Deleted PMs - This is important

MissAdventure I was wondering about that too. Mine seem to be deleted about the time of the Bad Gateway error.

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Maw....perhaps all these deleted pms will appear in The Daily Mail? ?

Good, we are all agog!

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

Try again, Miss Marple

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

Am running out of theories.

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.)

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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....

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?

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 ?

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

I had four removed in November and one in January.

What is going on?????

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

Big Brother is watching us..