I got this in my email this morning:

KShoK has just replied to a thread you have subscribed to entitled - Help Control Process Overpopulation! - in the WebHostingTalk Lounge forum of WebHostingTalk Forums.

etc etc., the usual email when someone replies. I check the thread, and there's only one reply, not two like that email would make you think. (the thread's at http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=75197 BTW.)

Has anyone else had a similar situation where posts just disappeared?

Aggressive moderation.

refresh?

Gotta go with Samuel. Sometimes moderators are on the ball.

I too had similar problems. My posts were also missing.

I don't now why it is.
I have never had any of my posts deleted, i wonder why:eek: .

Originally posted by SoftWareRevue
Gotta go with Samuel. Sometimes moderators are on the ball.

Now I'm curious as to what that person said in his reply. :bawling:

Originally posted by mind21_98
I got this in my email this morning:

KShoK has just replied to a thread you have subscribed to entitled - Help Control Process Overpopulation! - in the WebHostingTalk Lounge forum of WebHostingTalk Forums.

etc etc., the usual email when someone replies. I check the thread, and there's only one reply, not two like that email would make you think. (the thread's at http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=75197 BTW.)

Has anyone else had a similar situation where posts just disappeared?

Yes, last night, just after asking a moderator to get rid of my reply, and two other user's replies due to their off topic nature.

Just when one of the users replied, a moderator removed "It" and the three I asked to be removed.

It was without a doubt aggresive moderation.

Mind, consider the nature of your message, then consider the rules. If you can suspect that you might have broken some rule, I would expect it to be aggresive moderation (Proactive also).

I haven't seen an indication that there is corruption or overprocessing on this server in several days (Dragging pages etc)

I am surprised to see my post missing. I dont know what off the topic reply you had seen in my post.

It was example, I wasn't referring to a post you have made KShoK

i posted somewhere earlier and when i came back it had gone, there was nothing offensive or advertising etc in it for it to be deleted so i think it just vanished

OK, no problem Samual. You are a smart guy.

Originally posted by KShoK
OK, no problem Samual. You are a smart guy.

Half asleep guy lol

Just realized you might have been referring to mind's first post here, sorry if I am a bit confused.

Originally posted by tazd9t9
i posted somewhere earlier and when i came back it had gone, there was nothing offensive or advertising etc in it for it to be deleted so i think it just vanished

The rules are strict though, and it would help if you put your post into context as I've done.

ok it was just a guy asking for some help, tips on how to do something, which i replied 2, when i came back later it was gone. It could have been my pc messing about tho

Your reply is important (Context more specific)

Usually posts are deleted because they are against forum rules, but sometimes is is necessary to delete posts just because they have been posted "for the sake of posting" for example, I went into the Lounge a day or so ago and noticed that someone had posted to almost half of the threads on the first page, sometimes this is spamming and sometimes boredom on the posters behalf.

"boredom" posts where womeone enters a thread, has little to say and just says "im bored" gets deleted because its pointless.

other stuff that just seems to be useless content is just deleted aswell.

i guess you could say "aggressive moderating"

Half asleep guy lol

Just realized you might have been referring to mind's first post here, sorry if I am a bit confused.
Somebody caught you napping

Thank goodness for aggressive moderation or we'd be like Slashdot (http://www.slashdot.org/) - full of trolls. :D

we were actually thinking of making moderation like slashdot at one point, i quite like it, even for the amount of trolls the junk still doesnt show up, because they just get "modded down"

everyone mods and nobody gets "bored" of modding because they can only mod for a limited period of time.

Originally posted by xtstrike
we were actually thinking of making moderation like slashdot at one point, i quite like it, even for the amount of trolls the junk still doesnt show up, because they just get "modded down"


What about the "jokes" that get 5's when they should have gotten far less? :cartman: