(post # 8, with bolding added for emphasis)


Chulula, in subsequent post # 14 you say that Mrs. Cholula replaced the text with null text. I am assuming, since her deleted post appears empty, that she replaced it with white letters or whatever. But your original statement is per the quoted passage above. Those are two different statements.

Could you clarify? Is it possible, per your first statement, simply to delete everything in a post and then save it as such? I have never been able to do that. I get an error message that says I have to enter at least a certain number of characters in order to save the changes. Or is your first statement incorrect? Not trying to be sarcastic. I am just trying to understand which statement is correct, since you are a moderator, and you would certainly know more than the rest of us. If you have concluded that it is possible to obtain the appearance of a deleted post by using null text, I don't see that as an improvement to just typing "deleted" as text replacement. I am just wondering if I have understood correctly.

Back to OP: You indicate that a post simply disappeared when you tried to follow a link to it. Try this instead. (I am assuming that you know the name of the poster.) Do an FT search (not a Google search) for that username. The missing post should show up, even if deleted. The text might or might not have been replaced with null text, but you should see the missing post, at least the title of the thread and possibly the first line of text, depending on how knowledgeable (or not) the FTer was in deleting the post.