# Hey tomndebb, did you delete a post?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-tomndebb-did-you-delete-a-post/390807
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [February 4, 2007, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-tomndebb-did-you-delete-a-post/390807 "2007-02-04T18:43:10Z")
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### Author:  [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2007, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-tomndebb-did-you-delete-a-post/390807/1 "2007-02-04T18:43:10Z")
\*\*astro \*\*started [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=8223801#post8223801) and asked for it to be moved. You complied, but somehow [this post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8223698&postcount=2) got left behind. What gives?
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### Author:  [@Red\_Barchetta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Barchetta)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2007, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-tomndebb-did-you-delete-a-post/390807/2 "2007-02-04T18:46:58Z")
The post shows up for me in said moved thread.
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### Author:  [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2007, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-tomndebb-did-you-delete-a-post/390807/3 "2007-02-04T18:50:42Z")
[QUOTE=Red Barchetta]
The post shows up for me in said moved thread.
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Crazy. Is it post #2? Who has post #3?
What do you see in this link? [Jewish Power and Pat Buchanan's statements on the The McLaughlin Group - Factual Questions - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=406983)
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### Author:  [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Chitwood)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2007, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-tomndebb-did-you-delete-a-post/390807/4 "2007-02-04T18:54:09Z")
I think they’re separate OPs.
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### Author:  [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2007, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-tomndebb-did-you-delete-a-post/390807/5 "2007-02-04T18:57:08Z")
[QUOTE=Jimmy Chitwood]
I think they’re separate OPs.
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Did you click on **tomndebb** ’s link?
The OPs are identical.
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### Author:  [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2007, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-tomndebb-did-you-delete-a-post/390807/6 "2007-02-04T18:59:24Z")
It looks like **tom** just copied the OP into a new thread, without bothering to bring along the non-substantive replies.
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### Author:  [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2007, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-tomndebb-did-you-delete-a-post/390807/7 "2007-02-04T18:59:30Z")
[QUOTE=Jimmy Chitwood]
I think they’re separate OPs.
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Now I get it. The thread was closed, not moved. Thanks.
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### Author:  [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2007, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-tomndebb-did-you-delete-a-post/390807/8 "2007-02-04T19:02:38Z")
[QUOTE=Frank]
It looks like **tom** just copied the OP into a new thread, without bothering to bring along the non-substantive replies.
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But is that SOP? Would you do something like that, decide which posts were substantive? I thought deleting posts was a rare occurence, and only for extreme reasons.
Now I’m thinking \*\*astro \*\*c & p’ed it and \*\*tom \*\*was just directing traffic.
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### Author:  [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2007, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-tomndebb-did-you-delete-a-post/390807/9 "2007-02-04T19:10:26Z")
[QUOTE=Contrapuntal]
But is that SOP? Would you do something like that, decide which posts were substantive? I thought deleting posts was a rare occurence, and only for extreme reasons.
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The posts aren’t deleted. They’re still there. I did something like that once, when after a spectacularly ham-handed attempt at splitting a thread, most of the posts were making fun of either me or (undeservedly) the OP. So I moved the relevant posts into a new thread and closed the remnant. But, no, it’s certainly not SOP.
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> Now I’m thinking \*\*astro \*\*c & p’ed it and \*\*tom \*\*was just directing traffic.
Now that you mention it, that is more likely.
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### Author:  [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2007, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-tomndebb-did-you-delete-a-post/390807/10 "2007-02-05T00:45:38Z")
Moments after I saw the **GQ** thread, I stumbled on the identical OP in **GD** with one non-resposive reply and one request for destruction. Rather than merge the **GD** thread into the **GQ** thread, bringing a snide post violating **GQ** protocol along with what would be a confusing request for destruction, and rather than destroying or hiding the thread, (causing some posters to doubt their memories or sanity), I simply noted where the “real” thread was and closed the one that was out of place. (Look at he date/time stamps on the OPs.)
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### Author:  [@komb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/komb)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2007, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-tomndebb-did-you-delete-a-post/390807/11 "2007-02-05T00:47:19Z")
Posts are made to be deleted. Get over it.
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### Author:  [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2007, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-tomndebb-did-you-delete-a-post/390807/12 "2007-02-05T00:59:24Z")
Sorry, **komb** , but the culture on this messsage board says that posts are not meant to be deleted. Posts are meant to exist forever. Because of this, whenever a post or a thread appears to have vanished, people post threads about them. I don’t think that this thread was intended to be hostile to **tomndebb** , more curious–did I see what I thought I saw? I doubt anyone has anything to get over, but you might try spending more time reading this board before you do too much more posting.