I just noticed that Anon's post in the RPS forum that is shown earlier in this thread and that was NOT deleted at RPS when I started this thread IS deleted at RPS now.

Here is a link to that post above:
[URL]http://www.mersenneforum.org/showpost.php?p=140417&postcount=6[/URL]

It's kind of odd that our posts that attempt reasonable explanations of the situation keep going bye-bye.


Gary

[QUOTE=gd_barnes;140963]I just noticed that Anon's post shown earlier in this thread that was NOT deleted when I started this thread IS deleted now.

Here is a link to that post above:
[URL]http://www.mersenneforum.org/showpost.php?p=140417&postcount=6[/URL][/QUOTE]That's actually been deleted for quite a while, I think. :smile:

The super-mods aren't particularly motivated to get involved. The subforums are provided by the trolls as a free gift to other prime searching projects. The project leaders are made the moderators of the subforum so that the trolls and the other super-mods don't have to spend any time managing these subforums.

It is sad that Kosmaj cannot play nicely here. I'd simply take it as an invitation to not participate in his project and/or not cooperate with his project. There are plenty of other projects that will appreciate your resources.

Frankly, I don't know which project is or should be "in charge of" which k's and n's.

[quote=Prime95;141076]The super-mods aren't particularly motivated to get involved. The subforums are provided by the trolls as a free gift to other prime searching projects. The project leaders are made the moderators of the subforum so that the trolls and the other super-mods don't have to spend any time managing these subforums.

It is sad that Kosmaj cannot play nicely here. I'd simply take it as an invitation to not participate in his project and/or not cooperate with his project. There are plenty of other projects that will appreciate your resources.

Frankly, I don't know which project is or should be "in charge of" which k's and n's.[/quote]


Thanks for the input. More than anything, I just wanted it documented for everyone to see.

I haven't searched for RPS in quite a while but was being kind enough to let them know what we were up to so that they didn't duplicate any effort of ours.

Unfortunately I will no longer coordinate efforts with them. If we believe k's should be searched, we will do so and announce it in our own forum. It will be up to them to check our forums instead of the other way around.


Thanks,
Gary

It seems some posts have mysteriously vanished from [url=http://mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=10526]this thread[/url]... :huh:

[QUOTE=ixfd64;141294]It seems some posts have mysteriously vanished from [url=http://mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=10526]this thread[/url]... :huh:[/QUOTE]

Weird. What's missing? There wasn't anything objectionable in that thread that I recall.

[quote=ixfd64;141294]It seems some posts have mysteriously vanished from [URL="http://mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=10526"]this thread[/URL]... :huh:[/quote]
You are probably thinking of T Rex' vacation posts in
"Holy New Mersenne, Batman"

I'm pretty sure that thread had more than two replies.

[QUOTE=ixfd64;141338]I'm pretty sure that thread had more than two replies.[/QUOTE]

In case I wasn't clear: I was talking about George's "[url=http://mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=10526]Vacation[/url]" thread. I vaguely recall there were several intermediate posts before Uncwilly's. I'm having a somewhat hard time believing that nobody replied to that thread until M45 was reported.

I also remember Ernst posting something about gorwing up reading Batman comics (incidentally, just a few days after I started the "Holy new Mersenne prime, Batman!" thread). However, I can't seem to find that particular post either.

One thing of note: I was trying to access various posts by entering the post ID into the URL, and some of them (in fact, quite a few) returned an "Invalid Post" error. This means either that the post was deleted, or that the total number of posts hasn't reached that number yet. If the post was in a private forum, I should have gotten a "you do not have permission" error instead.

It's possible for users to delete their own posts, but only during a short time after the post was made.

I've noticed that one of my posts from another "vacation" thread was deleted. I'll admit that my post was slightly "trollish," so maybe that warranted deletion. However, I don't know about the other posts... I just have an odd feeling that someone is deleting things they shouldn't. Do the admins have access to some sort of deletion log?

[quote]Do the admins have access to some sort of deletion log?[/quote]Yes, there is a moderator transaction log. The current log has 33464 entries. The snake prunes the log every few weeks. We do not know why the snake does this, but the trolls assure me that this is SOP.

[SIZE=1]Snake1: Find the paper shredder! We're working late tonight![/SIZE]

[quote=ixfd64;141483]In case I wasn't clear: I was talking about George's "[URL="http://mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=10526"]Vacation[/URL]" thread. I vaguely recall there were several intermediate posts before Uncwilly's. I'm having a somewhat hard time believing that nobody replied to that thread until M45 was reported.

[/quote]

Until the arrival of M45 and UncWilly's post, there was little
point in responding to George's OP, especially since he was on
vacation. I noticed that it was hanging fire for quite a few days.

How prophetic "you have my permission to find a new prime while
I'm away" was to prove:smile: