Fao Spare-Editor

[anotheoldgit]

I have tried twice to enter a news thread, but they have never appeared, is there something wrong with my choice of news item or is it a technical fault?

[emmie]

i think both got zapped as they were the same one you or someone posted on the other day.

[wolf63]

I saw one about the two ladies in a hospital after 15 months. But when I went to read it the whole thing had vanished

[jim360]

It's just a duplicate thread was all, AOG -- please go back to the original thread if you want to update the story.

[ummmm]

One was a duplicate of someone else's (you even posted on it) and the other thread a thread about a removed thread which is against Site Rules, as you well know.

[sunny-dave]

Dunno who took exception - but I saw your two threads before they were pulled and they had a nasty title and (more importantly) were a re-run of a thread from a couple of days ago, which you had already contributed to:

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1631709.html

[anotheoldgit]

emmie

Yes but it was an updated version, if one can only enter one version, why are some allowed to fill the news section with Brexit threads?

[jim360]

The news article might have been updated but the responses weren't.

I suppose even *that* applies to Brexit threads, but since Brexit isn't one-dimensional as a story, the repeated discussions on different aspects don't count as "duplicate".

In any case, I'm sure it was nothing personal -- just go and bump the original.

[anotheoldgit]

ummmm

/// and the other thread a thread about a removed thread which is against Site Rules, as you well know. ///

No it wasn't it was the same headline, because I thought that I had failed to press the button or something else. No mention whatsoever about my removed thread.
That is why I am now asking the question, addressed to the Spare-Ed.

[jim360]

Well, you've now had your answer, even if it didn't come from the spare Ed. Duplicate thread(s) about a repeated subject; SunnyD's kindly provided the link to the earlier thread.

[anotheoldgit]

jim360

Yes I have my answer more to do with the subject matter.

The other post was almost a week ago, and if ABers were bored with the story they needn't contribute, then if there were no replies then the thread could have been removed then for taking up space on the news thread, but then there have been plenty of those and they have been allowed to stay.

This site is slowly being ruined, it's got to a situation that one has to think more than twice, before contributing.

Even regular posters come on site now only very occasionally, sp1814, andy-hughes and Gromit to name just three regulars.

[naomi24]

Topics are often re-posted, especially when the original has disappeared from the front page and there's updated news. No point in adding to something that few will see. I can't see why anyone has a problem with that. It happens all the time.

[spathiphyllum]

Is brexit even ‘news’ lol ;)