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A couple of days or so back I posted a thread about some bar codes on some trees in Victoria Garden. I was just going to add a comment but I've looked all over the SL site and I cannot find the thread. Its subject was surely totally innocuous and was about items on public display so surely nothing under copyright. I accept that the moderators have total control over what is in the SL site and so can delete as they wish, but I'm curious why the thread seems to have been deleted. I wonder if recent threads by other people have been deleted?

I remember that Leodian and made a mental note to ask the son/daughter to give it the iphone treatment ( being happy myself with a bit of old-tech).Threads drop off the board a couple of days without a posting but remain in the overall list but as you say there is no trace. This does happen from time to time and I can't see why it should have been deliberately removed. These codes are clearly up and coming and I for one would be interested to see what this one contained - I suspect we will see a lot more around Leeds, maybe overtaking the audiotects that were around at strtegic sites a while ago.I'll ask if any technical glitches are known of but the answer isusually no. Do you still have the pics and details? - a repost would be good. (Later - I spy at least one other thread gone awol).

Thanks chameleon. My main concern was if I had somehow inadvertantly posted something that I should not have. I was in the centre of Leeds today (Nov 16 2011) and noticed that there are QR codes on many of the trees at Victoria Garden, each with a different name and so presumably also a link to each bird call.I have deleted from my computer the reduced versions of the images I used though I could easily do them again, but I shall wait for now.

Leodian wrote: A couple of days or so back I posted a thread about some bar codes on some trees in Victoria Garden. I was just going to add a comment but I've looked all over the SL site and I cannot find the thread. Its subject was surely totally innocuous and was about items on public display so surely nothing under copyright. I accept that the moderators have total control over what is in the SL site and so can delete as they wish, but I'm curious why the thread seems to have been deleted. I wonder if recent threads by other people have been deleted? It wasnt me guvnor

chameleon wrote: These codes are clearly up and coming and I for one would be interested to see what this one contained Someone kindly converted it. It was a link to a web page which had about 30seconds worth of bird call from a great tit (maybe the entire thread got pulled due to an alternate meaning).I converted the web page in to URL and pointed out that by changing the last digit (I think it was 5) to a number between 1 and 11 there were 9 other birds and at 11 general birdsong.Its definitely not in my "My Threads" list and should be as I contributed to the thread.

tyke bhoy wrote: chameleon wrote: These codes are clearly up and coming and I for one would be interested to see what this one contained Someone kindly converted it. It was a link to a web page which had about 30seconds worth of bird call from a great tit (maybe the entire thread got pulled due to an alternate meaning).I converted the web page in to URL and pointed out that by changing the last digit (I think it was 5) to a number between 1 and 11 there were 9 other birds and at 11 general birdsong.Its definitely not in my "My Threads" list and should be as I contributed to the thread. The "It was a link to a web page which had about 30seconds worth of bird call from a great tit (maybe the entire thread got pulled due to an alternate meaning)" amused me. Perhaps people searching for porn were upset at getting a link that brought up a bird call, so they somehow managed to delete the thread! As Frankie Howerd would have said "Titter ye not". Oops, I wonder if this post will mysteriously now get deleted!

Leodian wrote: tyke bhoy wrote: chameleon wrote: These codes are clearly up and coming and I for one would be interested to see what this one contained Someone kindly converted it. It was a link to a web page which had about 30seconds worth of bird call from a great tit (maybe the entire thread got pulled due to an alternate meaning).I converted the web page in to URL and pointed out that by changing the last digit (I think it was 5) to a number between 1 and 11 there were 9 other birds and at 11 general birdsong.Its definitely not in my "My Threads" list and should be as I contributed to the thread. The "It was a link to a web page which had about 30seconds worth of bird call from a great tit (maybe the entire thread got pulled due to an alternate meaning)" amused me. Perhaps people searching for porn were upset at getting a link that brought up a bird call, so they somehow managed to delete the thread! As Frankie Howerd would have said "Titter ye not". Oops, I wonder if this post will mysteriously now get deleted! Be assured both that we will try to keep abreast of the situation

So that will be a Robin Redbreast bird call then! Sorry for that.

Leodian wrote: So that will be a Robin Redbreast bird call then! Sorry for that. Thats this one http://www.alecfinlay.com/7.html the rocking Robin1 Blackbird singing in the dead of night http://www.alecfinlay.com/1.html2 http://www.alecfinlay.com/2.html no song with a chaffinch included3 http://www.alecfinlay.com/3.html or a Curlew4 http://www.alecfinlay.com/4.html I was wrong about the image this is the Great [now edited for content]5 http://www.alecfinlay.com/5.html Herring Gulls6 http://www.alecfinlay.com/6.html Le petit ouiseau (or sparrow)8 http://www.alecfinlay.com/8.html all aboard the Skylark9 http://www.alecfinlay.com/9.html the Thrush10 http://www.alecfinlay.com/10.html the willow warbler11 http://www.alecfinlay.com/11.html and mixed birdsongI suppose I ought to credit the artist who compiled ithttp://www.alecfinlay.com/

Thanks for posting the links tyke bhoy.