Replying to a message that the mods have deleted . . .

[pburn]

From time to time, I've been in the process of composing a reply to a post that, in the meantime, has been deleted by a moderator. I've had this happen a bunch of times, and it just coincidentally happened to me again a few minutes ago. In my experience, when I try to submit a reply to a post that has been deleted, I get this error message:

A member recently stated (and I'm paraphrasing and sanitizing here for reasons of privacy):

"The post I was responding to was removed because [someone] flagged it. So when that happens, my post was edited to look as if I was responding to someone I was not."

And a second post in the same thread:

"I will explain what happens again when a mod deletes a post. I was responding to [another member]. But [someone] flagged his comment and mod removed it. So the comment I responded to was gone. This community being as advanced as it is, it defaults to the post above it."

So, this member is suggesting that when s/he starts a reply to message #13 (for example), and that message is removed before s/he can submit the reply, that comment will automatically appear as a reply to #12. The member's reply to pburn (or whoever) will then show up as a reply to a completely different member who posted the previous message.

Has anything like this ever happened to anyone else? Have you ever tried to reply to a post that has subsequently been removed? If so, what kind of a result have any of you seen? Have you received a similar error message, or has your reply ended up being posted to a completely different member?

Thanks for your input and observations . . .

[comics-scifi-collectibles]

@pburn   I was having at least a few posts a week removed on the M2M boards a couple of months ago.  The explanation is that it's the spam bots "gone amuck" 

(paraphrasing). 

The only solution is to contact the mods and ask them to release the post from the filter.  They usually didn't do that though unless I could tell them the name of the user I was responding to.   

I have since got in the habit of using select all and copy before I hit submit.  

I don't think that this is the same issue you are referring to in the threads though.

[loveyourimagination49]

I read that thread. Couldn’t figure out what he was saying. I get the same red banner as you. Haven’t dealt with it in awhile though. I very rarely use the quote button. 

You should have let him tell you how the community works. 🤣

[pburn]

Thanks! I'm not sure it's the same circumstance I'm trying to describe. 

Message #1: pburn posts a comment.

Message #2: comics replies to my comment.

A third poster starts to create a reply to comics' Message #2.

In the meantime, someone reports comics' Message #2 for whatever, and a mod removes it.

The third poster finishes the reply to Message #2 (now deleted), and claims that his/her reply now appears as a reply to pburn's Message #1.

My experience has been that I receive the error message, NOT that the reply posts to a completely different message/member. 

[pburn]

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@loveyourimagination49 wrote:

You should have let him tell you how the community works. 🤣

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You'd think after 8.900+ posts, I'd be getting the hang of it.

I really didn't/don't want to get too adamant about it, since some people might be experiencing something different from what I see. That wouldn't shock me, either.

It doesn't even need to involve the "quote" feature--it happened to me today just using the plain, ol' "Reply" button and the regular "dialog" box* with no other options/features/functions. By the time I'd finished composing, the message I was replying to had been deleted. It happens to me not infrequently, because I have a bad habit of replying to posts that get deleted pretty quickly . . .

*That can't be the legit name of the area we type our comments into. Whatever.

[mam98031]

I was on that thread too and I saw this happen.  The first time I saw their post, it was in response to another poster that after the fact got that post removed.  

Then suddenly the post that remained was in response to one of my posts.  That is NOT how it originally read.  I have never seen or noticed that happening before.  But it did in this case.  I found it very odd and it made me question if I really saw it the way I did originally.  I've been baffled by this one.

[mam98031]

AS to that red message.  In my experience it happens when the post you are responding to has been removed.

[pburn]

If that's what happened, I can only speculate that the poster abandoned his/her original reply and started over--mistakenly selecting the reply button on the wrong post.

I do not believe eBay's posting software just randomly attaches a reply to a completely different post when the post being replied to has been deleted. If that were the case, we'd see a lot more "misplaced" replies and "complaints" about it on the discussion boards.

[buyselljack2016]

My experience  when getting that banner/notice............................   to this point..................  I have never had my post show in the thread that I was responding to.

I must say that I did see an odd post in a thread today.  A post appear that started with ..............................   not a registered user......  went on about  "scamming scammers" with to reference a FF issue ..............   and had nothing to do with the topic of the thread, or any relationship to other posts in the thread.

Made me think that some posts had been removed in between.

[pburn]

I'm questioning that, too. 

It implies that Khoros' software is randomly assigning replies to posts that a member didn't reply to. I have never read any evidence that would back up that conclusion. No one's ever posted that experience before.

You'd think someone somewhere along the line would have posted, "HEY! My comment was misidentified as a reply to the wrong post!"

[loveyourimagination49]

Perhaps it’s part of the out of the box experience?

[mam98031]

GOOD GRIEF the community bell is driving me NUTS.  It keeps updating out of order.  I have to go up and down to find new posts, or ones that are new to me.  Click in and they are several posts back.  

Sorry, I know it is off topic, but it just makes me crazy as that darn bell is just infuriating to me.

brian@ebay 

[loveyourimagination49]

The notification bell is about 3 minutes behind for me. I’m on iPhone, but that never made a difference before. They are tinkering behind the scenes. 

[*madison]

It's happened to me loads of times, but the moderator has always removed my post if the post I replied to was removed, because when that happens my posts don't make much sense and confuse others.

Or, a moderator has edited part of my post so it still made sense if another post I replied to was removed.

It depends on the moderator..

[*madison]

On the old feedback board hardly anyone's post made any sense when they replied to me, because my posts were being removed on an hourly basis. 🤣