All things in moderation

[Obie]

I think he wants to keep it as is and doesn't want it edited.

[TomK]

TomK: "...back up the discoveries from the Mauna Kea thread because posting stuff there took much of my unpaid time."
Such hubris!  Why donʻt you post these on your own website instead of relying on a little social media site to do it for you?

Maybe I'll do that, but the thread is 119 pages long, so I've asked Rob if I could get an archive. I don't have the time to review the whole thread on PW and copy each relevant post individually, so it doesn't sound like an unreasonable request to me. BTW, I don't have a website.

[terracore]

I've asked Rob and Moderator 2 to back up the discoveries from the Mauna Kea thread because posting stuff there took much of my unpaid time. I would like to have it archived because I don't think PW will be alive for much longer. I've emailed Rob, who I know, by the way, but he's been silent, and I see Moderator 2 is doing his or her own thing and deleting posts with no explanation.

Tom,

I backed up (archived) the thread here:

http://web.archive.org/web/2024091122452...?tid=17412

Future pages beyond the existing 119 won't automatically be added, but you can manually add them here: https://web.archive.org/save

Also, if there are any changes made to any of the existing pages on Punaweb, the archive won't reflect changes after the archive was made, but you can use https://web.archive.org/save to add a changed page(s) and all added versions will appear in the archive along with other archived versions of the pages.

If anybody else wants to archive web sites, one can task chatGPT to write a python script to automate the process of submitting URLs to the web archive using Google Colab.

[Chas]

web.archive.org is a fantastic organization that deserves support. I donate to them when I can.

They just lost a lawsuit to "big publishing", so their future is not guaranteed..

https://www.wired.com/story/internet-arc...se-appeal/

[TomK]

terracore - I can't thank you enough. Lunch or dinner is on me for both you and your partner.

[Punaperson]

Thanks to terracore for bringing back some of the spirit of the old punaweb - helpful to our online neighbors, with useful information for us all.

[Iju]

I second Punaperson.  Thank you, Terracore.

[TomK]

I think he wants to keep it as is and doesn't want it edited.

That's certainly part of it. My main concern was that, given two or three people tried to insert their own rules for PW debating, if they were successful, the thread might disappear.