my point was, and is, that the preconceived expectation of 'you should have saved it' doesn't work when content vanished randomly at alarming frequencies long before the board was taken down.
Isn't that EVEN MORE REASON to make sure you save whatever content you loved? Why are you contradicting yourself? Of course it works, hells, you just made it sound
even more sensible to ensure you save the stuff you loved cause it could be gone any moment, according to your exaggeration of how fast mods are to clean boards lol
to shunt the whole thing on people as their problem is a bit bloody daft when it's not like it's been deleted and wiped from the server, it's just sitting in a part of the board we can't visit.
What does it change if it's hidden or deleted? If you still won't be able to see it, you should save whatever you love, whether deleted or hidden. It is
their problem, otherwise they would not be complaining here, they didn't save it
then and
now they want it, and they've been told now it's too late, and only by request stuff can be fished out, and this is why we got people trying to put the blame on anyone but themselves.
personally, I think it's a bit ridiculous to claim that drama would reign upon the earth when current affairs is sitting unmolested, uncensored stretching back to 2016 for even guests to see, god only knows what's floating around that section.
I'm sorry but there's a difference- Current Affairs is a containment section for politics, religion and god knows what else, because people filled stuff with fights all over. There's a difference between two people going at each other's necks on even grounds and literal mobs of people digging stuff from a player to shit and shame them until they leave the community, not just on forums, but on private Discords, and even in game "IC" actions, which was a severe issue back in the day and some at times even attempt it now (without even having access).