For some reason, only posts around 5 lines or less manage to stay. Anything longer disappears when i leave the page, and i have no idea why. Also, they tend to disappear when i edit them. Help?
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It's likely being eaten by the spam filter, if you can link the thread/post using your browser history it'll help the admins/mods take care of restoring it for you, but it isn't necessary.
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Why is the spam filter eating my posts in the first place?
You have a low post count and your posts most likely contain words that spam bots frequently use. In the future, if your posts are disappearing, please don't try to keep posting them. It will only make the situation worse in the long run. I have unmarked your posts
It's very aggressive towards members with low post counts. It basically looks for key words/phrases and if enough of those are counted then it automatically hides the post. It re-scans your post every time you edit it as well, so until you have at least 11 posts, try to avoid doing any minor edits to a post (such as fixing spelling as long as the post still makes sense).
It's like this to try to cut out as much spam as possible, since most spam accounts have very few posts, so it hides the majority of the spam that this site receives, but unfortunately also nabs several legitimate posts. I don't know exactly what it looks for to determine what is or is not spam so I can't really say how to word your posts to avoid it.
In the meantime, if no admin or moderator responds to this thread to help you, try joining the IRC Chat in the #MinecraftForums channel and see if a mod or admin is available to help, but please be patient as it can have a little bit of a slow response time.
Basically, as Beltir said, it's a trade-off: either the spam filter is insanely aggressive for low post counts and gets some false positives, or it isn't so stringent, and we get flooded with spam for bogus diet pills, kitchen cabinets (seriously!), and something in Korean. Given the number of complaints generated by even the tiny amount (proportional to how much is posted that y'all can't see) of real spam that gets through, un-marking the occasional false positive is the lesser of two evils.
And yes, it is so bad that there are times when the first couple of pages of Minecraft Discussion have one or two legitimate posts, and all the rest are spam. Since the filter has caught all those posts you can't see them, but I can, and it's ... amazing. Not in a good way.
Thanks, all of you. I've been very frustrated over this matter, and now that i know i need to increase my post count, this topic isnt needed, unless you wish to quote these posts for a FAQ thing.
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Puella Magi Madoka Magicka is an awesome, feel-good, cutesy anime. You should watch it!
For some reason, only posts around 5 lines or less manage to stay. Anything longer disappears when i leave the page, and i have no idea why. Also, they tend to disappear when i edit them. Help?
It's hard to follow your dreams when you run from your nightmares. --
You have a low post count and your posts most likely contain words that spam bots frequently use. In the future, if your posts are disappearing, please don't try to keep posting them. It will only make the situation worse in the long run. I have unmarked your posts
It's like this to try to cut out as much spam as possible, since most spam accounts have very few posts, so it hides the majority of the spam that this site receives, but unfortunately also nabs several legitimate posts. I don't know exactly what it looks for to determine what is or is not spam so I can't really say how to word your posts to avoid it.
In the meantime, if no admin or moderator responds to this thread to help you, try joining the IRC Chat in the #MinecraftForums channel and see if a mod or admin is available to help, but please be patient as it can have a little bit of a slow response time.
It's hard to follow your dreams when you run from your nightmares. --
There's a thread that has become the de-facto fix request collection: http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/forums/forum-discussion-info/2195940-posts-threads-deleted-because-of-spam-filter-place
And yes, it is so bad that there are times when the first couple of pages of Minecraft Discussion have one or two legitimate posts, and all the rest are spam. Since the filter has caught all those posts you can't see them, but I can, and it's ... amazing. Not in a good way.
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