@lostdarkwolf said:
To be clear, I'm not trying to solve a problem. This is just light discussion.
I get to make my first post for a second time! Woo! I don't mind being a new user again. Although I did lose editing access to the page linked below. I can prove that it is my content (with github), but I don't think that proof is the issue. The workload of fixing and dealing with what happened is probably the main issue.
Yeah, the issue is not necessarily verifying who made what post, but rather all the data related to it was deleted. With how the user IDs are stored, there was no great way to handle topic recovery, since the IDs are given to users in a “first come, first serve” basis.
I could maybe see about manually changing the user ID associated with each individual post on a per-case basis, but given how many posts were lost, it would be quite time consuming.
Also, while verification is not a huge deal, I doubt many people would say “that’s my post!” on a post that isn’t theirs, it could happen and it would be hard, if not impossible, to know who actually owns what discussion. Its probably better to leave them as “read-only”, so to speak, to avoid anyone accidentally getting access to a discussion that is not theirs.
I don’t know what the others on forum staff think, but its probably best to just remake the post and link to the original, lost topic. Then as forum staff we can edit the discussion in the lost topic to include a note pointing to the new, properly attributed topic one.
@Megalomaniak @Calinou @cybereality @SIsilicon28 - Thoughts?
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