Re: why was my post approved then deleted

Hello, On 29 April 2011 08:00, Ultimater <ultimater@gmail.com> wrote: > Approving my post and making me think my post was ok then deleting it an > hour or few hours later is what bugs me the most as it is quite unethical to > accept my post only to delete it again so I am left in the dark as to what Note that user notes are automatically allowed, there is no human intervention between submitting the note and having it visible on the sites. The stage where people get involved comes later, which is why a note will initially be visible and then "disappear" if it was deleted/rejected. Hopefully that makes it clear that the process was not someone approving your post only to have someone else later remove it. > happened without any form of contact. Past experience has taught me that > php.net emails us when our posts are removed. I received no such notice > after my post was removed. Thus I didn't get a copy of the deleted post sent Emails are only sent out if the note is rejected (different from deleted). > Can you fill me in as that which of these reasons applied to my post. My > post wasn't a bug report nor was it a question. I've also submit a previous > post before this one before trying again at it and it didn't have any of the > above mention issues either. I think the editor didn't read my post very > closely and just assumed I was posting an issue or question for people to > solve but I was actually stating that someone's code didn't work and I was > offering revision code to replace the person's code which didn't work. I cannot state definitively why your note was deleted (maybe Dan will), but we generally follow the guidelines set out on https://doc.php.net/php/dochowto/chapter-user-notes.php, which includes the points you mention as reasons for removal.