Okay, it looks as if the consensus is to continue on as we always have, merging threads, with a little wiggle-room left for moderator judgement, so that's what we'll do.
This thread had the unintended consequence of assuring some that just because they don't see something, that doesn't mean it was deleted.
This has been a great concern for many, concern expressed in personal messages.
As already said, if one doesn't see a post he made, that generally means it was merged or moved to a more-appropriate forum, nothing more. It wasn't deleted; it's still around.
I imagine there's been six or half a dozen things deleted on conservativecave the past four years, but probably those posters were informed by personal message that it violated a rule, or something.
So if one's post evaporates, look elsewhere for it; it's still here.....somewhere.
And if one can't find it, inquire of a moderator; we're always happy to be of assistance.
By the way, even though it's only a minor microscopic problem, there is another way posts evaporate.
Say one is looking for posts by the late Tangerine LaBamba. One knows she is [was] a member here, and one recollects some of the jewels, the gems, she posted here. But when clicking on her profile to "show all comments by this member," one comes up empty.
note to chris_: ignore what follows because it's not that important, it's only a small thing, you got more important things to do, your platter's already full, and you do a good job anyway; this is not a complaint
Some may remember that one Saturday morning--I think it was last summer--when members woke up, grabbed a cup of coffee, and logged on to conservativecave.....to find that overnight, chris_ had taken over the whole site. Every single member was chris_, every single comment was made by chris_.
This happened because chris_ was trying to correct a tiny mistake, and w-a-a-a-a-y over-corrected.
chris_ eventually got it all sorted back out the way it was supposed to be, but it entailed him dealing with the accounts of each individual member to correct it. We have a lot of members here, and a lot of comments, and so he took care of the active members first, and then some of the more-prominent once-active members.
Members who only ever made a few comments--one or two or three--and then never returned, he didn't bother with, because it wasn't important. Or members known to be no longer in this time and place (such as the late Tangerine LaBamba); it's just too much time and trouble.
However, the posts of these no-longer-active members still exist; they're still here, in their entirety.
If one wants to find a gem or jewel posted by the late Tangerine LaBamba, for example, all one has to do is go to chris_'s profile and punch on "show all comments by this member."
What one's looking for, it's in there.....somewhere.
