As stated in the title this is a technical question (of sorts):
Would message board/forum content which has been deleted by a site owner (or administrator – or whatever) show up when searching on the Wayback Machine?
Concrete example: I run a message board. On this board there is a thread which gets out of hand in one way or another (a big thread, say, with many posts – plenty of content, in other words) – and I delete it. While the board/forum is still active and running normally on whatever server I use. Would this thread conceivably be archived – when it is purposely deleted (in full) by me?
edit: sorry, i’m having trouble explaining this without making my posts six paragraphs longs. short version which omits a lot of technical detail:
if you delete the thread or content and it’s gone from the database, then it’s gone for good. however if a search engine crawls the site during a period when the data exists it is technically possible that it could be archived although it’s unlikely as there’s not really a way to present it without having a snapshot of the entire database which usually isn’t done by wayback, etc.
edit: sorry, i’m having trouble explaining this without making my posts six paragraphs longs. short version which omits a lot of technical detail:
if you delete the thread or content and it’s gone from the database, then it’s gone for good. however if a search engine crawls the site during a period when the data exists it is technically possible that it could be archived although it’s unlikely as there’s not really a way to present it without having a snapshot of the entire database which usually isn’t done by wayback, etc.
Very well explained for my money – precisely the kind of answer I was looking for, in fact. Thanks!
