classic watmm

So all the posting pre-2008 is gone forever? Correct me if I'm wrong but this forum seems to have existed since the 80's. It would be awesome to read historic threads ie. People starting riots when Autechre's Confield first appeared, 9/11 during 9/11, the tsunami, etc.

... troon posting every Flock of Seagulls remix cassingle in the New Releases Forum

Jedy's afro & porn 'stache

essines' mom registering his account and posting his birthing video on the day he was born

Screenshots of WARP's first paper newsletter

Richard James in Generra Hypercolor and Ray Bans

Awepittance's theory about the Korg Triton Workstation's circuit diagram encoding a map of Gorbachev's strategic operations base

user Marcus_CA's endless YouTube threads about the best and rarest nature documentaries

Tom Jenkinson's shitty 4-track uploads to YLC (always voted 1.5 stars)

  On 9/15/2011 at 6:17 PM, encey said:

 

essines' mom registering his account and posting his birthing video on the day he was born

lol

  On 9/15/2011 at 5:48 PM, m u st co n t r ol t h o 4 said:

So all the posting pre-2008 is gone forever? Correct me if I'm wrong but this forum seems to have existed since the 80's. It would be awesome to read historic threads ie. People starting riots when Autechre's Confield first appeared, 9/11 during 9/11, the tsunami, etc.

I hope you didn't take the tongue-in-cheek tagline on the main page to heart (first of all, there was no internet (at least the public kind) in 1982, and I was only 9 at the time, so my HTML skills were a bit lacking then

But yes, that's right - they are gone, and even if they still existed, trying to shoehorn the data back into the forums wouldn't be worth the effort.

imho, the following threads should not have been locked:

-brother/sister in-lift sex

-this morning i woke up cumming

-nude rugby

-how to poop at work

thx,

--hhathathahthath

  On 9/15/2011 at 8:05 PM, Joyrex said:

But yes, that's right - they are gone, and even if they still existed, trying to shoehorn the data back into the forums wouldn't be worth the effort.

how big is it? would be interested in just having the text to dig through, if the sql design isn't too much of a clusterfuck.

Oh man, if only you could have seen Joyrex's scans of the 'Nice Pubes' thread on the '79 BBS edition before WATMM joined ARPANET. He'd have some 'splainin to do then!

  On 9/15/2011 at 6:17 PM, encey said:

... troon posting every Flock of Seagulls remix cassingle in the New Releases Forum

 

Jedy's afro & porn 'stache

 

essines' mom registering his account and posting his birthing video on the day he was born

 

Screenshots of WARP's first paper newsletter

 

Richard James in Generra Hypercolor and Ray Bans

 

Awepittance's theory about the Korg Triton Workstation's circuit diagram encoding a map of Gorbachev's strategic operations base

 

user Marcus_CA's endless YouTube threads about the best and rarest nature documentaries

 

Tom Jenkinson's shitty 4-track uploads to YLC (always voted 1.5 stars)

lol re:Korg Triton

Ok, I know complaining about closed topics probably puts me on some mods shitlist, but if you think that a topic is too crappy to be in the general banter section, why not move it to nosense/crap thread forum?

oh my lol. 'this morning i woke up cumming' is a hilarious thread.

it's on par with some of joyrexs horror poop stories from public cubicles. why was it locked??

soccer

moms

are

complaining

edit: I just remembered troon posting in gay fonts and triangles. thank god he stopped with that business.

edit 2: Not that there's anything negative about being a homosexual.

  On 9/16/2011 at 9:16 AM, pigster said:

oh my lol. 'this morning i woke up cumming' is a hilarious thread.

it's on par with some of joyrexs horror poop stories from public cubicles. why was it locked??

joyrex lost his sense of poomour.

  On 9/16/2011 at 11:20 AM, usagi said:

  On 9/15/2011 at 6:17 PM, encey said:

Awepittance's theory about the Korg Triton Workstation's circuit diagram encoding a map of Gorbachev's strategic operations base

 

lol

  On 9/15/2011 at 8:05 PM, Joyrex said:

But yes, that's right - they are gone, and even if they still existed, trying to shoehorn the data back into the forums wouldn't be worth the effort.

it's actually horrible, i've always thought they are archived somewhere, it's like deleting hundreds of people's diaries.

why wasn't it ever up for discussion ? there are better solutions than just "shit+delete" years of history of the community.

Exactly, this is awful - at least give hahahatthahaht the database so he can make his computer magic / recreate it for us, otherwise watmm would not be too far from a bizarre PG 4chan for soccer IDM moms.

I'm reminded of the phrase 'standing on the shoulders of giants' and also 'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it'

*wolfs out*

... back when Rick Rolling only happened in the New Releases Forum

  On 9/16/2011 at 2:26 PM, Coalbucket PI said:

I'm reminded of the phrase 'standing on the shoulders of giants' and also 'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it'

 

*wolfs out*

i think we're just howling at the moon here

  On 9/16/2011 at 11:58 AM, eugene said:

  On 9/15/2011 at 8:05 PM, Joyrex said:

But yes, that's right - they are gone, and even if they still existed, trying to shoehorn the data back into the forums wouldn't be worth the effort.

 

it's actually horrible, i've always thought they are archived somewhere, it's like deleting hundreds of people's diaries.

why wasn't it ever up for discussion ? there are better solutions than just "shit+delete" years of history of the community.

Horrible? It's a FUCKING MESSAGEBOARD, not some great literary work worthy of preservation - you lot take all this WAY too seriously. Sure, WATMM's a great resource for music, but General Banter could be nuked tomorrow and the world would be none the worse for wear.

I also heartily laugh at the "up for discussion" bit - we had to move hosts ASAP because the CPU on the old hosts' SQL server was being pegged and the host turned off the site for violating their threshold one too many times. Chaosmachine and I decided this host would be the best and most stable for the site's needs, but the problem was there wasn't enough room for the Downloads section HDD space wise, and we didn't want to peg out this SQL server's CPU and create the same sort of situation, so we (I say we, it was mostly Chaosmachine) decided it was best to remove posts from General Banter from 2008 backwards as NO ONE was even pulling those threads up, and 90% of it was nonsense anyways.

you really are the flashbulb, aren't you?

You've got a perfectly good excuse Joyrex, no need to be defensive about it. It doesn't mean people can't wish it hadn't happened.

General banter is the soul of watmm, though.

Whoa!

are we locking poop threads now?

  On 9/16/2011 at 6:58 PM, chassis said:

are we locking poop threads now?

this is a much more serious issue than losing 2008-era posts.

  On 9/16/2011 at 6:58 PM, chassis said:

Whoa!

 

are we locking poop threads now?

I will lock, delete, remove to Nonsense/Crap or unapprove any thread, post, or comment I feel does not belong on WATMM.