Missing posts
Posted: April 29th, 2019, 5:49 pm
This is prompted by the deletions thread, but somewhat different.
I view posts via 'notifications' - I am set up so that every time someone posts on a board I follow I get a notification (though sometimes the notifications covers several posts, ie reply from X, Y, Z and 6 others in topic "blah,blah".
Recently I have quite often found that I click on the link only to find the the post referred to is not there. Now I had assumed that the post had been deleted, but I am starting to wonder.
For example today I have a notification about the topic "Who have I upset" on Bitter Lemons, posted by a lemon (not a spammer) yesterday at 10:01pm. But when I click on it the last post was April 26 at 8:06am. Now this thread is pretty innocuous, I can't imagine the poster said anything that either they or anybody else would report. I give this as an example - there have been quite a few where I was surprised that a post had been deleted when the topic seemed uncontroversial.
I note that on the deletions thread several people have complained about posts being deleted without explanation and they don't know why they have been deleted. Others have suggested that they didn't submit the post and didn't realise. But in this case I have the notification so the post was definately submitted - what I don't know is if a mod deleted it (perhaps someone can check?).
But it seems to me that some posts are going missing without explanation.
I view posts via 'notifications' - I am set up so that every time someone posts on a board I follow I get a notification (though sometimes the notifications covers several posts, ie reply from X, Y, Z and 6 others in topic "blah,blah".
Recently I have quite often found that I click on the link only to find the the post referred to is not there. Now I had assumed that the post had been deleted, but I am starting to wonder.
For example today I have a notification about the topic "Who have I upset" on Bitter Lemons, posted by a lemon (not a spammer) yesterday at 10:01pm. But when I click on it the last post was April 26 at 8:06am. Now this thread is pretty innocuous, I can't imagine the poster said anything that either they or anybody else would report. I give this as an example - there have been quite a few where I was surprised that a post had been deleted when the topic seemed uncontroversial.
I note that on the deletions thread several people have complained about posts being deleted without explanation and they don't know why they have been deleted. Others have suggested that they didn't submit the post and didn't realise. But in this case I have the notification so the post was definately submitted - what I don't know is if a mod deleted it (perhaps someone can check?).
But it seems to me that some posts are going missing without explanation.
