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hammerfan 05-20-2011 03:59 AM

Wtf???
 
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_____ 05-20-2011 04:11 AM

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 05-20-2011 04:27 AM

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

hammerfan 05-20-2011 04:40 AM

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

TheWickerFan 05-20-2011 04:57 AM

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 05-20-2011 05:05 AM

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

_____V_____ 05-20-2011 05:07 AM

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Originally Posted by hammerfan (Post 892063)
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.


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Originally Posted by hammerfan (Post 892064)
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.

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Originally Posted by TheWickerFan (Post 892065)
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.

Quote:

Originally Posted by hammerfan (Post 892066)
Avi, can you post that link to the other forums?

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

hammerfan 05-20-2011 05:14 AM

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

Rayne 05-20-2011 05:20 AM

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 05-20-2011 05:25 AM

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

hammerfan 05-20-2011 05:29 AM

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 05-20-2011 05:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rayne (Post 892069)
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 05-20-2011 05:32 AM

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

Rayne 05-20-2011 05:33 AM

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Originally Posted by hammerfan (Post 892072)
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 05-20-2011 05:35 AM

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 05-20-2011 05:41 AM

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Originally Posted by _____V_____ (Post 892067)


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 05-20-2011 06:02 AM

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

Straker 05-20-2011 06:12 AM

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 05-20-2011 06:19 AM

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 05-20-2011 06:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hammerfan (Post 892063)
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 05-20-2011 06:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Straker (Post 892082)
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_____ 05-20-2011 06:26 AM

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 05-20-2011 06:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by _____V_____ (Post 892089)
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 05-20-2011 06:46 AM

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 05-20-2011 06:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by _____V_____ (Post 892089)
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/_8UYCuLzpiB...lofeld-cat.JPG

neverending 05-20-2011 06:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheWickerFan (Post 892097)
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 05-20-2011 07:01 AM

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Originally Posted by neverending (Post 892098)
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 05-20-2011 07:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheWickerFan (Post 892099)
It was V that suggested the admins deleted everything because there'd been too much talk about Elvis.

He was joking

neverending 05-20-2011 07:07 AM

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 05-20-2011 07:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by newb (Post 892100)
He was joking

It sounded perfectly plausible to me.

neverending 05-20-2011 07:10 AM

And I rest my case.....

_____V_____ 05-20-2011 07:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheWickerFan (Post 892099)
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 05-20-2011 07:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by neverending (Post 892086)
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 05-20-2011 07:13 AM

or


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













jk

_____V_____ 05-20-2011 07:16 AM

Could it be...

Horror is Flayed?!

or Flayed is really Horror in disguise?!

:eek:

TheWickerFan 05-20-2011 07:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by neverending (Post 892101)
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 05-20-2011 07:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hammerfan (Post 892105)
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 05-20-2011 08:10 AM

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 05-20-2011 08:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by newb (Post 892110)
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 05-20-2011 08:24 AM

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Originally Posted by TheWickerFan (Post 892111)
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.


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