The Case of the Snagged Thread

[Will]

Yesterday -- I know I'm not dreaming -- I posted something on a thread about aging. I even remember that the title had the word spelled "ageing" in it. But now I can't find the thread. What happened to it?

[Guest bottomboykk]

Very strange. I read that thread, too. I haven't heard anything from another moderator about deleting it; besides the new software shows when posts are deleted instead them just disappearing.

 

Daddy: what happened?

[Guest fukamarine]

>Yesterday -- I know I'm not dreaming -- I posted something on

>a thread about aging. I even remember that the title had the

>word spelled "ageing" in it. But now I can't find the thread.

> What happened to it?

 

You're right will - I started it and now it's gone. Could it be that "The Eye In The Sky" (and I don't mean Daddy or our moderators)deleated it because I said Donald Rumsfeld was a former hunk? Am I paranoid, or what?

 

 

fukamarine

[Rick Munroe]

Maybe the topic just got old. (sorry; that was an easy set-up) Or maybe some hacker broke into the site & deleted it to make a point about how older gay men can be made to feel invisible in our society...but that wouldn't make sense because hackers are almost always young techno-nerds...but that would be cool, though, for a young guy to be defending the rights of seniors by doing something symbolic like making their threads go away. (OK, I'll quit now...this isn't even making sense to me.)

 

I do wish that thread would come back. I wanted to re-read the nice thing that Will said about me. Seriously, though...Will's post and a few others were really well done (which isn't rare) (nice "meaty" pun, no?) & I had a few things to add.

[chrismac]

Yeah - I posted a reply on the thread as well, and the reason for coming online this morning was to check replies on that thread - and abracadabra - it's gone! I searched all over and thought I must be going mad!

[Guest Mikki]

So gland that Will brought this up. I felt the threads were so important. I couldn't believe that it vanished. My thought was that perhaps people are so afraid of getting old they don't even want to hear about it. What a pity. There is lots to learn from such intelligent posts. It is nice to read something other than silly sexual banter, like some second rate sit com once in a while.

[Rick Munroe]

It had to be an error or a glitch. Someone should re-start the thread. (Lesson for today: Keep a copy of your better posts for cases like this.)

[Guest bottomboykk]

Hey fukamarine, if you re-start this thread, the spelling is "aging" OK?

[BigD]

I also responded. Perhaps the wisdom I thought I shared wasn't.

Oh well, on to fresh, younger topics...

[Guest fukamarine]

>Hey fukamarine, if you re-start this thread, the spelling is

>"aging" OK?

 

Now you know why I never applied for a job as a secretary!

 

But I find it odd that after several members have mentioned they missed it and wanted it back, there have been no reasons or explanations from the "powers that be".

 

Hmmmmmmmmmmm

 

 

fukamarine

[Guest bottomboykk]

I've been wondering why I haven't heard from anyone, too, as to what happened!

[Justice]

I read it too. I was going to post a response and discovered that it was gone. :-( The thread about the stip club on Long Island is also among the missing. :o I participated in that one and I don't remember reading (or posting) anything that violated the rules. x( Strange, very strange.

[Huey]

Well me too ... I read it anyway. Lucky had one of his best posts in that thread. I'm sure it's hard to recreate that kind of magic . BTW the post was last seen (by me) at 5:55am EST.

[Guest 7Zach]

i thought brits spelled the word ageing. i always confuse aging with texas a&m.

it was a good post, thoughtful.

i remember the part about drinking, and looking back at your old pics and thinking that, "hey, i was cute".

[chrismac]

Although I sometimes save memorable quotes from message board threads, I never keep my own. Once it's gone - it's gone. The artist can never repaint the image. It is not to be reborn.

 

I agree it must have been a glitch - nothing more sinister than that. Too bad. I rather thought I had drafted a nice reply in that thread. Oh well, I guess I'll never know how others' thought about it. My messages are usually thread killers anyway - so maybe it was me after all.

[swallows22]

I have a Websters New world Dictionary, third college edition[probably as old as me] but it spells the word aging or ageing. Don't think the world revolves around the spelling, but more so how you handle it! Cheers!

[bluenix]

>My messages are usually thread

>killers anyway...

 

Naw. You're one of the more interesting posters here.

[+ Lucky]

"Lucky had one of his best posts in that thread"

 

I did? Well, i can't remember it so Hooboy, please bring it back!!!

(Thanks, Huey.)

[chrismac]

>>My messages are usually thread

>>killers anyway...

>

>Naw. You're one of the more interesting posters here.

>

>

Aren't you sweet? I needed that. Thanks. Guess I was fishin' for it ;-)

[Guy Fawkes]

I'm working on that one. Cause unknown, It appears to have been a power hit that took out the UPS. I've changed out the UPS and I'm monitoring the server. I've had to do a optimize/check/repair cycle on the DB tables and their were some problems that were repaired.

 

I'll try to restore the thread if I can find it but I'm still working on the backup stratagy for the machine (There is literally no quiet time for the machine) and I may not find it.

 

<TechnoBabble>

Current plans are to add a Slave Mysql server that get replicated from the Primary. I'll be able to take the slave offline for the hour or two each day needed to do a full backup and it'll automatically sync itself once it comes back up.

 

In the event of a failure, I can flush the backup machine back to the primary, or if need be reload from the previous night's backup.

<End TechnoBabble>

[Rick Munroe]

>It appears to have

>been a power hit that took out the UPS.

 

Was he wearing that sexy tight brown uniform?

 

><TechnoBabble>

 

This was all techno-babble to me! :+