For some odd reason, it seems that about half of my posts get deleted after a day or two. These aren’t in violation of any policy, they aren’t abusive to anyone, they are legitimate answers to questions, etc., but they get deleted. I’m getting tired of putting forth a lot of effort to contribute meaningfully and then see the post disappear.
Is anyone else having this problem?
Who decides when to delete posts – Ben Strano? Others?
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A lot of times they are hidden within the thread. The forum is quit archaic in that you have to search the entire thread to find new posts. I often search by post number. You have to look and see what your post number is and then you search up and down the entire thread to find all the posts after yours. This is why I only read threads that highly interest me. Too much work otherwise. It’s hard to believe that this type of forum still exists.
Thanks, but this isn't what is happening in my case. My responses to posts are sometimes being deleted (see Bentusi post below).
I saw your post deleted a few times.
The last one i saw was saying a post about building a kitchen was illegitimate right? or was that not you?
I don't know why it disappeared shortly after. But ill back you up that it did.
Thanks. Yes, that was my post in response to an obviously AI generated new post, and I thought that the new post should have been deleted but instead my response was.
This wasn't the first time, either.
I deleted the AI post. When a top level post is tagged as spam the entire thread goes away with it. Your post pointing out the AI ( I remember it) was collateral damage.
OK, but the post still exists. Also, this isn't the first time this has happened to me (see Bentusi post above, he has noticed that some of my posts are being deleted).
If you say so... IMO no one is working against anybody here. I know I am careful wielding my tiny little spaminator powers. When I have had questions about specific items the responses have been thoughtful, and the actions have been reasonable.
This has always felt like a pretty safe space, that's why I participate.
Hoe you see this before it gets deleted, lol.
Idk how it all works but it must be somthing local to your machine badger.
I havent noticed anyone elses posts getting deleted unless it says "deleted" and never happened to me either.
If it happens again just repost and itll likely work.
I also doubt anyone is targeting your posts for literally no reason.
Just to be clear, I never implied that they were being maliciously deleted - I only wondered why it was happening.
I just went digging in the backend. As far as I can tell you've only ever had one post deleted. I did that because you incorrectly insisted that a post was AI spam and should be deleted.
It wasn't spam. It wasn't AI. I deleted it because it's rude and I didn't want it to be seen by the OP, but here we are.