What happened to the "New Canadian League" thread?

[Calgary Boomer]

There were 10 pages of great stuff here yesterday, and now "poof" it's vanished?

[Luis_Rancagua]

quote:Originally posted by Calgary Boomer

There were 10 pages of great stuff here yesterday, and now "poof" it's vanished?

I am not too certain, but it appears that the moderator has terminated the thread for it was becoming a personnel affair between Richard, Robert and Moosehead. Basically itwas simply them contributing to the thread.

[Daniel]

If that's what happened, it should have simply been locked.

[Robert]

quote:Originally posted by Daniel

If that's what happened, it should have simply been locked.

It's a shame that 250 posts can just get deleted like that.

[DJT]

The thread was accidentally deleted. An explanation was not posted earlier because we were trying to get it back, but were unsuccessful at doing so. Our apologies to all, especially those who contributed so much to the thread.

To be clear: this was an accident, not moderation of the thread.

[Robert]

quote:Originally posted by DJT

The thread was accidentally deleted. An explanation was not posted earlier because we were trying to get it back, but were unsuccessful at doing so. Our apologies to all, especially those who contributed so much to the thread.

To be clear: this was an accident, not moderation of the thread.

Jesus. Only 26 seconds after my last post. Were you waiting for me?

[An Observer]

This is too funny....not only can we not maintain a league of our own, we cannot even maintain a thread to discuss it.

[Robert]

quote:Originally posted by An Observer

This is too funny....not only can we not maintain a league of our own, we cannot even maintain a thread to discuss it.

The denial of reality. It's Canadian soccer's greatest enemy.

[Robert]

The denial of reality. It's Canadian soccer's greatest enemy.
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How one of the most active threads could be exposed to the possibility of accidental deletion is beyond me. This thread had almost as many posts as "the father of all Canucks Abroad" thread in a much shorter time span and with about a 4 times higher response ratio by the readers of the thread. Like most things in life, the contents of the New Canadian Soccer League thread consisted of many positive and negative elements. There were many ideas presented and developed. Weaknesses were exposed, sometimes in harsh frustration, but mostly with a genuine constructive objective that desired only to improve the state of soccer in Canada. Unfortunately, many of the shortcomings exposed were initially met with an attitude of resistance. Some, felt only the need to correct the etiquette of those discussing these issues. A few were inclined to control, not just the quality of the thread, but more akin to the Thought Control that Pink Floyd refers to. If this truly was an accident, which I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt to, then the greatest care should be taken in the future that this does not happen again. However, if it does occur again, I would feel that this forum to be lacking in democratic values and would consider it to be a waste of time.

[DJT]

quote:Originally posted by Robert

How one of the most active threads could be exposed to the possibility of accidental deletion is beyond me.

The amount of activity on a thread is irrelevant. They are all deleted and edited in the same way, and cannot be individually protected based on size, significance or anything else.

quote:If this truly was an accident, which I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt to, then the greatest care should be taken in the future that this does not happen again. However, if it does occur again, I would feel that this forum to be lacking in democratic values and would consider it to be a waste of time.

Well, it has happened before and will happen again, because mistakes happen. With thousands of threads and even more posts, of course there will always be a few accidents. This is not banking or other such critical information with several layers of security, redundancy and other protection.

Nevertheless, we have been in need of a simple backup system since moving to the new Web host, and Jarrek is working on it, though of course even that would not be foolproof.