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[Judydiane]

I got an email saying Badger replied to my reply to his post asking how Afib affects one's life but i cannot locate it! The start of the reply is in the email and I would really like to read the rest. How can I find it? Thank you.

[Hidden]

Badger's on the ball and he will help you locate it. Just in case he's out partying.....provided you are logged in, you should see a bell at the top of this page, click on it and you should see his reply. If he has sent you a private message, you may see a notification next to your nickname in the same line, just click on that and all we be revealed!

[Judydiane in reply to Hidden]

Thanks for your help. I found the bell. I never knew it was there. When i came across this site I was so happy that i forgot to read the "users manual". Thanks again.

[doodle68]

Hi Judydiane I got an alert about a thread in which I had posted and when I went to look at the thread it had disappeared, I wonder if it is the same one. It was Badgers thread giving different fictitious scenarios about people with AF .

At the top of the screen there was a pink bar containing the message...

''It looks like that post has been deleted ''

... the whole thread appears to have gone...

[Hidden in reply to doodle68]

It's a bit annoying when some little comment goes, but Badger and you and I, doodle, and others wrote quite long bits in that thread. All our efforts obliterated. Did someone say something unwelcome?

[Hidden in reply to Hidden]

Yes I can't find it either. I did not delete anything. I wonder if it is anything to do with me trying out the iPad app today. I will look in to this and have a word with admin.

[doodle68 in reply to Hidden]

Badger just before the thread disappeared you pressed 'like' to my post. 'Like' and 'delete' are quite close together, is there any possibility when trying your Ipad you pressed the wrong one.

I am a global moderator on a number of sites and with some software thread remain when deleted so it may be possible to restore your thread which was interesting .

[Hidden in reply to doodle68]

Hi doodle

On the iPad app the edit and delete buttons are adjacent. But they are very large buttons as buttons go, on my iPad. The like button is a heart and is not close to the delete button.

If I had intended to edit the post and it disappeared instead I would have known that immediately. I did edit the post, it did not disappear. Obviously it is not possible to like your own post.

Bob says it is not uncommon for posts to be randomly deleted, and he has experienced this himself.

When I pressed like on your post , there would of course not have been any option to delete it.

As an experiment I deleted one of my rather silly earlier posts which had rightly not attracted any attention other than CD mildly chastising me. I found that the 2 replies were also deleted.

So it seems that OP might write a flippant one liner, but this sparks a first class discussion. OP decides to delete his one liner and the collected wisdom of the heavy brigade goes up in smoke - maybe admin could get the software tweaked to prevent this.

By the way, the gist of my reply to your post was that I thought it was quite brilliant, and that you were clearly an all round jolly good egg. 🙂

I have asked admin to recover the thread.

[Buffafly in reply to Hidden]

And it was very interesting, I just recommended it to someone 🙁

[Judydiane in reply to Hidden]

I'm sorry I missed everyine's input on the paroxysmal/persistent v. permanent afib discussion......maybe if Badger has the time he (she?) Might re-intiate the discussion.

[Hidden in reply to Judydiane]

Well thank you ma'am for laying that one on me...🙂

I could be open to persuasion I suppose....

In fact being a rather vain Badger, rather like Toad, I do just happen to have a copy, because it was fun writing the OP.

But the important stuff was not my OP, but the replies. Many of these were in my opinion outstanding and I am sorry they may have been permanently lost.

Hopefully admin will be able to retrieve the thread.

Oh and Judy, I am definitely a daddy badger with young kids, albeit somewhat of an eccentric "Aged P", as my older boys like to call me.

[Judydiane in reply to Hidden]

Since the posting etiquette apparently discourages personal chit-chat, I won't try to persuade you through flattery.......but since your original post generated interesting replies, perhaps you'll consider doing it as a "community service".

Re your kids'reference to as a "aged P"........what's that?

Is it a male badger thing?

Uh-oh....too much chit-chat

[Hidden in reply to Judydiane]

Well if you insist! 🙂

But strictly as "a community service" not as "community service" which has a rather different meaning in the UK

But I will wait to see if Admin can recover the thread.

The aged P thing?

telegraph.co.uk/culture/cha...

[Judydiane in reply to Hidden]

What is it?

[Hidden in reply to Judydiane]

The article linked above explains aged P

Re community service, are you in the UK?

[Judydiane in reply to Hidden]

No.....in the US

[Hidden in reply to Judydiane]

Hi Judy

In the UK, community service is a punishment handed down by the courts for crimes which are not considered serious enough for imprisonment 🙂

[Judydiane in reply to doodle68]

Very odd.

[Judydiane in reply to doodle68]

😥😥😥

[UScore]

It looks like someone has deleted it.

Is there an admin that can see if it can be recovered, or if there was a reason for deletion?

[Hidden]

I have asked Bob about this and have also contacted admin. Will report back.

[Judydiane in reply to Hidden]

😃😃

[Hidden]

Well now it seems all of my original posts, as in thread starters, bar one, in the past 3 days have been deleted. I have clearly become persona non grata ☹️

[Bagrat]

Very strange. Had a look at your "profile page" and yes only one post in last three days

[Hidden]

I emailed admin support last night. No reply

Anyone else care to have a go?

[Hidden]

As admin, Please allow me to assure you that I have not deleted any posts on this forum for some time. I will contact Health Unlocked support and see if I can find out what is going on. Unfortunately, I am not able to locate or reinstate any deleted posts - that I know of. I will try to find out for you.

Rachel - AF Association - Patient Services

[Hidden]

Thank you Rachel. Naturally I am the main suspect, and a forensic examination would confirm that, if it were the case. I'm sure Admin have more important things to do than bother to try to pin the blame on me, in fact I am counting on it. 🙂

Moving quickly on, I'm hopeful the lost thread can be recovered. If not I will repost my OP

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Any inference of a quiet apology here, should not be seen as an admission of guilt or liability. ☹️

I have only knowingly deleted one of my posts. This after Admin advised me of a single complaint that had been received about my post yesterday on a website technical issue tagged "one for the chaps". Several women had "liked" it and responded, recognising the humour. Admin asked me amend the title. I simply removed the thread, in view of the deep offence apparently taken.

In the final analysis, I am a mostly harmless oldish chap, with an obscure sense of humour, with little tolerance of political correctness. I am who I am, and don't and won't apologise for that.

For those who were offended, I would say that humour in this context is just that, humour. That said we all have the right to be offended by anything, notwithstanding the absence of any intention to offend. And I do understand that one person's meat is another's poison.

In this latter case, a simple PM to me would have done the job, the post would have been sanitised. Rather than going to admin.

I guess some in my postwar generation, women and men both, who grew up amidst the rampant sexism of earlier times, feel that over reaction to what some may feel is trivial sexism by way of silly guys banter, risks undermining the fight against real and seriously problematical sexism.

That said my eldest boy, 24, is a staunch feminist. My wife and others who marched with Gloria Steinem and Germaine Greer, and kept Simone de Beauvoir close at hand, were deeply suspicious of male feminists and preferred that I wore my MCP credentials openly, rather than let a Trojan horse in to their midst.

I will say that 'er indoors remains as deeply committed to the cause as ever, but laughed off that particular post as just the ramblings of the daft old git that she knows me to be.

Actually I will have to stop now, the tube is very crowded and I need to give up my seat to one of the many ladies on board 😉