2009 Pruning Disaster

The 2009 Pruning Disaster refers to an event that occured in early March 2009, the mass pruning of all NK64 boards shortly after the resignation of admin ttwashere on March 2nd. All non-stickied topics last posted in prior to Feburary 1st of the year were deleted, totaling about 70,000 topics. Analysis of the deletion logs by the administrators revealed all the pruning was caused by ttwashere's account (due to Racerdude forgetting secondary usergroups when deadminning him), causing his resignation to be viewed in an extremely hostile light by a vast majority of the forum's members; ttwashere was subsequently permanently banned. Some suspect that ttwashere's account was hacked by a third party; while Supah Jon has been able to either confirm or deny this possibility and has notified Racerdude and Tutankoopa about it, the truth of this suspicion has yet to been made public.

While many of the 70,000 topics deleted were not vital to the forum, almost all completed RPGs and all but one of the videogame creations were among them. Attempts by Jon to revert the forum to a January 3rd backup failed due to formatting errors; as such, Racerdude is asking members for help in boosting activity and restoring classic topics. supercomputer276 has approached Jon concerning a way to use post subject titles to reconstruct topics from the posts of the old backup in order to rebuild the lost completed RPGs, although the status of this proposal has yet to been disclosed.