Blimey, this is an old old thread
Did you see it in New Posts?Now I'm wondering how it came up as a new message??
Did you see it in New Posts?
If a spammer resurrects an old thread, the standard alerts would go out to everyone watching the thread, and those alerts would remain even once the spammer is banned and his posts binned, which is why some members get confused when they turn up and there's nothing new there. However, once the spammy post is removed, the thread should disappear from New and Recent Posts. In theory you might have caught sight of it there before the spammy post was removed but clicked on it and posted after it was gone, but the chances of that are remote. More pertinently, as far as I can see there have been no posts binned from here in the last several days anyway. So it's a mystery!
I ended up here somehow!Did you see it in New Posts?
If a spammer resurrects an old thread, the standard alerts would go out to everyone watching the thread, and those alerts would remain even once the spammer is banned and his posts binned, which is why some members get confused when they turn up and there's nothing new there. However, once the spammy post is removed, the thread should disappear from New and Recent Posts. In theory you might have caught sight of it there before the spammy post was removed but clicked on it and posted after it was gone, but the chances of that are remote. More pertinently, as far as I can see there have been no posts binned from here in the last several days anyway. So it's a mystery!
I claim age!!It was mentioned in the Connection game recently, with a link
I claim age!!
(And I think this is how I got here.)
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