>>/9272/
> This would be neat, but also hard to pull off considering all the old wounds there. 

I think it is a pitfall inherent to that place. Though, they certainly have seemed like they were making amends in this final time and talking about some of good times they had there too. I think a standing offer that some random bystander or two might answer is pretty safe from drama. 

> and perhaps a seperate /fandom/ archeology or whatever Bridgefag had been talking about might be warranted for something like that even if I still really like the anchors idea.

Here is my philosophy right now. I am going to test the anchors system. If it doesn't work out than I will split off something. Even if it does, I might a dedicated emergency archive thread (something I have toyed with for over two years now) or a thread dedicated to my desires from a encyclopedia or whatever it's called (something I have toyed with for two years now, x2).

 >>/9262/
> This sort of thing always has left me conflicted. I can totally understand not wanting something stupid you said up somewhere for all entirety but often in places that enforces these deletion policies context and culture can be lost from deleted posts and users.

I understand. Say in ponychan's instance, if someone accidentally posted some doxing information and/or something reeeeeally stupid would understand wanting that gone. When you get past a few isolated I lean more into the no delete cap.  Is that basically your stance though? LOL. 

Still, even then, I do admit some gray areas. Some of the thoughts posted in the past on Ponychan here for example I felt were certainly borderline  if Ponychan in the final few years was just a group of friends, where is something  that was abusive adminstatrion and where is something stupid and private interpersonal drama that is unworthy of discussion/consideration. 

 >>/9280/
On a certain fandom representation angle with this. I feel like something somewhat stripped down with basic timeline and certain facts established might be the way to go. It feels like even those thinks can be in jeopardy from hazy memories and revisionist history. Still, I would love to do more. I would love to know the ins and outs of every tiny thread and cliche there and I imagine this system, if I can get it to take off. Trying to be realistic here though.

 >>/9276/
Most of the full images in /test/ = 404. I guess ponychan.net deleted them months/years after they were first posted.
I ran some scraping  (just a few thread, I was doing this from a netbook and had access to some better internet, whim of the moment and no WRACS unfortunately) and noticed quite a few 404 images from /arch/ as well. My first thought is simply files that were removed from moderation at the time but I do wonder if they had some sort of database crash or something were they lost some stuff.