I removed two listings from a directory site I run. Not for a small reason — they failed the one promise the directory exists to make. The kind of removal you do immediately and double-check. I did double-check. Flipped the flag in the database, loaded the site, watched the queries filter them out. Gone from the city pages, gone from the main directory. Removal confirmed. A day later, both were still on the site. Not on some cached page or stale CDN edge. In the current, freshly deploye...