Where's my for sale post gone?

[CMF_Geoff W]

I just tried searching for my old for sale post selling my turbo kit, but cant seem to find it!

It's very frustrating because it took a long time to list all the stuff in that post!

The title was along the lines of:
"complete turbo kit for sale" or similar. Probably first posted about a year or 9 months ago.

Am I just a dunce at using the search function or has it disappeared due to the unsavoury comments by some posters?

 

[CMF_littlebear]

Looks gone to me.

No one seems to be buyin' ATM

 

[CMF_Geoff W]

Ok now I've just noticed that I cant seem to find any of my previous posts, including the ones that document the build of my turbo micra. Completed in March 2008.

This is bad, I really love reliving the journey on occasion. And although I still have all the photos, it's the chat and my journal/blog that I'll really miss.

HELP! PLEASE

 

[CMF_Polarbear]

Perhaps there was a clean up of old topics/posts?

Perhaps your posts now only exist in the wayback machine...?

My god I need to stop singing the praises of the internet archive so much

 

[CMF_Geoff W]

If there has been a clean up, doesn't that defeat the purpose of the forum?

What gives one person the right to determine what is needed and what should be deleted? The old saying of one mans trash is another mans treasure surely applies here. I have always regarded this forum as an invaluable source of information on all things Micra, both old, and new.

Maybe if other posters can try a search for a large, blog-style post from their past and see if they can find it.

I dont understand what you mean re: way back machine? please elaborate.

 

[CMF_Polarbear]

http://www.archive.org/

It's a project to archive the internet. They have a lot of sites from years back stored there, that's how a lot of the gallery pictures have been resurrected.

Many many forums have a setting that by default will erase topics once they reach a certain age (based off last post) in order to keep the overall size of the forums data down so that there aren't free space problems for new posts.

 

[mik]

Hey Geoff,

suprisingly your post was gone, but fortunately i had a backup of the database, so i could restore your post again.

Your post is availible here:

https://micra.org.uk/cmf/message/45149

cheers,
mik

 

[CMF_Geoff W]

Thanks heaps Mik. Lifesaver! The other three links in the ad were the main ones I was concerned about too. Happy Days!