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by vaksel • 16 years ago

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ilamont• 16 years ago

I am seeing this too. Check out the scamville post from last October:

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• 16 years ago

Was there any follow-up to how TC was hacked?

fname• 16 years ago

There's been no update to their original post, but the comments are still there: http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/26/techcrunch-hacked/

FluidDjango• 16 years ago

Or is this a new, quieter-but-more-pernicious hack of their db?

CalmQuiet2• 16 years ago

Seems more likely than that they would hack themselves.

rrival• 16 years ago

So many new opportunities for 'First'...

davidmurphy• 16 years ago

Some articles say they have lots of comments, but then, don't:

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-ga...

AndrewWarner• 16 years ago

I tried adding a comment to one of those posts and it didn't work.

Semiapies• 16 years ago

Check again - I see a comment by you on the first one.

mortenjorck• 16 years ago

My guess then is that the DB isn't actually purged, but is currently not displaying entries dated before the 24th.

jrockway3• 16 years ago

Sounds 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• 16 years ago

Maybe it's an attempt to flush their database (and pages) of the various spam people have left all over it.

mahmud2• 16 years ago

Really? They could have dropped records with site and twitter URLs for starters.

jrockway3• 16 years ago

And suddenly the sum-total of intelligence on the Internet increases.

Next stop: Digg and Reddit.

InclinedPlane• 16 years ago

And youtube.

jrockway3• 16 years 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.)

CalmQuiet2• 16 years ago

Actually, I appreciate having the comments available on TC - so that perceptive readers can occasionally take them down a peg or two.

Paton• 16 years ago

I 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• 16 years ago

http://c2.com/cgi-bin/wiki?WikiFire

mahmud2• 16 years ago

Anyone else think the Scamville companies paid for the TC hit?

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