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grumpyduck

(6,652 posts)
Sun Aug 25, 2024, 11:39 AM Aug 2024

Vanishing posts?

This has happened a few times recently: I see a post I want to respond to, but it turns out I'm not logged in (which is weird, because I always ask to be kept logged in).

Anyway, just now I saw a post about something tfg put on X, him sitting on a lion. i wanted to respond that the face on that lion was saying "Why me, God? Why me?" But when I logged in, the post had vanished. I even did a search and still couldn't find it.

What causes this?

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Vanishing posts? (Original Post) grumpyduck Aug 2024 OP
This post? ThreeNoSeep Aug 2024 #1
Thank you. I couldn't find it anywhere. grumpyduck Aug 2024 #3
I personally block the keyword Trump usonian Aug 2024 #2
Is there a reason why the home page does not block anything? JoseBalow Aug 2024 #4
Ask the admins! usonian Aug 2024 #5
I've asked a few times before, but was ignored JoseBalow Aug 2024 #6
Must be policy. NT usonian Aug 2024 #7
A few days ago there was/is a thread here where EarlG said it would be very difficult to do progree Aug 2024 #8

usonian

(14,600 posts)
2. I personally block the keyword Trump
Sun Aug 25, 2024, 11:57 AM
Aug 2024

So I have to go to the DU home page to see such posts. The home page does not block anything.

YMMV

JoseBalow

(5,630 posts)
4. Is there a reason why the home page does not block anything?
Sun Aug 25, 2024, 01:27 PM
Aug 2024

It would be nice if it was consistent with the rest of the site in how it handled ignored users and blocked keywords - it would be easy to do programmatically.

usonian

(14,600 posts)
5. Ask the admins!
Sun Aug 25, 2024, 02:31 PM
Aug 2024

It does save me the trouble of unblocking when I am in an angry mood and want to see "red"

Make that orange. People do use alternate names on titles, and do do I when I don't want to block my own posts. It happened a couple of times when a keyword matched a substring of my block. Oops!

But that's above my pay grade.

progree

(11,463 posts)
8. A few days ago there was/is a thread here where EarlG said it would be very difficult to do
Sun Aug 25, 2024, 11:19 PM
Aug 2024

(no indication of why it would be difficult).

EDITED TO ADD - I found it
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1256&pid=26552

15. "Ignore" works everywhere except on the home page
Unfortunately there are technical reasons for this which would be very difficult to resolve.
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