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Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 month agoTheir comments in this thread are what made me notice it. Maybe they did actually deliberately choose to delete those, but I thought it seemed unlikely to be that, in context.
I’m dealing with a similar issue on !environment@aussie.zone . I didn’t think ahead to copy those two stickied posts containing all the source links at the top of the page.
Now it seems i’ve lost them? Its a shame to lose all that useful work u/treevan and u/bandhmo did. I’ve started pulling together a number of links to recreate something similar, but i know i won’t capture the vast plethora of resources they’d gathered.
Gorgritch: I still have the links stored away. I'll try a code block if no one minds me messing up the thread?
Hooli dooli, Treevans on Mastodon! Hi, good to see ya!
Okay, this is great news! I’ve just been trying to understand what code blocking is. I’m not sure I understand it, but as long as the admins are fine with it, I definitely don’t mind the thread getting a little messy (temporarily?) to sort this.
@Gorgritch_umie_killa I just meant that we should do this in DM or an email or something. There is a character limit here too so I'll try in sections.
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**News**
- https://theconversation.com/au/environment
- https://www.theguardian.com/au/environment
- https://www.abc.net.au/news/environment
- https://www.abc.net.au/news/science
- https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural
- https://independentaustralia.net/environment/environment-news/
- https://thefifthestate.com.au/
- https://thenewdaily.com.au/life/science/environment/
- https://www.sbs.com.au/news/topic/environment
- https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/environment
- https://newmatilda.com/category/environment/
- https://www.themonthly.com.au/topic/environment
- https://johnmenadue.com/category/enviroment/
- https://johnmenadue.com/category/public-policy/climate/
- https://indaily.com.au/news/science-and-tech/
- https://theaimn.com/category/environment/
- https://westender.com.au/discussing/environment-and-climate/
- https://www.crikey.com.au/environment/
- https://www.sunshinecoastnews.com.au/category/news/
- https://www.smh.com.au/environment
- https://www.eurekastreet.com.au/search/section/australia
- https://www.openforum.com.au/
I don’t know what the state of the Internet Archive is with the recent attacks but you could try to find a cached copy of those posts with the Wayback Machine.
got them, thanks for that.
Oh good idea. Never done that before. I’ll go on tonight and have a look
If you don’t find anything send me the links for the deleted posts and I’ll have a go tonight or tomorrow morning.
Nath@aussie.zone 1 month ago
I should create and kill a user account to experiment and answer this authoritatively. Given that unionagainstdhmo’s posts and comments appear to have gone, while Baku’s have not, I suspect there is an option to delete all your content when you delete your account.
treevan@aus.social 1 month ago
@Nath @Zagorath I read 30 days. Mine took 30 days to delete from other instances, instantly from the home instance. One instance they reappeared and I contacted the Administrator to have them removed.
He said it was a bit of a fuck around to delete them from the database and it appears I was banned from server, not that I quit.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Oh, I’m glad I left this thread open to come back to later! Otherwise I wouldn’t have seen that Treevan still lives! Hope you’re doing well. Your contributions around here are sadly missed.
treevan@aus.social 1 month ago
Hi Zagorath. I'm doing fine, the usual etc. I do hope that you're OK too. I'm still around and still reading occasionally, I didn't leave for mental health reasons or anything like that, I left because I was getting downvoted for opinions about my employment/passion and I figured "fuck everyone then" because while I understand the downvotes don't mean much, they mean that my opinion wasn't required or needed in the conversation. Funnily enough, it was Baku that pushed me over the edge and I see that they're gone too. Yeesh.
I hope you enjoyed the election. Maybe not who won but your work with it. Keep up with writing your opinions, they're worth reading.
lodion@aussie.zone 1 month ago
When banning a user we’re presented with a tickbox option to remove all posts/comments from them. Likely the admin did this rather than delve into the DB.
Nath@aussie.zone 1 month ago
There’s also purge. It’s a super-remove that will go through the database and delete every record the user ever existed. I use it sparingly, since the record of purging a user doesn’t even appear in the modlog (no instance admin would ever abuse this power, right?). Can’t log a purge because that user never existed. Even regular-level spam bots don’t get the purge treatment.
I can purge comments, also. I’ve even done it once for a mod. I forget the circumstances of how we reached that point, something about a ban not removing content properly? It was probably hate-related in some form.
treevan@aus.social 1 month ago
@lodion I was already dropped as a user, I think he said he had to reinstate me to ban me.