If One of Your Posts Has "Disappeared"...

...it probably hasn't, but been flagged by the spam filters and put into "post purgatory." The forum filters are quite aggressive, which keeps these forums remarkably spam-free. However, I have noted an almost exponential increase in spam over at Harmony Central in the past few weeks. Our spam filters are nowhere near as robust as Akismet but if the same thing is happening here, then I'm not surprised posts are being flagged more aggressively.
 
I don't know precisely how things work at this forum, but here's my experience based on other forums. The good news is that spam filters DO learn. So for example, if I do a post that gets flagged and it's restored, the filter figures out that the person posting is probably okay and stops being so aggressive.
 
But the bad news is that spam filters learn. So if a bunch of posts are flagged and not restored, the spam filters decide it's probably spam and get more aggressive with similar posts.
 
If you post something and it disappears, PM me with the thread from which it disappeared. Then I can scan the thread to see if any posts were deleted by the spam filters, and restore them.
 
If I got any of this wrong, hopefully someone from Cakewalk will set me straight. 

Thanks for restoring this post Craig
http://forum.cakewalk.com/FindPost/3648885
 
I cant actually see why it would be filtered as the only copy/paste I did was from Cakewalks site itself
(the Sonar Platinum online help guide).
 
That or possibly the use of Italics. Which I have noticed an issue with disappearing posts.
 
I thank you for restoring my post on that thread.

can someone please restore my post here
thank you
http://forum.cakewalk.com/FindPost/3650504
 
Im trying to understand what im doing wrong here but I cant pin point anything except posts disappear after an edit is made.
There are no links, no italics, nothing. simply a comment to a quote. a little frustrating to say the least.
 
This was my post:
 

Steve_Karl

chuckebaby
Then im guessing either A- your amps, speakers are not high quality or B- Your mic'ing technique is flawed.
Im all for Amp Sims and I believe they have come a long way but even Bias FX compared to guitar rig 5 is 1000 miles apart. but nothing and I mean nothing will reproduce like a real guitar amp.

I think it's what we're each individually looking for and what each of us thinks is "good" and feels comfortable with, more than anything else. That is where the relativity exists. It's a matter of what we prefer.
"nothing will reproduce like a real guitar amp" ... well ... if you feel that way then that's great ... for you. I just don't miss it.
 
My gear was fine, as was the gear that was in the pro studios, and the engineers in those studios.
I'm not saying I didn't like the amped sound when I was using it. It's just than now, I'm getting much more touch sensitivity and have much greater control over tone. Granted, a lot of that is the DAW and doing it in the box as opposed to on tape, but I can safely say I'll never go back to beating on logs with an amp and a mic. for recording.
You might hate my guitar sound ... and that's ok with me. Everyone is allowed to have personal taste. At least I think so. But of course, I don't expect anyone else to feel the way I do.
What matters to me I how I feel about it, when I'm playing ... ... because I'm playing off of the sound and it's making it happen for me better than it ever has in the past.

Your right Steve.
I have to do a better job at respecting other peoples choices. Something im still struggling with.
What might be good for me, is not always what's best for someone else. Suggesting your technique might be flawed was also pretty ignorant of me.
 
I used guitar rig for many years and had good results with it.
However, when I go back to those recordings now, I hear sounds that im not happy with.
 
But you know what, a good engineer can make almost any Amp Sim sound good.
So ironically, maybe it was my technique that was flawed
 

I'm still to find any of the other posts I mentioned my Heil PR40 in.
Perhaps if this one disappears, it'll be easier  

As an experiment, let's make sure it's the mic. Try posting the same message, but without your sig.
 
I retrieved the message to see if Akismet figures out you're an okay guy 

I'm still to find any of the other posts I mentioned my Heil PR40 in.
Perhaps if this one disappears, it'll be easier  

A new thread of mine has disappeared - I thought maybe it was an error so I posted it again. I cannot PM you the link (and I don't have the first one though) - thought maybe it was held back for Moderation

Anderton

Zargg
I just posted the same without my sign. Saw the post for a sec, but it's missing again.

Maybe if I keep bringing it back Akismet will learn it's not spam. Fingers crossed. Don't really know what else to do.

Hope it helps. It's a very good Mike 

and the post disappears if it disappeared before and you try to post it again ... some more hints on same content going through the filters in short time (which unfortunately all spam is about)

Any host can restore a post. PM or contact any host if you don't see your post. We can see posts that have been removed when we view a thread and often we just restore them. We are able to view the flagged post and decide whether it should be restored. I routinely restore posts. My only issue is often a poster will repost thinking it didn't catch or something and we see a  bunch of posts. We then have to decide which to restore.
 
When sending a PM please give us as much information about it. I am sorry that any one is inconvenienced by this.  
 
 

Finally was able to send a PM. I don't see it in "Sent" in my private Messages - is that correct? If not (or if @Anderton hasn't received anythin) I will send it again, but I wait for confirmation first.