There is a glitch on the site at the moment which means that some posts are disappearing from the main page but remain active and you’ll still see them in the recently updated lists.

Our crack team (i.e. Rich) is on the case but it’s a strange one (the case, not Rich) so bear with us.

UPDATE – Sorted, see below

We did respond, honest. Please check Spam? the Lovely Mods

Just in case:

Go to the USER menu in the right-hand sidebar and open your own profile. When there you should see a COMPOSE button – clicking that will open a contact form and you enter the username of whoever you’re trying to send a message to.

After much discussion in the Mod penthouse, we thought this might be an opportune moment to clarify a couple of things with regards to Moderation on The Afterword. We hope everyone would agree that it would be inappropriate to discuss the details of any individual Afterword member but it’s probably important to make a couple of general points that might be relevant.

A Member getting refused access to the site is extremely rare but does happen. It’s absolutely a last resort taken after multiple other avenues have been exhausted. It has happened only twice since the AW was born.

Everyone is allowed to make mistakes/get carried away occasionally and the site largely self-moderates, but when action does need to be taken by the Mod team, everyone is given the opportunity to change their behaviours and is personally contacted at every stage to explain why the Mods feel lines have been crossed

To date, only repeated issues with multiple breaches of the site’s guidelines have led to access being removed permanently.

Moderation on the site is done by volunteers (and if you want to get involved then just use the Contact form) with the sole intention of trying to keep the » Continue Reading.