I have worked as a copyeditor and proofreader at various times in my life. The curse of the text-focused Aspie is to notice every little incongruity, logical error, and peculiarity in what I read. I should be so lucky as to translate the ability to spot glitches in text into the ability to spot glitches in face-to-face interactions. Still no luck with that after more than 50 years. Anyway, this post by Alex:
alex wrote:
I am not aware of entire threads disappearing.
Also, Spokane_Girl was never banned.
unfortunately, I am still trying to figure out what happened. The worst part is that backups are 2 weeks stale due to an unrelated glitch on the hosting side that has been fixed only today. Due to the severity of this issue I have had to remove moderator privileges for most of the moderators until we figure out what happened.
Regardless, restoring the lost member / post data will take hours if not days of work and I'm seriously angry especially since this deletion is causing issues on Wrong Planet's performance and may result in slowness and weird quirkiness when people try to access missing data. If this was caused by a moderator, the intent was clearly malicious, and that person will never be a moderator on my forum (or any other one for that matter).
Okay, see that
bolded part?
Quote:
If this was caused by a moderator, the intent was clearly malicious, and that person will never be a moderator on my forum (or any other one for that matter).
Now picture that string of text that I've
marked in red being reinserted into the sentence, except that the insertion point is placed ONE WORD TO THE RIGHT.
Quote:
If this was caused by a moderator, and the intent was clearly malicious, {then} that person will never be a moderator on my forum (or any other one for that matter).
Words are slippery things, never more so than on the Net where you can't see the expression on the other guy's face. (Not that
that's ever been a big help for someone like me, but never mind.) I would hate to think that a previously-harmonious working relationship between Alex and his moderating team could be blown to bits by what might be nothing more than a transcription error.
Comments and dissenting opinions welcome.