# Missing Thread. Spooky? Or am I insane? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [February 7, 2020, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-thread-spooky-or-am-i-insane/847578 "2020-02-07T04:03:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2020, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-thread-spooky-or-am-i-insane/847578/1 "2020-02-07T04:03:34Z")
I started a thread yesterday. “Quit pointing that bad, bad, bad Finger at Beckdawrek” It keeps disappearing. Or am I going crazier? ETA- it’s not in the least an important thread. Just wondering. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2020, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-thread-spooky-or-am-i-insane/847578/2 "2020-02-07T04:08:17Z")
And it’s back. What the heck? I swear it’s left and returned at least 3 times today. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![steatopygia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steatopygia/32/3132_2.png) [@steatopygia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steatopygia)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2020, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-thread-spooky-or-am-i-insane/847578/3 "2020-02-07T04:18:57Z")
Despite my love of a rush to judgement and a totally baseless diagnosis of insanity, I’d go with board problems on this one. But you should probably track things closely! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2020, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-thread-spooky-or-am-i-insane/847578/4 "2020-02-07T04:28:03Z")
Has anyone else’s threads disappeared and returned? I swear this is par for the course for me. Fits right in my crazy life. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2020, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-thread-spooky-or-am-i-insane/847578/5 "2020-02-07T04:57:11Z")
What’s been especially wonky for the last couple of days is the “last post” column not showing the last post. Also the little blue square indicating that I’ve posted in a particular thread. I don’t think you’re crazy. I mean not more than usual. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2020, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-thread-spooky-or-am-i-insane/847578/6 "2020-02-07T07:19:51Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Has anyone else’s threads disappeared and returned? > I swear this is par for the course for me. Fits right in my crazy life. I’ve noticed that occasionally, the threads will display as they were a while ago, sometimes even a day or two ago. (“Huh? I thought I responded to **Beck** when I posted just now, but it’s showing **Beck** as the last poster, and I know she could not have had time to reply yet.”) Try refreshing the page. That seems to work to get things back to normal. For me, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2020, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-thread-spooky-or-am-i-insane/847578/7 "2020-02-07T08:05:06Z")
No, no. It’s not that. The thread is gone. It doesn’t show up in my statistics or show any of my own posts or OP. It’s just disappeared. Then it returns. Another Doper alerted me to it Thursday morning. So, I watched it. It left twice and came back while I was watching. It had me checking my blood glucose and looking at my ‘certificate’ of Sanity(;)). My time stamp is still screwy. God, I hope I didn’t break the Dope. (Cecil preserve us!) ---
**Author:** ![Unreconstructed\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/76d3ee/32.png) [@Unreconstructed\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unreconstructed_Man)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2020, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-thread-spooky-or-am-i-insane/847578/8 "2020-02-07T09:58:14Z")
I’ve noticed a few glitches recently. There’s a thread about Mayor Pete which keeps disappearing and re-appearing from the Politics & Elections forum. Also, my post count keeps going up and down, so you’re not imagining things. ---
**Author:** ![Razncain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9d8465/32.png) [@Razncain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Razncain)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2020, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-thread-spooky-or-am-i-insane/847578/9 "2020-02-07T10:57:15Z")
Under“Politics and Elections” one of **kanicbird’s** threads has also disappeared entirely, and hasn’t came back in two days. It was entitled Trump’s latest slur in speech or something close to that. I checked my statistics to see if I could find it that way, as well as kanicbird’s, it’s still not there. I’ve never seen this happen before. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2020, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-thread-spooky-or-am-i-insane/847578/10 "2020-02-07T11:13:34Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Has anyone else’s threads disappeared and returned? > I swear this is par for the course for me. Fits right in my crazy life. There was a thread about Republicans censuring Pelosi, and I couldn’t find it at all yesterd. I recall posting to that thread. Now I was drinking yesterday, but after being unable to find it, I used the search function to look up my recent posts. My post to that thread didn’t show up. I see that the thread is there today, so who knows. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2020, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-thread-spooky-or-am-i-insane/847578/11 "2020-02-07T12:48:29Z")
I had a similar problem, couldn’t find a thread I thought I’d posted in. I searched multiple ways, multiple times, and it just wasn’t there. Then it was. I blamed me until I saw this thread. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2020, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-thread-spooky-or-am-i-insane/847578/12 "2020-02-07T13:30:24Z")
This is how it ends, not with a bang, but a whimper. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2020, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-thread-spooky-or-am-i-insane/847578/13 "2020-02-07T13:59:26Z")
As to the thread title, has anyone mentioned the concept of a false dichotomy? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2020, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-thread-spooky-or-am-i-insane/847578/14 "2020-02-07T14:16:37Z")
I’ve been here 20 years. The board gets weird sometimes. Yet it goes on. So I chill. 😜 ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2020, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-thread-spooky-or-am-i-insane/847578/15 "2020-02-07T14:20:36Z")
Have you seen the movie, “Shutter Island”? That might explain it. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2020, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-thread-spooky-or-am-i-insane/847578/16 "2020-02-07T14:38:22Z")
> [@Jasmine](#): > > Have you seen the movie, “Shutter Island”? That might explain it. 😃 Hey, I’m bothered by Mark Ruffalo as much as the next guy, but how do you think he’s responsible for the board’s problems? ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2020, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-thread-spooky-or-am-i-insane/847578/17 "2020-02-07T14:51:50Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Hey, I’m bothered by Mark Ruffalo as much as the next guy, but how do you think he’s responsible for the board’s problems? Many of the things he “saw” only existed in his own mind. The Board has no problems. It’s perfect! Our minds are obviously deceiving us. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2020, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-thread-spooky-or-am-i-insane/847578/18 "2020-02-07T14:54:54Z")
> [@Jasmine](#): > > Many of the things he “saw” only existed in his own mind. The Board has no problems. It’s perfect! Our minds are obviously deceiving us. 😉 Ahhh, that was Teddy (Leonardo DiCaprio). I see what you mean. 🙂 ETA: Uhoh. Can anyone remember what they were doing _before_ they read this thread? ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2020, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-thread-spooky-or-am-i-insane/847578/19 "2020-02-07T16:24:27Z")
Yeah, I have noticed some odd stuff the last few days as well. Some threads I have posted in do not appear in my User CP, then they do. One indicated a poster had been the last to post in a thread, and when I go to the thread, someone else has been the last poster there. I think the Big Brother auditors are finally onto the Dope as a place for sharing truth and facts and are starting to shut us down. I hope th ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2020, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-thread-spooky-or-am-i-insane/847578/20 "2020-02-07T16:39:21Z")
It’s aliens. I just know it. It’s my personal cross to bear. (:)) (Hush, I’m not really crazy. I’ve been examined) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missing-thread-spooky-or-am-i-insane/847578.md?page=2)