Originally Posted by
pc
Literally the only person I've seen at TFF who claimed a post didn't show up during the last five years was you, regarding your post wishing us a happy thanksgiving. If there are more, we'd sure like to know about it so we can fix the problem!
TFF, like everything on the web, is hosted on servers. Sometimes servers go down, and, if you post something right as that's happening, it may get stuck in a queue and not find its way to being posted until a bit later, or maybe is lost altogether? Again, not sure, because nobody else has mentioned it.
I have occasionally received complaints from members with time-stamp issues, only to find that they have their TFF control panel set to GMT or EST and not their actual time zone. I know you have yours set to EST, but, my only point here is that, again, nobody has complained to us about it yet.
I can assure that no post here is ever "shadow deleted." It serves no purpose. If there is a post that contains a rule violation we don't want a person to repeat, we call attention to it, rather than delete it with no explanation. I realize it's sexier to assume conspiracy theories abound, but, the only censorship that occurs in the current iteration of TFF happens on those extremely rare occasions when someone violates a rule.
Even (as recently occurred) when other members report a spam-bot posting in one of the forums, I will delete the post and ban the bot, but still leave some indication that I did it, so those members can see that their reports were noticed and acted upon.
If you continue to have time-stamp issues, or your posts are disappearing, please let us know so we can investigate further. Thanks!