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Here's the thing, yesterday and other days i spent a great deal of time having a conversation/ debate with other users on a particular topic and today suddenly all the threads have disappeared from the message board and my posts with them, whereas i invested sometimes a lot of energy and time to make my point! Let alone all the translations [my mother tongue being french] and "research" i had to devote to achieve my goal, writing edible and easy fathomable texts [which could seem silly, i agree, yet it isn't so easy in another tongue].
Anyway, my question being, is it possible to retrieve those posts from somewhere??
And if not [what i suspect], why in 7 hells do they erase them even from your posting history??! WTH? If you want to erase the threads, fair enough, do as u please, but for pity's sake, don't erase the posts from my history!! Sometimes i take 2-3 hours to give birth to a text trying to answer a philosophical/political/conceptual question asked by a fellow user, therefore i find it highly unacceptable to just erase without warning a thought, a mind construction successfully transformed from idea to ink, from air to stone. And it's just lost forever....
I'm pissed!
The worst is that one wouldn't even realize posts are missing since there's no mark/warning whatsoever in one's board history that tells something has been erased, nothing! That should be the minimum!
So, does anybody know towards whom i gotta turn myself to regarding that matter? Or is it just a lost cause?
Thanx in advance!
Anyway, my question being, is it possible to retrieve those posts from somewhere??
And if not [what i suspect], why in 7 hells do they erase them even from your posting history??! WTH? If you want to erase the threads, fair enough, do as u please, but for pity's sake, don't erase the posts from my history!! Sometimes i take 2-3 hours to give birth to a text trying to answer a philosophical/political/conceptual question asked by a fellow user, therefore i find it highly unacceptable to just erase without warning a thought, a mind construction successfully transformed from idea to ink, from air to stone. And it's just lost forever....
I'm pissed!
The worst is that one wouldn't even realize posts are missing since there's no mark/warning whatsoever in one's board history that tells something has been erased, nothing! That should be the minimum!
So, does anybody know towards whom i gotta turn myself to regarding that matter? Or is it just a lost cause?
Thanx in advance!
Posted 7 years ago
bluesmanSF, Champion
DavidAH_Ca, Champion
Wasn't there an option at one time to have a copy of your post emailed to you? That would make self-archiving comparatively easy.
bluesmanSF, Champion
I think there was. It would be an easy fix....at least an option and easy path right into email and users can just create an IMDb folder.
LuvsToResearch, Champion
If you are researching and writing posts that are rich in detail and something you wish to archive, I suggest you draft them in a document on your computer/IPad, etc. you can draft, save, then copy and paste into the post but always have the original in your computer so that you can refer to it or repost it, if necessary.
If you are keen to keep the other posts,in the thread, you could copy those into a document or take a screenshot. In that manner you keep your own archive because it is important to you and not rely upon IMDb to archive one or two threads out of millions.
If you are keen to keep the other posts,in the thread, you could copy those into a document or take a screenshot. In that manner you keep your own archive because it is important to you and not rely upon IMDb to archive one or two threads out of millions.
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Dan Dassow, Champion
Wasn't there an option at one time to have a copy of your post emailed to you? That would make self-archiving comparatively easy.Prior to the current design, a user could email to themselves private messages (PM). To my knowledge, IMDb never provided a means to email the content of a post to a message board.
I also recommend drafting posts in MS Word or some other word processing application. The only downside is that MS Words includes special characters (such as smart quotes) that do not render properly in message board messages. The user can usually correct this by previewing the post and/or editing the message after it is posted.
Yes, I'd like to see a return of getting emails of posts. The boards do need a major overall. The profile is not even compatible with them and the main profile page is not even compatible with the boards/profile page where it is composed in a barebones editor. Because of that my profile is only a few lines. With three different ways the same text can be interpreted, IMDb has a major problem in text rendering that will probably never be fixed without scrapping the current system.
