Hello, Syndicateers. You may have noticed yesterday that the recently completed GoC 2016 game (hosted by JaggedJimmyJay and Spacedaisy) briefly was moved here to the Museum, but then has since vanished. You may also have noticed that your post count went down, especially if you were a high poster in the GoC 2016 game.
Unfortunately, the main game thread is permanently gone. The
Beach and
Hatch threads are still in existence.
For those of you that are wondering how this could possibly have happened, here's what went down
(an excerpt from a post I made informing the mods and admins yesterday):
MovingPictures07 wrote:Okay, so, I dun goofed.
At some point when the GoC 2016 game thread was moved from the main forum to the host forum when all you GoC players were split into beach and hatch, a ghost topic was accidentally left behind.
I was cleaning stuff up and getting the special games host forum ready for Jay and malakim2099; after I moved the GoC 2016 to the Museum, I deleted the ghost topic in the GoC host forum by going to the bottom of the thread and selecting the "Delete topic" option.
As a result, to my absolute surprise and panic I quickly uncovered that now the entire GoC 2016 game is gone from the site; it's not even in the Museum anymore. So apparently deleting a ghost topic not only removes the ghost topic but the original topic as well.
Unfortunately, despite thorough assistance from the entire technical team, we were unable to find a usable solution to recovering the game's content, because once a topic is deleted, it is removed completely from the site's database. The flipside is that in researching this, we have uncovered a couple of preventive measures to introduce into the site, so we will be working on adding those mods and features in the near future.
I apologize profusely to all of you, especially the hosts and players who participated in this game, because this is solely my fault and a completely unprecedented disaster. Needless to say, this should never happen again, but I'm still beyond frustrated that this even occurred in the first place.
After realizing that the topic was not going to be recovered, an idea was spawned among the mod/admin discussion to create this thread to commemorate the game and for all of you players to feel free to discuss what you remember about the game
(an "in memoriam" thread).
Thankfully, JaggedJimmyJay was also able to provide links to the role list and his host spreadsheet, so at least that information has been retained, as follows:
This will also serve as the game's link in the Hall of Fame. Please feel free to comment in this thread however you wish. Again, I'm really sorry for all of this; even though I realize the game is complete and this could have been much worse, it still upsets me that I lost all this archived game information.
