Thread gone, where did it go?

[Tamara Artis]

When for any reason a whole thread needs to be deleted, do any of the forum members or people who posted get to know the reasons why that happened? Just so, I could avoid not to do the same thing in the future lol

[Tamara Artis]

When for any reason a whole thread needs to be deleted, do any of the forum members or people who posted get to know the reasons why that happened? Just so, I could avoid not to do the same thing in the future lol

[Dillon Levenque]

I've never had a thread deleted but I've had a couple of posts removed and got a PM explaining why. I would be surprised if the OP's of the threads removed today got a notification. That seems to be a clear case of LL not wanting the forum world to know they had screwed up in a rather spectacular way.

 

[KarenMichelle Lane]

Whole Threads have been deleted many times. Most recently was the silly PonyBoy thread with a troll asking for a protest to have him unbanned from one of the in-world Pony Play Areas, It had 4+ pages of responses as I recall before it disappeared into the ether.

[Vania Chaplin]

Yep, briefely there was a 2nd thread on the subject, quickly deleted too.

[Madelaine McMasters]

http://community.secondlife.com/t5/General-Discussion-Forum/What-happened-in-History-on-this-date/m-p/2180483#M126100

[Dresden Ceriano]

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Madelaine McMasters wrote:

http://community.secondlife.com/t5/General-Discussion-Forum/What-happened-in-History-on-this-date/m-p/2180483#M126100

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Oh. 

...Dres

[Dillon Levenque]

I saw that one too, Vania. I sincerely hope the author didn't get a caution or anything. If she was notified of a reason why the original thread was taken down (which I very much doubt) then I guess posting again could be considered inflammatory, but her second thread's OP was very mildly worded.

I think Madelaine's post is an accurate description of what happened. And that's really too bad.

I've been involved in service/support in one way or another for about half of my working life. I've always found that admitting errors is a much better response than covering them up or denying them.

I worked for a place that sold/repaired computers to/for retail customers, back before that wasn't unusual. I'd just started. I was the Service Manager, because I'd a history of doing that although not in the computer business. A customer whose repair the service department had totally fouled up called asking for explanations. After getting the history from my new co-workers I realized the whole problem was our fault. I took the call and he said, "What the Hell happened here?". I said, "We screwed up." His next comment was several decibels lower and just asked if we could fix it (which we could).

 You can't keep screwing up over and over (and I admit that might be the issue discussed here) but I learned from that something I really already knew: just accept the blame, fix it if you can, and apologize. For most people, that's an acceptable solution.

 

Edited because I spelled Maddy's name wrong :-)

[Pamela Galli]

Do we have a volunteer to start a new thread to ask about this one when it gets pulled?

 

:smileytongue:

[Dillon Levenque]

I nominate Qwal. He's been staying out of trouble lately, and that's just not like him.

On a more serious note: how hard would it have been? The problem was apparently fixed, since before the first thread went down I saw a couple of people saying their dances had been restored. Why not just come out and say so?

[Sassy Romano]

[Tamara Artis]

Exactly. I had no idea when I got that dance and removing a thread where people explain what happened left me worried, is my account going to get in trouble? I never created anything, besides having multiple copies of akeyo hud with tons of different anims. And there was not a single word in that mail, advising what to do in case I want to complain to it. Also I didn't  get another mail, which some people mention, saying it was a mistake.

[Sassy Romano]

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Tamara Artis wrote:

 Also I didn't  get another mail, which some people mention, saying it was a mistake.

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There were no mistakes, nothing happened and I didn't get two PM's from moderators, nothing happened, move along, nothing to see.

*mumbles as the gag is applied and the van arrives*

[Tamara Artis]

Yes I guess the system was experiencing unexpected issues that were unfortunatelly discovered after the mails got sent. And I got only one pm from moderator.  

Ok move along have a great day everyone! 

[Pie Serendipity]

Since apparently nothing at all happened it would be redundant to make any sort of critical comment disparaging the incompetence of the personnel involved in initiating a self-humiliating error in the first place, nor the hypocritical attitude of those charged with attempting a whitewash cover-up, would there?

[Perrie Juran]

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Dillon Levenque wrote:

I nominate Qwal. He's been staying out of trouble lately, and that's just not like him.

On a more serious note: how hard would it have been? The problem was apparently fixed, since before the first thread went down I saw a couple of people saying their dances had been restored. Why not just come out and say so?

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When the NSA talks to you, you can not deny or affirm anything. 

Oh, and I have not got my copy back.  I got mine at (damn, i don't know if I am allowed to say, I can neither affirm or deny that I was at Akeyo) during a hunt.  I do still have the rest of the items I got there on the hunt.