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Past Posts Gone

Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2014 9:22 pm
by coolguyclay
I wanted to look at an old post of mine, and it's not there. I do an ego search ("View your posts" link in top bar) and all my posts are missing! Well, there are 3 from 2012 and earlier, and one from Monday. Everything in-between is missing. I can still see my Private Messages.

Not a huge deal, but I am wondering what happened. Especially if someone should be alerted to a data loss problem.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Clay

Re: Past Posts Gone

Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2014 9:56 pm
by MagickalMemories
All of the posts in the Trade forums age off of the site. Otherwise, we'd be overwhelmed with data.
I'm wagering that your post was a trade ad or response to one and that the ones you CAN see are not.

::clicks a couple buttons::

Looking at your posts via the link in your profile (search.php?author_id=2882&sr=posts), I see the above post, a few relatively recent trade ad postss, then a bunch of older non-trade ad posts.

That's why you're seeing what you are. Newer trade ads haven't aged off yet and the older ones are in non-pruning forums.

I hope that helps.

Eric

Re: Past Posts Gone

Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2014 12:43 am
by coolguyclay
Ok, thank you for replying. It seems like it has been about two weeks since the last trading post. I'll keep that in mind!!!

Thanks again,

Clay

Re: Past Posts Gone

Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2014 2:32 pm
by MagickalMemories
Some forums prune faster than others. It has to do with the post rate in that forum.

Eric