I just want to say that the forum on Armorgames is not user friendly. It's disorganized and frustrating.
This could be ten times better.
It doesn't let me know if I have a reply to my own topic or to a post. It "seems" to have random glitches. Nothing should be seeming in a forum. It deletes posts, and responses. It requires too much maintenance such as keeping up with where my post is.
It used to be a normal forum until the site maintenance ruined the forums. Now what you have described is the result of this maintenance. Until the admins fix up this glitch completely, I'm afraid you'll have to deal with it.
It seems like they've finally hired someone to fix coding issues, and this could mean that AG3 is actually near. I don't think they'd go through the trouble to hire someone just for AG2, they must have some problems with AG3, so they need someone competent to fix it.
The original Forums were coded by someone AG hired, who left once his job was done. Hence the Admins had some trouble with the bugs, since it wasn't their code in the first place....
if you are saying that they showed up, and then later disappeared, that was probably because gantic or freakenstein, or someother mod that is active, decided they were spam. If they just didn't appear, do a refresh and they should appear, if they don't try a hard refresh, ctrl f-5.