Forum behavior

[Dave Hicks]

This seems pretty settled so I'm going to cut this off here. A few points of interest:

There are backups. If we had a full melt-down, a full recovery should be straight-forward. As for pulling specific deleted things out of a backup and inserting into the DB - that gets a lot more interesting. I've done some looking and it looks probably doable, you're basically on your own with SQL, though there would be some significant learning.

I worried about investing a lot of time, because a couple of days ago I asked someone not to insult another member and he went and deleted nearly all of his posts. (Everything except the thread with the insult.) And given how things have been going with Geir, I was thinking: what if that happens again after all that work? I think he (they?) thought that if Den wasn't a moderator anymore, Walter would be welcome again or something and Geir's let me know that he's been mad at me since 2015 at least - though I didn't know until a couple of days ago.

In the background all day I've been wondering what to do about Geir and what I was subjecting Gene to in the earliest days of his moderating career. It felt very much like Den and Walter.

Tonight, I received another PM from Geir. Turns out he's leaving the forum. He instructs me to delete his account and posts. He says he read my "rant" about Thomas' ban/unban and unlike Thomas he definitely won’t ask to come back. I agree that this is probably the best course for all so I've hit the goodbye spammer button.

Meanwhile on a more pleasant topic:

I fully support Tim's campaign, and may replace this entire thread with: