Did someone delete my post, along with others'?

[buMbLeB]

It was about sarcasm. Me, Pippa and a spambot? Am I imagining things?

[MarylandQuitter]

Yes. The ts was a spammer and the account was deleted. :)

[buMbLeB]

Perhaps I'm overly sensitive in this regard - it was clearly a spam account, but I find that a bit unsettling. In fact, it was an incident of having my posts altered without my consent that caused me to leave "that other board" (which wouldn't allow me to refer to this other board). Actually that was my last post there. 

 

Under what other circumstances might I expect to have my posts deleted without notice?

[Mike.]

I am not being snide here.

 

I wish I knew what had happened.

 

I guess for me, it's another ... duh

 

Maybe in the nature of this.

 

carry on ...

[bakon]

Spam tastes like duck when grilled

[DCCXXVII]

Spam tastes like duck when grilled

 

Yup... never sorry to see the back end of spam threads

 

[DCCXXVII]

[DCCXXVII]

[El Bandito]

Must be the weather....loads of them this morning (spam posts, I mean)

[MarylandQuitter]

Perhaps I'm overly sensitive in this regard - it was clearly a spam account, but I find that a bit unsettling. In fact, it was an incident of having my posts altered without my consent that caused me to leave "that other board" (which wouldn't allow me to refer to this other board). Actually that was my last post there.

 

Under what other circumstances might I expect to have my posts deleted without notice?

Hi buMbLeB,

 

When a spammer is flagged as such, their account and posts get zapped. Since the fake member was flagged as a spammer, all of their threads and posts automatically got deleted. Whenever the first post in any thread is deleted, all of the posts below it go with it. It's just how message board software has worked since I first was involved with it 15 years ago. So, whenever anybody replies to a spammer who starts a thread, the entire thread goes away. If a spammer posts in the middle of a thread that is not spam, only the spammer and it's post(s) will be deleted leaving the thread and all of the other posts complete.

 

If anybody wants to banter with a spammer, just do so knowing that if the spammer started the thread, everything below it will go away as well. It's just the nature of spam and software.

 

If there is an issue with a member posting something that is inappropriate for this quit smoking message board, myself or one of the moderators will send a private message to inquire about what's going on. If it's bad enough, the member will have the chance to edit it or we will simply hide it or if it's bad enough, delete it. However if somebody posts something that is harmful to any of our members or this community, I will immediately delete it. Having said that, I've never had to do it. :)

 

Please read something that I posted when we first started this site but has long since been buried in threads. I should probably place it in our site guidelines. :)

 

"As I've stated elsewhere my views on freedom of speech or more aptly, the right to be published, as is the case here, I'll mention them again.

 

There is a difference between freedom of speech and the right to be published. Freedom of speech will only give people the right to make their own web site to express their opinions, but they may not demand to be published on any other web sites. A good example is book publishing: You may write your own book, but you may not go to a publisher and demand them to publish it for you. If you want to publish it, and there are no publishers willing to do it, you would have to print the book yourself and contact any stores and ask them if they would sell it. If nobody will sell it, you'll have to open your own store to sell it."

[Mike.]

Cool. Thanks.

 

Can I go back to "duh", now?

 

:)