What a nice reply! it touched my heart. Really it did. As for meeting me, I am surprised that you would say that because I often meet you regularly in my dreams. I STILL think that you might have been one of those many, many photographers that took my picture that day - gawd was that a rush seeing them point the camera at me wearing only a little paint! I still get chill bumps and get a little lightheaded just thinking about that! I know you said you weren't there that year but I just have this feeling, a really, really strong feeling that you were and you know what they say about women's intuition, right? it's pretty accurate most of the time. It doesn't really matter if you were or weren't there - in my mind you were and I still get that special feeling thinking that the guy that was responsible for the best day of my life was actually looking back at me! As you know I am basically an internet coward but I can't thank you enough for your inspiration to actually go through with it AND for he memories, oh the memories!

Torre

Back to the point
 

Isn't there any way for the mods to select and delete all posts by the user requesting this action - instead of deleting entire threads? If the software doesn't permit this level of editing in it's current form, perhaps get a quote for that modification? I bet many members would pay to have a change made that allows mods to delete specific users posts without deleting entire threads. It could even be a mandatory fee - like you have for users that want to view videos...... We are almost to 2020, it would seem that there must be a way to edit more selectively. And who knows, maybe a restoration of previous threads with edited content deleted but the rest of the thread still in place?

Thanks, Klondike
 

Klondike, thanks for all you have provided to this site over the years, and I hope that you are finding your way to a better place.

In one more attempt to return to pictorial communication:

Why don't we just all post whatever WNBR pictures we have in a new thread?

Because a) there are plenty of WNBR pictures already posted and not deleted, b) this thread is about the disappearance of a specific thread, with the specific theme of the nighttime Portland WNBR, and c) part of the point of threads in general, and bike/WNBR threads in particular, is to specifically sort, by either year or a feature of particular interest to the establisher (e.g. hairy armpits), pictures relevant to that theme?

I am and always will be a firm believer that a thread should NEVER be deleted in it's entirety unless the original poster had 100% of their content in that thread. I don't know which moderator had said "maybe the entire thread should go" but that was the wrong suggestion. We have the option to temporarily delete a thread, remove the requested content, and make the thread available again. It can take time but I personally think for anything deemed "original content" it's worth the effort.

The last thing I would want to see is OCC become a shell of its former self, thread after thread of original content deleted. I think this site was built on original content and should continue to thrive with that same content.

Slick

hopefully im not setting any precedent here. I dont get the general feeling that content is being removed from this site.

in hindsight, I might have moved a little slower and talked things over with the mods more. but I had no idea when I started asking that stuff be removed how far I would go eventually, and I was in a hurry at the time.

I would have been fine with a temporary take down. No problem. Just remove my posts and put the thread back up. Is it still possible to do this? It does sound like a lot of work though, and it would probably only be useful regarding two threads (campus run and portlandnighttime WNBR since no one seems to have missed the other threads).

K

EDIT: dont know how much truly original content there was in these threads. I put up some. The majority of the content was not original

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Maybe it's just me but it does seem like a lot of work. But with that said aren't we paying them in order to watch movies? so they are getting paid for their time.

A lot of the threads are permanently deleted, there's no way to restore them. Once a thread is "soft deleted" it can be restored, unless it's been soft deleted for a while. Any thread that has the deleted status for an extended period of time gets permanently deleted from the servers.

Who gets paid? I certainly don't and neither do the other moderators. We volunteer our time to keep OCC running smoothly.

Slick