Why are some of my posts not appearing on the forum?
Why are my posts not showing up? Are they getting deleted? I posted 4 messages, and only two showed up
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Original Title: Post missing
Why are my posts not showing up? Are they getting deleted? I posted 4 messages, and only two showed up
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Original Title: Post missing
Like Mac Jim ID I see two.
Unless removed, posts remain in perpetuity but are only searchable using the internal search function for about three months back. Search has also been slow in updating lately, so that could be at play if these were recent posts.
However a web search can show very recent posts; If I do a site-delimited web search for your username from a search engine, I see five entries counting your profile. The first is this thread, and the bottom one is a duplicate listing, leaving two (screenshot from search engine—no active links):
To duplicate what I did, enter this search string into you favorite search engine:
site:discussions.apple.com “Boorklyn_55”
NOTE 👉🏻 If you type the string instead of pasting, be sure to note that there is NO space between "site:" and "discussions."
That search leads me to believe that some posts were expunged. You get a notice to the email address associated with your Apple Account/Apple ID if you are the author of such a post and it was removed for cause. If you have more than one address, check the others.
Likewise, if the Mods relocate your post to a more appropriate topic area, you should get a message to that effect.
However, if you respond to or tag onto a thread where someone else's comments causes the entire thread to be ejected, you don't get a message.
You are asking other users here, not moderators. We cannot look up specific issues by user. We base our answers on what we have observed, (and some of us have been observing a very long time!)
If you feel you need to contact the moderation team about this, their email is in the Terms of Use we all signed to participate here:
Apple Support Community Terms of Use
Like Mac Jim ID I see two.
Unless removed, posts remain in perpetuity but are only searchable using the internal search function for about three months back. Search has also been slow in updating lately, so that could be at play if these were recent posts.
However a web search can show very recent posts; If I do a site-delimited web search for your username from a search engine, I see five entries counting your profile. The first is this thread, and the bottom one is a duplicate listing, leaving two (screenshot from search engine—no active links):
To duplicate what I did, enter this search string into you favorite search engine:
site:discussions.apple.com “Boorklyn_55”
NOTE 👉🏻 If you type the string instead of pasting, be sure to note that there is NO space between "site:" and "discussions."
That search leads me to believe that some posts were expunged. You get a notice to the email address associated with your Apple Account/Apple ID if you are the author of such a post and it was removed for cause. If you have more than one address, check the others.
Likewise, if the Mods relocate your post to a more appropriate topic area, you should get a message to that effect.
However, if you respond to or tag onto a thread where someone else's comments causes the entire thread to be ejected, you don't get a message.
You are asking other users here, not moderators. We cannot look up specific issues by user. We base our answers on what we have observed, (and some of us have been observing a very long time!)
If you feel you need to contact the moderation team about this, their email is in the Terms of Use we all signed to participate here:
Apple Support Community Terms of Use
I only see the 2 previous posts as well. Posts are typically not removed unless there is a violation of the Terms of Use and since we don't know what those were, it is difficult to determine if that was the reason. In most cases when a post is removed by a moderator you will get an email confirmation of the removal.
Apple Support Communities Use Agreement - Apple Community
Also note that if you replied to a post that was deleted because of TOU violation, your post will go to and you will get no notification.
Why are some of my posts not appearing on the forum?