I feel like I’m in the twilight zone.
I was scanning the GQ forum in the last 30 minutes and the there was a thread asking about a recommendation for an attorney for a friend that had a gotten a DUI while driving a scooter in Seattle. There were about 15 responses. Thread was started in November 2000. The most recent post was a new member that posted a recommendation for a law firm they new…thus reviving the 11 year old zombie thread. I posted letting the newbie poster that the thread they were responding to was over 10 years old and likely the person in question no longer needed an attorney.
Thread is now gone.
I thought he policy of the board was to not delete threads but lock them if they weren’t worthy of further discussion.
Anybody know what happened?
It’s still there. Our posts and the reviving spammer were removed thus rendering the thread once again dead. The software sees the last post from 2000 and thus it’s not on the first page anymore.
And that firm was not one they knew, it was the spammer’s own law firm.
My guess is that the poster who bumped it up was either banned or his post was deleted.
When that happens, the topic goes back down to where it was (as in, it wouldn’t stay bumped, at the top of the topic list).
So the topic you’re looking for might be back around the year 2000.
ETA: or what runner pat, said.
No, your response wouldn’t have been deleted if you made it before the spammer was banned.
If you had made a reply, but it’s not there now, I don’t know what to tell you.
I removed it along with the spam post, as well as runner pat’s post in which he noted he had reported the spam.
When a spammer raises a zombie thread, I usually delete the spam post, plus any subsequent posts that either remark on the zombie post, or note that it has been reported. Your post didn’t really contribute any new information on the subject of the thread, so I deleted it along with the spam. There would have been little point to removing the spam post, while leaving yours, which only commented on the spam.
Removing the recent posts allows the poor zombie to drift peacefully back down into the abyss from which it was summoned. Alternatively, I could have closed it. However, I generally prefer to return the thread to it’s pre-spammer state, unless someone has actually made a substantive comment before I’ve seen it. Then I may leave it open.