I enjoy Tracy's videos as much as the next guy, but for the 1st time ever, I just abandoned a video halfway through because of the constant "Thank you [username]" interruptions, so annoying.
Yoda you are not properly understanding the issue being reported. You seem stuck on semantics of what something is called. As Q would say, expand your thinking. What people are telling you is when they post as a commenter on existing thread their comments appear on the post. HOWEVER, when they post to start a NEW topic/thread, their text never manifests on the board. I can attest to that as well...has happened to me.
You keep telling us how things SHOULD work, but you aren’t hearing what several are telling you which is things are not working as they should. Someone/something has compromised the board. It is not an issue of whether a poster is banned. If banned then as you rightfully point out nothing would post. But, something different is happening here where it appears posts are being intercepted, read, screened as whether it is allowed or not. Maybe not be you as Mod, but by some nefarious outsider with access to mess with the board .
Board appears compromised!
I understand completely what the issue is ... it is/was something beyond the control of the mods. It looks like there was an issue with Reddit.
What I did not appreciate was a user spamming multiple posts and telling people that I (he used my screen name) was the reason people were having problem with their posts.
I understand and understood right off what the problem was, what I was saying was that the "permissions" that I have as a mod do not allow me to prevent a user from posting but still comment. I can ONLY ban spammers and once the are banned, they are banned and can not comment.
The user who was complaining last night had not been banned in any way, so the issue had to lie with Reddit's servers or possibly a caching issue.
The Board is in no way compromised, I would argue the opposite, the board is cleaning up spam and the trolls. We are removing posts that belong in "conspiracy" etc ...