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Frank
2417 posts
May 21, 2013
8:11 AM
I'll hit a thread or a link and taken to a different site full of advertisements :( ):

Last Edited by Frank on May 21, 2013 8:12 AM
nacoran
6806 posts
May 21, 2013
11:01 AM
Huh? Which one?

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Nate
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Frank
2418 posts
May 21, 2013
11:36 AM
No particular one...it is random - no one else seems to be experiencing this, it must be on my end! I did add some new software recently, that may be the culprit?

Last Edited by Frank on May 21, 2013 11:39 AM
1847
781 posts
May 21, 2013
11:54 AM
i posted a thread, it disappeared into cyper space for a few days
then it magically appeared
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Frank
2419 posts
May 21, 2013
12:04 PM
That has also happened more then once to me too - comment on a thread and poof no where to be seen, only to appear a day later...:)

"poof" has mysteriously turned into a link at least on my end...

now poof is normal and "mysteriously" is the link after the edit was done.

Now after that edit, they are normal again.

After that edit the word "again" is a link to a strange site?

Last Edited by Frank on May 21, 2013 12:08 PM
ReedSqueal
432 posts
May 21, 2013
4:07 PM
If the phone doesn't ring, it's me.
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Frank
2421 posts
May 21, 2013
4:13 PM
Dan - your the scammin bandit damit...Stop the madness - your response has turned into links to rouge sites, how can you live with yourself - please stop not calling me - or leave a message, I'll get back to you in a month or so :)
ReedSqueal
433 posts
May 21, 2013
4:26 PM
In all seriousness, I didn't post any links in my post, you better get your computer checked out or scanned for virii, spyware, malware and other cyber-communicable diseases)
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Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy.
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Frank
2422 posts
May 21, 2013
4:34 PM
I'm pretty sure it is software related - it probably had some bundled crap in it, I'm going to have to remove it...Have you ever had a comment disappear before... as if you've never written it?
Frank
2423 posts
May 21, 2013
5:03 PM
Revo uninstaller PRO made short work of the evil software and it has been eradicated - "live long and prosper" - Mr. SPOCK :)

Last Edited by Frank on May 21, 2013 5:24 PM
nacoran
6808 posts
May 21, 2013
6:18 PM
I don't know about redirecting links, but I know why posts disappear and reappear. It's the darn spam filter. Every day it catches a couple posts that it thinks are spam (short or with a link) and 'deletes' them into a special folder. Every day when I log on I restore them (the filter is supposed to learn from it's mistakes, so if I leave them in there it will get more and more false positives over time). The filter went online, hmm, maybe late last year. So far, it averages a false positive or two a day, so that would be maybe 200-300 so far. It has successfully caught one spam post though.

Other sites that use Macsitebuilders apparently aren't as vigilant at screening spammers, so they turned the filter on for everyone. Once a message is moved into the folder, only admins can see it until it's restored. It would actually be useful if it just flagged them as potential spam and put a link to them all in one place, but it proactively temporarily deletes them, which is a pain. If I see them in the thread I restore them and delete any duplicate posts, but if I see them in the folder I just delete them. That leads to there being duplicate posts, since your post disappeared and you guys repost. Deleting the duplicate posts will also reduce your total number of posts. :)

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