The Spammer was able to register his "Screen Name" with BB-Ref as a Clickable Link:
Thus ("I guess"), they had to delete the whole post rather than just deleting the text like they do on other deletions where they just add a Note that the Post was Deleted.

The post that @2 Jeff referred to was an "actual Spam".
Jeff's post was actually @3 but the Original @2 was Deleted moving the following posts up 1 number.

It has been deleted, but to prevent confusion, the Web Master should have left the Number @2 up and just mentioned it was deleted as Spam (etc.), rather than leaving you to believe your Post @1 was Spam.

As you can see your actual post is still up in it's rightful position @1.

I realize that I should have taken my issue to the "Found a bug or have a suggestion?" page here, and I will probably still do that. But one reason I posted it in the public forum where I put it is so that if others have also fallen victim to it, they can also see that they are not the only ones.

I will try to stay on topic and, if I have any more comments regarding the Administrative aspects of this blog, I'll take them to the "Found a bug or have a suggestion?" page. Again, I'm sorry that you chose to think of my comments here as Spam.

On Point 2: Search player game totals there is a (excluding 1940-1951)

it's repeated again on:

Point 3: Search player games looking for the most consecutive games matching a particular set of criteria
there is a (excluding 1940-1951)

I figure you would have fixed this by now.
Or does the exclusion still exist for these 2 points???

I want to say something off-topic - I hang out at an online forum on a completely different subject where people are required to register to be able to post. New messages are pre-populated with our registered email addresses, but we are allowed to blank them out (but not allowed to blank out our user names) before messages are posted. I appreciate that we are no longer required to register here, and I understand why we still need to supply a name and email address each time. This is made simpler by the fact that my name and email are "remembered" (probably due to cookies) each time, so they are still pre-populated for me.

But this is both good and bad news. Sometimes, before I start my message, I forget that I'm not on that other site, and I blank out the pre-populated email address here. Once I finish my message and hit the Post button, though, I go to an error page that tells me I didn't supply the required material. This would be an OK reminder, except that, when I hit the Back button to go put it in, MY MESSAGE IS GONE!

This has happened to me twice now, including after I posted a message in this topic [the Jose DeLeon entry] on the day the blog entry was made, September 9. Can something be done here to "save" already-composed messages so that if we forget to put in a required field, we can have the whole message back? Or is forgetting to enter one of these fields such a bad transgression that it is deemed to be a suitable punishment to make the person start the message all over again?