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Techcrunch just deleted all comments older than 1/24/2010
- ilamont 17y agoI am seeing this too. Check out the scamville post from last October: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/31/scamville-the-social-gaming-ecosystem-of-hell/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/31/scamville-the-social-ga... Just one comment from this week. It's premature to say that it's related to the TC hacking incident. Could be some other glitch. But I do hope the old comments are restored -- there are usually some interesting viewpoints or additional details in those old threads.
- tyrelb 17y agoWas there any follow-up to how TC was hacked?
- fname 17y agoThere's been no update to their original post, but the comments are still there: http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/26/techcrunch-hacked/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/26/techcrunch-hacked/
- FluidDjango 17y agoOr is this a new, quieter-but-more-pernicious hack of their db?
- CalmQuiet 17y agoSeems more likely than that they would hack themselves.
- rrival 17y agoSo many new opportunities for 'First'...
- davidmurphy 17y agoSome articles say they have lots of comments, but then, don't: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/08/why-is-dell-really-discontinuing-12-inch-netbooks/#comments http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/08/why-is-dell-really-disc... Others, like ilamont's link, have the counter reset: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/31/scamville-the-social-gaming-ecosystem-of-hell/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/31/scamville-the-social-ga...
- AndrewWarner 17y agoI tried adding a comment to one of those posts and it didn't work.
- Semiapies 17y agoCheck again - I see a comment by you on the first one.
- mortenjorck 17y agoMy guess then is that the DB isn't actually purged, but is currently not displaying entries dated before the 24th.
- jrockway 17y agoSounds like a cache at work. I know for a fact that WP's caching does not do anything intelligent to determine if it is invalid. Post a comment, and code is run to invalidate the cache. But delete a comment from the database, and it will just be served from cache.
- coderdude 17y agoMaybe it's an attempt to flush their database (and pages) of the various spam people have left all over it.
- mahmud 17y agoReally? They could have dropped records with site and twitter URLs for starters.
- jrockway 17y agoAnd suddenly the sum-total of intelligence on the Internet increases. Next stop: Digg and Reddit.
- InclinedPlane 17y agoAnd youtube.
- jrockway 17y ago+1. (Youtube is amusing because the same topics come up every 10 comments or so. That, of course, is how many comments fit on the first page.)
- CalmQuiet 17y agoActually, I appreciate having the comments available on TC - so that perceptive readers can occasionally take them down a peg or two.
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- Paton 17y agoI hope the comments from the first TechCrunch 'Twttr' posts are cached somewhere. No one could get passed how to pronounce it. "Twitter or Twatter?"
- gojomo 17y agohttp://c2.com/cgi-bin/wiki?WikiFire http://c2.com/cgi-bin/wiki?WikiFire
- mahmud 17y agoAnyone else think the Scamville companies paid for the TC hit?