Over the last couple days I hit Level 35, ranked up from Master Sergeant to Sgt. First Class AND got a deity whistle! Woo!
At 7/8/17 03:47 AM, EDM364 wrote:
Well, it WAS 3k posts. No idea where 350 or so of them went. Oh well, will get there again eventually. They were probably shitposts, but seriously, now I want to know which posts got deleted. @Nekomika, ya think they were my 11-year-old shitposts?
It's just people having their accounts deleted or their posts wiped. When a user's posts are deleted all of their threads are gone too, and if you posted in those threads that means your posts are gone as well. It sucks. I can understand people wanting their posts gone but to me the BBS is a fascinating time capsule and it sucks to see it filled with holes, and of course it sucks to have my own posts removed without notice. It would be nice if the process could be reworked so threads stay up with a blank OP rather than the whole thread going down.
The most popular thread on the VG forum used to be the old xbox gamerscore leaderboard, but then the user who started it (Jawdyn) had his account deleted, and hundreds of pages of other people's posts are gone alongside it. The newer (now defunct) leaderboard gives me mad nostalgia when I flick through it, so it's a shame to see the older one gone forever.
Same with private messages, I have an IRL friend who had his NG account deleted and all of the pages upon pages of retarded nonsense we used to message eachother is gone forever too. I miss it.
I go through phases where I don't post much but still log in every day, and that's when I notice my post count is almost constantly declining. Homicidee also had his posts wiped fairly recently and I'd posted in a lot of his threads so that put a nice dent in my post count too. I think everyone should have the right to wipe their posts but it just stings a bit when they cause collateral damage, like they're hurting NG itself in a tiny way.