Thank you to whoever made the suggestion about offset mode earlier, when I thought I had a corrupted project - seems to have solved it. I edited my original post to say "Solved" and the post disappeared! 

its me
is it was the offset mode ?

This used to happen to me quite a bit (Posts disappearing) until Craig Anderton suggested rearranging links in the lower half of my signature. I just removed them instead and the problem hasn't happened in almost a month now.
Its Cakewalks spam filters. How You tube links were setting off the spam filters is beyond me. im guessing its way too sensitive.
 
But think of the alternative... kitchen cabinets anyone ?

savoy
its me
is it was the offset mode ?

It was indeed Sir, thank you!

chuckebaby
This used to happen to me quite a bit (Posts disappearing) until Craig Anderton suggested rearranging links in the lower half of my signature. I just removed them instead and the problem hasn't happened in almost a month now.
Its Cakewalks spam filters. How You tube links were setting off the spam filters is beyond me. im guessing its way too sensitive.
 
But think of the alternative... kitchen cabinets anyone ?

Yes, the spam filters are very aggressive. But without them, this place would be overrun with crap. When I see posts from legit members that were deleted, I re-instate them in the hopes that Akismet will "learn" that particular email is okay.