Wtf is it with all the disappeared today?

[carlos marvado]

This place is starting to take on the appearance of Argentina during the junta c. 1980, and no I'm not talking about Brothers Anon, Jimbop and Co. either. I'm talking about threads that get locked up and the key thrown away or those that disappear without a trace and are never seen again.

Now I was in the process of posting replies on at least three threads today, and these were not your "Congratulations", "Hello I'm f**king new here" or " Good Morning.....guess what, I had a hang sangwich for breakfast and today is Good f**king Friday" threads. They were interesting threads, where interesting debates were taking place between interesting people who had something interesting to say about the interesting subject matter. The kind of shit I basically like to get involved in.

Maybe it's my fault for being a damn slow typist, or the fact that I spend an eternity looking up the on-line dictionary or the on-line thesaurus and maybe another site or two for some background material and the odd photo or two and then proof read my contribution and correct any errors before I post it, as I like to do my research and not look like a complete wally. Then when I'm finally ready and hit the submit or send button, I invariably get a message back that I have selected an invalid thread. I'm not blind yet and I'm just about still compos mentis, so I know I aint imagining seeing stuff here, particularly as I had already contributed to some of those threads. So basically, being still compos mentis, I rationally deduct that between me starting to prepare my reply and actually trying to submit it, something untoward happened to the relevant thread.

Now back in the day, when a rather different group of people did the modding around here, threads still got locked down and in some cases even deleted, but in most cases this was after anything that infringed the rules was edited out, maybe a warning or moderator's comment was posted on the thread, and even an official warning or an infraction issued to the offending party. As a rule, threads did not just disappear willy nilly without any indication that people were causing problems or breaking the posting rules on those threads. Thread deletions came at the end of a process and most people had a fair idea of why threads were deleted.

You've lost four members today who had something of worth to say here.......keep this up and the only people who will be left are those who are happy to express their intellect on "Drop one, Keep One" and "The last one to post wins".