AlexMax
09-03-2002, 09:46 AM
While using the now-back 'Search for all posts' function, I found something...
http://66.28.159.143/search.php?s=&action=showresults&searchid=475&sortby=&sortorder=&pagenumber=255
What is so odd about this? Well, this page has my very first post on it, which was formally in Game Ideas. It even has a portion of the post in it.
However, when I click on it, it complains. On the Novel network at my school, it brings up a 502 bad gateway.
However, I also found this post, which DID work. And this one was even more odd...
http://66.28.159.143/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2736
Look at the date. It says late 2000 as it's date. But weren't the forums pruned? I did a forum search 'from the begining' and it still comes up with the learliest post being around the UL 2000 era...
From this data, I have been able to conclude the following...
* The actual posts were nevre deleted from the forums. The things that were deleted was simply the link to them from the main forum page.
* Some forums have actually been deleted in their entirety (Gaming Ideas) but the posts remain. Since the posts remain, the search is able to find them, but is unable to associate a forum with them, thus generating an error.
Comments?
EDIT: Found a few more oddities... I was investigating TSA's post deprivement, and found that in fact, TSA has a grand total of 14,451 posts,.
http://66.28.159.143/search.php?s=&action=showresults&searchid=477&sortby=&sortorder=&pagenumber=579
Not only that, but one of his posts was somehow dated to the 1970's....
Perhaps there is a hack that can change post count can be changed this number?
EDIT AGAIN: Maybe that isn't such a good idea. I found a number of 'ghost posts' in TSA's profile that had numerous versions of posts...
Boy this bug gets more iand more interesting the more I investigate...
http://66.28.159.143/search.php?s=&action=showresults&searchid=475&sortby=&sortorder=&pagenumber=255
What is so odd about this? Well, this page has my very first post on it, which was formally in Game Ideas. It even has a portion of the post in it.
However, when I click on it, it complains. On the Novel network at my school, it brings up a 502 bad gateway.
However, I also found this post, which DID work. And this one was even more odd...
http://66.28.159.143/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2736
Look at the date. It says late 2000 as it's date. But weren't the forums pruned? I did a forum search 'from the begining' and it still comes up with the learliest post being around the UL 2000 era...
From this data, I have been able to conclude the following...
* The actual posts were nevre deleted from the forums. The things that were deleted was simply the link to them from the main forum page.
* Some forums have actually been deleted in their entirety (Gaming Ideas) but the posts remain. Since the posts remain, the search is able to find them, but is unable to associate a forum with them, thus generating an error.
Comments?
EDIT: Found a few more oddities... I was investigating TSA's post deprivement, and found that in fact, TSA has a grand total of 14,451 posts,.
http://66.28.159.143/search.php?s=&action=showresults&searchid=477&sortby=&sortorder=&pagenumber=579
Not only that, but one of his posts was somehow dated to the 1970's....
Perhaps there is a hack that can change post count can be changed this number?
EDIT AGAIN: Maybe that isn't such a good idea. I found a number of 'ghost posts' in TSA's profile that had numerous versions of posts...
Boy this bug gets more iand more interesting the more I investigate...