'Hidden' discussions.

I now wonder if it's when a moderator moves a post - perhaps into some bit of the software which only they are supposed to have access to - ( and Hidden would be a good name for this section).  Perhaps with the new 'update' which happened over the weekend posts are no longer being actually moved but can still be accessed in the hidden section.

I've just replied to a post in 'Caravans' which asks advice about shower tray repairs, and just after I posted my reply an identical post appeared in Motorhomes without my reply appearing!  Perhaps if the original post isn't actually moved, just hidden at the time when someone is replying, this might lead to the strange anomalies of 'missing' replies which we're all noticing.

Surely the moderators don't want payment in Bitcoins before they will release hidden files? 

The problem is that people are making multiple posts, probably because the forum is so slow they don't wait long enough to check whether their post has appeared. You will remember we had the same problem within a post but that was corrected and we are currently waiting for this issue to also be corrected. We do have a facility to move excess posts from view. The problem is that somehow these multiple threads are linked so if you hide one it affects the one you leave on show. The only answer, in the short term, is to leave all posts on view and hope that posters concentrate their replies on the one version that has the most replies. I appreciate  that is is far from ideal.

David

I don't know what causes it, but I don't think it's always the slowness of the forum which leads to multiple posts............... certainly I've had it happen when I have not clicked the send button more than once.  In one post where it's happened there was more than an hour in the time listed between the two posts.  I think it's more likely to be due to a simple error in the coding of whatever software is used to run the forum.  This would explain the problem of these posts being 'linked' and occasionally linked to old posts with the same title, which may be many years old.

Perhaps the odd time someone may click the send button more than once, but interestingly few of those affected remember doing it.

I'd agree. It's far more likely to be a coding error than user error. 

Which is unusual....

There's no way the users can be blamed for threads duplicating themselves and the 'Hidden' issue seems a new phenomenon. It's as if, once again, moderation moves are on show to us all.

Thank goodness other forums behave properly.

https://www.caravanclub.co.uk/club-together/discussions/ask-the-expert/ask-the-expert-live/thetford-cassette-compartment/

the above is a link to the hidden thread....

just now, i wasnt logged in but looked at the 'thetford' thread and saw 11 responses...

i then logged in and the thread 'changed' into the hidden one with only 4 posts....really wierd.

in order to find the thread again to post the above link, i had to go back in my browser prior to the log in....

the hidden thread seems to be ticked away in Ask The Expert section but the original was posted in Caravan and Motorhome chat section....

work that one out...

 If you can't find which duplicate thread you posted on just click on your avatar  name under the photo.

if anyone knows of any other 'hidden' threads, just have look at the URL and see if its 'hiding' in the Ask the Expert section.

clearly, something is triggering a duplicate thread (under what circumstances, we dont know) and the duplicate is being dumped in the Expert repository....

with some of the odd links in CT currently (liking a post taking you umpteen pages back to the start of the thread.....oh why cant they fix this simple navigational pain....) its hardly surprising that there might be other 'odd responses/functions to specific keystrokes...

perhaps threads get duplicated every time a specific sequence of keystrokes are made

BoleroBoy - when I first clicked your link it did take me to a 'section' called 'Hidden' with four posts.................... but the URL you posted above was what showed in my browser.  Now when I click it I get to the proper thread with eleven posts, the last one by Pippah.  I can't get back to the thread with only four posts, either logged in or not.