Can comments be restored?

Battou · Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 1:07 am Post subject: Can comments be restored?

I accidently deleted a comment when I whent to reply, is there any way that can be restored by chance?
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Breloom · Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 3:15 am Post subject:

To my knowledge, comments are always stored, even when their deleted. It can probably be done. But I think the admins would have to go though the history and all that to restore it, so I think it's a pretty slim chance of someone bothering to do so. Never know you luck though.

Stratadrake · Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 8:01 am Post subject:

Comments are stored with a visibility flag, so that when a comment is deleted, it is actually just flagged as hidden from view.

Site staff members have a link which will make the hidden comments appear on the page along with everything else. However, there's no function I know of to make a removed comment visible again. (Which means that only cstdenis can do it, via manual database edit.)
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Throttle · Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 1:34 pm Post subject:

i beleve not. When data is deleted its gone and thats it.
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Stratadrake · Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 5:09 pm Post subject:

[quote]When data is deleted its gone and thats it.[/quote]
You missed the point. [b]Comments are not actually "deleted", only hidden from view.[/b] They are still logged on the server and site helpers can select an option to view them. However, there's no "undelete", [b]there is no function to make a removed comment visible to normal users again.[/b]

Once a comment has been removed from view, it stays that way and only site staff have access to view what it was.
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