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I've just discovered a way to view a deleted post. It would seem to be pretty rare, and only of a limited applicability, but thought you'd wan to know.
In an Online Campaign, there is a tab for players. As a handy feature of this tab, the last post by each of the player's characters in the campaign is linked below the character. If you hover over the date/time of the last post, you get helper text that shows you the text of the character's last post.
I'm sure you know all of that. But, if the character's last post was deleted, it still shows in their helper text.
For example:
http://paizo.com/campaigns/PathfinderACG800CosmicCaptiveTable1TIER13/player s
The last post under my Hawkmoon269 name (the same as the one I'm posting this message from) was deleted. But if you hover over it, you can see it. Clicking the link asks me to sign in, then puts me into an endless refresh cycle and ultimately the Paizo Golem tells me "you've made two many requests" and ends the cycle.
I'm not sure if posts deleted by moderators would be any different, and since this only seems to apply to Campaigns, it isn't likely to give access to anything that was deleted for any major reasons, but I thought you'd want to know.
Thanks!
Software Test Engineer
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Woah, that's quite the catch Hawkmoon, thanks for finding this!
I've added it to our list of known issues, Is the "you've made too many requests" function preventing you from being able to post in the related thread or can you still access it via other means?
- Erik K
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Thanks Erik. The "you've made too many requests" function isn't a problem. I can get to the posts in the thread by other means. I hadn't ever really even clicked on those links before, but was looking for the last post by a character and didn't want to go scrolling through the thread to find it. Simply going to the Gameplay thread still works just fine.
Thanks again.
I just discovered another similar iteration of this. This blog post seems to have had an extra comment deleted. You can tell because it says "3 Comments" when there are only 2 (at the moment anyway). Also, the link to my comment calls it number 3 in the url, but it is the second one on the page. If you hover over the "3 Comments" link at the bottom of the blog post itself, just below the tags, you'll see a preview of the first comment. And that first comment just so happens to have been the "deleted" one. And which also was clearly deleted because it was spam.