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ShadowBlade

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Originally posted by: KK
Originally posted by: Zanix
Originally posted by: BrokenVisage
Wow.. what did Sampson do? Other then being an overall negitive person with usually something discouraging to contribute.. kinda like you OP, haha. I can't find posts by both users either.


I thought Sampson's posts usually contained acute clarity, pithiness, and wit.

:(

Permaban?

what'd he get banned for?



Originally posted by: TallBill
Originally posted by: SampSon
Originally posted by: rachelmb
Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP
you have to post pic of both you and jindeitz, w/ a piece of paper saying "yes ATOT, this is jindeitz' GF, and this is jindeitz"

then, and only then can you guys get accepted to AT. That's the only way.

OR get BANNED.


okay hold on....
/me unzips and holds on.

Well at least you still have 9 fingers free.

Edit - You naysayers are gonna get punk'd.


probably for that
the mods has edited sampson's original post before it was deleted, but i cant remember what they said
 

Muadib

Lifer
May 30, 2000
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Originally posted by: meltdown75
Originally posted by: dwell
I'm back but completely stripped of title and postcount :( They said they will try and fix it.
and i had to LOL @ the postcount & title :D
I hate to admit it, but I did too.:eek:
 

KK

Lifer
Jan 2, 2001
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dwell and SampSon were not banned, and our moderators did not delete their accounts. At least four long time members' accounts disappeared for unknown reasons. We have emailed Anand and Jason Clark, our system administrator about this.

We apologize to all members affected by this, whatever the cause.

AnandTech Moderator

Must have been some hackers that don't like sampson, jumpr and dwell
 

blodhi74

Diamond Member
Mar 28, 2003
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Originally posted by: meltdown75
Originally posted by: dwell
I'm back but completely stripped of title and postcount :( They said they will try and fix it.
and i had to LOL @ the postcount & title :D

Sorry but that made me laugh too ... dwell .. junior member :)

Hope they get it fixed soon.
 

OdiN

Banned
Mar 1, 2000
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Originally posted by: Anubis
someone must know, did dwell get bannanated like sampson?

http://pics.bbzzdd.com/

News
1/1/2006
Happy New Year!

For some reason I have been completely deleted from the AT forums. Try and find a post by me. Odd. Anyone know what's up with that?

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dwell and SampSon were not banned, and our moderators did not delete their accounts. At least four long time members' accounts disappeared for unknown reasons. We have emailed Anand and Jason Clark, our system administrator about this.

We apologize to all members affected by this, whatever the cause.

AnandTech Moderator

Translation:

We got stupid-drunk and did some stuff we don't even remember we did....

:p

If that happened OT would not be here, thus your hypothesis is false. ;)

Mod
 

SVT Cobra

Lifer
Mar 29, 2005
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I am thinking someone might have hacked and deleted those accounts due to hatred possibly?

do the mods have a log on when the account moderator was logged on?
 

Xyclone

Lifer
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I'm sure they can just input a custom number of postcounts and modify the join dates and titles for the 4 people.
 
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Originally posted by: Xyclone
I'm sure they can just input a custom number of postcounts and modify the join dates and titles for the 4 people.

that's probably fixable, but they're posts are gone for ever.
 

jumpr

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Jan 2, 2006
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Originally posted by: MikeyIs4Dcats
Originally posted by: Xyclone
I'm sure they can just input a custom number of postcounts and modify the join dates and titles for the 4 people.
that's probably fixable, but they're posts are gone for ever.
Exactly. I don't care about the post counts; I care about all the effort I put into my posts over the last four years (I joined in 12/2001). For all intents and purposes, that information is gone forever.
 

ViRGE

Elite Member, Moderator Emeritus
Oct 9, 1999
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Originally posted by: MikeyIs4Dcats
Originally posted by: Xyclone
I'm sure they can just input a custom number of postcounts and modify the join dates and titles for the 4 people.

that's probably fixable, but they're posts are gone for ever.
The posts aren't gone forever. There are full backups of the forum DB, so it's possible that most(if not all) of the posts could be recovered and re-integrated. How much work that will require and if Jason will do it is another issue entirely though.
 
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It happened to me back in August of 04', being deleted that is. I thought I'd been banned. The mod said "No, it was just a mistake.".

I don't recall my original join date but it was late 00' early 01' as seen by my Heatware. My first trade was back in 3.01' so I know I was with AT since then at LEAST.

It sucked being deleted, but in the grand scheme of things it wasn't that big of a deal.

BTW, I had 5000 some odd posts. Sh1t happens, life goes on.

Oh and Jumpr "STFU N00B!!!!". j/k...Sorry had to say it! A few people called me n00b once or twice after rejoining. It wasn't worth telling them any different.
 

BrokenVisage

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Jan 29, 2005
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Originally posted by: MisterJackson
Oh and Jumpr "STFU N00B!!!!". j/k...Sorry had to say it! A few people called me n00b once or twice after rejoining. It wasn't worth telling them any different.

LMAO... damn that's harsh!
 

NetGuySC

Golden Member
Nov 19, 1999
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Has anyone blamed Bush yet?

Well apparently there never were any posts by Anubis and we were lied to and completely mislead into thinking that his posts actually did exists.... :) :) :)
 

KingofCamelot

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Aug 20, 2004
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Originally posted by: dwell
I'm back but completely stripped of title and postcount :( They said they will try and fix it.

You've been reborn anew, like a Phoenix. We had the technology, and we rebuilt you. You are the six million dollar man.
 

Phoenix86

Lifer
May 21, 2003
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Originally posted by: KingofCamelot
Originally posted by: dwell
I'm back but completely stripped of title and postcount :( They said they will try and fix it.

You've been reborn anew, like a Phoenix. We had the technology, and we rebuilt you. You are the six million dollar man.

It's not all that it's cracked up to be. I keep trying to tell people this before they douse themselved in flames. :p
 

Aquila76

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Apr 11, 2004
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This is kinda like SW:RotS, where (almost) all the Jedi get killed. Is there some rogue Mod that has fallen to the Dark Side? Somebody over there buy an Intel PC recently?
 
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Originally posted by: ViRGE
Originally posted by: MikeyIs4Dcats
Originally posted by: Xyclone
I'm sure they can just input a custom number of postcounts and modify the join dates and titles for the 4 people.

that's probably fixable, but they're posts are gone for ever.
The posts aren't gone forever. There are full backups of the forum DB, so it's possible that most(if not all) of the posts could be recovered and re-integrated. How much work that will require and if Jason will do it is another issue entirely though.

reintegrate upwards of 50 or 60 THOUSAND posts? Actually HUNDREDS of thousands of posts possibly counting those of others in the deleted threads.

It took us years to get a COOKIE emoticon....