# Where did Terminator thread go?

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**Created:** [September 1, 2012, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-terminator-thread-go/633390 "2012-09-01T21:42:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rich\_Mann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ce73a5/32.png) [@Rich\_Mann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rich_Mann)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-terminator-thread-go/633390/1 "2012-09-01T21:42:35Z")

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I read a thread last night in CS titled “Terminator question - [more words I don’t remember]”. I left it open on my phone browser. Today I tried to refresh it to see if there were new posts, but I got a message that I didn’t have authority to do that. I went back to CS and the thread was gone. None of the posts seemed inappropriate at all, so I can’t see any reason for the Mods to vanish it.

So, did Skynet send a Hackernator back through time to kill the thread because a poster knew too much, or is there a more mundane explanation?

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**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2012, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-did-terminator-thread-go/633390/2 "2012-09-01T22:32:41Z")

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Always assume that if a post/thread disappears, it was made by a sock account. Banned and the thread moved out of sight. That’s’ what happened.