they_are_deleting_blather nancy I don't want to scare you, but there are blathers of my creation that no longer exist. This defeats the object, if we cannot be sure that our ramblings are safe then i think i'll turn out the lights and go home. I discovered this accidentally, spotting a word mid blathe that was not highlighted, a word that was definitely one of mine. I put it up at a time when i would try and fill in the blanks, dictionary style, so i had a look at what would have been its neighbours, and they were gone too. Is this a technical problem or is mister big blather god (all praise his/her name)started to run out of hard drive space. If the shit i spout doesn't remain, then neither will i. 011126 ... nancy spout was one of mine too, this is getting out of hand. look to your lists ladies and gentlemen. look to your lists. 011126 ... DannyH Send them an email, see what they say. 011126 ... god eh, it'a all gotta go someday. 011126 ... pat sajak maybe they are *editing* blather. 011126 ... ClairE NOOOOOOOOO ah, well, impermanence is the way of this world. 011126 ... tonya ephemeral_blather ? 011127 ... flo is the above true? if so then it is a worry. my map will not work, i'll have to go back and re do my map, if my map is even still there. 011129 ... anti-social butterfly i don't understand. your map? am i too much of a rookie to know what you are talking about? 011129 ... flo no, the only person who understands the map is me. I am the one with bleeding fingers and no social life. 011130 ... god i volunteer to have all my stuff deleted. that might save some space. seriously. 011202 ... not gods talking halibut never! 011202 ... roomite perhaps our blather hosts are trying to tell us that relevance is only a temporary phenomenon (temporary relevance - good thread title that). on the other hand, perhaps blather was created as an idea repository. are we in fact contributing to the betterment of some clever writer(s)? maybe some of your ideas are disappearing to avoid plagiarism issues. ok, so i'm prone to flights of imaginative fiction - even without the old drug habit... 011202 ... MollyGoLightly this place could use an editor. i fully endorse this early spring cleaning. 011202 ... god yes, me too. 011202 ... god and if someone is lifting stuff for their own use.... that's fine by me. 011202 ... Dafremen Censorship, spring cleaning, holocaust, racial cleansing, Ugandan, Rhwandan Bosnian atrocities, ethnic cleansing, The Hundred Years War, religious cleaning. It's always been simple to make erasure seem like a good thing, like a pure thing, like a desirable thing. By all means, continue the trend. Display your human tendency in all of it's blissful glory. Ignorance...blissful awareness, what's the difference after all? 011203 ... flo actually, this probably a good thing, we could have the wide open spaces of that awful red place here too, without the colour induced headache. 011203 ... MollyGoLightly blatherers in the hands of an angry god. 011204 ... phil The world must be flat after all. PDS(preserve disk space) 020127 ... little wonder i feel so out of touch with all of this. i knew i should have started printing out my things a long time ago. 020221 ... silentbob ive been blathering for like 2 years and my lists have never been completely complete. That doesn't mean my blathers arent there. 020221 ... carne de metal If we start wicked rumours we will be cruelly punished, right? (I have pictures of bill gates having a sexual orgy with a camel) 020221 ... little wonder that makes me feel better. 020221 ... jessicafletcher i'm glad i'm not a camel. 020516 ... sabbie they are deleting blather. i went to find a poem i wrote so i could send it to a friend of mine and i went to 'punks' cos thats where i thought it was but it wasnt there, nor was it under punk. i went and found a printout of it and it was intitled punks. and if you go and have a look there is a whole year that has fallen out of the page [tween mmm's blathe and me's blathe] and thats where my poem was. hmm... eferimineral art. transitory. one more thing to make and break and its gone. .:sighs:. 020516 ... littel_elf I've noticed that. Not that i've been here long enough to have things of mine deleted, but that words that looked like they should be linked aren't... made me wonder. I'm for it, myself. I'd rather they deleted parts of blather than the whole thing... but then I haven't put a lot of myself here yet, so not a lot to lose. 030131 ... jane to see those "lost blathes" go to the_way_blather_was for instructions 030202 ... paranoid martyr i posted this in i_counted_my_blathes as my former sn freakizh: " i had the same problem bobby. but the solution is easy. instead of going to http://blather.newdream.net/cgi-bin/blather?who;name=silentbob;email=bobbyevers%40Hotmail%2Ecom, you go to http://blather.newdream.net/cgi-bin/blather?who;name=silentbob and voilá! all your blathes appear. you don't need to count them manually. let MSOffice help. copy all the list of blathes, paste 'em in a Word document, and select properties. there's a function for counting the words. g'luck! " hope it helps. 030203 ... Eowithien Hm.. I think that cleaning out blather everynow and then would be nice. Almost like the story of Noah and the Ark; we could cleanse it completely and begin anew. That would be interesting. I'd probably miss some of the old things I've said too much though. Very interesting. 040226 ... Syrope i dont think the story of noah and the ark is very encouraging. if i had to watch everything i ever knew be washed under a flood, and then be alone to ponder it for 40 days and 40 nights, i'd have to jump overboard. "memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it" 040226 ... Eowithien I agree about Noah and the Ark. I never said I believed it or anything, heh. I'd probably have fun being on a boat for 40 days and 40 nights actually. Well, I guess I'm just crazy like that anyway. 040226 ... smurfus rex I thought the system made a word in a post a link if the post was submitted after the blathe with the particular word in the title...in other words, the system works backwards and doesn't update older posts with new links. I got this impression after reading DannyH's instructions for making a blathermaze. 040227 ... u24 it does update older posts with new links, it just takes a while 040227 ... phil destruction 040521 ... notphil corruption 040521 ... anotherphil reduction 040521 ... magicforest I only trust u24 to keep us safe. 040521 ... definately not phil bowdlerize 040522 ... lizzy but.. they just... can't.... 040522 ... user24 they_are_not_deleting_blather 040802 ... :) Amen. 040802 ... u24 sometimes i wish they would. "sorry, we had a fire. the hard drives all melted. we're gonna restart the whole thing though" i think i'd like that. 060214 ... meta meta 060214 ... ivyducktwilightseto Oh SHIT FUCK I'm so screwed. 5 years ago... must be a long fight, I guess the opposition should get a new programmer. 060215 ... endless desire if they ever did, i would lose so much history of mine. i should start copying and pasting down some of the poetry i like so i can keep it around long after the blue world ends. it can't be around forever? 061013 ... Strideo go ahead and copy the stuff that really matters to you. it couldn't hurt right? you might take a little time doing it but at least you will have some peace of mind. ... 061013 ... stork daddy if they were i could think of some blathes that could stand a deleting. but even looking at the ugliness, i like knowing that it's part of the web, that it is hidden in plain sight and not erased or hushed. 061013 ... u24 just in case they ever do: web.archive.org 070420 ... u24 you do realise the futility of that message, don't you? 070420 ... u24 haha, yes. good point. lol. 070420 ... u24 no problem. you also realise that you're talking to yourself? 070420 ... u24 of course. what's funny is that when someone else looks at this page, they won't know whether there actually *was* someone else typing, using my name, or if I really was talking to myself. 070420 ... u24 ha. true indeed. 070420 ... u24 but on another topic, I'm somewhat disturbed by sabbie's "punks" story above. the wayback machine doesn't go way back enough, and I think sab's sane enough to know what she wrote where she wrote it. unless it's just an evil eris-inspired trick... 070420 ... u24 yes, that is disturbing. I suppose we could ask the blather_gods... 070420 ... one of many If they are "spring cleaning", why delete pages for words rather than seldom-used phrases? . . . Such as "they_are_deleting_blather". 071202 ... BnB Everything has to go sometime. Hard drives only last about 10 years or so. Paper lasts longer, but even that degrades at some point. Even I will be forgotten at some point in the future. Such is the nature of things... However, now that i think about it, It would be interesting if they archived blather and started over every now and again. This doesn't mean deleting blather, just freezing the current blather in time and starting over from scratch. It would be interesting to see how a "new" blather would turn out. 090309 ... hsg blather_black_hole is where the texts go. as do the missing socks in laundry. 090310 ... TCMT perhaps there is a blather on the other side of the black hole where all the lost ones go and over there the blatherskites are asking: "where did these words come from? Who are these blatherskites?" Would they even know?! Would they even notice? 131114 what's it to you? who go blather from