Please help LTHForum reclaim lost posts

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Post #1 - November 27th, 2012, 11:38 am Post #1 - November 27th, 2012, 11:38 am

Hi,

We need the LTHforum community's help identifying damaged posts with truncated content. There are 2500 topic threads which need review up to any post originating before or on March 17, 2005 when LTHforum moved to a new webhost. To allow a moderator to repair these posts, a copy of LTHforum 2.0 from April 24, 2008 has been sitting quietly for our reference whenever a moderator encountered a flawed post or someone reported it.

Pretty soon this backup will be removed when LTHforum is upgraded and moved to another server. There were 2800 topics potentially affected by truncated posts, while most have been cleaned up whenever they were reported or come upon. There was an effort to systematically review threads, though only ten percent were reviewed and where needed were repaired.

To sweeten your interest, I will be delighted to make a pie for whomever reviews the most posts. Everyone else, there will be another pie via raffle. For each range of posts committed and finished, will be one chance.

How did all this happen?

When LTHforum.com was 10 months old, it moved to a new webhost. Like all moves, there were a few bumps and scrapes discovered after the movers left. In our case, we acquired a few new characters.

Best Cauliflower I ever ate

Best Cauliflower I Ever Ate
I�ve never been a huge fan of cauliflower; I always thought of it as broccoli�s albino brother, pale and for the most part not very interesting, though being a cruciferous veg, full of cancer-fighting beta-carotene, blah, blah, blah.

Anyhow, the October Saveur (page 95) has a killer and supremely easy recipe for cauliflower that is definitely the best I ever ate. To summarize, you basically oven roast a pan of bread crumbs and a pan of cauliflower that's been saut�ed in olive oil; mix together with black oil-cured olives, salt and pepper.

Magnificent simplicity and superb.

Hammond

We learned these � symbols were caused by people composing their posts offline on their word processors, then copying and pasting them in LTH's dialogue box. While annoying, one could still read past them to get to the content. A few people went back to repair these posts to their original condition.

A few years later when LTHforum's software was upgraded, we had long forgotten about these characters. When spot checking for any irregularities, we never thought to look for these old posts. Unfortunately, those bad characters caused affected posts to be truncated exactly where first encountered. Thus today this post looks like this:

Subject: Best Cauliflower I Ever Ate

David Hammond wrote:Best Cauliflower I Ever Ate

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How to help

Check the list below to pledge a range of posts to check. I am very happy if you will do one set of topics. Once done, please repost and I will bold the topic as finished. I will update these lists whenever possible.

I did a spot check of topics 2501-2525. I found two threads with truncated posts needing repair and three non-existent topics. I did check once the LTHforum 2.0 archive to verify if a post was damaged or was stated as intended by the author. To go through 25 topics takes about 10-15 minutes.

There are 100 sets posts needing review in bundles of 25 topics.

For example, if you agreed to check topics 25-50, you would put this url in your browser:

LTHforum V3 Current: http://www.lthforum.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=25

You will find there is no topic thread, then move on to topic 26 by editing 25 to 26 at t=25 in the url.

Once you identify a damaged post, then click the report button !. A moderator will come by to repair it. Remember once you are past March 17, 2005, you are done with any thread.

If you doubt whether a post is damaged or not, then check the archive:

LTHforum V2 Archive: http://lthforum.com/bb2019utf8/viewtopic.php?t=25

You can navigate this archive to any topic number by editing t=25 to any other topic number.

Please note some of these threads may not exist. Sometimes people start a topic, then change their mind and delete it or it is a topic on an unseen moderator board (yes Virginia, there is one).

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Topics:
25-50 - EvA
51-75 - EvA
76-100 - Gypsy Boy
101-125 - Gypsy Boy
126-150 - mbh
151-175 - Siun
176-200 - Siun
201-225 - fropones
225-250 - mamagotcha
251-275 - mamagotcha
276-300 - Amata
301-325 - Amata
326-350 - Amata
351-375 - Amata
376-400 - EvA.
401-425 - EvA
426-450 - Cathy2
451-475 - Cathy2
476-500 - Cathy2
501-525 - Cathy2
526-550 - Cathy2
551-575
576-600
601-625
626-650
651-675
676-700
701-725
726-800
801-825
826-850
851-875
876-900
901-925
926-950
951-975
976-1000
1001-1025
1026-1050
1051-1075
1076-1100
1101-1125
1126-1150
1151-1175
1176-1200
1201-1225
1225-1250
1251-1275
1276-1300
1301-1325
1326-1350
1351-1375
1376-1400
1401-1425
1426-1450
1451-1475
1476-1500
1501-1525
1526-1550
1551-1575
1576-1600
1601-1625
1626-1650
1651-1675
1676-1700
1701-1725
1726-1800
1801-1825
1826-1850
1851-1875
1876-1900
1901-1925
1926-1950
1951-1975
1976-2000
2001-2025
2026-2050
2051-2075
2076-2100
2101-2125
2126-2150
2151-2175
2176-2200
2201-2225
2225-2250
2251-2275
2276-2300
2301-2325
2326-2350
2351-2375
2376-2400
2401-2425
2426-2450
2451-2475
2476-2500
2501-2525 - Cathy2 (checked)

Thank you for any and all help!

Regards,

Cathy2

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