deleted help: My original post on cyberbullying (209641) has disappeared. - Help.com

mmmm, strange!
i remember the post well, as i was having some trouble myself at the time :)

Not the first time I’ve seen a post disappear though. Don’t moderators have the ability to completely delete posts?
And welcome back, 1 year late.

mumstheword wrote:
Just to let you know …
I’m away off up into the hills until September. Not quite “fallen off the planet” but with no phone, internet or TV and just the bugs and beasties for companions.

So apologies in advance if I miss your invites!

I hope everyone has a good summer. Take care of each other!

love from Mums. x

I was thinking more in the direction of rogue mod. Perhaps another of the site’s bugs.

Indeed. I think deletion is a one way thing. Wouldn’t hurt asking Ditzy or Dani though.
I’m glad you had fun, mum.

I didn’t refer to the reason of deletion. Like I said, it could be a rogue mod or site bug, but once it’s deleted, then nobody can bring it back to life.
I think you’ve done a great job with that post, mum. Without even seeing it.
No thanks, I’m not used to drinking tea… whenever. And I wouldn’t like another one of your computers ruined.

Will we now have mysterious disapearances untill we ourselves are just a memory?

Not now, but eventually.
At least you can enjoy being a good memory.

One plausible explanation as I am not a mod I can’t say for certain maybe somebody hijacked it, and so the mods closed it until the original poster reappears. Also I have found one post about cyber-bullying it wouldn’t be that would it? http://help.com/post/209806-what-to-d…

Also this site has a lot of glitches, one member lost their shoutbox for a while, until a user fixed it.

Well, it’s definitely gone… Check this page:
http://help.com/history/3217
The closed post is one before you, and “how can you put songs on udisk” is one after you.

Can you remember did I reply to that post?

It doesn’t matter, lad. It’s definitely been removed, and so any references to it are also removed.

Also, here is a link to the post [broken]:
http://help.com/post/209641-thinking-…

unless it is a glitch in the computer, I remeber a user had no box for you to shout to her, until somebody used a shoult trail and shouted her out of trouble (it was a shout that caused the glitch) and it may just be hidden due to someone hacking it.

I’ve contacted Ditzy and Dani.

Please don’t worry about it, mum. I’m sure somebody’ll be here to fix it soon.

when did you write this post?

i actually found it but when i click it is says “this post is no longer available”

mumstheword wrote:
That’s right. I was wondering why?

I guess someone deleted it, but I can see deleted post’s so maybe someone Wiped the post, I have no idea I’ll have to forward this to ditzy

deletable is restorable
however being wiped is something out of my hands.

So most likely nothing can be done.
Do moderators have the ability to ‘wipe’?

repost it

Invite me when you do. I want to see it.

Ditzy wrote:
Sorry hun. Looks like that post has been wiped. Not even I can view it.
Ditz (Mod)

Ohhai :D Sorry - just sorting out ModQ.

Anon above me is right. It looks like the post/user was completely wiped. Moderators can close a post, or delete a post. Doing those two actions would remove it but Moderators would still be able to be view it - but that post is completely missing. The link just takes me to the home-page (like it would for a user) So it leads me to believe the post/user was wiped. Some thing we cannot undo.

I’m sorry. I have not wiped any body in ages - and we cannot wipe singular posts.

Ditz (Mod)

So when does the ToS say wiping should be used?

unless it is a glitch, come to think of it, my replies were dissappearing a while ago, and they somehow corrected itself, not removed disappeared, as if I never posted on the post, so that could be what is happening here.

mumstheword wrote:
Hmm.

Well, given I as a user have not been wiped… it would seem that the post was therefore wiped by a moderator?

This strikes me as an odd thing, since a) the post was moderator-approved at the time. b) you would think there would have been some communication on the matter had there been good reason to wipe it.

I cannot therefore imagine that it was in any way “objectionable”? Unless it contained something that someone, somewhere did not wish to be seen? No, I can’t imagine that either .. that would suggest either conspiracy or a misuse of privilege.

Little green men I expect. Or tea in the works.

I agree that it is a little strange.

Moderators do not have the ability to wipe a post - so it cannot be misuse of power. It has to be higher up.
Moderators can only wipe an account/user - and that is only used when all the information needs to be completely removed and not just banned. Which is pretty much never since we like paper-trails. Usually we just delete or ban, which leaves us with the option of seeing all the shouts, posts and replies.

I cannot comment on the content of the post because I had never seen it. I would bring it back if I could (providing there was nothing questionable in the replies) but it has totally gone.

mumstheword wrote:
I tell ya.. little green men! noo noo noo noo…. :)

Ironic …

Didn’t dr. Phil do a show on something like that…?

Tea any one?

More than three years ago, I was known as thepp on here with the double pp at the end.
Now I can not directly link up to any of the posts on there, I can still link up to them when realy old posts from others, come up if I replied to that particular old post.
It looks like some older posts have been placed in a place called archive, where ever that is.
I am fine thanks, you can have a rich highland shortie to dip in that tea, mind only one, cant have you getting spoiled now, can we?

Only popped in for a quick look around, saw your post and thought I had better, at least offer some refreshment.
Just one more highland shortie then.
Going for a walk now, see you again later.

You can’t be bullied on the internet, all you have to do is turn it off. Stop reading if something bothers you, doesn’t everyone have freedom of speech? Do you want to take this right away from those that disagree with you?

Everyone said re-post it I thought you would be glad to start again. My posts often disappear too… imagine that.