Hello MilesD,

My impression is that comments can be "disappeared" through various mechanisms, none of them to do with "a glitch".

1. The laypersons who do the initial reviews trash them as badly uncivil posts, when they are not, and it does not see the light of day on the baord.
2. The laypersons let it get posted, but it gets flagged by others as offensive (when it is not, it simply grates on their sociopolitical preferences), and in some silly fashion gets deleted when it ought not get deleted.
3. I suspect the columnists and journalists themselves have access, should they want it, to fast-track intervention with those in charge of board moderation.

I am not suggesting it is a Globe and Mail editor who is behind what is happening.

But whoever is behind it, come on, surely you have noticed that in some subject areas, lots of posts get "disappeared" for reasons that have nothing to do with "civility" of written content (examples, anything related to Islam or indigenous natives).