Question on BBS use

[SysError]

I am not really sure where to post this.  O’club or here?  It is a request for help, so I guess “Help and Support Forums » Help and Training” is correct.

This is a real question.   I have been following a topic that I find it entertaining and once in a while informative.

I just saw that someone had had their post scrubbed out with a rule #14 violation.  OK, maybe a bit over the top, but, at the end of the day, it is not my call.  What is interesting, however, is that someone else had a post that, in parts, (IMO) sort of went way over the top – it would have not surprised me if it too got scrubbed with a rule #14 violation, but the post is completely GONE.

Questions:

Do monitors sometimes just wipe out a post without an explanation/trace?

Can a poster delete his/her post so there is no trace of it?  If so is there a time limit?

Or, perhaps, another way to state it:
What is the most likely explanation for a post to vanish?

thanks in advance

[Lusche]

Questions:

Do monitors sometimes just wipe out a post without an explanation/trace?

It's quite rare, but has happened before.

Can a poster delete his/her post so there is no trace of it?  If so is there a time limit?

No, we can't. We can just edit it for some time (don't know exact duration, maby an hour or so)

[FLS]

What is the most likely explanation for a post to vanish?

thanks in advance

It belonged in an alternate universe and was helped along it's way.

[Randy1]

HTC has given the board members quite a bit of freedom and any correction action I have seen them take needed to be done.

[SysError]

HTC has given the board members quite a bit of freedom and any correction action I have seen them take needed to be done.

No no, I was not saying that it was right or wrong, I was asking what is possible or what is the practice.

That said, when I originally posted the question, (as a reply within the topic that I thought I saw this "vanishing" in), my post got cut with a rule 2.  "2- Threads should remain on topic, do not "hijack" topics. ".  Within that original post/question I said something to the affect that one possibility was that I was mistaken about where I saw this "vanished" post.  And in fact, I just realized that post was somewhere else, and yes, it got rule 14 struck.   

[Skuzzy]

From the forum posting rules:

"Posts and threads may be edited, deleted, or locked for violations of these rules. Continued or blatant violation of these rules may result in a temporary or permanent ban."

We are not selective about the edit.  If any portion violates the forum posting rules, the entire post is excised.  Trying to edit a post can result in taking the post completely out of the context it was meant to be in.

[Randy1]

No no, I was not saying that it was right or wrong, I was asking what is possible or what is the practice.

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I did read and understand that in the original post.  It was my bad throwing in a comment that did not follow the thread.