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Oh bugger.Originally posted by Integrity View Post
That's going to prove interesting if we have mysterious posts appearing here & there...
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Just been on a board where 8 bit character was zapped by the swear filter...
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Just watched the final double episode of "Lost" followed by one of those dreadful Sky pseudodocumentaries about the programme.
Worst thing about the docu was the screaming Irish queen they'd found to give some totally nonsensical comments.
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So now we know how the six managed to get off the island... and what happened to the boat... and what happened to Lock... and what happened to Ben.
Only another 2 seasons of this addictive twaddle before it evaporates into yet another non ending.... just remember the ending of "The Fugitive"... that ran for yonks then with one bound he was free.Comment
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Byeeee
See you tomorrow during yet another tedious day...
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Originally posted by Integrity View PostIndeed...Originally posted by zeitghost View PostOh bugger.
That's going to prove interesting if we have mysterious posts appearing here & there...
That's one of the thorny issues I've been brooding about in relation to testpleasedelete.com - the fact that not only can posts be deleted, meaning that the TPD post number changes downwards, but posts by new users can also suddenly appear as if by magic (or moderation), meaning that the TPD post number changes upwards
Given that it could be the case that, say over a Bank Holiday weekend, a new user's post might sometimes take several days to actually become part of the thread (something that caught me out on a thousand around the 32K mark when DS24 became live - Hi FaQ) it seems that there's a need to detect the up-bumping of posts (by realising that the unique CUK post ID no longer correlates with the original TPD post ID) and then crawling backwards, possibly for many pages, until one (or rather, the algorithm) finds the new post, after which one (or rather, the algorithm) can start sorting out the correlation between CUK IDs and TPD IDs.
And then seventeen (arbitrary number, but prime) new users get posts approved after an Easter weekend, so it's no good assuming that just one person has had comments approved over a short period - in principle it could take an enormous amount of working out
Which is of course why one devises an algorithm to do it... if the "everything is done by the algorithms" policy works for Google (who strive to do absolutely everything algorithmically) then it ought to work for us
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Oh, and let me just point out that somebody could delete a post at the same time as a new user's first post is approved, so one can't rely on the thread's total post count for anything
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