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  • Moderator's skillz, tips and how to needed!
     OP - July 20, 2010, 06:44 AM
    I need to cut out some posts (they are about scientific errors in the quran) which where initially posted in another thread (Grammar mistakes of the Quran) and insert them into the relavant thread. Can I do that? Or do I have to cope and paste then remove the original ones? But that way the original poster's name and avatar wont be transfered! So what to do now?
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  • Re: Moderator's skillz, tips and how to needed!
     Reply #1 - July 20, 2010, 06:45 AM
    Can't you split and then merge?
  • Re: Moderator's skillz, tips and how to needed!
     Reply #2 - July 20, 2010, 06:57 AM
    What Abood said. Split the topic, then merge the split bit (which will be a new topic) into the other thread. If you want to get the hang of it make a couple of test threads to mess around with.

    ETA: Hang on and I'll make some screenshots. Wink
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  • Re: Moderator's skillz, tips and how to needed!
     Reply #3 - July 20, 2010, 07:01 AM
    Quote from: Abood on July 20, 2010, 06:45 AM
    Can't you split and then merge?


    Thanks Abood, I am experimenting with that. Managed to split the relavant posts and now need to merge them together.... OK I am getting there!
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  • Re: Moderator's skillz, tips and how to needed!
     Reply #4 - July 20, 2010, 07:06 AM
    Quote from: osmanthus on July 20, 2010, 06:57 AM
    What Abood said. Split the topic, then merge the split bit (which will be a new topic) into the other thread. If you want to get the hang of it make a couple of test threads to mess around with.

    ETA: Hang on and I'll make some screenshots. Wink


    Thanks to Abood, I amanaged to do it.... That was not difficult to do after all  Afro
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  • Re: Moderator's skillz, tips and how to needed!
     Reply #5 - July 20, 2010, 07:07 AM
     Afro

    I was a moderator once and managed to delete an entire topic accidentally when I tried to split different threads then merge them together. Cheesy
  • Re: Moderator's skillz, tips and how to needed!
     Reply #6 - July 20, 2010, 07:12 AM
    Quote from: Abood on July 20, 2010, 07:07 AM
    Afro

    I was a moderator once and managed to delete an entire topic accidentally when I tried to split different threads then merge them together. Cheesy


    Oh dear, oh dear.... you see thats why I asked first, I like reading operating moderating manuals. I still have all my appliances manuals at home, even the ones that I got rid of! Cheesy
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  • Re: Moderator's skillz, tips and how to needed!
     Reply #7 - July 20, 2010, 07:20 AM
     Cheesy
  • Re: Moderator's skillz, tips and how to needed!
     Reply #8 - July 20, 2010, 07:27 AM
    Ok, got screenshots anyway as they may be handy in future.  parrot
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  • Re: Moderator's skillz, tips and how to needed!
     Reply #9 - July 20, 2010, 07:28 AM
    And Abood, deleting one topic is nothing. You should read the story of how we came to have the "Forum Archives".  Cheesy
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  • Re: Moderator's skillz, tips and how to needed!
     Reply #10 - July 20, 2010, 07:29 AM
    Quote from: osmanthus on July 20, 2010, 07:28 AM
    And Abood, deleting one topic is nothing. You should read the story of how we came to have the "Forum Archives".  Cheesy


    Lmao  Good times Os.   Cheesy
    Inhale the good shit, exhale the bullshit.
  • Re: Moderator's skillz, tips and how to needed!
     Reply #11 - July 20, 2010, 07:39 AM
    OK so who is going to tell us about the Archives then?  Roll Eyes
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  • Re: Moderator's skillz, tips and how to needed!
     Reply #12 - July 20, 2010, 07:43 AM
    That was hilarious. I deleted 80,000 posts in ten seconds one morning when I was tired and in a hurry.  bunny

    I do things with style, mate.  dance
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  • Re: Moderator's skillz, tips and how to needed!
     Reply #13 - July 20, 2010, 07:46 AM
    you what?  Cheesy
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  • Re: Moderator's skillz, tips and how to needed!
     Reply #14 - July 20, 2010, 07:51 AM
    LOL why can't I remember this?
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  • Re: Moderator's skillz, tips and how to needed!
     Reply #15 - July 20, 2010, 07:53 AM
    Here RIBS, read this: http://www.councilofexmuslims.com/index.php?topic=3525.0

    The inner story is that in standard form the admin template has various options on the maintenance page. At that stage our database was still small enough that we could back up in admin (way too big now). There is an option to delete all the moved topic notices older than three days. I usually do this to keep the boards a bit less cluttered. The problem is that in the list of checkboxes is another option to delete all posts older than three days, and for some idiotic reason that is the one that is selected by default. You can guess what happened.

    Anyway that was an interesting day. I learned how to restore databases.  dance

    I also happened to find a major bug in phpMyAdmin, which is why the Archives content is a bit patchy. For those who want to know, phpMyAdmin imports and exports in an unusual format and will make a syntax error out of every damned apostrophe in the database if the backup was made with another tool (which ours was). I know how to get around that now but have never bothered with the archives. 

    I'm going to merge those topics/posts back into our main db later this year. I already have a cleaned up backup with just the good bits ready to go. I've also edited that fucking admin template so it is idiot proof, and made sure the new release of SMF doesn't have similar traps in it.  Afro
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  • Re: Moderator's skillz, tips and how to needed!
     Reply #16 - July 20, 2010, 07:59 AM
     Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy

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    Before anyone starts speculating about us being hacked by al Qaeda I'll admit to the problem being caused by operator error. IOW, I pushed the wrong button.

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  • Re: Moderator's skillz, tips and how to needed!
     Reply #17 - July 20, 2010, 08:05 AM
     grin12 Well at the time we had the FFI guys here and they're as paranoid as hell. I could just see the rumour mill going off. Ygalg had started a rumour about us being hacked before this over at FFI (it was complete bullshit of course) so I just knew they'd go nuts again.  Roll Eyes
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