The Self Referential Thread

[kurchatovium]

When I was working on my website I put everyone in it that was posting at the time I believe. That was mainly HDS and Raichyll. So I think you and mils must have started during the Great Pruning period that was deleted.

 

[milagros317]

I'd like to hear the story of The Great Pruning.

The TMF had become sluggish and crashed often in early December 2004. The owner (Jeff) investigated and found out that the TMF was using almost all of its allotted disc space for storage of existing posts. It then had about 500,000 posts total. The search function was disabled and photo attachments were disallowed as a temporary fix.

But the TMF remained sluggish and still crashed frequently. So the Moderators decided to bite the bullet and get rid of almost all the posts in the Silly Stuff Forum (which had a different name back then, I think).

Over 200,000 posts were deleted on the evening of December 15, 2004. 😱

Over 47,000 of those posts were mine. 😱 🙁 🙁 I went from over 52,000 posts to just over 5,000 posts.

Newer technology makes disc space much cheaper now and TMF has had no such problems lately, nor will we. 😀 😛

 

[kurchatovium]

I'd like to hear the story of The Great Pruning.

Back then the TMF had a much smaller server and the Silly Forum was taking up much too much room. So they trimmed a lot of the posts on the forum and deleted every silly thread not on the first 3 pages. Fortunately someone posted and this thread was not one of the ones deleted.

😀 😛

 

[General Zod]

OK

I am back now If I had to guess,I think I joined the Armada sometime in the later half of 2005 😀 😛

 

[milagros317]

OK

I am back now If I had to guess,I think I joined the Armada sometime in the later half of 2005 😀 😛

And you have been a very valuable member of our Armada since then. 😀 😛

 

[General Zod]

And you have been a very valuable member of our Armada since then. 😀 😛

Thank you my friend 😀 😛

 

[kurchatovium]

OK

I am back now If I had to guess,I think I joined the Armada sometime in the later half of 2005 😀 😛

You should be able to find your first post then, and you are a most valuable memeber. 🙂

😀 😛

 

[milagros317]

Thank you my friend 😀 😛

You are very welcome, my friend. 😀 😛

 

[General Zod]

Almost 3/4 of my posts are in this thread 😀

I can't thank you two enough for having me in this thread Mils and Kurch 😀 😛

 

[milagros317]

You are part of what makes this thread the greatest thread in any of the General Discussion subforums, Zod. 😀 😛

 

[kurchatovium]

Your first post General Zod was June 9, 2005

http://www.ticklingforum.com/showthread.php?p=699820#post699820

😀 😛

 

[milagros317]

My first post in this thread was in the gap created by the pruning. 🙁
😀 😛

 

[Helena]

What offer? Sorry,when I get to looking for something,I tend to be a little weird 😛

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You tend to be a little weird? Me too. Scroll back.

The TMF had become sluggish and crashed often in early December 2004. The owner (Jeff) investigated and found out that the TMF was using almost all of its allotted disc space for storage of existing posts. It then had about 500,000 posts total. The search function was disabled and photo attachments were disallowed as a temporary fix.

But the TMF remained sluggish and still crashed frequently. So the Moderators decided to bite the bullet and get rid of almost all the posts in the Silly Stuff Forum (which had a different name back then, I think).

Over 200,000 posts were deleted on the evening of December 15, 2004. 😱

Over 47,000 of those posts were mine. 😱 🙁 🙁 I went from over 52,000 posts to just over 5,000 posts.

Newer technology makes disc space much cheaper now and TMF has had no such problems lately, nor will we. 😀 😛

Back then the TMF had a much smaller server and the Silly Forum was taking up much too much room. So they trimmed a lot of the posts on the forum and deleted every silly thread not on the first 3 pages. Fortunately someone posted and this thread was not one of the ones deleted.

😀 😛

OMG. I wasn't posting around that time in the silly stuff. I didn't start actively posting until around 2006. That's an awful story.

 

[kurchatovium]

Apparently the search function stops after 500 posts so I limited the search to 4 years and older. To find Zods first post.

 

[General Zod]

Your first post General Zod was June 9, 2005

http://www.ticklingforum.com/showthread.php?p=699820#post699820

😀 😛

As your are too Milagros 🙂

Thanks Kurch 🙂

😀 😛

 

[kurchatovium]

As your are too Milagros 🙂

Thanks Kurch 🙂

😀 😛

You are most welcome my friend. I am really glad you joined up. 🙂


😀 😛

 

[milagros317]

Apparently the search function stops after 500 posts so I limited the search to 4 years and older. To find Zods first post.

Clever use of the advanced search function, Kurch. 😀 😛

 

[kurchatovium]

My first post in this thread was in the gap created by the pruning. 🙁
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Yea that makes sense. Too bad they did not save those posts at least to disk. 🙁

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[General Zod]

Your first post General Zod was June 9, 2005

http://www.ticklingforum.com/showthread.php?p=699820#post699820

😀 😛

Apparently the search function stops after 500 posts so I limited the search to 4 years and older. To find Zods first post.

I was using the six and seven year function on the advance search But my first posting for this thread did not come up 😀 😛

 

[kurchatovium]

Clever use of the advanced search function, Kurch. 😀 😛

Thanks.

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[milagros317]

Yea that makes sense. Too bad they did not save those posts at least to disk. 🙁

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They would have had to save them to some disk external to the server's disks, which were nearly full (to the capacity that we had rented at the time). 🙁
😀 😛

 

[kurchatovium]

I was using the six and seven year function on the advance search But my first posting for this thread did not come up 😀 😛

You have to change it to And Older instead of And Newer also. Maybe that was the problem.

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[General Zod]

here is my first post 😛

Cartoonies are great Can I tickle the strippers?

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[kurchatovium]

They would have had to save them to some disk external to the server's disks, which were nearly full (to the capacity that we had rented at the time). 🙁
😀 😛

Yea guess those posts were doomed.

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[milagros317]

There is something called the "way back machine" that archives the internet. We could try that for December 14, 2004. 😀 😛