone who has been here long enough and has a clear enough head knows that the site owner has exactly ZERO interest in the forum- it's been demonstrated over and over again- and who never step in and delete anything for any reason whatsoever. He just doesn't give a flying fuck about the forum at all.


What if.....

the man who has the Power but Zero interest...

one day with no apparent reason just had a thought in mind..."How about fucked the HDC up for a day? Hope it'll be fun...":D

And who knows perhaps there's more to come....

[roshiq]

Btw, how about from now on every coming years we'll recall this time of the year say as HDC Twilight Week or The Time We lost 9 HDC days of our Life!:D We can then have some special tourney, quiz contests etc.:D

[Fearonsarms]

Mark your calendars folks-Happy Twilight Zone Week 2012-I can't wait.