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grumpyduck

(6,574 posts) Sun Aug 25, 2024, 12:39 PM Aug 25

Vanishing posts?

This has happened a few times recently: I see a post I want to respond to, but it turns out I'm not logged in (which is weird, because I always ask to be kept logged in).

Anyway, just now I saw a post about something tfg put on X, him sitting on a lion. i wanted to respond that the face on that lion was saying "Why me, God? Why me?" But when I logged in, the post had vanished. I even did a search and still couldn't find it.

What causes this?

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Vanishing posts? (Original Post) grumpyduck Aug 25 OP

This post? ThreeNoSeep Aug 25 #1

Thank you. I couldn't find it anywhere. grumpyduck Aug 25 #3

I personally block the keyword Trump usonian Aug 25 #2

Is there a reason why the home page does not block anything? JoseBalow Aug 25 #4

Ask the admins! usonian Aug 25 #5

I've asked a few times before, but was ignored JoseBalow Aug 25 #6

Must be policy. NT usonian Aug 25 #7

A few days ago there was/is a thread here where EarlG said it would be very difficult to do progree Aug 26 #8

ThreeNoSeep

(134 posts)

1. This post?

Reply to grumpyduck (Original post)

Sun Aug 25, 2024, 12:47 PM

Aug 25

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219381558

grumpyduck

(6,574 posts)

3. Thank you. I couldn't find it anywhere.

Reply to ThreeNoSeep (Reply #1)

Sun Aug 25, 2024, 01:01 PM

Aug 25

I just went in and added my snark.

usonian

(12,276 posts)

2. I personally block the keyword Trump

Reply to grumpyduck (Original post)

Sun Aug 25, 2024, 12:57 PM

Aug 25

So I have to go to the DU home page to see such posts. The home page does not block anything.

YMMV

JoseBalow

(4,384 posts)

4. Is there a reason why the home page does not block anything?

Reply to usonian (Reply #2)

Sun Aug 25, 2024, 02:27 PM

Aug 25

It would be nice if it was consistent with the rest of the site in how it handled ignored users and blocked keywords - it would be easy to do programmatically.

usonian

(12,276 posts)

5. Ask the admins!

Reply to JoseBalow (Reply #4)

Sun Aug 25, 2024, 03:31 PM

Aug 25

It does save me the trouble of unblocking when I am in an angry mood and want to see "red"

Make that orange. People do use alternate names on titles, and do do I when I don't want to block my own posts. It happened a couple of times when a keyword matched a substring of my block. Oops!

But that's above my pay grade.