QUOTE(GlassBeadGame @ Wed 16th January 2008, 4:26pm)
I'm trying to understand why this would have such a profound effect. Is it because The Sandbox has an extraordinary number of edits in it's history? When you delete something are you actually moving data from one area to another in the database? Could someone please explain?
Yes - it's the massive edit history. The servers basically get bogged down marking every single revision as deleted. From what I can see, the guy was doing a delete-to-selectively-restore (so-called "admin oversight") to remove source-code to a virus that someone else posted about the place. Either way, the poor guy is both embarrassed and laughing right now ....
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