In a message dated 10/11/2006 12:47:48 AM Eastern Standard Time, Treepig@cox.net writes: A post to the PEED board was deleted and the poster emailed me (the admin) asking why on earth I removed his post from the board. I replied that I had no memory of deleting it nor should I, as it is a fine message and I do not have a heavy hand with my boards' delete option. I have since restored his post to the board: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=message&r=rw&p=surnames.peed&m=120 After having read it several times, the only reason I can assume it was automatically deleted was because of the mention of "findagrave" in the URL. I am an active contributor to Findagrave.com/ and I once--but no longer--shared links from that site to various surname boards, until I noticed they were ending up in the Recycle Bin (on my own boards) or disappeared from other boards. I ventured a guess it was due to the potential commercial nature of Findagrave (although still a free site dependent upon volunteer submissions). Yet when I do a global board search for "findagrave" I get thousands of hits. That blows my old theory as to why my own posts were deleted. Would someone please tell me why the above PEED post might have been deleted? Thank you. Scratching my head, Sandy Sandy- If you are the board admin and you didn't remove the post, that means the post was removed by staff and only board staff can explain to you why the post was removed. There are quite a few possible reasons why staff might remove a post -- commercial link, cross-posted on multiple boards are two that come to mind. But only board staff could tell you (or the poster) why the post was removed. Joan