A Confession and an Apology

[Mael Coluim]

Ladies and Gentlemen of XMarks,

I want to share with you that today, I accidentally deleted the thread, “Quincy churches rally against Tilted Kilt pub.”

I was responding to a member’s request not to be listed as the Original Poster of the thread, “Membership Discussion of Possible Change to Rule #12”. I had edited the thread for me to be the OP and placed the link to merge my post with the thread. When I did so I discovered that my post was not in that thread but the “Quincy churches rally against Tilted Kilt pub” thread. I deleted my post. The result was not that I deleted my post but the entire thread. I made a big mistake.

Steve Ashton and KiltedCodeWarrior have been trying to resurrect the thread, but have concluded it is truly gone.

My sincere apologies to Joe1 the OP; and the rest of the Rabble for my error.
I am truly sorry and feel very badly for having done so.

Ern Malcolm
aka, “Mael Coluim”
Moderator for XMTS

[xman]

Everyone makes mistakes. Even me.

I appreciate your apology.

[Cynthia]

I hate when things like that happen (and they do happen a little too frequently, even though technology is supposed to make things easier). I tried earlier this year to fix something on a shared group blog using a particular blogging software I normally don't use, and managed to mess up their photo album display. I don't know if they've fixed it since (they have been wanting to change it out to another format anyway). Oops.

Ah well. Thanks for letting people know, and sorry that happened.

[creagdhubh]

Everyone makes mistakes. Even me.

I appreciate your apology.

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No worries, Ern!

[unixken]

Both Rabble and Hobbit alike, forgive you. ;)

[artificer]

"Shift happens" as keyboard jockeys say. ;)

No worries here, but thank you for admitting the error anyway.

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[Oberu]

having been a moderator on a forum I can feel your pain. Often there are too many executables for deleting an entire thread and not enough options to delete a post. Also I found that you can delete the entirety of a single member's postings but it's difficult to delete a single post by a member. All in all.. good on you for owning it and letting everyone know : )

[GMan]

I do understand what happened as I too am a moderator of another forum, I know how that can happen.

[Really a McQueen]

As someone who has seen worse things happen when websites were updated by full-time professionals, I understand your embarrassment, and personally accept your apology. At least your actions did not take the entire site down for over three hours, and involve a dozen (sleepy) technicians and analysts to fix.

[islandkilt]

would I be too forward in commenting, perhaps it's just as well...