why do forum posts get deleted with no warning of an infraction?

[subadar]

just curious about the policies since posts get deleted with no explanation.

was it an infraction? with no points deducted for violations? then why delete it?

was it a violation of ToS or CoC?

was it a biased moderator?

the world wonders.

[Gildoriel]

just curious about the policies since posts get deleted with no explanation.

was it an infraction? with no points deducted for violations? then why delete it?

was it a violation of ToS or CoC?

was it a biased moderator?

the world wonders.

Sometimes it might be software glitches as well. Several times now I noticed people saying their posts got deleted so they'd post again. And the next day their post would be on the forums twice.

[Yarbro]

Sometimes it might be software glitches as well. Several times now I noticed people saying their posts got deleted so they'd post again. And the next day their post would be on the forums twice.

This,

I have had it happen to me; right now it seems OK, but sometimes I will have multiple posts vanish in the course of a single week.

[Nymphonic]

Sometimes it might be software glitches as well. Several times now I noticed people saying their posts got deleted so they'd post again. And the next day their post would be on the forums twice.

Pretty much this. It’s happened to me in the past.

[Cordovan]

The most typical cause of this is when a moderator has to delete a post, but other posts quote it, so also have to be deleted (depending), even if they sometimes have no problematic content.

[Yarbro]

The most typical cause of this is when a moderator has to delete a post, but other posts quote it, so also have to be deleted (depending), even if they sometimes have no problematic content.

Hi Cordovan, I have had posts vanish where I had not quoted anyone, and what I had written was purely advice for someone having an issue that I had a possible solution for; or asking advice myself on a high level area issue I had just encountered.

The posts appeared in my browser window after hitting "Submit", but there was no sign of them later on; I have always put it down to the very elderly software version the forums run on; even after prompting an update to it a while back (they were still running the 10 y/o release), it is still a major release behind what is current (4.xx v V5.xx).

I have even had the forum switch to mobile mode mid-sentence on me (Firefox on Win7).