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Posts being deleted from existance?

canucks4life — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 07:18:17 GMT

I tried to reply to a post twice today and within like 10min it vanishes without a trace?

Re: Posts being deleted from existance?

SD08 — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 05:14:24 GMT

I've had that happen to me once or twice before, but the last time was months ago. The posts eventually reappeared. I think maybe it was held for review because something triggered a spam filter, though I don't know what specific words would have caused it. Could be just a glitch too.

Re: Posts being deleted from existance?

computergeek541 — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 05:33:02 GMT

I've had it happen a few times as well. From what I could tell, after I typed a message, it would just never show up.

Re: Posts being deleted from existance?

Someone_here — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 07:15:27 GMT

Yes it happens sometimes, I think it somehow gets automatically held for review as said before, but mine never reappeared. There is actually a page (can find the link) where you can see your "moderated posts" waiting to be approved. Not sure what triggers the automatic holding...

Re: Posts being deleted from existance?

computergeek541 — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 07:24:17 GMT

From what I recall, it would happen if you tried to edit a post to correct a mistake or add something a few times within a minute or so. I have no idea why the system then deletes your message. It could be that each time you edit and click on "post", it counts it as a new message, and there could be some time of spam filter at work that suspects that if you post more than 5 posts in 5 minutes (or some other predefined post count or timeframe), you might be posting advertising. That's just speculation, of course.

Re: Posts being deleted from existance?

canucks4life — Thu, 29 Jun 2017 16:56:53 GMT

@computergeek541 wrote:
From what I recall, it would happen if you tried to edit a post to correct a mistake or add something a few times within a minute or so. I have no idea why the system then deletes your message. It could be that each time you edit and click on "post", it counts it as a new message, and there could be some time of spam filter at work that suspects that if you post more than 5 posts in 5 minutes (or some other predefined post count or timeframe), you might be posting advertising. That's just speculation, of course.

That could be it I did edit the post a couple times...will have to do a better job of proof reading I guess