And Ceel can't stop himself from visiting TRF. He's linked with this thread with some self-absorbed comments about how TGC is superior to TRF. I won't return the free advertising.
However,
Mind, TGC has always encouraged spamming, so this is nothing new.
A board I'm a moderator on got hit and lost all of it's 2005 posts but just in case some of the older posts got lost too, I had to make a post copying ezboard announcements. The board is loooooooooong dead for about 3 years now but the owners check it like once a year and since their convinced I'm the evil person in all their online problems, I wanted to make sure they knew I hadn't went on a delete rampage, which would be their first thought :: shrugs :: you'd think they'd take me off the moderator's list, but I guess it gives them something to be paranoid about
Apparently you can get posts back by typing in the address manually in the URL search bar... I dunno if this is true, I haven't bothered trying, but that's what I was told.
It's just a matter of not being able to see the posts.