Where Did All My Comments Go?
from the that-would-be-a-big-oops dept
So.... some of you may have posted some comments on Techdirt this morning and are now noticing that those comments are gone. Kaput. Missing. This is especially ironic, considering the story this morning getting the most comments was about Amazon's "glitch" in deleting reviews. Well, we're not going to blame a glitch. We're going to blame ourselves for screwing up, royally. While doing some ordinary maintenance work, we accidentally blew up the entire comment database. That was fun. And, not only that, but our backup plan didn't quite work as planned, and we were only able to restore comments up through midnight last night. That means, basically, all the comments from the first 11 hours this morning are gone. Yes. This sucks. Yes, all of us here feel completely awful about it. And, yes, guess what we're doing today? That's right: building a better backup system. So, our sincerest, deepest apologies for screwing this one up. But, if you commented earlier, and feel like taking a second chance at saying what you said, get to it. Update: BackType, a comment search engine, actually rescued our comments. So almost all (or perhaps all) of the missing comments are now back! Huge thank you to BackType.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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If you can read this....
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Shit Happens
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Kudos for zero-BS. Who can get upset with that
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brazenly speaking for others
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Fine by me...
(yes, including all of mine too).
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Fast Recovery
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Good Thing It's an Inifinite Good
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Incipidious Drivelings of a State-of-the-Art Circumvision of the way the WORLD used to be
Better luck next time suckas...
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Backups are important
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aha! a glitch!
Still a glitch! (yes, that was a bad joke, if you don't get it, don't worry)
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It's no big thing.
by Dorpus get caught in the glitch?
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Re: Good Thing It's an Inifinite Good
Even in an apologetic post by Mike, you manage to not understand how things work.
Our comments are technically infinite, yes.
However, that doesn't mean they are not valuable.
Price != Value.
It is VERY simple really.
Our comments do have value as they add to discussion.
However, they are priceless. (har har har, couldn't resist)
But, in short, you are still wrong.
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Oh, right. I haven't spent any money commenting here.
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Except, of course, when they subtract from the discussion, then deletion of the comments actually gains value.
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No way!
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Re: No way!
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Re: It's no big thing.
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If it's a big deal...
As for you, Techdirt, way to own up to your mistake. Though I think some of your writers are just plain crazy sometimes, your admission bought you tons of credibility with me.
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oh noes!!!1!
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I'm just sayin'...
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LMAO!
...............WEEE DOH NEEED NO STEENKIN BACKUPS!!!!!"
What a Maroon....
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Headaches.
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two types of IT admins
There are two types of IT guys.
Those with comprehensive, tested, validated back-up solutions, and those whose systems haven't crashed yet.
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