I hope I’m not breaking something by asking, but what happened to http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=28219 ?
I’ve been retro-lurking, and that tread seems to be one of the more important ones.
I’m not sure what you mean by “important” - but I get an “invlaid thread” message. There is a chance that this thread has been deleted, especially if a particularly bothersome troll or sock started it or posted to it significantly.
Otherwise, I’d say database errors.
Didn’t they clean up threads that hadn’t been posted to for 12 months sometime last year?
Wikkit - what makes you think it was so important? What was it about?
D’oh. Forget to say what it was. It was the thread announcing the death of Wally. I’ve seen older threads, cazzle, but maybe only because they got bumped and that one didn’t.
I don’t think that one would have been deleted, but I’m at a loss to explain what would have happened to it.
Yeah, that’s why I wonder why it’s gone. I’ve found links to it in a bunch of places, so I know it isn’t a typo.
Thanks for looking into it, Mr. Winkelried.
I noticed this also, quite a while ago, when I first looked at the links on the Teeming Millions website - so it’s been gone for 9 months or so at least. Odd thread to go missing. 
We removed the thread because there was some disagreement between Dopers in it that really made it too awful to stay here.
Revisiting the issue is not going to benefit anyone and those of us that went through this already would kindly request it just be dropped.
No disrespect to anyone, most of all Wally, may god rest him.
your humble TubaDiva
Administrator
That thread got nasty? Wow. I don’t remember that, but I’ll take your word for it. I respect TubaDiva’s desire to not dredge up old bitterness, so I won’t ask what happened. I guess I didn’t read far enough.
It seems a bit disrespectful to WallyM7 to bicker in his memorial thread.
Thanks a bunch Wikkit, for reminding me how much I missed that guy’s posts.
I can’t beleive there was crap going on in that thread. I hope i don’t die soon so people start argueing in my death thread.