# TOC giving misleading information

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**Category:** Site Feedback\
**Created:** [February 24, 2021, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toc-giving-misleading-information/933679 "2021-02-24T22:50:56Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 25, 2021, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/toc-giving-misleading-information/933679/4 "2021-02-25T02:08:03Z")

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Right. It was bumped by a spammer whose post has been deleted, but it still exists so the thread shows that.

When a zombie was bumped by a spammer in vBulletin, if the post was deleted the thread would sink back to the abyss from which it had been summoned. In vBulletin, the post is also still there, but the thread treats it as if it didn’t exist.

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