Deleted PMs - This is important

Several messages sent and received by and to one person in December have been deleted. I may be playing with fire here but I plan to PM the person involved and ask her if she requested the deletion. Can’t imagine why she would, it was a calm and friendly exchange of messages

I may have been a bit hasty saying the following:-

' I know today 2 old pm's that had 'This message has been removed at users request.' ' against them have disappeared completely as though to leave no trace of this happening.'

It could be because only 20 pm's are displayed and having 3 more today perhaps they ' dropped off'.

Does anybody know if you can access All pm's not just the last 20 shown?

I am convinced it is only certain GN users this is happening to.

The other thing is what I said at the top of the page, that HQ just remove old pms to save computer memory space.
I expect someone from GNHQ will be along shortly.

GN need to respond to this.

Big Brother is watching us..

Mine were just 2 or 3 days old.
I have lots of older ones.

I had four removed in November and one in January.

What is going on?????

It's the statement that the deletion was at poster's request that is puzzling.

lemongrove

'All they are doing is clearing away old messages, and not snubbing a poster.'
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Have you gone into your ' Inbox' to check?

How can it be a case of clearing old messages when previous pm's remain?

It appears to be a case of ' targeting' if only 2 posters in my case have had their pm's removed.

It raises the question of who has “ownership” of pm’s once written and sent.
Is it the writer or is it the recipient.
Like looking back through old emails to confirm something I may be unsure if I think it is wrong for anybody to delete my private messages.
As I said before, I thought the clue was in the name ?

I don't think it can be that GNHQ are just clearing out old messages to make room lemon. My inbox and sent messages go back to last September and beyond. So why certain messages, to several people, at random times?

I've had the same thing - a couple of messages I sent to and received from one GN member at the beginning of November last year were deleted with 'this message has been removed at user request'. They were very innocent messages, so I was surprised (and a little hurt at the time) that apparently the user had removed them.

This explains a lot....

My deleted ones are from random posters, at random times nothing nasty or contentious. Just simple chat.
There is no apparent reason for the deletions.

The correspondent involved in my deleted messages may no longer be a member. I tried a PM and got the message ‘this poster is no longer receiving pm’s’. Of course I may have offended her but I truly don’t think so.

I have nothing earlier than Jan 8 in my inbox.Either HQ has deleted them, or I have ( and forgotten) as I do periodically clear old messages.That may result in posters getting a message that I have deleted theirs.Does this make sense?

To be honest, I didn't even know that pm messages could be deleted. I thought that they just got deleted after a period of time. Even if that's correct, it doesn't explain why messages that are more than 5 months old remain, whilst other, more recent messages, have been targeted for deletion.

lemon

Your last pm to me was to wish my family and I a Happy Xmas.

As of this minute that pm states :-

This message has been removed at users request.

Did you request it? I think not.

I hardly ever send PMs but thought I’d better check and two of mine have been deleted.

If I cleared old messages by hitting the delete button POGS then that could well happen.I didn’t realise that my message to you (as well) would vanish!
I really do think this is the case, but it doesn’t explain everything.
Maybe it’s this scenario: a poster (me) clears out their inbox
And that results in a message to all they have sent to, the unfriendly phrase ‘deleted at users request’.
Then, HQ decide to delete certain old messages that posters have only sent to once (i.e. not regular recipients.)

Am running out of theories.

But why would the other person need to know that you had cleared some messages out?

Try again, Miss Marple

I have a theory..
Maybe its something to do with the '502 bad gateway errors'?

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