Why was my entire thread marked as spam?

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[Bob99]

So I created a post asking a question a short time ago (maybe a half hour by now). I posted it and then found an answer to it. I went to edit the post to include the fact that I found an answer and to add some additional info.

When I was done editing it, I submitted the edit and clicked the box to keep a record of the edit. The page then refreshed to a completely blank page with my topic at the top and a statement half way down the page indicating the entire subject had been marked as spam.

What gives, why did this happen?Did I edit and resubmit too many times in a short timeframe?

I’d like to know so I don’t repeat the error, and I would like the thread re-posted if possible, please.

Thanks!

• This topic was modified 4 years, 4 months ago by Bob99.

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“Did I edit and resubmit too many times in a short timeframe?”
Yes. Most of us have experienced this.
One circumvention is to Reply to yourself; messy, but it works if you really have to re-cycle so much.

Also, there is a fairly short time span during which one can re-edit a post. ‘The system’ does its best to enforce measure twice, cut once.

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If you have a long or complicated post, build and save it in a text editor or a word processor first. Then copy your finished product here. If things go missing or glitch, you can always return to your source.

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Disappearing comments:

The most common reason is a known glitch in the spam filter that causes the comment to disappear as soon as one hits “Submit.” When this happens, one should wait a while, sometime several hours, until one of the moderators finds the comment in the spam filter’s trashcan and puts it back in its originally intended place.

When editing a comment, it is also a good idea to wait for some twenty seconds (counting to 20 slowly) **after every single time one edits the comment** before hitting “submit”. That works most of the time to prevent the glitch in the spam filter from spiriting away the comment.

In case the comment disappears instantly and does not come back after several hours, or the next day, the suggestion of Cybertooth of making and keeping a text file with a copy of the comment before clicking “submit” is a good idea. But if a comment is actually posted after hitting “submit”, it appears listed among recent comments near the top of the right brown sidebar and then disappears a while later, that means that some moderator read it and deleted it after judging it to be inappropriate or irrelevant.

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