Query For Moderators

I’ve never been called perfect before. Thanks.

It’s simply not possible for there to be two of us!

God?
Which one?:confused:

Thanks for pointing out the faulty link, duly rectified.

I’ve never been called perfect before. Thanks.

I sincerely hoped you wouldn’t go there.:D

I also hope you find the repaired link as interesting as I do!

Yes I do, further exploration required, but first I need to pray…………….:diablo:

I sincerely hoped you wouldn’t go there.:D

I also hope you find the repaired link as interesting as I do!

God?
Which one?:confused:

Not going there with a ten foot pole! Same dilemma as ugliest plane, best football team, all opinions are valid but not necessarily correct!:D

God is perfect (and your signature link does not work!):)

God?
Which one?:confused:

Thanks for pointing out the faulty link, duly rectified.

God is perfect (and your signature link does not work!):)

This is probably one of the best reasons for something like Wikipedia, I’ve spent a few laborious hours updating and editing some of its pages.
With luck, it’ll be around while the internet is still functional.

Forums contain a lot of dross that couldn’t be successfully searched in the future except by bots, so a central and factual database is the only way forward.

Wiki isn’t perfect, but nothing ever has been nor probably ever will be.

Historically (sorry about that) there tends to be a system upgrade about every four or five years and sometimes this results in mass pruning of the archive.

What the future would make of the Stork Hotel debate is a topic for conjecture.

This question should really be directed at Key itself. All the moderators do is clear out the spam for you and take a lot of flak when we do something that someone disagrees with.

I suppose you have highlighted much of the transience of information in cyberspace.

Moggy

What Moggy C points out here, will haunt researchers in the future.

In the countless online fora, there is a goldmine of knowledge, that people used to buy in books (and lots of books too).

The “art” of data-mining could be put to good use, if directed towards these fora, rather than generating spam and force-selling crap to people.

Its such a shame, that this accumulation of knowledge is going to waste.

I have personally learned more about historic aviation in this forum, than in any of my books.

There are ways to “harvest” the data from a forum. I will not go into details, but if the forum owners would accept such solution, I will try to make a tutorial for people, who might want to keep the data.

The photos are mostly hostes on other sites, so they might dissapear according to the rules of those sites. I’m not sure if you can “harvest” across sites like that.

And I just realise that OldEightBit had more or less written the same as I……

Thanks for the reply. Sad that all those old memories and personal photos disappear after a while. The often rare ‘box brownie’ pictures will probably disappear forever.

Sorry you get a lot of Flak. Just think of yourselves as a bomber crew over Germany… 😉

The archive button is most useful! Will try the wget prog.

Bri 🙂

Actually I did something very similar for another forum a while ago which was about to become extinct.

If you look at the very bottom right of the page there is an “Archive” link. If you click that, you get the forum in a read/only, very basic archive mode.

I used a program called “wget” to effectively spider the whole archive and save it to disk in an offline format. Worked very well and we’ve been able to preserve our old forum as a reference archive long after the life forums disappeared.

Historically (sorry about that) there tends to be a system upgrade about every four or five years and sometimes this results in mass pruning of the archive.

What the future would make of the Stork Hotel debate is a topic for conjecture.

This question should really be directed at Key itself. All the moderators do is clear out the spam for you and take a lot of flak when we do something that someone disagrees with.

I suppose you have highlighted much of the transience of information in cyberspace.

Moggy