Has a new antispam system been put in place, or has someone gone a bit OTT with moderating?
http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/forum//forum/thread/73232/#post380463&posted=1
Theres a fair few posts been deleted, including mine. Some on other threads too.
If it is an admin/moderator, fair enough (would like to be told what was wrong though), but I see a number of other posts that are very reasonable but still deleted.
in the words of Shaggy,
'it wasnt me'
I think its the automatic spam system (wasn't me either). If you look at each post it has a red and green flag these can be used to train the spam system. i.e. if its a flase positive don't just set the moderation to OK, but also press the green flag to mark it as not spam. (The opposite applies too).
Here's what I mean:
If you mark something as spam it automtically gets sent to the moderation queue.
If you mark something as not spam (when it has been incorrectly identified) then it will be removed from the moderation queue (if applicable).
That said I should be upgrading this at some point.
For some reason last week it had something against Guest posts, but I think I trained it out of that...
Righto. I think either the system went haywire, or someone was hitting the spam button, as there ended up being loads, mainly guests but some registered too.
By the way, you have an email Rafe 😉
I think its pretty easy for a 'mod/admin' to go down the list and hit delete on everything, especially where theres a whole load of guest posts on the news threads...
Just takes a bit long for someone to read I guess.