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Missing patches

There was like 600 patches yesterday now 530. Where did they go?
there was some very active moderation yesterday that turned a lot of very old patches into uberasm code, although not all of them were submitted to the uberasm section. keep an eye on the Moderation Questions section for any removal of content
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I think, solely because of this kind of thing, there needs to be more transparency between the patch moderation team and the userbase.
Too often is there a major remoderation event without the community knowing and suddenly we go looking for a patch we expect to be in the patches section and it's not there (this kind of thing happened with a question in the general resources thread just yesterday). I'm thinking there needs to be some kind of announcement made when a remoderation of a large amount of content is being made so everyone knows where everything has gone.
                                                                                                                  
                              
Originally posted by zacmario
Where did they go?

Most of the removals done yesterday (around 30 of which I made) can be found documented along with the reasons here. Later today, I intend to go and add the backup of every patch that has been rejected and doesn't have one correctly.

Originally posted by Plasmodium00
Too often is there a major remoderation event without the community knowing

You cannot argue we didn't tell the community we were going to do a remoderation of the patches section. It was announced since October 7th - with discussion for it dating back even prior - and unless somebody else said somewhere else that the remoderation was cancelled, the section keeps being into that state (which is why patches have the needs remoderation tag).
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and suddenly we go looking for a patch we expect to be in the patches section and it's not there

Now this I can understand, due to the backups not being easily accessible. Unlike with the sprite remoderation, when the site counted with an FTP we could just link to with every removed sprite, unfortunately the best I can do with said FTP being down is either put the sprites in my muncher subdomain (and risk them being gone) or have them linked from the main thread linked above. If you got any suggestions to make this clearer, feel free to tell me - I think it'd be cool if we added a paragraph detailing what's going on in the patches section with info on what's going on and links to the backups (think, like, how the music section has the featured songs paragraph right on top). I'll ask Telinc if he could add it.
e: done
Ok thanks chilly, and thank you Erik for your work aswell.
Yeah I read through, not missing much. The only patch I was concerned about was the "Disable 1-Ups with star power" I think the description is misleading, but it's real purpose is to make the star behave as it does in the original SMB, and it does just that. It's good for smb1 Allstar or original styled hack. I've used it on two projects.