Where did all my posts go?
So I went to go sign in today and it gave me either 1 of 2 errors(see below). I dumped my cookies and tried a different browser and PC and still the same. Waited about 20mins and now I can login norm...
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We may have fixated on posts marked as spam being the cause of this issue and ignored all other possibilities. When I read your original post, that's what I did. But...
As far as I can tell, your user profile has not been marked flagged for abuse.
@Bruce, has anything been posted that confirms or even indicates WiderMouthOpen is being reviewed for spam or abuse? If there was, I missed it. If he didn't get the same type of red-circle notifications you received when you were flagged, that would be another reason to believe he isn't being reviewed.
So far the only reasons seems to be "we have been made aware of some concerns regarding our forums platform".
@WiderMouthOpen, what was the source of that quote? Could it have referred to a website or database issue that had nothing to do with you?
Were all of your posts available before the error signing in? The aforementioned "concerns regarding our forums platform" could have been the cause of your sign in error which may have caused your lost posts. You may have just had the bad luck to sign in at the wrong time.
anything been posted that confirms or even indicates WiderMouthOpen is being reviewed for spam or abuse?
Only Mouth and Cox would know if Mouth's account is flagged. I logged in one day and had about seven red-circle notifications. Wow...lots of replies! However, the red-circles were for various posts having been flagged by...I assume...another user.
I started going to each conversation to review what I had written but my posts were removed. (What did I write?) All the red-circles were like this: go to convo, my post removed, should I submit an appeal because I can't appeal what I don't know what I had written? All these red-circles were the same albeit a different title, which is the specific name of the conversation.
The last red-circle I clicked...the one at the top or the latest...looked the same but was different. It was simply titled "Your Account has been Flagged for Review" (as best as I can remember).
I went into my profile to see what a flagged account looks like, but I hadn't seen anything different. Everything looked the same. However, I noticed the points were in the single-digit thousands.
I don't track points or watch my points because I don't know what points do. However, I remember when Mouth first joined we were chatting about points and I think he cited I had ~8K points. This chat was years prior but at the time of my review, I was less than 8K. I had lost a bunch of points during this review process. The point loss seemed almost immediate.
Finally, just as a reference to the extent of Mouth's history, I tried to find our long-forgotten chat because I specifically remember writing, "...and Kudos to you [Mouth]..." but the search for "kudos" returned no results for said chat.
My answer to your question is Mouth would have received a red-circle notification about an account review; however, being mixed with all the other red-circles about each flagged comment...Mouth may have missed it.
