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It depends. If you are deleting a post because it contains erroneous material, or that you simply made a mistake, then that would be ok. I don't think there is any need to delete posts just because you don't like having your written words hanging around on a forum for too long. As Gene said, it messes up the thread.Should forum users have the freedom to delete their own posts? Simple question. I wonder how our benevolent dictators will respond?
Then you should have put one in.I don't think there is a "It depends" option in the "Delete Post" feature.
j.r.
You could probably start with deleting all of the repetitious posts from those threads. A bit annoying, mate.
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Then you should have put one in.
ufology said:I didn't write the program ... You probably thought that I meant the poll when I said "feature". How about I'll forgive you for the mistake and we can both delete our last two posts?
j.r.
You must be doing something wrong then. It works for me. Are you worried that no-one will read your thread? Or are you miffed because Gene seemed uninterested in your complaint?
Half the time when I post something new it never appears in the "New Posts" notifications. By posting a few notices in the new threads, attention will be drawn to the poll, then pricesly as you suggest, in a few days, I'll pull the noticies off by deleting them. No harm is done, no threads are "screwed up", and everything is cool.
j.r.
Sure, that'd be good. You forgive me for that and i will forgive you for unnecessarily spamming all of the other, unrelated threads.
You must be doing something wrong then. It works for me. Are you worried that no-one will read your thread? Or are you miffed because Gene seemed uninterested in your complaint?
There is always that edit button as well, I support the idea of it though.
By the way...what's with the crusade about this in almost every topic? I think if you ask a moderator nicely, he would and will be able to erase every trace on here.
The "crusade" are just fast posts to let people know that the topic has come up and needs their attention. When I first posted the poll, it didn't show up in the "Recent Posts" page, and as explained above, half the time when I post something new in the UFO section, it doesn't comes up in the recent posts page either. I don't know why. Maybe they edit them out, or maybe it's just the way the software works.
But whatever the case may be, I wanted to be sure that forum members know about this issue ( it affects us all - not just me ), so I posted the notices in the top few of the new posts list. I'll be deleting them in a day or two if the function is retained. If it's not, obviously I won't be able to.
Anyway, so far ... what ... 5 people have bothered to vote and one of them doesn't even care. But I've been given a choice, and depending on what I do, it looks like the feature will either be left in place or turned off. If it gets turned off, I think it gets turned off for everyone, not just me, but maybe one of the moderators could confirm that for me please. Anyway, I felt obligated to let people know so that they could contribute their opinion before it happens. I hope that helps answer your question.
j.r.
So we don't take this into woo-woo land ...
My main concern here is that, in deleting a post, you delete a thread (because that's what can happen if you delete the first post) ... As with every privilege, there is the danger of abuse.
I voted "edit only".
Deletion, even by the author, for reasons other than vulgarity or trolling, is the same thing as censorship. You put it on here. Alcohol, drugs or other mind altered posts are still posts. Own it man (or women).